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Mukbang

You might remember it as eating broadcast

This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

2010·The social era

Videos or live broadcasts of somebody eating a large meal while talking to the audience.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
먹방
Spread in
2010
Format
Phenomenon
Era
The social era
Where it started
The South Korean streaming service AfreecaTV, in 2009
Original title
A Korean compound of the words for eating and broadcast
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

A Korean format — 먹방, eating broadcast — where a host eats a large meal while talking to viewers. Exported worldwide as one of the clearest cases of a platform-native genre invented outside the Anglophone internet.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    The format appears on AfreecaTV.1

  2. Mainstream

    It begins to be reported by broadcasters outside Korea.1

  3. Mainstream

    Twitch tries out a “social eating” category.1

  4. Taken down

    A Chinese law against wasting food bans filming or sharing mukbang.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

More from 2010You were there

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SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — Mukbang

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