Recently, a video of an Internet celebrity cooking a shark caused an uproar in the food broadcast industry and even the Internet.
The influencer is a food blogger named "Tizi" on Douyin.
She bought an "artificially farmed edible" shark from JD.com, pulled it to the door of a seafood shop near her home, and began cooking and grilling the shark, and finally feasted on it.
Although "Tizi" said that she had repeatedly confirmed that the shark was "artificially farmed edible" at the store, after identification, the shark was a man-eating shark (also called a great white shark) and belonged to the national second-level protected animal. At present, the anchor's account has been banned, and the relevant personnel have been controlled by the police.
Not only the great white shark, but also in the homepage of "Tizi" (now banned), there are some videos like eating 30 pounds of golden baby fish, as well as crocodiles, crocodile turtles, ostrich legs, etc., which is simply a "rare animal smorgasbord".
In fact, some sharks can indeed eat, such as striped bamboo sharks (also called dog sharks), leopard sharks and so on. However, because shark meat contains urea, it is not very tasty to eat.
This reminds me of the shark in "Raft", although it always chews on your plank, but as a stand-alone party, the shark that follows you all the time seems to have become a companion, making you can't bear to eat it (no)
Of course, not only endangered wild animals, some eat and even take some dangerous species of alien species to "open shabu" - some netizens found that on the short video platform, many eating and broadcasting crocodile eels into sauerkraut fish.
The alligator eel is one of the most ferocious carnivorous freshwater fish in the world, growing up to 2 meters long and hundreds of pounds. Its flesh is rough, especially the eggs are highly toxic, and it may be dangerous to eat them by mistake.
Although the crocodile eel is not inedible, in order to eat a bite of the rough flesh of the "sauerkraut fish", one accidentally lost his life, it is not worth the loss.
Whether it is endangered wild animals or alien dangerous species, Internet celebrities eat broadcasters "desperately" in order to get more traffic, which can be said to be extremely useless.
This not only reminds me of a long-banned up lord "Oh Ayou".
The eater did something that silenced both those who watched and didn't watch the eating—ate a whole extremely corrupt Boston lobster—yes, rotted.
According to insiders, this 1,000 yuan Boston lobster was sent by a merchant to her for promotion, and then Ayu forgot about it, and when it was turned over, the lobster was already dead. Later, she was not willing to spend money to buy another one, so she could only eat it on the scalp.
Watching her open the lobster shell and be smoked to the point of speechlessness, and then swallowing the rotten lobster meat in one bite after another, it was really physical and mental discomfort (there is also an upside-down version of Station B, and even more under the meal).
You can already imagine the taste of rotten seafood
If this continues, I don't know if I can see these "big meals" like "Resident Evil 7" in my lifetime (no)
Rotten food on the Resident Evil 7 table
It is undeniable that the phenomenon of homogenization of eating and broadcasting is becoming more and more serious - when an industry pours in a large number of practitioners, it often needs to be more prominent to attract more attention.
"Usually, you only need to broadcast a spicy ramen and turkey noodles to reach 2w views, but now the same video can only have a 2000-3000 playback volume," some eating broadcasts complained in the dynamics.
In order to attract more attention, on some short video platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou, vulgar and bottomless eating and broadcasting like the following abound.
Stir into a lump and then inhale by the storm
Love a family
——Of course, if you want to talk about the degree of curiosity, then these Internet celebrities have not been able to surpass until now, it is estimated that only this heavyweight player (joking)
In fact, in the environment where everyone is in a state of body anxiety and needs to release the pressure of dieting through "cloud eating", whether it is domestic or foreign, the mukbang industry has a large market. In the case of still serious homogenization, these extranets have long begun to roll up.
Like this Korean food broadcast 쏘영, not only is the voice sweet, the quality of the food broadcast video is also very high, and it has 8.62 million fans, which is quite popular.
And it is such a beautiful woman who eats broadcasts, as early as 2020, began to live.
After a small improvement in the channel, 쏘영 began to eat live animals in the video, some octopus, large crabs, abalone and other seafood, when such squirming living creatures are swallowed raw in the mouth, often with a great visual impact. The video of her eating an octopus raw also successfully detonated the Internet, reaching 24 million views.
However, after releasing a series of videos of eating live animals alive, the video of 쏘영 caused an uproar on the Internet, many people thought that 쏘영's practice of eating live things was too cruel, and youtube had a large number of video bloggers who crusaded against her.
Subsequently, 쏘영 These videos were taken down in large numbers.
However, because of the explosion of visual effects, after this, more and more food broadcasters began to imitate her eating live seafood. Up to now, in some of the domestic eating videos, you can also see some eating videos similar to raw octopus feet, and perhaps such videos will never stop producing it.
One of the eaters was almost disfigured while eating live octopus
In YouTube, this American fat boy who deliberately shakes all the fat on his body, squeezes his eyebrows and makes his eyes pile up a fake smile, has always been the "king of eating and sowing" of YouTube.
But if I say that this is the very popular "Nikocado Avocado" of the year, perhaps many people who know him will shout - how did he become like this?
Nick Perry (Nikocado's real name) was almost one of the first batch of food broadcasts on YouTube.
In fact, in the beginning, Nick was not a food broadcaster, he was more like a life blogger who shared his life, sharing his daily life as a violinist.
Nick was a talented violinist
He is also a vegetarian who has been promoting vegetarianism on the Internet, and even he and his boyfriend met in a vegetarian group.
Nick and his boyfriend Orlin
After that, because he couldn't stand the restrictions of vegetarian food, he began to eat normally and uploaded some videos of eating and broadcasting. At first, he was eating some healthy food, but gradually, his video began to taste different.
"At the beginning, every high-calorie video I ate fast food and other high-calorie videos reached more than 5w views, which was super hot for me at that time. So when everyone asked me when the next video would air, I kept shooting. ”
Nick said that people prefer to watch him eat junk food, so in order to get more attention, he is more inclined to shoot some high-calorie food when shooting videos.
It can be clearly seen that high-calorie foods play higher than healthy foods
Throughout his months-long eating career, he had been convinced that he wouldn't gain weight from eating a few high-calorie meals — however, he began to crumble when he first noticed that his weight had ballooned from 160 pounds to 205 pounds.
Nick has not thought about losing weight, in his early videos, you can often see him crying because of his soaring weight, and constantly self-denial, he said in the video, after he became fat, he felt that he could not do anything well, no one liked him" I hate me so fat, I just want to become a normal person." ”
Ironically, people seem to prefer to look at him hysterically — a dramatic way of acting that brings him more traffic. Gradually, whenever he was in a depressed mood, he would pick up the camera to photograph his hysterical side.
Shave your head with a razor at the dinner table and apply your hair mixed with egg liquid to your face
In fact, Nick never gave up on losing weight. Almost every once in a while, he claims in the video that his weight loss plan has already begun. He even said that if he eventually reached 300 pounds, he would launch the food broadcast industry – however, when he lost every pound, he would add more weight because he ate more to please the relationship.
Of course, as he got fatter and fatter to 300 pounds or even 350 pounds, he began to eat high-calorie foods on his own. He subconsciously attributed his fat gain to two very sad reasons, "stress" and "medical mystery", and seemed to have been keeping himself in the dark. He also said that his body was full of "moisture weight" (even the website where he sold clothes was itsjustwaterweight.com, but he didn't know why he had been repairing it).
Now the style of the Nick channel
He seems to have become a complete slave to traffic, and everything he does is aimed at getting more traffic — the emotional experience of breaking up with his boyfriend, venting his negative emotions, and even opening a paid account called "Nicocado Avocado only fans" to be able to see his own private parts after paying for it - he seems to have completely disregarded his dignity.
It is to pursue traffic, pursue click-through rate, and get a better business monetization model. You have to expand your path, causing Nick to hunt for curiosity in the way he eats, the ingredients he eats, to satisfy people's curiosity, and to constantly wreck his body.
The covers of recent issues have been unable to bear to look directly
In some self-deprecating videos, Nick has said, "I've become what I am because of you, It's your fault!" This complaining word later became a monetization method for Nick, which was printed on his custom T-shirt and successfully brought a wave of traffic.
However, whenever he uttered these words, I could always feel a trace of despair hidden in his sarcastic expression that had been completely denied.
In his book Entertainment to The Death, Neil Bozeman writes: "It is a city of entertainment, where all public discourse emerges in an increasingly entertaining way and becomes a cultural spirit. We...... They all willingly become vassals of entertainment, and there is no complaint, even silence. ”
Perhaps, whether it is a lively audience, a network anchor that pursues popularity, or a platform mechanism that lacks supervision, it should be the responsibility to correct this Internet atmosphere that has gradually deviated.
In the animated short film King of Mukbang, Nick faces the camera
In fact, it's not just Nick, at the time of "traffic first", there are countless eating and broadcasting such as vomiting, eating endangered animals, dangerous foods, etc. They use harming themselves and destroying the environment as a gimmick to do more bizarre things to satisfy the audience's curiosity and win more traffic.
Mi Zijun, the big stomach king who was caught in the vomiting storm
When I watched Nick's video to write this article, I, who had never seen his video before, watched his mental journey and had a familiar, but creepy feeling— like watching a real-life version of Black Mirror, and I wasn't the one watching the show — but came to Black Mirror and became a bystander on the show.
I think that if the platform does not intervene in the regulation of this "cyber drug" called traffic, a realistic version of "Black Mirror" like Nick will happen to countless network anchors.