In the age of high-speed Internet, watching others on the other side of the screen seem to be a new wave.
The human senses are so magical, just watching the people in the video eat, we seem to be able to smell the fragrance and touch it off-screen, and "cloud" to a meal.
Such a fantastic visual experience continued to attract surfers on the Internet, until finally a stable audience was formed.
Where there is demand, there is a market, and eating and broadcasting has entered everyone's life in this way.
The table is full of delicacies from the mountains and seas, spicy, sweet, sour, red, green and golden, and under the backdrop of the lights, each food is baked with a fresh and plump, crispy golden and crisp texture, which makes the audience in front of the screen salivate.
Since CCTV's "A Bite of China" swept all over the country, the wave of live broadcasts with the theme of food is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more bloggers of all kinds of food broadcasts.
Today, if you search for relevant information on major recruitment websites, you can find that the demand for professional eating and broadcasting is still quite huge: part-time work on a certain platform, no limit to academic qualifications, no experience, you only need to appear on the camera, you can do this job.
Most of its work content is to be able to eat and drink, just be able to talk and laugh, and the needs are simply not too simple.
And such a simple request, but the reward is quite rich.
According to the news revealed by some Internet celebrities in the live broadcast room, the salary and remuneration brought by this eating and broadcasting job may be much more nourishing than people expected.
The eating broadcast "Beijing Fat Sister", which has tens of millions of fans, once revealed to her fans that her monthly salary is as high as 7 figures, and she can probably have more than 3 million, and on average, it is not impossible to earn more than 200,000 yuan a day.
And the anchor "Big Tooth Sister", whose number of fans is less than "Beijing Fat Sister", also earns money every day, according to her, even the daily salary is more than 300,000 when the salary is the highest.
No wonder there are spicy comments from netizens, although the eaters do less, they make a lot of money!
You can make money by simply eating, are you excited by the audience?
However, the truth of the mukbang industry may not be as simple as we imagined, and under this seemingly prosperous mukbang craze, there may be many dark secrets hidden in this industry behind the backdrop of our invisible anchors.
The next few anchors are all pioneers who entered the food broadcasting industry early, some of them have passed away because of eating broadcasting, and some of them had to be plugged into a breathing tube at a young age because of eating broadcasting.
While eating and broadcasting brings huge profits, how much risk does it bring?
Dangerous eating and broadcasting
At first, no one paid attention to these frequently exposed "vomiting" incidents, and the streamers just became haggard and sluggish, until dark spots began to appear on their faces.
How many tragedies have happened in the mukbang industry?
The anchor Bubble Bobble (real name Yu Hailong) may be the first Internet celebrity to appear in the public eye.
This post-90s anchor from Jilin has a natural and attractive sense of network, precision and keen sense of smell in live broadcasting, although he looks big on the outside and does not recognize his six relatives, but with the character of "Big Stomach", Yu Hailong still took the lead in becoming the top head anchor on the live broadcast platform.
In his early years, Yu Hailong's life was not particularly smooth, according to his own words, his first job when he first came out of society without any education was to run errands and deliver food to people.
After a month of hard work, there are only thousands of dollars in hand, if you are accidentally complained by the guest, you have to take out part of the already small salary as a fine, Yu Hailong's first salary, but there is very little left.
And Hongyu can be said to be the guide to his career success.
At that time, Yu Hailong had a dispute with the owner of the buffet because of the large amount of food, and Hongyu, who was traveling with him, took the opportunity to take a short video and put it on the Internet, but it became a big hit.
The video soon exceeded 10 million plays, and Yu Hailong's sentence "teach this boss a lesson" also swept the Internet for a while.
In this way, Yu Hailong became a food eater with the character of "Big Stomach King".
He and Hongyu and Garlic Tao jointly formed the "Iron Triangle", and the video content also focuses on the food exploration of street vendors, maybe not going to high-end restaurants and top restaurants, but the unique street fireworks have become the most critical feature of Yu Hailong's fans.
Yu Hailong's channel is very popular, and it has grown by millions of followers within a few days, and by the end of his career, the number of likes on his videos has exceeded 100 million.
From a monthly income of 1,000 yuan to a daily income of 1,000,000 yuan, Yu Hailong can be regarded as a winner in life.
However, Yu Hailong, who relied on the "big stomach king" as a selling point, was bound by his own personality.
In order to attract the audience, Yu Hailong had to eat more and more food, and the more viewers came to the live broadcast room, the more food he stuffed into his mouth.
In the end, his live broadcast is no longer a pure gastronomic pleasure, but has become an oppression of organ overload.
Excessive eating made Yu Hailong's weight quadruple in a short period of time, and he and the previous guy, who weighed more than 320 catties, were obviously like two people.
Yu Haijun's physical changes even the loyal viewers of his channel noticed that something was wrong.
The weight gain, the haggard complexion, and even the deepening dark spots on the face all indicate the abnormal changes in the sea dragon's body and the reminder of the impending collapse.
Two years later, Yu Hailong couldn't stand it.
In 2021, Yu Hailong was overloaded with work because of the filming of a public service announcement, and finally passed away suddenly because his body could not bear it, at the age of 29.
The dangers of overeating are now vividly displayed in front of everyone's eyes.
But this tragedy can't stop the crazy Internet journey of mukbang, and the high-profit and high-return mukbang is still one of the most favorite choices of Internet celebrities.
The next anchor to inherit the character of "Big Stomach King" is Brother Wenwei.
If Yu Hailong caused the tragedy because he didn't know and didn't understand, Brother Wenwei caused the tragedy because of neglect.
Before Brother Wenwei died due to overeating, he had received countless warnings from doctors.
With too high body fat and excess weight, even the audience on the other side of the screen can see Brother Wenwei's precarious physical state, and Brother Wenwei himself knows it.
Being able to eat twice as much as others every day, the pressure on Brother Wenwei's body is unimaginable.
In the end, under the persuasion of Brother Wenwei's wife, the two of them made a commitment to lose weight to 120 kilograms, and if the weight loss was successful, his wife would buy a motorcycle for Brother Wenwei as a gift.
But Brother Wenwei can't enjoy it, isn't it a pity?
Brother Wenwei can't resist the huge amount of money brought by the food and broadcasting industry after all, even though he knows that his body has gradually been destroyed, but Brother Wenwei still keeps eating in the live broadcast room, in order to make more money.
There is no doubt that Brother Wenwei finally stepped into the old road of Bubble Dragon.
After two years of marriage, Brother Wenwei unfortunately passed away, and his scarred body made his wife feel very distressed, and after so many years, Brother Wenwei's wife is still recalling the bits and pieces between the two of them.
Although Brother Wenwei has earned enough money for the family to live in the second half of his life, his wife's feelings as a newlywed person for two years must be quite unforgettable.
Brother Wenwei's life and even his life were easily ruined by gluttony.
Tragedies like these two streamers continue to happen and progress.
The next few anchors, although they have not reached the point of no return, but eating broadcasts has brought them health pains that cannot be healed.
Will they quit there, or will they go down the path of irreparable destruction?
"Horror" eating broadcast
As the "Big Stomach King" anchor who was once as famous as Bubble Dragon, Enke's current situation is not much better.
As one of the "Four Great Eaters" that still exists today, the departure of his companions does not seem to deter Enke's determination to continue making money in this industry, even if similar changes have begun to appear in his body.
After so many years, Enke's already unhealthy body has become more and more worrying, his bloated and fat make the audience completely unable to recognize his neck, and his excessively puffy face makes people even more afraid that he will not be able to cover the fat in a second smaller.
The body has become like this, but Enke has nothing to fear.
During the live broadcast, Enke even vomited blood in front of so many viewers, but to everyone's shock, Enke didn't make any waves, wiped it and continued to stuff food into his mouth.
Now, black spots have also appeared on Enke's face, and the black spots on the face of the sea dragon have reappeared, will the tragedy happen again?
Such a problem also reappears in the fat girl.
The fat girl who eats and broadcasts is also an anchor who stands out among the Internet celebrities with the label of being able to eat.
Humor is her personal label, delicious food is the theme of her videos, and big fish and big meat are her eating style, and the high-intensity diet makes the fat girl's body also have problems.
First, the doctor was at risk of surgery for her high blood cholesterol and lung nodules, and then the partner who did the video had to be hospitalized because of kidney stones.
But the fat girl still went her own way, and finally went to the hospital for acute pancreatitis in 2023.
And whether the parents-in-law and her daughters, who followed the fat girl live broadcast, can withstand such a high-intensity diet, I'm afraid there is also a question mark.
I just don't know, will there be a regrettable tragedy in the fat girl's family?
To this day, the fat girl is still doing eating broadcasts.
Conclusion:
Once you get money, food can become an unbearable weight in life.
Seeing that these anchors are constantly in trouble, the problems caused by eating and broadcasting need to be paid attention to.
It's good to pursue a career, but it's also important to be healthy.