December 18, 2024 16:17 PM

South Korea's Bizarre Online Trend: Watching Someone Eat

The channel is interactive with fans and feedback is instantaneous because of the live chat. The online star says that when comments arrive in floods, she gets to read them in real time. "My fans tell me that they really love watching me eat because I do so with so much gusto and make everything look so delicious. A lot of my viewers are on diets and they say they live vicariously through me, or they are hospital patients who only have access to hospital food so they also watch my broadcasts to see me eat."

Another upside to this hobby of hers is the apparent good that it does for some of her viewers. "One of the best comments I ever received from a viewer who said that she had gotten over her anorexia by watching me eat. That really meant a lot to me."

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