South Korea's online trend: Paying to watch a pretty girl eat
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What on earth , that is like 9000 calories or over 4x the recommended daily calories for an average woman. That is more than a professional athlete or bodybuilder would eat.
Even with a fast metabolism, it seems impossible that somebody could eat that much without getting very fat , very fast.
Even if she ran for 8 hours a day every day she would only use about half of that.
There must be something else going on here.
Please resume your regularly scheduled insane internet calorie conversation.
1) you stomach size will increase 2) you will eat less often 3) but you will eat more 4) you body will detect inability to get food often and will start storing fats just in case 5) you body won't be pooping incopmletely-digested food out. It's just insanely ineffective for survival. (unless you get diarrhea) 6) you will get fat
Please resume your regularly scheduled insane internet pooping conversation.
At my peak, I was consuming 4000 calories a day doing some pretty hardcore construction work for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. Even then, I could only eat 3/4 of a large Pizza Hut pizza for dinner (and not all that often).
When I took a vaction in the US the huge size of all things food suprised me a lot. I'd rather eat something of good quality than a lot of stuff of poor quality. (And I never should have tried fried pickles at BB Kings club).
I might not have been clear in my previous post. I was burning 4k calories a day. 3/4 of a large pizza wasn't even half the calories I needed just to get out of bed the next morning.
I ate healthy most of the time, but there were days when I'd put down 4 Big Macs for lunch and be hungry by dinner.
Thankfully I was a heavy gym user prior to the period and I got some sanity back by the time I hit 225 lbs, my peak weight, and I've now again come down to 185 lbs.
During this period I'd just eat and I could eat a lot, there wasn't much to my day so I wasn't doing back breaking work AT ALL.
- Just another perspective.
> Afreeca TV, the publicly-listed social networking site that hosts her channel, allows users to buy and send virtual "star balloons" which can be monetized after the site takes a 30-40% commission.
30-40% seems like a massive commission. She's losing out on about $5,000 a month, or $60k a year. That's significant. Live streaming and virtual payments are commonplace at this point, so I imagine there are many options out there. Her fans will follow her wherever she goes.
Now I am scarred for life.
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/edit Found her!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Simpson_(internet_celebri...
Assuming that viewership at Afreeca TV is split among rooms equally, they're talking about 150,000 people watching these eating rooms daily on that site alone. Impressive.
Hmm, you'd be surprised. Check out following for bizarro trends in Japan for example...
http://www.nationmaster.com/country/ks-korea-south/Age_distr...
Most of people I know here still get married for all the wrong reasons (social status, money, family and social pressure, ...), and you need to add the fact that career-wise, males are typically lagging 2-3 years behind females because of the military conscription.
Antiquated Confucian values and breakneck development of the country are a terrible mix in my opinion, and I believe it'll affect the society in ways that are more extreme than anything we've seen elsewhere (the comparison with Japan is easy). But I reckon that Korea is also able to react quickly, sometimes with drastic measures, let's see.
Just like ASMR is a kind of weird trend in America, and now around the world.
To me, it's not weird at all that many people find it interesting to watch. I certainly type up "Chocolate ASMR" into youtube and watch a lot of those videos of people eating chocolate quietly for fun.