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Douyin
On Douyin, the Chinese version of Tiktok, mukbang videos are officially banned. There were approximately 394,500 Mukbang videos on Douyin and 28.8 billion views until August 2020. Some very popular mukbanger includes Big Eater Lang Wei Xian and Xiang Xiang fighting with meals. In August 2020, President Xi announced a law to prohibit the promotion of overeating on media platforms and the violators may face a fine of up to 100,000 yuan. Despite mukbang's popularity prior to the ban, no mukbang videos have been uploaded to the platform and previous uploads have also been deleted by the content creators.

Shugi
Shugi’s mukbang show is also famous for its sensory performance. She is good at using her lively facial expression and describing the food and her feelings. Her way of doing mukbang easily caused the consensus from the viewers. For example, she once described the sound of grilling meat to resemble the sound of rain, which made the video more engaging to the audience. Also, the fact that her video background is clean and light is only given to her and the food makes the audience focus only on her mukbang and won't be distracted by the background.

Yuka Kinoshita
Yuka Kinoshita is a Japanese woman with 5.52 million followers. She has an enormous appetite and obtains huge amounts of calories during her show, one episode in which she ate 137 Philippine bananas and caused controversy among Chinese viewers. Many Chinese netizens accused her of assaulting China using that 137 bananas because there are 1.37 billion people in China and this episode was posted soon after the South China Sea Ruling. However, there are also Chinese netizens that don't see this as a problem.

Though YouTube is not available in mainland China, Yuka still has lots of Chinese fans since she established her own Weibo account where she has 2.66 million followers and 130,000 viewers when live streaming.

Western versions
Several American YouTubers have become popular with their own version of mukbang. The concept is similar to the one of eastern versions, with an online audiovisual broadcast in which a host eats large amounts of food. However, in most western versions, hosts don't do their mukbangs live like Korean mukbangers and instead resort to pre-recorded and edited videos posted on platforms like YouTube. Often, the amounts of food eaten are also larger than most of their Asian counterparts. In addition, a lot of western hosts focus on the ASMR aspects of a mukbang broadcast. Finally, western mukbangs also usually involve the host describing the food they eat and talking through their meal; this is not very common in live eastern mukbangs.

Keemi
Keemi is an Asian American mukbanger on YouTube who has 900k subscribers. Her channel features cooking and eating videos. Known for cooking in her college dorm and her Chicago apartment, Keemi also blends in contents like ASMR and food vlogs.

Stephanie Soo
Stephanie Soo is an American mukbanger and a YouTuber who includes conspiracy theories and crime stories in her mukbang videos. Her personality and the ability to tell stories in a lively way have attracted a large audience. Stephanie is also known for her frequent interactions with subscribers because she always likes and replies to people’s comments under her videos. Stephanie’s mukbang videos earned her 2.45 million subscribers as of April 2021.

Nikocado Avocado
Nikocado Avocado’s real name is Nicolas Perry, and he is a Ukrainian-American mukbanger who has 3 million followers on his YouTube channel. He began his YouTube channel in 2014 as a vegan vlogger. But due to some health issues that are potentially caused by veganism, he gave up being vegan and became the first American mukbanger who does extreme eating. Other than his food consumption, he grabbed lots of attention from the audience because of his frequent emotional fluctuation in the videos. His actions and languages bring him controversies and many viewers have expressed their concerns over his mental health. In November 2020, Perry claimed to leave YouTube to focus on his health problems, but he didn’t keep that promise and still posts videos to YouTube till now.

Bethany Gaskin
Bethany Gaskin has multiple YouTube channels and has amassed a following of over 3 million subscribers on the platform. Bethany specializes in seafood mukbangs. Like other western mukbangs, many of Bethany’s videos focus on the ASMR aspect of eating food online with viewers watching her videos to relax and receive “brain tingles.” Gaskin is one of the highest-grossing western mukbangers making money through sponsorships, as well as from the sales of her own secret “Smackalicious” sauce.

Veronica Wang
Veronica Wang is a Chinese-Canadian and a mukbanger with 1.78 million followers on YouTube. Characterized as always having make-up on, she cooks and eats different types of food around the world on camera, ranging from Ethiopian injera, Korean fried cheese balls, to Italian spaghetti bolognese.

Food waste
There are mukbangers whose videos are edited and the mukbangers don’t swallow the food. A YouTube mukbanger called Moon Bok Hee was criticized in her video for spitting out the food after chewing.

In 2020, Douyin promised to have stricter verification on food-related videos. Besides, some other media platforms, including Bilibili and Kuaishou, also encourage cherishing food.