Back in 2020, when mukbang (or “eating show”) channels peaked across live broadcasting platforms, South Korean YouTuber Moon Bok Hee of Eat With Boki channel faced a significant amount of hate out of nowhere…
…over accusations of “spitting” instead of swallowing and “over-editing” the videos to make it seem like she’s finishing the heaps of food.
Mukbang YouTuber “Eat With Boki” Under Suspicions For Spitting Out Food After Chewing Due To Over-Editing
Some of her most extreme accusers nitpicked all of her videos, time-stamping the suspicious scenes, slowing them down, and creating GIFs to “prove” that the YouTuber was not actually eating all of the food that she prepared.
The backlash grew so intense that Moon Bok Hee had to address the controversial accusations in a Q&A video—though her response was not enough to quiet the heated debate.
Question: Do you still spit out your food?
Moon Bok Hee: Jeez… This whole “spitting-out-food” thing… I could have said so much about this, but I decided not to. But today, I’ll say what I have to say. In the beginning, I did not imagine that I would be caught up in this “spitting-out-food” controversy. Back in the days, I used to edit videos on my laptop. And because I was uploading a video every other day, my storage capacity was filling up real quick. The original videos were too big in size, so I deleted all of them. I honestly did not think I would need them. I wanted to edit out parts that could throw people off. I’m sure you’ll understand, based on the one-take videos that I’ve started sharing, but whether I eat for 20 minutes or 30 minutes, I try to keep my videos under 10 minutes. In my opinion, me taking tiny bites of food isn’t all that appealing to the audience. And that’s how the whole accusation started, I guess. Since January 2020, I’ve been keeping the original videos in my external hard drive. And around August of the same year, a number of YouTubers started accusing me of spitting out the food or even throwing up after I shoot.
…But the thing is, I take a big bite and drink coke to wash down the food in my mouth. A lot of my viewers like watching me take big bites. And drinking coke after a big bite became a bit of a habit for me. I’m literally just picking my teeth to make sure nothing is stuck there. And then I wipe my lips with a wet wipe. I don’t know why people are playing Sherlock Holmes. But I’ve never spat any of my food out.
While her channel and the number of her subscribers didn’t take the biggest hit, the scandal did leave “muk-baet” (or “spitting out”) tagged to Moon Bok Hee’s name for as long as she continued making videos.
Fast forward to 2024, though, Moon Bok Hee has pursued new content that has since gotten rid of all accusations.
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