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• In China, the highly competitive practice of mukbang -- eating large quantities of food for viewers' enjoyment -- is a wildly popular streaming subject, Oddity Central reported.
Successful mukbang streamers make good money and are showered with gifts from their followers.
The trend took a sad turn, however, when 24-year-old Pan Xiaoting, a former waitress, lost her life during her mukbang livestream.
As Pan's following grew, she took her overeating to greater extremes, pushing her weight to around 650 pounds.
An autopsy reportedly showed that her stomach was full of undigested food and her abdomen was severely deformed. [Oddity Central, 7/19/2024]