What is the attraction of food-eating videos?

[OneMoreFarang]

Recently my gf looks on YouTube sometimes videos of people eating food.

Sometimes someone staffs an expensive big lobster into their mouth. Another times it's cheap rice noodles with vegetables. Or maybe someone eating 100 bowls of noodle soup.

The videos don't show how the food is prepared, which might be interesting.

The videos only show people, mostly just one person, eating, eating and eating until they are full. And then they eat some more.

And the eaters are mostly "normal" people. Not a half naked pretty girl which would get that attraction also without food.

 

What's the attraction of those videos? Yesterday I had a look and it seems many of those videos have more than 100,000 people who watched them.

Why?

 

P.S.: I asked her. She didn't even try to explain it to me.

[bkk6060]

Seems kind of the thing to do nowadays.

I dropped Facebook, but when I had it before most people seemed to post lots of photos of their food.

Not sure why.

We all eat so what is the big deal?

 

[canuckamuck]

Social engineering test. If you know that it is dumb, you're still OK.

[geoffbezoz]

When you have the answer pls let me know, I'll share with my wife who similarly watches,  usually the same person,  eating food. My wife's answer is "I just like to see her eating" which I can't understand.

 

When I reply that I get more enjoyment out of watching videos of people bonking she can't understand that either  ????????????

Edited June 25, 2019 by geoffbezoz

[ezzra]

You can, in the same breath, ask why people do anything and post it for the whole world to see, it's like ' look at me, i'm published, and people i don't care for or don't even know can see me now'... the whole social media is one big exercise in public exhibitionizm ..

 

[neeray]

It's called stuffing the pie hole.

 

Surely you must be aware of those hot dog eating contests!

 

From Wikipedia:

The Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest is an annual American hot dog competitive eating competition. ... The defending men's champion is Joey Chestnut, who ate 74 hot dogs in the 2018 contest.

[Yinn]

12 minutes ago, geoffbezoz said:

When you have the answer pls let me know, I'll share with my wife who similarly watches,  usually the same person,  eating food. My wife's answer is "I just like to see her eating" which I can't understand.

 

When I reply that I get more enjoyment out of watching videos of people bonking she can't understand that either  ????????????

You wife like this one right?

 

 

 

Thai woman like to know about how to make good food. It is interesting. So the other countries is interesting also.

Also have social pressure to be the good cook. 

[bkk6060]

Another similar one on FB is Thai girls posting their drinks at Starbucks.

I guess their is some braggers their:

Hey, look at me hiso I can afford a $4 coffee..

[poohy]

Must admit i watch Randy Santel on U tube he does eat some nice stuff though on his food tours

 

 

 

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, ezzra said:

You can, in the same breath, ask why people do anything and post it for the whole world to see, it's like ' look at me, i'm published, and people i don't care for or don't even know can see me now'... the whole social media is one big exercise in public exhibitionizm ..

If people publish it and make money out of it then there is at least a reason.

But why do people watch it?

 

Maybe I should try publishing videos of flowers growing or maybe videos of gold fish in a tank. If millions of people watch that I will have a nice income. But somehow I doubt that millions of people will watch it because I don't think millions of people would be so stupid. But then again, it seems they are so stupid.

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, Yinn said:

Thai woman like to know about how to make good food. It is interesting. So the other countries is interesting also.

Also have social pressure to be the good cook. 

Then they should look at videos how to prepare food. There are lots of good videos out there about preparing and cooking the food. But you don't know how it's made if you see a video with someone stuffing herself.

[geoffbezoz]

4 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Then they should look at videos how to prepare food. There are lots of good videos out there about preparing and cooking the food. But you don't know how it's made if you see a video with someone stuffing herself.

Perhaps Youtube should put a health information tag on the clip  when allowing these videos to be uploaded ?

 

Something like this perhaps  "You too can be as fat as me if you eat like me !!"  ????

[transam]

2 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

If people publish it and make money out of it then there is at least a reason.

But why do people watch it?

 

Maybe I should try publishing videos of flowers growing or maybe videos of gold fish in a tank. If millions of people watch that I will have a nice income. But somehow I doubt that millions of people will watch it because I don't think millions of people would be so stupid. But then again, it seems they are so stupid.

Well folk watch porn so why not folk watching others eat food, they may get their buzz there...

[BritManToo]

Can someone post a like to the nose picking videos?

[Yinn]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Then they should look at videos how to prepare food. There are lots of good videos out there about preparing and cooking the food. But you don't know how it's made if you see a video with someone stuffing herself.

Oh sorry. 

The one I show, it thai woman in Denmark. It show her catch the food in Denmark the beach or forest. Mushroom, seafood, like that. And then she make it. And then eat too much. Stuffing herself. And the daughter also.

 

Quite interesting one. She popular and funny.

[legend49]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

If people publish it and make money out of it then there is at least a reason.

But why do people watch it?

 

Maybe I should try publishing videos of flowers growing or maybe videos of gold fish in a tank. If millions of people watch that I will have a nice income. But somehow I doubt that millions of people will watch it because I don't think millions of people would be so stupid. But then again, it seems they are so stupid.

Dont feel alone. My Thai partner looks at them every night.

[Black arab]

1 hour ago, legend49 said:

Dont feel alone. My Thai partner looks at them every night.

And mine, bizarre!

[myjawe]

idiots as usual...

 

 

[Moonlover]

The home videos that really get up my nose are those posted by parents who think that their precious and often precocious young child can sing!

[The Deerhunter]

Two reasons.  (1) The quest fro 5 minutes of fame and (2) Cat videos were getting boring. 

(I still prefer the cat videos.  All types there-of.)

  

[The Deerhunter]

3 hours ago, transam said:

Well folk watch porn so why not folk watching others eat food, they may get their buzz there...

Well for my food porn I prefer that ex-wife of the Advertising mogul in England.

Rule for today.   "Gluttony never goes out of fashion."

[PatOngo]

6 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

But why do people watch it?

Small things amuse small minds!

[sammieuk1]

I like watching the pie eating videos there are millions of them and I never get board of watching ever maybe you could watch them together ????

[GreasyFingers]

It helps them to get hungry, then fat if they do it long enough.

[Gracas]

6 hours ago, legend49 said:

Dont feel alone. My Thai partner looks at them every night.

Does this get her aroused ?

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, Gracas said:

Does this get her aroused ?

 

[emptypockets]

11 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

If people publish it and make money out of it then there is at least a reason.

But why do people watch it?

 

Maybe I should try publishing videos of flowers growing or maybe videos of gold fish in a tank. If millions of people watch that I will have a nice income. But somehow I doubt that millions of people will watch it because I don't think millions of people would be so stupid. But then again, it seems they are so stupid.

Fish tank kings are making zillions on TV, gardening shows are popular along with the many variations of Master Chef.

 

None of which I am interested in.

 

I do weirdly like Dr Pimple Popper, probably because she is of Asian descent and quite hot.

Edited June 25, 2019 by emptypockets