UK’s biggest ‘mukbanger’ single after getting dumped and downing giant greasy meal

Keen on women who post vomitous videos of themselves devouring huge meals? You’re in luck! The UK’s top ‘mukbanger’ is newly single, revealing her split-up midway through a giant pizza

Unless you’re part of her community, @kqtiewhitney’s announcement of her dating woes might have raised plenty of questions. Why is this young woman sharing her personal situation while taking bites of a huge pizza, alongside nuggets, dips, and tin trays of greasy food?

Why is she making sure we hear each chew and swallow? How come she wasn’t already single? But then you’d be missing the whole point of her Instagram video.

For @kqtiewhitney is a star in a field you might have never heard of – and might soon wish you hadn’t. Having first shot to fame sharing shuddersome “cringe” videos, she is now a leading “mukbanger” famed for devouring mountains of grub on camera.

A new clip shows a conversation between @kqtiewhitney and her unseen ex as they discuss the tickets he bought for her as a birthday treat before their heartbreak. “I’m shaking,” she begins, with cheese dripping from her lip.

“We had concert tickets. We don’t need to talk about it right now but you can probably get a refund.”

“I’m fine,” she adds, shovelling down another mouthful dipped in a gooey sauce. “I don’t mind.”

Then, grabbing a slice, she says, “This pizza’s good.” Mukbang videos began in South Korea, where the term means “eating broadcast”.

After taking off there in the early 2010s, the genre then became a global trend. Mukbangers scoff down foods from pizza to noodles in front of a camera.

Boffins reckon Korean mukbangers were initially battling anxiety, loneliness, and unhappiness in their hyper-competitive society. Online dining let them shed some of this stress.

However, exponents of “social eating” can now rake in cash from their clips. Mukbangers on YouTube might also hop on the ASMR trend, where viewers get a tingle from the sounds of eating.

The response to @kqtiewhitney’s video, though, shows that her triumph in the mukbang world has still left a lot of viewers unsure how seriously to take it all.

A follower comments: “That’s so real. OMG I’m so sorry, Katie.” Sympathy also comes in the post: “Girl are you okay?” Another comments: “I acc feel bad.”

A fan describes the video as “scarily accurate”. Another writes: “I feel like she wants to cry.” Not everyone is convinced by the clip, however. “42 minutes ago and I can’t tell if it’s satire or not.

“I’m sorry,” a poster comments. Another asks: “Is this acting or real?”

Some are even sure the video is a fraud: “Bros talking to herself and people think its actually real. Good acting tho, m8.”

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