Shadowing Practice: KIM & LIZ: When Mukbang goes TOO FAR...🤮 - Learn English Speaking with YouTube
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Hey guys, what's up and welcome back to another episode.
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Hey guys, what's up and welcome back to another episode.
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Liz and Kim.
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This duo has been dropped enough times for me to now talk about them.
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Let's expose their addictive and gluttonous behaviors to light today.
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I'm proud of you guys.
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How is it that some of you guys are so young but can pick up toxic behaviors so easily?
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For those of you out there that's messaged me about them and asked me if I think they are toxic,
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Yes, yes, yes.
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Mukbang in general is just toxic.
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I honestly can't wrap my head around watching people shove greasy,
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unhealthy, sugary foods into their mouth like animals.
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I can't comprehend how that's enjoyable.
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I know maybe some of you guys out there enjoy it.
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I personally could not ever, ever get into it.
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It creates addiction.
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It makes people hungry.
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It makes people want to overconsume it provokes and promotes unhealthy eating behavior.
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Unless if it's like healthy mukbang.
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There's actually more healthy mukbangs now.
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I think the mukbang community has been criticized by so many people now.
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They're now changing it up as well.
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There's now ethical mukbang channels where they eat more healthier things.
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You know that they're eating everything because the calories are measured.
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They are eating within their own weight.
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The things that they're eating seems more natural,
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more healthy, better for their body.
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They're not promoting unhealthy lifestyles,
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unhealthy eating patterns, unhealthy foods.
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It's great.
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They respect themselves and their viewers and they're changing it up.
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I've criticized a few mukbang channels in my time.
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I feel like some of them might have like a secret little society where they gather
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and then they talk about plotting against me to shut my channel down because I've exposed so many of them.
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I don't know.
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I just can't seem to get into it.
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I have friends that's told me that mukbangs make them not want to eat.
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Like if they feel like snacking,
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they actually feel full and satisfied from watching people eat junk food.
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Huh?
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Huh?
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What?
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Hey, no judgment here.
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Everyone operates differently.
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I guess it is better to watch someone eat greasy,
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unhealthy, sugary foods than eating it yourself.
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I don't know, but then you're creating a different type of addiction a different type of way of self-soothing.
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And that's also not really healthy.
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Yeah, I've heard people say it makes them less hungry.
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They don't feel like eating after.
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And then I've heard people say like they feel really,
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really calm and satisfied and they watch it before bed.
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And the ASMR sounds really soothe them before bed.
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It relaxes them.
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Again, in my personal opinion,
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and I guess if you actually go to a mental health professional,
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they probably wouldn't recommend watching addictive,
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unhealthy mukbang ASMR videos to soothe yourself before sleep.
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I feel like most health professionals wouldn't recommend that because again,
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it is soothing, it is relaxing,
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but it's not a healthy way to soothe and relax your nervous system.
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And there are a lot of other alternatives out there.
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So without further ado, let's get into today's episode.
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Get comfortable.
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And if you are going to have a snack,
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grab a healthy snack and let's get started.
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How cute is this mug that I got from India?
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It says Pune and it has all the landmarks and like some of the highlights from Pune.
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It's so special.
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I love it.
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And I love the color orange.
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It makes me feel so warm in autumn.
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How cute is this?
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I'm drinking peppermint tea for those of you that are wondering.
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Welcome back guys.
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A lot of you out there have actually really wanted me to do like a podcast.
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I won't start a podcast yet.
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For those of you that want to get to know more personal things about me,
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I might do a Q&A and I do have a vlog channel.
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So those of you that are interested in podcasts,
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are interested in things outside of my commentary channel,
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check out my vlog page.
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This is my vlog I will start posting more.
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I'm sorry that I've been neglecting that side.
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And this is my Instagram.
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Give it a follow if you're interested.
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And yeah, let's get started into today's episode.
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Who are they?
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Who are Liz and Kim?
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Kim and Liz have a ASMR mukbang channel.
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And a lot of people actually thought that they were mother and daughter.
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I thought that they were mother and daughter,
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but it turns out that they're actually sisters.
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I had no idea, but their content focuses on eating shows,
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ASMR sounds, candy challenges, ramen desserts,
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junk food, and reaction style eating videos.
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Their channel grew massively through YouTube shorts and TikTok style content and now has millions of subscribers across platforms.
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I think their channel started blowing up rapidly in 2020,
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which was actually COVID.
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COVID had so much to do with a lot of BS that we see now.
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COVID was the era where influencers just went because everyone was just stuck indoors, right?
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Everyone was just stuck at home with nothing to do.
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So a lot of people became content creators that posted really irrelevant and I guess unnecessary content.
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And a lot of people were bored.
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So they consumed that type of content.
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I just have to add COVID really did expose ourselves to human nature like to our own nature I guess
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and to other humans nature positively and negatively
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but I would say COVID highlighted more of the negative side of human nature
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and COVID actually forced a lot of people indoors it captivated a lot of people physically
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and also mentally which actually also allowed people to have awakenings.
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Like people realized a lot of things during COVID as well because they were forced to think.
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Interesting.
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Very interesting.
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I still think about those COVID days where I was literally stuck at home,
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not allowed to leave my front doorstep.
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It was crazy.
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But anyway, let's get let's get back into it.
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Sorry for the detour.
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The main controversies surrounding Kim and Liz,
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The oldest and the most common controversy is their fake eating accusations.
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Many viewers accused them of pretending to eat large amounts of food,
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spitting food out off camera,
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editing videos heavily, wasting food for content.
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This criticism became common in mukbang discussion communities on Reddit and TikTok.
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Their portions often seemed unrealistically large.
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Some viewers claimed chewing, swallowing, looked edited.
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People question how they stay thin despite huge meals.
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Crazy.
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I have watched some of their mukbang videos.
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I can't do mukbang.
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A lot of people say that it makes them less hungry.
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I have to actually say I'm quite the opposite.
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Watching people eat just tickles all my senses in a very uncomfortable way and I get more hungry.
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I'm not a crazy sweet tooth.
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I do enjoy desserts every now and then,
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but I don't crave sweet foods.
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I'm a savory girl.
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I like savory foods way more.
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And watching them eat, I'm literally,
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my mouth is literally watering as I speak,
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but watching them eat, it just like elicits this urge inside of me that I don't like.
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I don't wanna feel out of control about food.
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I don't wanna feel irrational with food.
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I would say I'm a person with a lot of self-control and emotional regulation.
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I'm quite disciplined and I like that about myself.
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I don't like to feel out of control with food.
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I like to know what I put in my body because I respect my body and for the Christian girlies and boilies,
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like you guys would know what I'm talking about when I say your body is a temple.
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Like your body is the home that your spirit and soul lives in.
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If your body has been through trauma or if your mind has been through trauma,
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a lot of symptoms and side effects,
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responses, your nervous system is like your body needs to relax.
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You need to fix your body.
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You need to ground your body and make it a safe and healthy place for the soul to reside in.
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It's about everything, everything works together.
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So my body is my temple,
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it's where my soul lives in,
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it's what God gave me and I need to honor that.
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By eating junk food all the time and over consuming
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and eating in such a gluttonous way and shoving things down
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and also wasting food shows absolute zero respect for me for god
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and for the environment and other human beings out there the amount of food
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that a lot of these mukbang people eat the amount of food
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that they waste by wasting food we're not respecting ourselves
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or whoever provided the food food is incredibly sacred and i think
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that the whole consumerism industry
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and mindset has kind of made a lot of people ungrateful ungrateful for opportunities good people
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and just resources i think that's really sad
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because we are actually really really lucky i actually watched a podcast the other day
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and it said that we are living like kings
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because kings in the past they could live
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and they could go wherever they wanted right meaning they had horses
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or carriages we have that most people most people anyway have that.
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Like we have our own cars,
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we can have the opportunity to buy cars, we have money nowadays.
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Like even very young people can have a credit card to start saving,
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to get a job to save.
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Like back in the days only kings could travel abroad.
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Now we can save up money if we wanted to and we can go traveling to different places.
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Only kings could buy certain fruits like pineapples and grapes
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and apples whereas normal people probably could never even eat some of those fruits in their lives
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and now we can literally eat whatever we wanted.
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We are actually so lucky to a certain extent I guess.
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We are so lucky in the sense that we actually can have whatever we want materialistically whenever we want it.
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We can just buy it and it'll come to us.
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Right obviously prices may vary
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but what I'm trying to say is the modern age has made accessing things very very simple for us
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which means that we are naturally going to become more ungrateful because we don't realize how simple it is.
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So I think overconsumption creates greed and it makes us feel like it's
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so easy and it's so normalized that we become ungrateful.
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And that's why I encourage you guys to also be careful with consumption because it makes you appreciate what you have more.
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It makes you more conscious of what you're consuming,
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which is better for your wallet and your mind and the environment at the end of the day.
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It's literally a win-win for all.
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So I think overconsumption comes out of greed,
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unawareness, lack of care, lack of conscience, right?
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That's not good for the people that's overconsuming.
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Because let's be real, at the end of the day,
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it's about you, like your health.
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So I worry for Liz and Kim.
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I think that they are stuck in a loophole that they are not quite sure how to get out of.
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Because they build their entire channel on unhealthy mukbae for entertainment.
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What else can they do?
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It would be hard for them to do a 360 or a 180 and change their content.
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Another major criticism is promoting binge eating,
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encouraging unhealthy food habits, targeting children with junk food-centered content.
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Some viewers said the videos normalize extreme high sugar intake,
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excessive fast food consumption, overeating for entertainment.
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Reddit discussions especially criticize how young audiences may imitate the behavior.
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This ties into a broader controversy around YouTube mukbang culture overall,
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not just Kim and Liz specifically.
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A lot of you say that you watch my videos
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while you eat and I thank you guys so so much for doing that.
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But when you do that,
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you have to make sure that you're conscious that you're eating,
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that you can feel the food being chewed and into your stomach because you're young right now.
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You're not thinking about what your body's going to be when you're 20,
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when you're 30, when you're 40, when you're 50.
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50 but every choice that you make in this current moment will affect you in the future
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so whatever it is
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that we do drink sleep run exercise study make sure you're
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doing it consciously you're present you're intentional you're managing your stress levels
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and there's a balance with everything i promise you it would be
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so so so good for your body and soul your mind body and soul concerns Concerns about parasocial influence on kids.
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Some parents and commentators argue their videos appeal strongly to children.
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The sounds and the way that they eat could encourage unhealthy screen habit.
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Academic discussion around YouTube, recommendation systems,
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and child-targeted content often gets referenced in broader debates about channels like theirs.
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Frequently repeated criticisms about the channel are they never swallow food,
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they fake every video, they're secretly sick.
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Content farming and algorithm criticism.
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As shorts exploded on YouTube,
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many people grouped Liz and Kim with algorithm first creators.
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Critics accused them of repetitive thumbnails,
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hyper-edited reactions, editing clickbait style titles,
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Content engineered mainly for children and viral retention.
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They also hyper-edit the colors of their videos to attract children to watch their mukbang.
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This criticism became stronger around 2022 to 2024 when YouTube Shorts heavily rewarded fast-paced food content.
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It's like Nick and Carrie.
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It's like Life with Brothers.
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It's like Lily and Josh.
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They hyper-edit the foods to make it look devourable.
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Is that even a word? devourable.
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They make it look so enticing and good.
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Like that's what McDonald's does.
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That's what KFC does.
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They all do that.
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They make it look really crisp and clean.
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I encourage everyone to understand that,
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to understand what is manipulating you so you can make the decision yourself, whatever it is.
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So you are more conscious.
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You're aware of it so you can protect yourself.
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And if you do choose to consume it would be out of your own will
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and not under pressure or influence or manipulation
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so it's good to understand how these types of industries work
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sometimes certain things need to go extinct i do believe
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that not people i'm not saying liz
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and kim should be extinct i'm saying certain trends
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and certain ways of doing things if you are obsessed with it or if you are watching it,
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I recommend you to cope and soothe yourself in other ways.
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There are
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so many creative amazing things you could do than watch random
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weirdos eat random toxic things on the internet in front of you.
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If you actually think about that concept,
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watching strangers shove food and chewing and being gross,
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that makes you feel dopamine and it's just gross.
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If you actually think about that concept, it's a bit strange.
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Like that's why I can't understand it.
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It's an addiction to watch mukbang ASMR.
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Like you're just as addicted to the stimulation just as much as they are addicted to the eating.
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I've said this in the past in my other videos.
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A lot of these people spit out the food obviously.
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I know some content creators even go to the extent of vomiting out the food after they've eaten it.
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Some of them do that to obviously maintain their weight and a lot of people unfortunately actually eat it.
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They eat absolutely everything that you see on camera,
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the unhealthy stuff, they eat it all.
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It's like self-abuse.
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Overeating or under-eating to an unhealthy level is essentially self-abuse.
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They purposely bait children into watching their content.
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That's what's actually really disgusting in my opinion.
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Like the food itself was already disgusting and the way
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that they do it was already disgusting on top of
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that morally they're just disgusting as well they're not doing it ethically they purposely bait children into their disgusting lifestyle
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and content like they purposely want to give children addictions
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and i do pray that they do healthier content
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that they start caring about the children that are watching them
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and become more honest with themselves and start using what God gave them,
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which is two brains, one each,
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to think of better content ideas and start living a healthy and more self-respecting lifestyle.
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So yeah, that's all I have to say.
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Thank you guys so much for watching today's video.
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Hike, comment, like, subscribe.
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These are the ways that you can support me for free and I really, really appreciate it.
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Please always comment in the comment section below
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or direct message me on Instagram for what type of videos you would like to see next.
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I am always looking out for suggestions,
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opinions, recommendations and I will see you guys in the next video.
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Bye!
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Thank you.
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About This Lesson
In this lesson, you will practice your English speaking skills by focusing on a lively conversation between two individuals discussing the phenomenon of mukbang, or extreme eating broadcasted online. This dialogue presents an excellent opportunity to improve your English pronunciation and comprehension while exploring themes such as health, societal behaviors, and personal opinions. By actively engaging with the content, you can enhance your ability to express opinions and discuss various cultural phenomena in English. This lesson is perfect for anyone looking to learn English with YouTube videos!
Key Vocabulary & Phrases
- Mukbang - A live-streamed eating show where hosts consume large quantities of food while interacting with their audience.
- Toxic behaviors - Negative habits or actions that can harm one's health or well-being.
- Gluttonous - Excessively greedy in eating or consuming.
- Unhealthy eating patterns - Habits related to food consumption that are detrimental to health.
- Self-soothing - Actions taken to calm oneself, often in ways that can be unhealthy.
- Ethical mukbang - Mukbang videos that focus on consuming healthy or real food in a responsible manner.
- Addiction - A compulsive need for something, in this case, unhealthy food or content.
- Shadowing - A technique where learners mimic a speaker's tone, speed, and pronunciation in order to improve fluency.
Practice Tips
To make the most of this lesson and maximize your English speaking practice, consider implementing the following tips:
- Shadowing Technique: Listen to the dialogue carefully and repeat immediately after the speakers. Pay attention to their intonation, rhythm, and pronunciation. This exercise will help you improve your English pronunciation and make your speech more natural.
- Vary Your Pace: The speakers in this video have varied speech speeds—some parts are faster and others slower. When practicing, try to match their speed to better adapt to conversational English.
- Record Yourself: As you practice, record your voice. Listen to your recordings to evaluate your pronunciation and fluency over time. This step can be insightful for assessing your progress in shadowing.
- Engage with the Content: After shadowing, discuss your thoughts on mukbang and its implications with fellow learners or in a journal. This will help you practice forming opinions in English and deepen your understanding of social trends.
- Use Keywords: Incorporate the vocabulary you learned into your conversations. Try to use terms like "toxic behaviors" and "ethical mukbang" in your discussions, reinforcing your understanding of their meanings.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.
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