rant · moment 22 of 45
Mukbang Moms and the Fried Chicken Plating Video
from The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422 · #422
3 min
Tim describes a viral video of a mother plating fast food as a home-cooked meal for her family, and they discuss the voyeuristic appeal of watching low-income families get by, contrasting it with wanting better cultural content.
- Mukbang appeal partly comes from watching someone with limited money figure out how to feed their kids cheaply.
- Tim would rather watch The Rolling Stones or the movie Heat than footage of people barely keeping their kids alive with fried chicken.
- He acknowledges watching the content himself and being fascinated by it while noting it's probably negative.
- Mediocrity and low-aspiration content rising in the culture is not a net positive for society.
- Kids growing up watching this stuff think being internet famous is how they should make money, and it's become a huge job aspiration among young people.