Parents slammed after daughter, 3, features 30kg from over-eating in sick ‘mukbang’ movies
The parents of a three-year-old girl have deleted their social media accounts following backlash after seemingly making their daughter eat huge quantities of unhealthy food for a sick online audience
The young girl was made to eat copious amounts of food for an online audience (Image: Xiaopeiqi de Yitian / Newsflash)
The parents of a three-year-old girl have been slammed for making the tot perform in a sick trend online that sees people eat as much as possible for viewers’ entertainment.
The child, nicknamed Peiqi by those that watched her, reportedly gained more than 30kg from the so-called ‘Mukbang‘ videos, which have also received criticism for the quantity of food waste produced.
The parents, who have not been named, helped grow the “exploitative and irresponsible” account by using headlines such as “3-year-old 66-pound (33-kilogram) chubby girl” in which their daughter ate copious amounts of unhealthy, fried and fatty foods.
Peiqi’s weight ballooned following her appearance in the videos (Image: Xiaopeiqi de Yitian / Newsflash)
In one video, Peiqi could be seen waving her hands and saying, “Don’t add more food,” while her parents continue to fill the bowl, in local media in China reports. That video appears to have been taken down.
According news outlet Oddity Central, the couple have defended themselves after coming under fire on Chinese social media, arguing that the child had weighed 4.5kg at birth and had always had a huge appetite that they were simply sating.
However, critics online were far from convinced, pointing out that Peiqi’s weight had ballooned to a whopping 35kg, more than double what is healthy for somebody her age.
The content has now been taken down (Image: Yiu Yu Hoi/Getty Images)
Due to the wave of users pointing out how gross the platforming of these videos was, social media sites have been quick to remove the videos from their platform, while her parents have now deleted all social media accounts too.
Despite originally having tens of thousands of views on multiple videos with around half a million watches in total, the parents have denied making the content for financial gain, arguing that the cost of making them was greater than the revenue they brought in.
Local media quotes that as saying: ““We only gained several hundred yuan from uploading such videos. It is far less than the money we spent on her food.”
The parents say that the content was not only focussed on eating (Image: Getty)
They also claimed that eating was only part of the content that they produced, and that nothing that the girl did came about from her being forced.
They said: “We don’t just post videos of her eating; there are also videos of her dancing, singing, and dieting. This is our own child, so there’s no way we would force her to eat that much.”
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