Matt Stonie appeared on Mornings with Maria (Bartiromo) on Fox Business today to talk about his youtube channel and recent Donut Day video. Neither his recent signing with Night Media nor the 2020 Nathan's Famous hot dog eating contest were discussed.
Joey Chestnut has passed 100,000 subscribers to his youtube channel
Leah Shutkever's donut record makes Guinness World Records' best of May 2020 video. (starts at 3:00)
Molly Schuyler posted a video of her attempt with Dan Kennedy to each eat 33 Big Macs and surpass a mark set by Joey Chestnut by one burger.
Food Challenge youtube channels with 400K – 999K subscribers
Here are food challenge youtube channels with 400K – 999K subscribers that I know:
| Channel | # Subs | # Views | Joined | |
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🇸🇬 Peggie Neo â˜‘ï¸ | 994K | 174,312,832 | Sep 26, 2015 |
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🇬🇧 Beard Meats Food â˜‘ï¸ | 967K | 182,223,581 | Jan 12, 2015 |
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🇯🇵 “Russian” Sato â˜‘ï¸ | 790K | 347,956,685 | Sep 14, 2015 |
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🇮🇳 Wake N Bite â˜‘ï¸ | 766K | 127,534,414 | Jun 2, 2017 |
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🇫🇷 Alan Food Challenge â˜‘ï¸ | 721K | 101,495,106 | Jan 23, 2010 |
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🇹🇼 Ding Ding â˜‘ï¸ | 702K | 127,723,054 | Mar 29, 2015 |
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🇺🇸 Wreckless Eating â˜‘ï¸ | 632K | 165,822,521 | Jun 10, 2010 |
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🇯🇵 Draco | 531K | 207,229,811 | Oct 30, 2014 |
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🇯🇵 Max Suzuki | 512K | 264,005,178 | Sep 23, 2012 |
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🇪🇸 Joe Burgerchallenge â˜‘ï¸ | 474K | 66,335,096 | Nov 10, 2015 |
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🇯🇵 Onokako twins | 472K | 161,531,780 | Nov 14, 2017 |
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🇺🇸 Nate Figgs â˜‘ï¸ | 461K | 101,623,889 | Nov 17, 2011 |
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🇯🇵 Moe Azuki | 421K | 49,302,233 | Jun 18, 2018 |
Food challenge channels with over 1 million subscribers
I have updated the list of food challenge youtube channels with over a million subscribers to include Randy Santel. I have also added Nikocado Avocado since he did a burger challenge at the Heart Attack Grill.
| Channel | # Subs | # Views | Joined | |
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🇺🇸 Matt Stonie â˜‘ï¸ | 11.5M | 2,150,557,507 | Aug 23, 2012 |
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🇯🇵 Yuka Kinoshita â˜‘ï¸ | 5.47M | 2,002,036,170 | May 21, 2014 |
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🇨🇦 Furious Pete â˜‘ï¸ | 5.17M | 1,011,189,368 | Aug 10, 2006 |
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🇸🇦 Hussain Sallam â˜‘ï¸ | 4.69M | 651,791,167 | Mar 2, 2006 |
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🇪🇸 Esstik â˜‘ï¸ | 3.09M | 320,339,749 | Feb 28, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 LA Beast â˜‘ï¸ | 2.54M | 414,812,082 | Aug 7, 2010 |
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🇺🇸 Nikocado Avocado â˜‘ï¸ | 1.87M | 456,016,948 | May 27, 2014 |
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🇧🇷 Corbucci Eats â˜‘ï¸ | 1.75M | 228,671,952 | May 2, 2006 |
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🇺🇸 Badlands Chugs â˜‘ï¸ | 1.66M | 153,900,117 | Sep 25, 2012 |
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🇨🇦 Veronica Wang â˜‘ï¸ | 1.63M | 283,818,966 | Jun 26, 2010 |
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🇹🇼 Chien Tsu â˜‘ï¸ | 1.47M | 189,742,324 | Jul 10, 2016 |
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🇯🇵 Taniyaaan1125 | 1.35M | 281,444,399 | Sep 17, 2016 |
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🇺🇸 Erik Lamkin â˜‘ï¸ | 1.17M | 197,824,171 | Aug 10, 2013 |
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🇺🇸 Randy Santel â˜‘ï¸ | 1M | 290,978,285 | Sep 23, 2011 |
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🇸🇬 Peggie Neo â˜‘ï¸ | 993K | 174,180,440 | Sep 26, 2015 |
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🇬🇧 Beard Meats Food â˜‘ï¸ | 965K | 181,771,015 | Jan 12, 2015 |
https://www.instagram.com/hotdogeatingshort/ has released a trailer for an upcoming short cartoon about competitive eating.
Randy Santel has exceeded a million subscribers for his youtube channel.
In his latest video, Geoff Esper attempted to set the record for most Burger King Whoppers eaten.
The Sklar brothers posted a clip about Dale Boone from the 2005 Alka Seltzer US Open of Competitive Eating that was originally used in their "Cheap Seats" program.
Mashable.com has a column titled "Why we love to watch people eat gross food".
Randy Santel has a video about four times he believes he was cheated by restaurants where he was attempting food challenges.
SmartShanghai has an interview with Chinese food challenger 大胃mini, who claims to have eaten a 17.5kg (38.5 pound) lamb. Her channel on Bilibili has over a million fans. She also has a youtube channel.
Nadia White posted a video of her competing at the 2018 Wing Bowl, where she would set the record for a local woman with a total of 150 wings.
Andrew Puhl posted a video of his attempt with Molly Schuyler and Dan Kennedy to be the 5th, 6th and 7th persons to finish "Ye Olde 96er" 12+ pound burger challenge at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, PA. The previous 4 are Kate Stelnick, Lori Weiss, Brad Sciullo and Darron Breeden.
Men's Health has an article about Stephanie "NuttyFoodieFitness" Joshi's video where she attempted 200 pushups a day for 30 days.
The new CrossFAT contest involves eating a dozen Krispy Kreme donuts. The competition closes May 4.
Elite Eats Entertainment announced a video-based tournament for 10 independent competitive eaters.
Raina Huang's 96 ounce steak challenge video was posted on the UNILAD facebook page and has received almost 5 million views in 4 hours.
The "Finkies" competitive eating award show will be broadcast tomorrow on Zoom at 2pm Eastern. The first 100 participants will be able to view the show and interact. (broadcast link) updateThe winners have been posted. Darron Breeden's two victories in 2019 resulted in him getting Eater of the Year, while Yasir Salem won Muggle (non competitive eating) Achievement and Juan Rodriguez and Sarah Reinecke received the Peacock award.
Mashed.com has a video titled "The Truth about Competitive Eating Champ Takeru Kobayashi" focusing on his rivalry with Joey Chestnut and MLE.
Ronnie Hartman appeared on "Hot Ones: The Game Show", a program on TruTV in which competitors eat hot wings and answer trivia questions.
BetOnline Quarantine Challenge Finals
Official Results – finals
1:50 Joey Chestnut (Penalized 1 Sec)
2:48 Gideon Oji (Penalized 5 Sec)
3rd place
2:36 Nick Wehry (Penalized 3 Sec)
2:40 Darron Breeden (Penalized 1 Sec)
The BetOnline Quarantine Challenge Finals between Gideon Oji and Joey Chestnut can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDNkbtTZd-A The food will be 10 cups of Nissin Cup Ramen. There will also be a third place matchup between Darron Breeden and Nick Wehry.
BetOnline Quarantine Challenge semifinals
Results
Gideon Oji 1:45 (penalized 2 seconds)
Darron Breeden 2:10
Joey Chestnut 2:03
Nick Wehry 3:35
The semifinals can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro1DQ1YsDA4
The matchups are Darron Breeden vs. Gideon Oji and Joey Chestnut vs. Nick Wehry
The food is 10 pounds of baked beans
BetOnline Quarantine Challenge Round 1
Results
2:51 Gideon Oji (2 second penalty)
4:08 Badlands Booker
2:28 Darron Breeden (2 second penalty)
3:09 Matt Stonie
3:36 Joey Chestnut
3:40 Michelle Lesco (10 second penalty)
2:49 Nick Wehry
2:51 Miki Sudo
The round 2 matchups will be Wehry vs. Chestnut and Oji vs. Breedencan be viewed on the MLE youtube channel
The matchups are
(1) Gideon Oji vs. (8) Badlands Booker
(2) Joey Chestnut vs. (7) Michelle Lesco
(3) Miki Sudo vs. (6) Nick Wehry
(4) Matt Stonie vs. (5) Darron Breeden
According to the database, Michelle Lesco has never won a contest where Joey Chestnut has competed. The 2013 Chicago was her (2nd) only finish ahead of him (3rd). Head to Head results
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