Zermatt Neo has uploaded a video of his video of his trip to Osaka, Japan to compete in the qualifier for "Big Eater Championship 2025" that will be televised May 5 on TV Tokyo.

April 20, 2025 at 8:34 am by ojrifkin · More posts about:Japan, Television, Videos, Zermatt Neo | Permalink * Comments (15)

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  1. Anonymous said

    April 20, 2025 @ 10:08 am

    Congrats to the new crew of delusionals with eating disorders! For starting a new YouTube channel for eating challenges in a dried up and totally saturated market. Fame and fortune! NOT!

    Kyle Can Eat
    Charlie and the Chew Crew
    Gastric Gladiator
    Jerome Burns
    Dominic Mandato

  2. Anonymous said

    April 20, 2025 @ 3:28 pm

    Let’s add the delusional UK crew list too aka the cringe crew

    Franco’s Feasts
    JJ Da Lion
    Dawsey
    Jimmy Judge
    Liftingweightscleaningplates

    Congratulations to you all for starting channels in an over saturated market and adding nothing new. Maybe when you all eventually come to the USA and freeload for a few weeks you can meet up with Eli Lessig and learn the tricks to becoming the next eating sensation.

  3. Dominic Mandato said

    April 20, 2025 @ 8:48 pm

    Welp I’ll be honest, never thought I’d have haters in the world of competitive eating, at least being so new and unknown but here we are lmao. However, I’d like to thank you for the shout out because any press is good press in my opinion lol.

  4. Kate Webb said (Registered May 5, 2024)

    April 21, 2025 @ 5:22 am

    10:08 and 3:28 – I honestly don’t understand why you’re hating on new creators ?

    The more people making good food content the better! And the more people who do food challenges means more venues make more food challenges… The more people making content about Competitive Eating is for you all individually.

    Why is it the perspective that it’s not worth anyone’s time if they’re not pulling 2005-2015 superstar YouTube views? Or if they’re not pulling Stonie / Chestnut times & numbers in contests and challenges?

    The market on the internet along for paid (and contra) collaborations for food bloggers, reviewers and challengers is so plentiful, there is enough space on the internet for everybody!

    If you’re not making content – start. It makes it better for everyone…

    I honestly don’t get this commentary at all….

    Also – Jimmy Judge is Aussie. We claim him proudly. And he’s one of the most genuine dudes on the internet and maybe one of the nicest food creators and competitive eaters I have ever met.

  5. Anonymous said

    April 21, 2025 @ 7:04 am

    We can add Gastric to the Dead Pool of eaters. He joins Bob, Garbage (Brandon), and Michael Jenkins at the top of the dead pool. Gastric is another morbidly obese and probably less than 40 and doing food challenges. Tik Tok….

  6. Anonymous said

    April 21, 2025 @ 8:25 am

    Kate: Actually go look at data and other channels. You obviously are hyper focused on James as to be expected. The market is saturated with those at the top. No one is bringing anything new marketing wise to the table. In fact, restaurant challenges are arguably on the decline at least in the USA. I still think a big boobed blond bombshell (fitness girl) eater with a little training would be that niche to use in the eating world. She can groan and lick her lips a lot and talk about big portions and bites as she is eating. She might have a shot actually of real money. Making a few bucks a month (and it is very little money) while living with your parents or relatives and no job is hardly a path to encourage.

  7. Anonymous said

    April 21, 2025 @ 2:27 pm

    We can know the truth about JWebbyCanBarf

  8. Anonymous said

    April 21, 2025 @ 7:36 pm

    Why are people so hateful about those they don’t even know. Why do they spend so much of their time and effort spreading negativity and bringing everyone down. It’s a poor mindset and I suspect mode people will read these rambling comments and just assume you are troubled and not really want to interact with you.

    If you really don’t like the people just walk on, do something you enjoy and move on with your life. You are most likely not going to make a change from a place of hate. Change is make from a positive example.

  9. Kate Webb said (Registered May 5, 2024)

    April 22, 2025 @ 2:54 am

    8:25am: I wish I could address you by name in reply – BUT… – what data are you using as a metric of success??

    My understanding is that you view “food challenge” content as “oversaturated” – My question is does this same logic apply to all areas of content creation?? How many gym influencers, Mommy bloggers, beauty artists etc emerge every day online? And then go viral and build themselves a community and audience…?

    I would argue, to the contrary, that food content creators are actually under represented online and that’s why the “big” / OG Creators have such a monopoly of the audience. There simply isn’t enough of you guys making content!! There needs to be more. And there needs to be more creators willing to collaborate with each other to build and unify online followers and communities.

    In order for Competitive Eating to grow legs beyond its current existence, we need new people to join the scene. One day Beard, Randy etc will ‘pass the baton’ – and onto who??

    This is really one of the only populated eating forums I know of besides a few Reddit Threads and FB Groups and y’all here hating on everyone for giving it a go? I honestly don’t get it.

    RE: your suggestion for a Big Boobed Bombshell emerging – look at Gal Akbari – she is KILLING it. She’s just eating her way around with big bites on a camera and cleaning up. The girl has literally monetised the interincisal distance of her jaw. Clever girl. That is what I would call bringing “something new marketing wise to the table”.

    I am obviously big on content creation but I am also a n00b at all of this. I started editing James’s videos from couch on my phone during covid. To this day I am still gophering everyday on capcut and caffeine – definitely nothing fancy & our content is far from perfect. I can not for the life of me seem to produce a good YT vlog (for whatever reason my short form hits but long form sucks.)

    I just get frustrated reading about all the whinging because the more people that make content, the more opportunity there would be for everyone.

    The whole world eats! To quote Crazy Legs “food is the fuel that drives the planet” (July 4th 2022).

    The “Top” creators are not the only ones eating. Literally the whole world is eating. People are interested. Just like there are thousands off new girls applying make up on camera, new gym bros filming their workouts and emerging chefs uploading their recipes online. And these new people go viral because they’re new + consistent, but it doesn’t happen overnight.

    Im assuming by “data” you mean follows / views / subscribers… that should not be the metric of success for a new creator. And I have to assume (cos you’ve posted anonymously) that you are NOT making content to have that logic. I made maybe close to 500 videos for James before we ever got our first paid collab. And our views were really really low for a long time. And we will still get videos that suffer from toilet engagement and then the next day I’ll have a video that slaps with millions of views on TikTok. And I always think the video with the lower views was better, but you just can’t predict what people will engage with.

    Also ‘follow’ culture is dead. How often do you doom scroll and like or share a video but not follow the creator? I am 110% guilty of this and that’s why the algorithm favours engagement / view time over subscribers. TikTok actually posted their points system recently on how the ‘reward’ videos:

    LIKES – 1 POINT
    COMMENTS – 2 POINTS
    REPOSTS – 3 POINTS
    WATCH TIME – 5 POINTS
    COMPLETION RATE – 6 POINTS
    FOLLOWS – 4 POINTS

    And apparently you have to gain 50 points within the initial 300 views for your video to be pushed… – Anyway – I digress.

    You’ve got to remember there is a whole new generation of kids whose entire WORLD and life is online and they have NO IDEA who Beard or Randy or Stonie is because they’re engaging with people from their demographic and essentially what to journey online with emerging creators.

    In summary, (haha) I just wanted to rat on this whole thread of crapping on new eaters. I think it’s great and I wish more people made videos to build the community, world wide.

    So, if you are new, if your name is on that haters list above ^^ and you want to make videos just do it – and stay off EatFeats.

  10. Anonymous said

    April 22, 2025 @ 7:38 am

    736: Well said.

  11. Anonymous said

    April 22, 2025 @ 10:08 am

    Kate: You obviously don’t follow or truly watch the markets. All are saturated. There is ON occasion someone that hits a niche and makes it. That’s not normal.

    You obviously don’t watch other eaters to the game, existing eaters, and new eaters who begin. And, watch the data and what’s been happening. Ask Randy if eating is growing and it’s not because of lack of new content creators.

    “And these new people go viral because they’re new + consistent, but it doesn’t happen overnight.” VERY seldom out of MILLIONS starting a YouTube, etc. channel.

    And, for the record, Your Youtube sub count is BS. A supposedly viral short caused this massive literally overnight sub count. Your views show the true story. Just sayin.

  12. Anonymous said

    April 22, 2025 @ 10:17 am

    Also Kate, the views and likes do show the saturation overall. Again, sure, there are still super oddities that go viral due to again some super niche. In eating, you have the top people like Randy, Joel, and of course the King of Kings: Beard. People don’t watch him for the eating in reality. He’s a comedian and looks funny (Sorry adam!). Especially as a young dude. The accent doesn’t hurt either. I doubt you have seen any of the new people mentioned above let alone watch the top people consistently for trends, older YouTubers (Mitch for example) and watch the data in general in this market.

  13. Anonymous said

    April 22, 2025 @ 1:43 pm

    Somebody needs to combine mukbang with the perplexing “skibbity” head in the toilet craze. There you go… a 100% untapped market. Make thousands from this idea. Good luck fitting your shoulders through a hollowed out toilet though.

  14. Anonymous said

    April 23, 2025 @ 5:17 pm

    James Webb’s latest video with a massive 1800 views in 13 hrs. 8 comments. Like I said, saturated market. Even with how hard James works to get his name out there on all platforms. Arguably the hardest worker in eating by far. The sub count means nothing 152K because it’s bogus. But, looks good on a resume. The views state the real story.

  15. Anonymous said

    April 27, 2025 @ 3:47 pm

    You all hate each other. Competition eating has my vote for the most cutthroat between competitors hate you all spew.

  16. Anonymous said

    April 27, 2025 @ 3:51 pm

    All haters here all the time. Nobody gets along in the pathetic eating world

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