MUKBANG: A Social Media Horror Story

I'm going to be very honest here, I was hesitant to start this one, not only do videos of people eating gross the heck out of me I'm also generally not keen on stories that involve someone eating themselves into a disability because they often come with a generous helping of gratuitous fatphobia which I find profoundly tedious. I'm happy to report that while the eating part was absolutely abject (like if Rubber by Rob Ulitski hadn't utterly broken my brain I might not have made it through abject) it is far from being the core of the story and that while there is a fair bit about Jack's body I didn't feel like Poe used fatphobic rhetoric to move the story along or fill the page.

There's a gross out aspect that's sometimes over the top but there's an actual story too which was pretty bleak and gritty.