When Kate Yup created her Youtube channel in 2018, she caused euphoria all over the platform by making videos of her eating seafood. However, her content was quite creepy because, in all her videos, she was blindfolded while she was eating, and you never saw her face. So, when she suddenly vanished in November 2019 without a trace, internet users and followers started the craziest theories about her absence. At first, many people thought Kate was dead because no one had heard from her for three years. Nevertheless, she’s been hitting the headlines again, and you won’t believe what happened to her!
Who is Kate Yup?
If you haven’t seen her content, Kate Yup is a Youtuber who became famous thanks to her “mukbang” videos eating seafood. Like her, Kate’s personal information is a mystery, but it’s believed that she’s American because her account details show that her location is based in the United States. In contrast, some viewers claim that she’s French because the description of the first video she uploaded is written in French. Also, it’s hard to be sure of her age, but many people think she’s between 30 and 35 years old.
Her video content is about her eating all types of seafood, but Kate rarely speaks; you’ll only hear her chewing. Instead, she includes messages in the subtitles about the food she’s eating, and that’s pretty much all. However, what’s most surprising is that she always wears an eyepatch and nose patch in her videos. At first, everyone was intrigued and thought it was rare, but it was later discovered that she had a nose deformity. Despite these intriguing and weird things, she’s very popular, and all her uploaded videos almost reach 150 million views and 1.53 million subscribers.
What are Mukbang videos?
In mukbang videos, viewers watch the host eat, but the food is characterized by being ingested in huge, almost like feast portions to please and entertain the audience.
The word mukbang comes from the Korean word ‘’meokbang,’’ a combination of the Korean words ‘’eating’’ and ‘’broadcast.’’
Conspiracy theories about Kate Yup’s identity
As I mentioned, Kate’s face has never been seen by the public before as she has never appeared without being covered from the chest to her face. Until now, we don’t know if the Youtuber hides because she wants to keep her identity a secret or if there’s a dark reason. Unfortunately, she hasn’t given more clues about herself, so we have no way of knowing who she really is.
That’s why several theories started floating around regarding the Youtuber’s identity, and below, you’ll find some of the craziest ones that fans have created.
Is she kidnapped?
One of the most popular and crazy theories is that she was kidnapped or forced to do the videos because you can see bruises on her arms and lips in some of them. As a result, people assumed she was in captivity and starving, but after a couple of days, she was allowed to eat those considerable amounts of food. This rumor also arose as users claim that in some videos, you can hear a man’s voice saying creepy things like ‘’eat fast,’’ ‘I’m gonna kill you,’’ and ‘’hurry up.’’
Although she previously claimed that she was fine and those horrible things weren’t true, fans discovered what seemed to be hidden messages in her videos. In one of them, she wrote, ‘’The meat is So delicioOouS, soft and tender.’’ It was noticed that she put particular emphasis on some letters that created the word ‘’SOS.’’ What’s intriguing is that it wasn’t the only time she gave those clues; in four different videos, she also capitalized letters that formed the word ‘’HELP.’’ This only stoked the rumors of her alleged abduction, but other internet users believed it was planned to gain more followers and viewers.
This conspiracy theory also claims that Kate might be a 16-year-old girl called Karlie Guise who mysteriously disappeared in the United States. This story arose because even though we don’t see Kaie’s face, the facial features between her and the young American lady are very similar. However, this rumor was later ruled out when people discovered that Karlie disappeared a year and a half after the Youtuber star opened her channel.
Eating disorder
While some think she was abducted, others believe she has bulimia due to the large quantity of food she quickly eats and probably throws after. Youtube users believe she loves eating so much, but she doesn’t want to be recognized so that nobody can find out about her disorder. This rumor is backed up by the toothbrush strapped to her wrist because people with bulimia tend to carry them to induce vomiting and brush their teeth later.
UFC fighter
On the other hand, a user claimed that Kate was a famous Polish UFC fighter named Joanna Jdrzejczyk. After that statement, many people assumed it was true, as that would explain the nose patch and constant brushes all over Yup’s body. Nevertheless, people rushed to Joanna’s Instagram and discovered that she had bruises, but they didn’t match the ones that Kate had, so this ended up being a wrong hypothesis.
Has Kate Yup come back on Youtube?
Despite having so much success with her videos, Kate fell off the face of the earth after uploading her last mukbang video on November 10th, 2019. Luckily for the fans, and denying the theories about her death, she returned October 7th 2022 after three years of absence!
In the video, Kate surprised her fans with a new mukbang video where she ate what seems to be raw salmon and Japanese and Chinese food. She wrote that she was fine and alone in the room and asked everyone to stop circulating rumors about being kidnapped or forced to eat.
Summary about what happened to Kate Yup
With her last video, Kate proved that she still has a massive fanbase on Youtube, who was very happy to see she was okay after all these years. We still don’t know where she was during this time, but maybe she just wanted to take a break after people went crazy making up conspiracy theories.
Her identity remains a mystery, but that doesn’t mean she’s in danger; it can be just for marketing and not necessarily because something terrible is happening to her. Luckily she seems fine, and we have nothing left to do but trust her word and wish her the best in her life and channel.
