Banzz

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About

Banzz 밴쯔 or Jeong Man-su is a South Korean YouTuber and Twitch Streamer who has gained notoriety for his Mukbang and ASMR videos. In August 2018, Banzz was fined for false advertisement which cause a significant dip in his YouTube subscriber count.

Online History

In 2013, Banzz began streaming on AfreecaTV.^[12] On July 10th, He joined YouTube. Om November 25th, he uploaded his fist video which was a restaurant eating challenge video (show below, left). The video gathered over 3.3 million views and 8,700 likes in six years. On September 21st, 2016, he started a second channel dedicated to AMSR eating videos. On September 25th, he uploaded his first video to the ASMR channel which accumulated ober 71,800 views in three years.

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On October 27th, He uploaded his most popular eating video "BANZZ ASMR/EATING SOUND [Mark Dish] Real Sound Mukbang (Talking ASMR)" which gained over 2.4 million views and 19,000 likes in three years (shown below, left). On May 4th, 2017, Banzz uploaded his most popular video on his main channel which received over 12.5 million views and 57,000 likes in two years (shown below, right).

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Reputation

As of November 2019, Banzz has over 22,200 followers on Twitch^[3], 2.69 million subscribers on his main YouTube^[1] account and 231,000 subscribers on his ASMR YouTube^[2] channel. On Instagram^[5] Banzz has over 358,000 followers.

False Advertisement Fine

On July 18th, 2019, Jeong Man-Su was indicted for false advertisement. He had promoted health food brand Eat4U^[10] as a diet aid and due to his physique prosecutors claimed that he was misleading customers.^[6]^[9] In August, Banzz was was fined $4,100 for the ads. The controversy caused him to loose thousands of subscribers.^[11]. On November 16th, Reddiot Phanatiic received over 2,200 points (92% upvoted) on their OutOfTheLoop^[4] post regarding Banzz's decline in popularity.

Personal Life

In 2017, Banzz gained some notoriety for his shirt-less pictures on Instagram.^[7] On April 6th, 2019, Banzz married Yun Soo-ah^[8] and posted a wedding photo to Instagram^[13] which gained over 53,000 likes in six months (shown below).