After a long, exhausting day at school, I like to go home and relax. I put on my pajamas, get in bed, open my phone, and scroll on TikTok to clear my mind before I have to start the hours of homework that my teachers unfortunately assign me each night. Inevitably, a muckbang video will pop up on my feed, and I have no choice but to watch in disgust as they shove whole spoonfuls of icing and weird foods into their mouths. Muckbang TikTok is constantly cycling through different food trends. One month, it was candying food, even Chipotle burritos; the next, it was eating sprinkles. These trends always increase in popularity at an alarming rate and decrease in popularity just as fast. However, there is one trend on muckbang TikTok that has lived in popularity for many months: ranch.

Ranch has always been a popular dressing/dip. It was previously used in salads, with vegetables, and as an ingredient in some popular dips. After its popularity on TikTok, the usage of ranch has gotten out of hand. People were dipping whole sandwiches, entire chicken fingers, and whole pieces of meat in the ranch. The muckbangers couldn’t even eat the food without the ranch getting all over their clothes, the table, their car, etc. They can’t even fully eat the meal because of how much of a struggle it is to try to keep the ranch contained. It got even worse a couple of months ago. Not only were people dipping their food in an ungodly amount of ranch, but now they are dipping foods in ranch that should never even be in the vicinity of ranch. I have seen foods like chocolate, mushrooms, sushi, hard candies, chips, cookies, the list goes on. The foods that people dip into ranch just for some views are utterly disgusting, and I cannot stand it anymore. Ranch has ruined muckbangs for me, as I can no longer find any without a tub of ranch being consumed. 

Not only does the thought of someone eating cookies with ranch disgust me, but the noises that go along with it are horrible. Despite my hatred for loud chewing, I did like to watch muckbangs. Now that the ranch has taken over in popularity, the noises have become terrible. I can’t even watch the muckbangs anymore because of how gross the sounds are now. The ranch usage on the muckbang side of TikTok has gotten out of control, and someone needs to rein it back in. The amount of ranch that these people consume isn’t even healthy. Ranch can be good in moderation, but a whole tub with one meal is just asking for health problems. 

I can no longer enjoy my muckbangs after school. I have to mindlessly scroll until I happen to find a video that makes me laugh. The muckbang community needs to get a grip on the ranch situation. There is absolutely no reason why I have seen multiple videos of people drinking ranch with a straw.