The man who gets paid to eat food in the shower restored my faith in viral content
It's such a relief to see a genuinely funny person get popular.
There are a few accounts that Twitter really wants me to see. Elon Musk is one of them. Shirts that Go Hard was another. Then there was the Menswear Guy. They all come and go, but my favorite, Shower Food Review Guy, I hope will stay forever.
His whole deal is pretty self-explanatory — he eats food in the shower and reviews it. With each post comes a decadent/ridiculous spread and an oddly poignant caption. Feast your eyes:
The man behind the account, who goes by Gaz, graciously answered a few of my burning questions. He’s 31, lives in Atlanta, and manages an office remotely. And he’s delighted that he can now count Tony Hawk among his followers.
Gaz told me that he’s long had a tendency to eat in the shower to help with his hangovers, but he drinks far less now. He once snapped a photo of his shower breakfast sandwich and sent it to his friends. It went over well, so he tweeted it. There you go. Now people send him money to eat weirder stuff.
Some of Gaz’s most popular posts include a tomahawk steak and cotton candy. My personal favorite is the giant sour gummy worm he ate down to the “worm bone.”
“At first I thought I needed to escalate by making the food larger and crazier, but now I realize it’s more about the caption,” Gaz told me. “If I had to sum up the whole thing, it’d be ‘Guy eats food in the shower while his life is seemingly falling apart.’”
On his vision board for the future of the account is a tray of oysters and a durian.
“There’s nothing I cannot eat in the shower,” he told me. “I am an expert.”
Some lore about the shower food reviewer account:
His ex girlfriend used to hate it when he ate in the shower, but now she loves it.
The most common question he gets from people is “why”
When his DMs were open, he received about 100 messages per day, ranging from “can you eat spaghetti” to “I'm worried my friends and family don't believe in me do you have any advice."
Now his phone number is in his bio so you can add him to any group chats you’d like.
Though I vehemently denied the possibility of me ever getting tired of this bit, Gaz said he’s aware it won’t last forever. (I dunno, MrBeast DID pay him to eat something called “Deez Nutz” in the shower.) He tweets his shower food reviews from his personal account, so when the novelty runs out here, he says he’ll just move onto the next thing.
I’ll be there…
I often wonder — what is it about goofy and outlandish social media stunts that keeps me coming back. And I think it’s just the surprise and delight of seeing people submit themselves to potential virality. It’s too easy to go viral these days, so It’s nice to see a genuinely funny person doing their thing and getting attention for it without having to create moral outrage or annoying couple content.
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