Kate Yup Mukbang Videos Contained Hidden SOS Messages Before Disappearance
"In August 2019, Kate posted a video called I am alive. She used the captions to answer the growing panic. The first letter of each line spelled H E L P. Hey, I'm still alive, my friends. Everything is okay for me. Look at me. Are you really thinking I am forced to eat? Prawn, just smaller than giant shrimps."
About this episode
In this episode of The Y Files, host AJ presents three unsolved internet mysteries in campfire story format without analysis or debunking. The episode examines cases where the internet itself became the crime scene or witness to potential crimes. The centerpiece story covers Kate Yup, a masked mukbang creator who posted eating videos from 2018 to 2019 while displaying visible injuries and allegedly hiding distress messages spelling HELP and SOS in her video descriptions. Viewers detected a male voice giving commands in background audio and noticed progressive physical deterioration before she vanished in November 2019, with her channel still earning ad revenue today for an unknown recipient. The second story revisits Freaky Soup Guy, the disturbing 2005 video that millions believed was a snuff film showing a crying man forced to eat soup by figures in Ray Ray costumes. AJ reveals that Emmy-winning Simpsons director Raymond Percy, who claimed the costumes were stolen, actually uploaded the video himself through his own YouTube account along with sequels, contradicting his theft narrative. The episode opens with the 2004 case of Hasumi, a Japanese woman who live-posted her disappearance to the 2Channel message board after boarding a real train that took her to Kisaragi Station, a location that does not exist on any Japanese rail line. She documented four hours of increasingly disturbing events including sedated passengers, encounters with a vanishing one-legged man, and finally accepting a ride from a stranger before her posts stopped at 3:44 AM. AJ notes all three cases remain unsolved with active online communities still investigating, and emphasizes these are true stories presented without the channel's typical debunking approach.
Key takeaways
- Kate Yup embedded hidden SOS and HELP messages in video captions while displaying injuries and a male voice was detected commanding her to eat faster before she vanished in November 2019.
- The Kate Yup YouTube channel continues generating ad revenue with 1.7 million subscribers and someone is still collecting monthly payments despite no authentic posts since 2019.
- Emmy-winning Simpsons director Raymond Percy uploaded the viral Freaky Soup Guy video through his own account despite claiming the Ray Ray costumes were stolen and used without his knowledge.
- Hasumi documented her real-time disappearance on Japan's 2Channel in January 2004 after arriving at Kisaragi Station, a location that does not exist on any rail line in Japan.
- Viewers called the FBI and filed missing person reports for Kate Yup but with no face visible, no real name, and no location identifiable, no investigation could proceed.
- Raymond Percy ran multiple Ray Ray branded websites and uploaded sequel videos titled Soup Torture while claiming he had no idea the original video went viral with millions of views.
- Hasumi's final post at 3:44 AM said she would run from the stranger's car that had driven past her destination into the mountains and she was never heard from again.