Matt Stonie | |||||||||||||
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Born | Matthew Kai Stonie 1991 or 1992 (age 31–32) | ||||||||||||
Other names | Megatoad | ||||||||||||
Education | Valley High School | ||||||||||||
Alma mater | Mission College | ||||||||||||
Occupation(s) | Competitive eater, YouTuber | ||||||||||||
Known for | Competitive eating champion | ||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||||||||||||
Awards | 1x Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest Champion (2015) | ||||||||||||
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Years active | 2012–present | ||||||||||||
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Subscribers | 16.3 million subscribers[1] | ||||||||||||
Total views | 3.52 billion views[1] | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: July 4, 2023 |
Matthew Kai Stonie (born 1991 or 1992)[2][3][4] is an American competitive eater and YouTuber. Stonie won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, dethroning 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut.[5] Stonie has gained fame from his YouTube channel, to which he uploads video footage of his eating challenges.[4]
Stonie was born in San Francisco, California and raised in San Jose.[6] He is of Japanese, Lithuanian and Czech ancestry.[4][6] He graduated from Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose. In 2013, he was listed as weighing 134 pounds (61 kilograms) at a height of 5 feet 8 inches (1.73 meters).[4] His nickname, "Megatoad," is from the character Toad from the Super Mario franchise.[4] Stonie has a younger brother named Morgan Stonie, who is oftentimes involved with the production of his challenges uploaded to his YouTube channel.[7]
Stonie's Major League Eating debut was at the Stockton Deep Fried Asparagus Championship in Stockton, California in 2011.[8] At the time, he was the youngest member of the Major League Eating organization, being 18 years old.[9] His first win came in 2010 in a lobster roll eating contest in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.[4]
On July 4, 2015, Stonie defeated eight-time defending Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion Joey Chestnut by eating 62 hot dogs to Chestnut's 60.[10]
As of January 2024, Stonie has amassed over 16.3 million subscribers and 3.62 billion video views on his YouTube channel, with his most viewed video having been viewed over 145 million times.[11]
In August 2022, Stonie partnered with TGI Friday's to release his own franchise of fast casual restaurants, Stonie Bowls.[12] The franchise focuses on large portion rice and poke bowls. Stonie would release the debut announcement of the franchise as a challenge video that urges viewers to beat his time in eating one of the 5 pound ultimate Stonie bowls.[13]