Matt Stonie

Matthew Kai Stonie (born 1992 (age 20)) is an American competitive eater and YouTuber.

His first win came in 2010 in a lobster roll eating contest in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire.

Stonie's Major League Eating debut was at the Stockton Deep Fried Asparagus Championship in Stockton, California in 2011.

At the time, he was the youngest member of the Major League Eating organization, being 18 years old.

In 2013, he was listed as weighing 134 lb at a height of 5 ft.

His nickname, "Megatoad," is from the character Toad from the Super Mario franchise.

Stonie has a younger brother named Morgan Stonie, who is oftentimes involved with the production of his challenges uploaded to his YouTube channel.

Stonie won the 2015 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, dethroning 8-time defending champion Joey Chestnut.

Stonie has gained fame from his YouTube channel, to which he uploads video footage of his eating challenges.

Stonie was born in San Francisco, California and raised in San Jose.

He is of Japanese, Lithuanian and Czech ancestry.

He graduated from Evergreen Valley High School in San Jose.

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.

Since 2016, Stonie's ranking in Major League Eating has fluctuated between second and fifth.

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.

In August 2022, Stonie partnered with TGI Friday's to release his own franchise of fast casual restaurants, Stonie Bowls.

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.