--- title: 2017 MTV Music Awards: Jack Antonoff Eating a Banana description: The Bleachers singer was captured on camera treating himself to a banana canonical: https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-08-28T01:19:40.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:46:51.036Z og:title: The Internet Is Obsessed With Jack Antonoff Eating a Banana og:description: The Bleachers singer snacked at the VMAs og:url: https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7951e67d1dbf47af/6988db670a4a2240ad9cfa8e/mtv-video-music-awards-53.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4584 og:image:height: 2579 og:image:alt: MTV-VMAS-2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Is Obsessed With Jack Antonoff Eating a Banana twitter:description: The Bleachers singer snacked at the VMAs twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7951e67d1dbf47af/6988db670a4a2240ad9cfa8e/mtv-video-music-awards-53.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jack Antonoff Eating This Banana at the VMAs Is All of Us > Sponsored content. 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Chris Pizzello—Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2017 1:19 AM UTC Sometimes it take a banal piece of fruit to say it all. Case in point: Jack Antonoff snacking on a banana during the [2017 MTV Video Music Awards](http://time.com/4914128/mtv-video-music-awards-2017-winners/). The Bleachers singer was captured on camera treating himself to a potassium-rich treat during host [Katy Perry’s opening monologue](http://time.com/4917847/katy-perry-mtv-vmas-monologue-jokes/) on Sunday evening. Naturally, Twitter went bananas: > [](https://twitter.com/hunter%5Fwesley/status/901962076096225280) > [](https://twitter.com/ezwrites/status/901961927345283073) > [](https://twitter.com/thenewnine/status/901970791885144064) > [](https://twitter.com/DavidOfTheState/status/901967963540127744) Even Antonoff’s girlfriend Lena Dunham weighed in: > [](https://twitter.com/lenadunham/status/901962428010942467) Awards show or not, can’t let that blood sugar get too low. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/"},"headline":"Jack Antonoff Eating This Banana at the VMAs Is All of Us","datePublished":"2017-08-28T01:19:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:46:51.036Z","description":"Yum","url":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/","keywords":["Newsfeed","awards","Music","onetime","MTV VMAs 2017"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7951e67d1dbf47af/6988db670a4a2240ad9cfa8e/mtv-video-music-awards-53.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7951e67d1dbf47af/6988db670a4a2240ad9cfa8e/mtv-video-music-awards-53.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MTV-VMAS-2017","caption":"Jack Antonoff","creditText":"Chris Pizzello—Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4917893/jack-antonoff-mtv-vmas-banana/","name":"Jack Antonoff Eating This Banana at the VMAs Is All of Us"}}]}] ```