--- 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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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=a22b8443-1cdd-4890-9858-ef6616798ce0&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Aug 28, 2017 1:19 AM UTC  Jack Antonoff arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif. Jack Antonoff arrives at the MTV Video Music Awards at The Forum on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2017, in Inglewood, Calif. 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"}}]}] ```