Nikocado Avocado has bamboozled the internet making YouTube history by shocking his fans with his rapid weight loss. He exposed that his videos were pranks all a part of an elaborate scheme.
Nicholas Perry, also known as Nikocado Avocado is a popular Mukbang YouTuber who initially became popular in around 2014. He gained a fan base due to his unhealthy and irregular eating habits and unhinged eating videos. This slowly resulted in a lot of weight gain for the young man resulting in many different opinions from viewers.
“I never found myself in a position to fully watch a Nikocado Avocado muckbang but of course I knew who the Youtuber was,” junior Sriharsha Cherukuri said. “I only really acknowledged who he was when he gained like 250 lbs and some clips from his videos went viral on Tiktok.”
On Sept. 8th 2024, Nikocado Avocado released a video that viewers claim will “go down in Youtube history”. It drew the attention of many viewers and almost immediately went viral. The video has about 47 million views on Youtube now.
“I didn’t know much about him and I still really don’t,” junior Ronit Sheth said. “All I know is that he went from being quite overweight to skinny. It’s insane and pretty scary.”
The video starts with Perry wearing a giant panda mask. He draws the attention of viewers with his ominous and suspenseful tone as he slowly reveals his new look.
“Two steps ahead. I am always two steps ahead.” Perry said. “This has been the greatest social experiment of my entire life.”
There was lots of planning that went behind his social experiment. With all the work he put behind the scenes, he was able to fool and properly convince the public for more than 2 years.
In an email interview with NBC News, “I have been strategically posting pre-recorded videos for 2 years, on both YouTube and TikTok.” Perry said. “I edited the videos so that they would appear recent, allowing me to focus on healing my body behind the scenes.”
On this same interview he continued to to say, “I shaved my head so that people wouldn’t recognize me in public. A handful of fellow YouTubers also helped to keep my secret.”
His goal was to prove that everything on social media isn’t as it seems. He thought that viewers were subject to believing anything they saw online and he was right. His experiment was to teach viewers a lesson and make it clear that the internet is not meant to be taken too seriously.
“I was very shocked. I would have never expected the whole thing to be a joke,” Cherukuri said. “I almost feel bad now as so many people used his name as an insult. I don’t know how I’m supposed to believe anything on the internet after that now.”
Nikocado Avocado is proud of his mission. He was able to successfully lose weight while teaching the internet a message that hopes will stick with everyone.
“People. People are the most messed up creatures on the entire planet,” Perry said. “And yet I’ve still managed to stay two steps ahead of everyone. The jokes on you.”
