Once celebrated for his chaotic content, controversial YouTuber Nikocado Avocado revealed his shocking weight loss.
Who is Nikocado Avocado?
Nikocado Avocado is a popular ‘mukbang‘ YouTuber known for his crass humor and over-the-top personality. A violinist by trade, Avocado was born in the Ukraine and was adopted by American parents. Nikocado Avocado is Nicholas Perry’s YouTube alias under which he also performed adult content on Onlyfans.
A lover of music and performing, for many years Avocado lived in New York with the hopes of breaking into Broadway. However, when that didn’t happen, Avocado moved to Colombia to live with is partner Orlin and this marked the beginning of his illustrious YouTube career.
It might come as a shock but for the longest time, Avocado posted normal video of him playing the violin, talking about his vegan lifestyle, and other trends popular in the YouTube space around that time. It was in 2016 that Avocado started creating mukbang content and left veganism behind.
Soon enough Avocado become a regular fixture of the mukbang community which was seeing an upsurge in its views. In the beginning, Avocado would binge on an assortment of large but mostly healthy foods. But as he started gaining more followers, his dietary habits changed and so did his personality. Fans quickly noted that the once happy, positive Nikacado became extremely volatile. This, however, was a boon for Nikacado who saw a surge in his views, raking over 4 million views regularly on every upload. All 3 of Avocado’s channel thrived as he became more unhinged and started getting into drama with other creators.
In past interviews, Mr. Perry has copped to the artifice of his mukbang videos. “It’s all completely scripted,” Mr. Perry told Mel magazine in 2021 during a conversation in which he also discussed his OnlyFans channel. “YouTube has been a way for me to create a character and provide entertainment. What you see on camera is completely exaggerated for clicks.”
How Avocado was able to lose weight in ‘7 months’?
On 7th September, 2024 after a 7-month hiatus from uploading content on his main channel, Nikacado Avocado released a 25-minute video titled ‘2-steps Ahead.’ It is important to mention that Avocado frequently uploaded videos on his other 2 channels- Nikacado Avocado 2 and Nikacado Avocado 3 during this hiatus. Avocado has stated in his video that he started his weight loss journey approximately 2 years ago and had pre-recorded his content until he was ready for the big reveal.
Speaking on the matter, he explains that much of his recent content was meant to serve as part of a greater ‘social experiment’ to comment on the state of the human condition and its propensity to be “… completely absorbed with Internet personalities and obsessively watch their content. That is where a deeper level of over-consumption lies — and it’s the parallel I wanted to make.”
As of writing, his video has already racked up a total of 36 million views in the span of around four days, with viewers left equally shocked and impressed to learn how they had the wool pulled over their eyes without them realising it. As to what the future holds for Nikocado Avocado, that remains to be seen. “I don’t know if people even like me anymore. I don’t know if people want to hear from me or like my content at all. I actually just don’t even know,” he pondered in a subsequent update after his weight loss reveal.
Avocado hasn’t revealed what his methods for losing over 100 kg in a year were. Many suspect that for the amount of weight Avocado lost in under a year, he must have had surgery and taken weight-loss medication like Ozempic. There are some who speculate that Avocado’s weight loss journey took him more than a year.
