Nikocado Avocado's Social Experiment

Nikocado Avocado, the internet celebrity known for his outrageous mukbangs, has shocked the entire world with his weight loss of over 250 pounds, going from 411 pounds (at his heaviest) to 250 pounds. “Today, I woke up from a very long dream, and I also woke up having lost 250 pounds off of my body. And just yesterday, people were calling me fat and sick and boring and irrelevant,” Avocado said in his latest video. “People are the most messed-up creatures on the entire planet, and yet I’ve still managed to stay two steps ahead of everyone. The joke’s on you.”

Otherwise known as Nicholas Perry, he has been posting videos of mukbangs ever since he got traction from one of his “sheet mukbangs,” a sheet tray filled with food of his choice in bulk, usually ramen with Takis. Ever since, he has been gaining fans, subscribers, and weight. Over the past 5  years, he has been seen gaining unhealthy weight, eventually needing mobility help and oxygen.

As said in an email to NBC news, Perry pre-recorded videos for two years to cover his weight loss. “I have been strategically posting pre-recorded videos for 2 years, on both YouTube and TikTok. I edited the videos so that they would appear recent, allowing me to focus on healing my body behind the scenes,” Perry said in another email. “I shaved my head so that people wouldn’t recognize me in public. A handful of fellow YouTubers also helped to keep my secret.”

Avocado’s weight gain and weight loss have impacted his mental health significantly. It has led to him developing depression, anxiety, ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). His ADD and OCD have “made it hard for him to focus,” he told NBC news.