Popular YouTuber Nikocado Avocado, who is used to the practice of mukbang, which involves eating huge amounts of food live, has revealed that he has lost 113 kg.
“I woke up from a very long dream.” On September 7, the famous YouTuber Nikocado Avocado (Nicholas Perry, his real name), published a video likely to surprise his approximately 4.2 million subscribers on YouTube and 3.9 million on Tiktok.
First hidden behind a panda mask, he finally revealed his new face, with a much slimmer silhouette than in his previous video, dating from the end of August.
And for good reason, he explains having lost 113 kg between the two sequences. A weight loss as radical as it was spontaneous, which surprised Internet users. On the morning of September 9, the sequence has accumulated more than 30 million views on YouTube.
“Even yesterday, people were saying I was fat and sick,” explains Nikocado Avocado.
For many years, Nikocado Avocado has been posting videos of mukbang, a practice originating in South Korea, which consists of ingesting enormous quantities of food – often industrial – in front of the camera. Until two years ago, he weighed 186 kilos, he now weighs 71.
Pre-recorded videos
As NBC News reports, this near-instantaneous transition is a ploy devised by the videographer, who describes it as “the greatest social experiment” of his life. Because in reality, he began his weight loss two years ago.
“I’ve been strategically posting pre-recorded videos for the past two years, on YouTube and TikTok. (…) I shaved my head so people wouldn’t recognize me on the street,” Perry told NBC News.
As the American media outlet recalls, the YouTuber had multiplied the sequences in which he affirmed that he did not envisage any weight loss in the coming months, to better confuse the issue.
Despite this weight loss, Nicholas Perry does not seem to have planned to change the editorial line of his YouTube channel: at the end of his new video, he once again starts eating a gigantic plate of noodles.
For the YouTuber and TikToker, the “social experiment” could in any case prove effective. According to data from Social Blade, consulted by Tech&Co, he has registered 600,000 new subscribers on TikTok over the last three days, and 350,000 additional subscribers on YouTube over the same period.
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