Popular Mukbang YouTuber Nikocado Avocado has made a triumphant return to the platform after a brief hiatus, 250 pounds lighter.
Avocado uploaded the video on Friday, revealing that he has been secretly losing weight during his time off-camera.
The 32-year-old shared an update on his health while wearing a panda mask which he eventually removed to reveal he was the person in the frame, seemingly slimmer than ever.
Avocado, whose real name is Nicholas Perry, went on to reveal how he had been tricking his viewers for around two years, secretly uploading old videos showing him still obese.
In reality, she was secretly losing hundreds of pounds, weight she now claims to have gained on purpose during her rise to social media stardom.
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Popular Mukbang YouTuber Nikocado Avocado made a triumphant return to the platform on Friday, 250 pounds lighter
Known for a steady stream of videos that have seen his physique swell over the years, Avocado claimed he has been secretly losing weight for the past two years, uploading old videos in the meantime.
“Two steps forward, two steps forward,” the man who eventually revealed himself as the self-proclaimed “King of Mukbangers” told subscribers and viewers before gorging himself once again.
“I’m always two steps ahead. This has been the biggest social experiment of my life.”
Speaking in a soft, mocking tone while his identity remains relatively unknown, the influencer added: “It’s engaging, compelling, enthralling to watch all these sick, disoriented beings wandering around the internet looking for stories.”
“They evolve with stories, they become products of influence,” he continued, before seemingly referencing those who have criticized him in the past.
“I feel like I’m watching ants in an anthill, one following the other,” he said of his critics.
‘It’s fascinating, it’s fascinating: all these little consumers.
“All these lost, bored people consume whatever they’re told to consume,” he continued, before revealing that he was the man behind the mask.
Following that revelation, which was almost immediately the subject of hundreds of YouTube clips, Avocado explained his master plan.
The 32-year-old did so while wearing a mask which he eventually removed to reveal he was the person in the frame.
He looked even slimmer than when he began his online exploits, which have long made him the target of criticism.
“Today I woke up from a very long sleep and I also woke up having lost 250 pounds from my body,” said Avocado, who is 5 feet, 6 inches tall.
‘Yet just yesterday people were calling me fat, sick, boring and irrelevant.’
“People… people are the most disturbed creatures on the entire planet,” he continued, clearly taking aim at the thousands of people who criticized his corpulent appearance in videos posted just three months ago.
“People consume whatever they are told to consume,” he said, seemingly suggesting that the past few years had also been one giant experiment.
-So, I’m the villain because I’ve become one.
“And you’re going to keep consuming these stories about me,” he said, hitting his point home.
‘Year after year, after year, as long as I tell the Internet I’m the villain.
“Stories that permeate and endure, and infect the minds of ants,” he continued, continuing with the theatricality.
‘Influence the ants. Brainwash them. You are the ants.’
He said he filmed enough videos to last two years, during which time he shed the pounds he gained during his meteoric rise.
At this point, the YouTuber who had apparently filmed enough videos to last him several years quickly reverted to his old ways and produced a massive bowl of noodles which he proceeded to devour.
In a separate video uploaded to the influencer’s other YouTube channel, he offered a more detailed explanation of how he tricked his nearly 4 million subscribers.
“I haven’t made a video in two years,” she said in the clip, after having uploaded a video three months ago titled: “I’m giving up on my ‘weight loss journey.’ Time to gain weight again.”
He proceeded to eat another abnormally large plate of food.
Comments under both videos expressed amazement at the YouTuber’s confusion, while many wondered if his drastic weight gain was an elaborate ruse, as he claimed.
‘Ozempic worked overtime,’ wrote one commenter, accusing the influencer of taking the increasingly popular weight-loss drug to lose weight.
Others pointed to more recent food excursions posted a few months ago, writing: ‘He said he hasn’t made a video in almost 2 years… he filmed enough backlog videos to keep things entertaining, worrying, and controversial for that long.
“This guy is a fucking genius.”
The once-skinny influencer gained more than 200 pounds over several years, though it appears it was actually five instead of seven.
Known for his comedic outbursts that accompanied his binges, he claimed the entire experience was a social experiment.
At the time of writing, the video was at number one on YouTube and had nearly 10 million views.
Another simply added: “Nothing makes sense anymore.”
Once one of the platform’s most recognizable faces, Avocado now looks more like the 24-year-old who shot to internet stardom with ASMR food videos seven years ago, when he weighed just 150 pounds.
In a matter of a few years, his physique ballooned to a weight of at least 350 pounds.
As this was happening in real time, commentators regularly drew attention to how the influencer was destroying his body to get views, while emulating the video style coming from Korea.
Still, Avocado continued to eat high-calorie meals, gaining weight despite promising he would eventually lose it.
It seems he had more success than he let on, as indicated by his Keyser Soze-style victory lap.
At the time of writing, the video was number one on YouTube and had nearly 10 million views.
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