 I was so ugly, now I look back, I'm like, oh my god, you don't realize how nice you were, and now look at you now, you look like Chava the Fudge. Nikocado Avocado, YouTube's biggest laughing stock, so it seems. This man is not healthy, and everybody could see it. He was a very healthy person, but then he started to notice that the videos that gained a lot of traction were videos where he was just fucking gluttonous and eating a million calories per se. But lately, all of the jokes about Nikocado Avocado have turned to concern, as Nikocado's health seems to be getting worse and worse. Human to human, take care of yourself, bro. Beyond all of this internet persona, YouTuber, beyond all it is, you got you. And just as another guy on the internet, take care of you. At Nikocado Avocado, hope you're doing okay, buddy. I joke around sometimes, but I feel like everyone on YouTube cares about your well-being, so please take care of yourself. It's hard to see you eating yourself away. All the best, still gonna roast you, though. Love, Leo. So, who is Nikocado Avocado, and why did he destroy his life for YouTube fame and fortune? Hi friends and internet acquaintances, welcome or welcome back to another video on my channel, covering influencers and influencer scams. And if you like videos like these, then don't forget to subscribe if you want to. If you like this video, then give it a like also if you want to. Don't forget to check out my second channel, which will be linked down in the description if you're feeling kind of bored in between the longer uploads on my channel. And now let's get into the video. Now first, before we get into this, this video is sponsored by Atlas VPN. My mouth is spicy. Thank you to Atlas VPN for sponsoring this video, because having online protection is very important. No joke, the other day something happened with my email, where someone put it into some sort of spam system, and I was getting almost 100 spam emails an hour. 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It hurts when I sit down or stand up. I am not okay at all. I am not okay. Ouch. Let's talk, okay? Because I am not okay. Oh my God. Oh my God. And a lot of concerned fans and fellow YouTubers. Even knowing better. Even knowing that it's a complete detriment to his overall health and well-being. He continues to do it while still having that small glimmer of self-awareness. Now before we continue with this story, I think it's important to mention that in this video, I will not be fat-shaming Nikocado Avocado. And I do believe that people can make the life choices that they want to, as long as it's not harming others, relatively. But the problem is, Nikocado Avocado is a social media star who shares his life with millions. Some believe that Nikocado is glorifying his lifestyle to his audience. He is slowly killing himself and documenting the journey the entire time while having an understanding of exactly what he's doing. Because his audience continues to eat it up. While others believe that Nikocado Avocado existing on YouTube is a cautionary tale to others. Either way, the curious case of Nikocado Avocado is one worth examining from start to finish to understand how someone can go from this Hi everyone. I have my little sloths. So I am back to this. To understand how he, and maybe even we as a society, got to this point. The story of Nikocado Avocado really leaves me with one question that I continue to ask myself throughout this story. Is fame and money a reason to sacrifice everything in your life and to become a total laughing stock? It seems that to Nikocado Avocado, it is all worth it. You wouldn't switch money for getting this. No. I really do what I do for money. That's really it. Money and viewers. But should others follow in his footsteps? To understand this further and the sacrifices that Nikocado Avocado has made for YouTube fame, we have to look at where he first began and his start on YouTube. Hi, my name is Nick. I also go by Nikocado Avocado on social media. Nikocado Avocado did not start out as who he is today. In fact, Nikocado Avocado was a talented and very accomplished musician before his time on YouTube. The decline of Nikocado Avocado was a slow and gradual one as he joined YouTube and then sacrificed everything he had going for himself for YouTube fame. The Nikocado Avocado, as most know him, is just an online persona, a fictional character that the real Nick created and portrayed, from whom the real Nick suffered real consequences. So I hope you don't have an actor. I mean, I majored in performance. I'm just here trying to entertain people and be funny and have a good time. And this is how I make my money. You know, this is my job. So who is the person behind the persona? Nikocado Avocado YouTube channel. This is a mukbang channel operated by a contact creator named Nicholas Perry. Good morning, little sloths. Welcome to my mukbang. Hi, my name is Nick. I also go by Nikocado Avocado. I am back with my mukbang. Nicholas Perry, the creator of Nikocado Avocado, has seemingly a lot more depth than his online fictional character, who pretty much just eats and cries. Oh. According to his LinkedIn, Nicholas Perry was a musical prodigy studying at the Pennsylvania Governor's school for the arts on a full-tuition scholarship in 2000. He also attended the Catholic University of America and obtained a bachelor in music from 2010 to 2012 on a full-tuition scholarship, and from 2010 to 2011 was on the dean's list on a roll. He also attended the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music on a full tuition scholarship, so Nicholas Perry was extremely talented and educated in the world of music, and had a promising start to a career as a violinist. Nicholas Perry was also a performer at the New York Music Festival from June of 2012-2013, and won Best Musical and Six NYMF Awards. He was also a performer for MAC Cosmetics, which I guess is a thing, and that's very interesting. But Nicholas Perry, down the line, decided to trade in his career as a violinist in exchange for that YouTube cash money. Nick's LinkedIn description, at least I think it's his LinkedIn, it has all of his information on it, reads, Over 1.2 billion views and 4 million combined YouTube subscribers across 5 channels, which let's be honest is a super impressive feat, Nicholas Perry, known by his online alias, Nickocoto Avocado, hosts the largest American mukbang series on YouTube. His fictional character is known for his dramatic, comedic, and theatrical performances over a ginormous pile of food. They said it, not me. So how did Nicholas Perry go from talented violinist to this? Nicholas Perry was born in Ukraine but was adopted early in life and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2019, Nickocoto Avocado didn't interview with Trisha Paytas for Trisha Paytas' podcast, in which he opened up a lot about his early life. Nick said that as a result of finding out that he was adopted earlier in his life, he began to act out and received various mental health interventions as a child. Yeah, I was in and out of therapy since I was like 5. Were you loud? Were you, not just were you being mean? What was your attention seeking? All of it. Just like one of the spotlight, which is so different of how I am now. They put me on medication too. At 5? Or 7. 7 was my first time. 7? Zoloft, yeah. Nicholas Perry also told Trisha Paytas that he was prescribed antidepressants when he was 7 years old and then later as a preteen was diagnosed with ADD and OCD. Yeah, they put me on medication too. They say I have ADD and OCD. But luckily Nick had found his love of music and soon began his venture into the music world. For a while, Nick worked as a freelance violinist and at the age of 21 moved to New York with a dream of playing in a pit orchestra for a Broadway show. Wait, so what were you doing before YouTube? What was your job? Freelance violinist. Really? I mean, I was good at it. It was just really hard to make a living off of it. Very hard. My dream was to be in the pit orchestra. So I used to like watch the book. Do you ever see Ghost of the Musical? Yes. I went into the pit for that. I was there at Mamma Mia, Lion King. For Broadway? Yeah, I was on Broadway. I wasn't playing. I was learning to be an understudy for one of the violinists. Oh my God. Yeah, so that was my dream. The only problem is making it in New York as any artist or talented individual can be a really tough life. And Nick really struggled to compete with the plethora of other talented musicians. You were good. Yeah, but the thing is a million other people could do what I could do. Especially for Broadway tunes, it's not like super flashy hard like concertos or something where you have to like be really, really skilled in order to make it sound good. It was a lot simpler so more people can do it. And it wasn't even so much about ability, it was more so about who you know, the connections. And I was just one small little fish in a huge sea. Another huge aspect of Nicholas Perry's persona at this time was his veganism. Well, there are so many reasons why veganism is just taking over the planet. I mean, this is a movement that's spreading. And this is how the name Nikocado Avocado began because one of Nick's favorite foods was an avocado. I have eaten more avocados than any other person on earth. Harry gained a following off of his vegan brand and collaborating with other vegan YouTubers. I hope it's dip my chopstick in there and you know, we can't do that. Nikocado Avocado also met his husband Orlin in a Facebook group for Vegan Men, which I'm sure he considers a huge benefit to his time as a vegan, but I'm not sure if the internet would agree. Nicholas Perry became more and more known as Nikocado Avocado as his following as a vegan YouTuber increased. But eventually, and obviously, his time as a vegan YouTuber came to an end. And lots of drama ensued when Nikocado Avocado uploaded a video in 2016 making a very dramatic exit from the vegan community. I went out and I bought sardines. I have never even had sardines in my entire life. Let me even focus. That's sardines. Now, it's basically some bastion from Little Mermaid. I don't want to eat the bastion. I don't want to eat Clounder, the bitch. I've been debating in my head for the last hour, basically, about making this video. This still has crumbs from my muckbundle, whatever, because I'm scared and I'm confused. I don't want people to hate me because of what I eat. We were not designed whether you believe in God, whether you believe in the stars, whether you believe in the psychic twins like I do. We're omnivores. We're omnivores. Nikocado claimed that he was never vegan enough for the vegan community and was frustrated with them and no longer going to be a vegan. Really fed up with the vegan online scene on YouTube. That kind of really pushed me to make this video because I have been having those thoughts and feelings for quite a while now. Crazy, crazy comments from vegans, of course, saying I'm not vegan enough. Later on, Nikocado also claimed that veganism actually had negative effects on his health, attributing a rotted tooth, a vitamin B12 deficiency and hypoglycemia to his vegan diet. When I went vegan, I was like, well, see, I was under the false pretense or belief that, oh, if you go vegan and natural, you can cure your depression, cure your mental disorders, cure your any, like it was like a cure for all. And they think I was just this beacon of health. I rotted a tooth. I had low B12, B12 deficiency. My sex drive was terrible. Really? I wondered that. OK, terrible. I developed hypoglycemia. I don't know if it's directly related to the veganism, but I never had that before. Well, hypoglycemia. So your blood sugar drops really low. So all of a sudden, Nikocado Avocado went from a YouTube channel. Bill off of his brand of being a vegan and veganism, where he had a community of vegan friends to leaving that community and having nothing. Basically, Nikocado Avocado had to start all over on his YouTube channel. I'm no longer a vegan. I could cry tears of joy. You guys, it was too hard. So Nikocado set his sights on a new trend that was about to take off. That is the mukbang phenomenally. Yeah. That was awful. No. Everyone victimizes, everyone plants, victimize other plants. They kill each other, they constrict each other. Bind will constrict other plants and wrap themselves around and choke the life out of them so they can't get to the top of the rainforest? Does that make it wrong? Are they selfish? Are they victimizing? Mukbang videos were first popularized in South Korea in 2010. It's estimated that the mukbang trend began sometime around 2009 in South Korea. Mukbangers called broadcast jockeys in Korea would have nightly scheduled eating shows where they'd often cook and enthusiastically eat on camera via livestream. Fans would tune in for an interactive experience where they could chat with each other and the host over a meal, an often rather large meal. So what is a mukbang? Or what are mukbangs? The word mukbang is a combination of the Korean words for eating and broadcasting. And mukbang videos usually consist of a host filming and uploading a video eating a large amount of food in front of an audience. In the world of mukbang, bigger doesn't seem to be only better, but a requirement. It's been said that if you're eating a normal portion of food in a mukbang, it's not a mukbang, it's just eating food on camera. Huge quantities of foods are very common in both American and Korean mukbangs on YouTube. And seem to be a prerequisite for success in the genre, with creators regularly sitting down to 4, 5, 6,000 calorie pieces. After doing a ton of research into now two very popular western mukbangers, trishypatis and nicocado avocado, I also have my own theories about why mukbangs are so popular. First, loneliness. It's nice to be able to sit down and eat a meal with somebody or share a special meal, but with the rise of internet and social media, one could say that we've become more and more isolated, especially in 2020. So it might be nice to watch a YouTuber or streamer eating a meal so that you feel like you're sharing a meal with somebody. It sort of fills the void of silence that our mind often gives. It also can be really fascinating to observe different diets and eating habits from different people around the world. In general, I would say we're all pretty fascinated with food and cuisine, some more than others of course, and it can always be interesting to see how others eat and what they eat and how they eat it. Maybe it gives us inspiration for meals that we'd like to eat, or it's just something interesting to sort of ponder at. Today, watching people eat is ridiculously popular content in Korea, America, and many other countries around the world. Pop creators can regularly bring in tens of millions of views per video. Mukbanger Bee loves life claims she became a millionaire in just 15 months of making this content. According to nicocado avocado himself, and something I also observed, which is sort of the most unsettling part of mukbangs, a lot of people will choose to watch mukbangs or people eating large amounts of food in front of a camera instead of eating themselves. I'm resulting in more weight loss success stories because people watch me eat for them, whether to help them lose weight or to fuel their own EDs. I noticed when looking through mukbang videos to research this video and also my tritipatus video, it's really hard to eat and talk on camera. There are a ton of comments under these videos talking about how they're watching these youtubers eat instead of eating themselves. Now, I myself am not an expert on nutrition or EDs, but I am curious on the psychological effect that that might have to watch someone eat in place of eating yourself, as well as the potential damage that could do to a person. According to one of the very few authors of a paper on mukbangs, this simulated eating effect can be so strong that it completely satisfies cravings and even makes people feel full as if they had truly eaten something. This effect has been named vicarious satiation, and you can see evidence of it throughout the comments as well. My coworkers keep telling me not to tempt myself, but this is surprisingly satisfying. I'm working to lose weight. Instead of triggering my sweet tooth cravings, these videos seem to satisfy them. You know what I realized? Every single time I'm hungry, I watch mukbang, so it feels like I actually ate something. Either way, mukbanging, is that a word, has become a massive content category on YouTube, where YouTubers have gained an audience of millions and millions in revenue. It's hard to know whether or not Nikocado knew that his mukbangs were going to take off, or whether he just lucked out. Because Nikocado Avocado was one of the first American men to ever start a mukbang channel. Welcome to my mukbang. But very soon, Nikocado began to notice, along with well-esteemed industry colleagues like Trisha Paytas—I kid, I joke—that drama and controversy, trolling, clickbait with dramatic titles, and an obscene amount of food, is what garnered him the most views. So my videos, where I'm having issues, a lot of it is stemming from something wrong in me, so I'm just like, well, fuck it, everyone already hates me or I'm already mad, let me just grab the camera and just film it. So some of them are really, really real for me, even though there's no context or no one even understands why. And well, a lot of Nikocado Avocado's antics worked really, really well, with some of Nikocado's videos garnering tens of millions of views. So logically, if something's working, why stop? So Nikocado Avocado went deeper and deeper into large mukbangs, binge eating, and drama content, which brings us to where we are, and he is now. This is kind of relaxing, though. Filming yourself eating is definitely a lot low—more low stress than my videos. Being a YouTuber can be both a blessing and a curse. You're pretty much tied to what your audience thinks of you, whether it's the truth or not. You're bound by what your audience wants to see. And if you want to grow, you have to continue to escalate your antics more and more and more. So if you're making videos with large mukbangs, your mukbangs have to get bigger and bigger. If you're creating drama content, your videos have to get more and more dramatic. And if you're trolling, you have to get more and more trollier? This is the trap that a lot of YouTubers will find themselves in, and while Nikocado fell right into that trap, and unfortunately has experienced major consequences. But things for Nikocado Avocado aren't all bad, right? Because while Nikocado Avocado's health continued to decline, his bank account continued to rise. Nikocado Avocado's net worth off of YouTube alone is estimated at 3 million. 3 million from doing this and posting it on the internet? Nikocado Avocado also has merch in a shop called It's Just Waterweight, but Nikocado Avocado doesn't just make his money off of YouTube. He sells cameos for $150 for 5 minutes. He also has a Patreon and an OnlyFans. All of this funds a $2.3 million penthouse where Nikocado Avocado resides. He's built a strange and odd empire off of mukbangs and drama videos, but is all of this worth the sacrifice to his health and future? More and more people have recently become very concerned with the public decline in health that Nikocado Avocado is currently experiencing. Nikocado Avocado's escalation of binge videos, drama, and trolling seem to all reach ahead in 2021. His body has broken a few of his ribs, which now hasn't been written, and he also claimed to now have to have a full-time nurse in order for him to just engage in day-to-day activities, and he also has been diagnosed with sleep apnea, which is why you'll see on his most recent thumbnails he has like that machine hooked up to his nose that makes him look like some kind of cyborg from the future or something. It seems to really be going down so quickly for him. People have been saying for the last couple years that Nikocado Avocado is literally killing himself for YouTube views, and it's absolutely true. He is slowly killing himself and documenting the journey the entire time, while having an understanding of exactly what he's doing. He's well aware that he is throwing away his health, his well-being, his happiness for the sake of some YouTube views because his audience continues to eat it up. People used to roll their eyes at Nikocado Avocado's drama content. His many many breakups with his husband Orlan, his um, pooping problem, but now people aren't just rolling their eyes anymore, because Nikocado Avocado's latest content has really taken a dark turn. Nikocado uploaded a video on October 5th of 2021 titled My New Diet as a Disabled Person, and claimed he has broken ribs that he's recovering from due to his weight gain. He also wears a breathing apparatus, which he claims he's always owned. And after this video, Nikocado Avocado continued to post more and more concerning videos, and from this, a ton of YouTubers began to express concern, which Nikocado Avocado took as the perfect opportunity to spark some drama content for those views and clout. So if Nikocado Avocado is just doing all of this for views, which he clearly is, should people play into it and continue to express concern? Or is it really nobody's business what Nikocado Avocado does anyways, even if it is slowly killing him? Nikocado Avocado or Nicholas Perry created a fake persona that slowly but surely began to take over his entire life, and now he's suffering the consequences. And there are multiple petitions that are calling to ban Nikocado Avocado for his possibly harmful content, not just to himself, but to others who he may be encouraging to live this kind of lifestyle. One could say that many people, or even most people, create online fake personas to a certain extent. My Instagram bio says, here are some pics that makes my life seem better than it actually is. We all show on social media what we want to be perceived as, whether it's the real us or not. But Nikocado Avocado is a good example that the lives that we live online can directly impact our real lives, whether we realize it or not. Social media as a whole is not a vacuum or something that's separate from our real lives, but is actually completely intertwined with the real us. And I hope that one day Nikocado Avocado realizes this and stops the act that he's put on before it literally destroys him. Nikocado Avocado is 29 and once claimed he'd be done with mukbang content by the age of 35. But will he? When will Nikocado Avocado stop? And when will these antics come to an end? As all things eventually do, one way or another. No one is safe from becoming irrelevant, no matter how hard they might try. And I can't help but wonder, what will become of Nikocado Avocado after his career and time in the spotlight? Will his former fame and money gained even matter if his life after the fact is completely ruined? I'd say in the grand scheme of things, Nikocado Avocado is still pretty young, yet he gave up on the chance of a vibrant and healthy life for a chance at YouTube fame and fortune. But at the end of the day, it is Nikocado Avocado's life, and he can do what he wants with it, no matter how concerned others may be. He does have the right to live his life the way he wants to, and who knows, maybe he is living his life to the fullest and truly enjoying himself. But I can't help but feel sad for Nikocado Avocado and the dark situation that he's put himself in. And I hope he's able to turn his life around before it's too late, because eventually everything that we know will come to an end and we'll have to find a way to move on and move forward. As far as toxic and harmful YouTubers go, I would say Nikocado Avocado isn't as harmful as others, besides maybe the dangerous diet culture and lifestyle that he may be spreading and promoting. Our relationship with food goes far beyond our physical health, as there does appear to be a strong connection between food and what we eat and our emotions. Apart from those aspects, I do think that Nikocado Avocado is deserving of empathy and compassion and understanding from others. So I want to end this video on a positive note and say that I wish Nikocado Avocado nothing but the best, and I do truly hope that he's able to live his life to the fullest in exactly the way that he wants to. And that's all for today's video. I hope that it was informative, interesting, and overall I hope you enjoyed it. If you did enjoy it, comment down below who you think I should cover next, and I'll see you in the next video. Hope you're doing well until then. Bye!