Renowned for his Mukband eating videos on YouTube, Nikocado Avocado has shocked his millions of fans by revealing an amazing 114 kg weight loss. The content creator, whose real name is Nicholas Perry, revealed his new, drastically thinner body in a Friday post named “Two Steps Ahead”. The stranger part other than the weight loss is how he had been planning a large-scale societal experiment on his followers.
With more than 4 million subscribers on YouTube, Nikocado Avocado is famous for his extravagant videos in which he overeats food, which by time have raised concerns from his viewers regarding his health. However, the YouTuber revealed the truth about his transformation in his most recent video, a surprise he had managed to keep hidden by sharing pre-recorded content from before his weight loss.
In the video, which starts with him wearing a panda head mask, Nikocado Avocado said, “This has been the greatest social experiment of my entire life”. He compared his relationship with fans over the years to “monitoring ants on an ant farm”, criticizing them for their mindless consumption of content. “People will consume anything they are told to consume”, he said, highlighting that the purpose of this social experiment was to prove how effortlessly viewers could be fooled.
Avocado said, “I am the villain because I’ve made myself one. And you will continue to consume these stories about me… for as long as I tell the internet that I am the villain. Stories that permeate and linger, and infect the minds of the ants, influence the ants, brainwash the ants. You, are the ants!”
In a social experiment that proved to be successful, Nikocado fooled internet users, highlighting awareness of the unnecessary rudeness and negativity that people often spread online. Nikocado was secretly working on himself and losing weight behind the camera throughout the time when people were making fun of him, body-shaming him and calling him derogatory names because he was overweight and acted a certain way. He stopped recording videos and vanished from the public eye for 2 years. The people on the internet kept on spreading hate during this time without realizing the changes that were taking place. Nikocado managed to startle everyone with his transformation. Even the ones who had been spreading hate comments towards him earlier now respected him after he worked on himself.
This incident illustrates the nature of internet behavior as well as how fast people make snap judgements without knowing all the facts. This experiment’s outcome serves as a reminder of the value of kindness and risk associated with making assumptions with insufficient information.
