Nikocado Avocado, the YouTuber who gained a massive amount of weight from doing mukbang, has lost 113kg.
He shed the weight in what was apparently a two-year process from 2022 to 2024 to serve as a form of rebuke to his naysayers.
Uploaded old content of himself
He had embarked on a secret weight loss journey, but hid it by uploading old videos of himself to make it appear he had been overweight all along.
New look
On Friday, Sep. 6, he revealed a new look to his millions of subscribers, where he appeared drastically slimmer.
Was previously vegan
Before his YouTube channel featured him eating enormous amounts of food on camera, Nicholas Perry, which is his real name, began as a lifestyle vegan YouTuber.
But he decided to quit being vegan in 2016 and began uploading mukbangs.
Addressed critics
Perry, 32, said in his latest unveiling video: "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."
“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.”
The video, “Two Steps Ahead”, got more than 34 million views so far.
Commenters said he is now healthier than a lot of his critics, and one added: "This video will be officially History of YouTube."
From 186.4kg to 71.6kg
According to NBC News, Perry took about two years to lose the weight, going from 411 pounds (186.4kg) at his heaviest to 158 pounds (71.6kg).
He said: “I have been strategically posting pre-recorded videos for two 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.”
He admitted to shaving his head so that people cannot recognise him in public.
He added that a handful of fellow YouTubers also helped to keep his "secret".
What unveiling video showed
The video first showed Perry with a giant panda mask on.
He then called his quiet transformation the “greatest social experiment of my entire life”.
The panda, according to Perry, was meant to symbolise how the “world of social media is not as black-and-white".
He wanted to remind people not to take the internet so seriously, he said.
He also said that he was in control the whole time even when people were laughing at him for over-consumption, when it was ironically the audience who were over-consuming internet personalities.
He added that pointing this out was "the parallel I wanted to make".
He proceeded to eat a huge tray of spicy black bean noodles.
Planned it two years ago
Perry also claimed he was far-sighted enough to have dropped a hint he was embarking on a massive weight loss regime.
This was so as his latest video shared many of the same lines from a similar monologue he uploaded in February 2022.
That video, originally titled, “The Best Burger I’ve Ever Had”, has since been renamed “Two Steps Ahead • Original, 2022.”
According to NBC News, Perry said he had scripted the clip knowing he was about to embark on his secret weight loss journey, but the audience did not get the hint.
Continued to mislead audience
Perry continued to share old clips of himself across his various channels. after that 2022 video.
Even in a video just three months ago, he said he was giving up on losing weight.
New era
Perry said he is entering a "new era". which he alluded to in follow-up video on Friday on his second YouTube channel.
He has recreated new Instagram and X accounts that shared several before and after photos.
Top photos via Nikocado Avocado