Nikocado Avocado, born Nicholas Perry, is a mukbang-youtube star, someone who eats obscene amounts of food while recording themselves to post on the popular video-sharing website, YouTube.
Nicholas, a Ukrainian-American child was born on May 19, 1992 in Kherson, Ukraine. Although most of his early life is unknown, the YouTuber revealed in a podcast with fellow mukbanger and drama personnel, Trisha Paytas, that he was adopted shortly after his birth in 1992. Due to this adoption, he spent most of his life in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Soon after his adoption, he attended Lower Dauphin High School and picked up the violin as his new hobby.
Violin soon consumed Nicholas Perry’s life, picking up a job as a freelance violinist: playing at weddings and other events. He later moved to New York City to pursue a career playing in a Broadway Orchestra. Despite his excessive weight gain, Nikocado used to be an avid vegan. Joining many vegan activist groups on Facebook in 2014. He later met his boyfriend, now husband, Orlin Home, a Columbian-American man found inside one of those groups.
Since the men first met, they’ve been in many on-and-off relationships, often ending in nasty videos insulting each other. On the topic of videos, Nikocado started his YouTube career posting lifestyle-type vlogs, showing what he eats as a vegan daily. Soon after his channel blew up in the Vegan community, Niko started eating bigger portions of his meals, calling them, ¨food challenges¨ or ¨mukbangs¨.
These mukbangs consisted of the vegan substitutes of meat and dairy products like soy milk or tofu until eventually, Nicholas started eating dairy products again, neglecting his vegan lifestyle. He later noted that his sudden switch was because of health issues, claiming that he felt ¨weaker than ever¨. After this change, Nikocado had many problems with his physical and mental health , which he believed resulted from his switch from veganism to eating animal products, even though it sprouted from his excessive eating habits.
This was a pivotal moment in Nicholas’ career: the start of his rise to fame and the start of his weight gain. Nikocado started his daily mukbang series, eating monstrous amounts of fast food, such as Dominos, McDonalds, and many more fatty-restaurants. After Nicholas started these daily videos, the weight trailed behind him. At first, Niko claimed that the excessive weight gain was simply just water weight, and that it would pass on in a couple of days. This, however, was not the truth.
This caught up to him when he attended the Heart Attack Grill located in Downtown Las Vegas, where if you weigh over 350 lbs, you eat free. At the front of the establishment, there stands a gigantic scale, which Nicholas stepped on in his mukbang containing food from the grill. As he previously claimed, he weighed a solid 150 pounds, but soon his lie would prevail. He clocked in at just above 200 pounds, almost a full 50 pounds from what he had stated in past videos.
Despite his noticeable weight gain, Nikocado Avocado still pursued his YouTube journey, eating even more obscene amounts of food for his now 3.5 million subscribers across the platform. This extravagant weight increase came with its challenges though. Such as him having to ride around on a mobility scooter and many health disabilities. Even though he is drowning in cash from all of his excessive videos, Nicholas Perry is not in a good physical condition. This goes to show that you have to watch what you eat carefully, and to burn those calories once your body consumes them. For Nikocados case, he kept eating and eating, for it became his job.
SOURCES
https://biographygist.com/nikocado-avocado/
https://www.youtube.com/user/nikocadoavocado
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikocado_Avocado
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