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Inside the rise of Nikocado Avocado, the extreme-eating YouTuber whose meltdowns have disrupted an online community
Nicholas Perry, known as Nikocado Avocado to his over 3 million YouTube subscribers across his various channels, has made a name for himself in the extreme-eating vlogger community.
Since 2016, Perry’s consumption of entire fast-food menus (often accompanied by his pet parrot) has captured the rapt attention of a YouTube audience. He is known as a mukbanger, someone who posts videos of themselves eating or binging large amounts of food online.
In 2020, the 28-year-old, who posts a video almost every day, garnered attention for his months-long feud with fellow YouTubers who accused him of abusive behavior during a collaboration video, which he later denied to Insider. Perry’s controversial response videos in the wake of the accusation had subscribers — and an entire YouTube community — concerned.
Perry has continued to post wild videos and stunts, building a large platform around his controversies.
In a September video, Perry said that he had broken three ribs while filming a video and was bedridden.
Here’s what to know about the creator.
Nicholas Perry was born on May 19, 1992, in Ukraine. He said he was adopted shortly thereafter and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The vlogger told YouTuber Trisha Paytas that he learned of his adoption early on and struggled to make sense of his biological parents’ decision. As a result, he said he acted out and received mental health interventions as a child.
«I was in and out of therapy since I was, like, 5 [years old],» Perry told his fellow mukbanger in a 2019 interview for Paytas’ podcast The Dish With Trish.
«I would just, like, always want attention,» he said. «I wanted the spotlight.»
Perry also told Paytas that he’d been prescribed antidepressants when he was 7 years old. Later, as a preteen, he said, he was diagnosed with ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) and OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder).
Before the YouTube star’s online career began, he planned on pursuing music.
On Paytas’ podcast, the vlogger opened up about his pre-YouTube career working as a freelance violinist. Living in New York at age 21, Perry had dreams of playing in the pit orchestra for a Broadway show.
While he had the musical talent, he explained, it was difficult to make a living in a city of talented and competitive musicians.
«I was just a small, little fish in a huge sea,» he said.
While living in New York, Perry met his husband, Orlin Home.
According to a video Perry posted in 2016, the pair first met in a Facebook group for vegan men.
After several months of communication, the two met up in New York when Home made the trip up from Colombia for the Woodstock fruit festival.
The two began as friends (although Perry arrived for their first meeting wearing a tuxedo to serenade Home) but their relationship evolved after they traveled together in central America, Home said.
Perry began posting YouTube videos in 2014 as a vegan vlogger.
Before he was known for videos of consuming entire fast-food menus, the YouTuber frequently filmed videos about his vegan lifestyle.
Perry posted a video in 2016 explaining why he no longer wanted to be a vegan YouTuber, citing his changing beliefs about consuming animal products and his frustration with the «vegan community.»
«What is with vegans?» he asked in the clip, «I’m never ‘vegan enough’ [for them].»
Years later, Perry opened up to Trisha Paytas about the effect he believes veganism had on his health.
«I had a rotted tooth, a vitamin B-12 deficiency, and I developed hypoglycemia,» he told the YouTuber on her podcast. «I don’t know if it was directly related to veganism, but I’d never had it before.»
After leaving veganism behind, Perry made a name for himself in the mukbang community.
Mukbang videos, first popularized in South Korea in 2010, usually consist of a host eating a large amount of food while communicating with an audience. The word mukbang is a combination of the Korean words for «eating» and «broadcast.»
Perry became one of the first American men to partake in the extreme-eating trend, as mukbang videos at the time were dominated by women.
Between his four channels, Nikocado Avocado, Nikocado Avocado 2, More Nikocado, and Nikocado Avocado 3, the YouTuber has over 3 million subscribers and his videos frequently receive over 1 million views.
Perry’s videos received online attention for reasons beyond his food consumption. Subscribers were guaranteed melodrama.
«Junk food has made me crazy. I have episodes of manic where like, everything seems really hard for me, » the YouTuber told Trisha Paytas. «I’m like a tornado.»
Perry frequently posts videos with thumbnail images of himself sobbing into trays of food. Some titles include «nobody likes me, i’m done» and «my life is falling apart.»
Perry said that he’s always been dramatic and chooses to take advantage of his low moments for YouTube success.
He went on to acknowledge in the podcast that his emotionally turbulent videos generate the highest number of views.
«They like when I’m upset, they like when I’m crying, they like when I’m hyper,» he said, adding that he intentionally makes video titles «clickbaity.»
Perry’s YouTube drama escalated in December 2019 when another mukbanger accused him of abusive behavior.
In a video posted to Perry’s channel in December 2019, the YouTuber collaborated with mukbangers Stephanie Soo and Zach Choi. In the clip, the three vloggers joked with each other while consuming a massive quantity of spicy noodles.
Four days after Perry posted the collaboration, Soo posted a video titled «Why I Am Scared Of Nikocado Avocado,» in which she described feeling unsafe with Perry in the past and while filming the collaboration. Soo also accused Perry of sending her harassing texts and taking photos from inside her home when she briefly left the room. Within hours, the video received hundreds of thousands of views (and has reached over 12 million views at the time of this post).
Perry denied allegations that he was abusive in an email to Insider.
Soo’s allegations against Perry inspired a series of increasingly lengthy back-and-forth videos between the two, who produced text messages and video footage to refute each other’s claims.
The videos have received millions of views and the comments sections are flooded with support for Soo and disdain for Perry.
«You are such a horrible, toxic person. You deserve none of the success you’ve had,» one commenter wrote on Perry’s page.
Amid the deluge of YouTube comments and Reddit speculation about the feud, mukbangers weighed in the controversy.
Mukbanger Bethany Gaskin, known as BLovesLife to her nearly 3 million subscribers, posted an hour-long video to her channel in the wake of the feud.
«Just my two cents over homemade chili,» she captioned the video, in which she recalled her positive experiences collaborating with both Perry and Soo, but ultimately sided with Soo.
Zach Choi, who joined Perry and Soo for the collaboration video, said in an Instagram story that he had hired legal representation to address the claims Perry made on social media.
«For those of you waiting for a response to @nikocadoavocado continued harassment, I have retained an attorney and he will be handling these matters going forward,» he wrote.
Perry denied any legal action being taken against him in an email sent to Insider.
Perry’s videos recapping the aftermath of the feud had subscribers concerned for his mental health.
In a January 2020 video titled «We Broke Up,» a visibly-distraught Perry blamed the negative comments and YouTube drama for the demise of his relationship with his husband.
«All of your comments over the last month are seeping into his head and he is questioning us as a couple,» he said. «And it’s all because of YouTube.»
In another video titled «Orlin left me, I hate myself, Goodbye youtube & life,» one of seven videos Perry uploaded within the week, the YouTuber sobbed while discussing his breakup and his desire to quit vlogging (while consuming vast quantities of Taco Bell).
The comments section of the video quickly filled with subscribers noting the escalation from Perry’s typical YouTube theatrics and concern for his mental health.
«This isn’t even funny or entertaining anymore,» one commenter wrote. «This is just disturbing and weird.»
Perry, however, showed no signs of slowing down. Soon after his feud with Soo, the YouTuber declared a new online enemy — and enraged subscribers by forgetting Kobe Bryant’s name.
In the video, titled «David dobrik STOLE from me, the truth,» Perry called out his newest «enemy»: YouTuber David Dobrik. Dobrik’s offense? Seemingly, having a Tesla and giving away cars in viral videos, which Perry watched from his iPhone while filming.
«I watched this in bed today,» Perry said through tears, «and I broke down. That was supposed to be me.»
He went on to accuse Dobrik of «stealing [his] DNA» and «[his] future.»
While devouring Panda Express noodles for the camera, Perry brought up the recent death of Kobe Bryant — forgetting the NBA legend’s name.
After the video was posted, viewers called for Perry’s removal from the platform.
«You should not be allowed to have a platform to promote hate speech and lies,» one commenter wrote. «I think it’s time for YouTube to take your page Man.»
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Nikocado Avocado is the nickname of a Ukrainian-American YouTuber Nicholas Perry best known for his mukbang videos and a series of controversies that surrounded the YouTuber since late 2019. In 2020, the channel has been a subject of viral discussions online, with users expressing concerns regarding Perry’s mental and physical health.
Online History
Nikocado Avocado [1] has been appearing on his secondary channel for a longer period than his primary channel. The secondary channel, now known as Nikocado Avocado 2, was created by his ex Orlin Home on July 7th, 2012, under the username OmaDesalasOrlin. His first video, ‘Best Mango Farm Florida’, was posted on May 4th, 2013. Nikocado then made his first appearance on the channel on August 7th, 2017, in ‘Nikocado Plays Violin’ (shown below).
Now, the couple exclusively uses the channel to put out mukbang content and has garnered several hundred thousand subscribers and tens of millions of views in total on it. Those videos have become a popular source of memes, YTPs and cringe compilations.
Nikocado set up his main account on May 27th, 2014, and started posting vegan food and lifestyle-related content on it in February 2016. However, he seems to have deleted all the videos he had posted prior to September 2016. The oldest video on the channel, ‘Why I’m No Longer a Vegan Youtuber’, was posted on September 1st. In it, he denounces the vegan community altogether and states that he does not want to be associated with them any longer, accusing its members of being “imbalanced, hostile, militant, and mentally unstable” (shown below).
Soon after, he began to upload vegan mukbangs and ceased to become vegan by January 2017, as shown in his December 2016 video called «I don’t want to be vegan anymore» (shown below).
Nikocado gained a significant amount of weight between 2017 and 2021 due to his mukbang videos and the massive quantities of food he eats during them (before and after photo shown below).
Health Concerns
In September 2021, people began expressing increased concern for Nikocado’s health after he broke three ribs due to his weight gain and had to go on a ventilator as part of the healing process. During this time, Nikocado continued to upload mukbang videos on his More Nikocado channel using the breathing device and titles about being disabled (shown below, left and right).
Along with criticism for Nikocado allegedly using his health issues as clickbait, many people criticized YouTube for allowing Nikocado to abuse his body by eating extreme amounts of food, especially while recovering from the broken ribs. His ribs broke due to his weight gain. On September 23rd, BowBlax posted to Twitter [2] «This guy is gonna die of obesity on YouTube,» along with a screenshot of his ventilator mukbangs, gaining over 32,000 likes and 2,300 retweets in a day (shown below, left). On the same day, Twitter [3] user @cacasmiddlename likened Nikocado’s situation on YouTube to Eugenia Cooney’s, who has an eating disorder and posts content that has historically been seen as self-destructive (shown below, right).
On September 29th, Instagram [4] page juggalofamilyvalues posted a meme depicting Nikocado’s latest videos leading up to his «I’m Disabled… Taco Tuesday» upload as the five stages of grief, gaining over 1,300 likes in under a day (shown below).
On September 29th, Cr1TiKaL posted a video about Nikocado titled «This YouTuber Is Slowly Killing Himself for Views» speaking out against Nikocado’s willingness to harm himself for the sake of views. He specifically responds to Nikocado’s claim that his own viewers are to blame for the state of his health for encouraging him to continue making mukbang videos, saying he agrees with Nikocado to a degree but that it’s ultimately Nikocado’s choice to keep making videos that harm his wellbeing. He concludes the video by saying Nikocado is essentially filming himself die and that it’s sad. The video gained over 2.8 million views in less than 24 hours.
On September 30th, Nikocado responded to Cr1TiKaL’s video with a 40-minute-plus video on his More Nikocado YouTube channel (shown below). The video begins with Nikocado asking who Cr1TiKaL is and saying that Cr1TiKaL is denying him his right to live because he’s «a little fluffy.» He then continues to yell «who is this» at his laptop. He then goes on to say he had mental and physical health issues when he was skinny and vegan and says Cr1TiKaL is hurting his mental health. He reacts to the entirety of the video while eating a Wendy’s meal in bed. At one point, he refutes Cr1TiKaL’s claim that he usually finishes all the food in his mukbangs, saying he ate only one of eight pizzas shown in one of his latest uploads. Nikocado reiterates that he’s happy in his body and that it’s okay to be overweight. The video gained over 30,000 views in five hours.