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Topics: Celebrity, Food and Drink, US News, Social Media
Rhianna Benson
Topics: Celebrity, Food and Drink, US News, Social Media
Followers of YouTube sensation Nikocado Avocado are calling for the release of a documentary centering on the star's controversial - and super confusing - lifestyle transformation.
The plea comes after the internet personality showed off his staggering weight loss last month, but later insisted the transformation was simply an illusion, and slammed his fans for believing the trick.
If you're already confused, don't worry - you're not alone.
But we're here to fill you in as best we can.
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The online star - whose real name is Nicholas Perry - has been uploading video content for over a decade now, originally focusing on vegan recipes, daily life vlogs, and heath hacks.
Within two years, however, his uploads altered drastically, and he began fronting mukbang content - a trend which sees internet users consuming colossal quantities of often unhealthy food, to the odd satisfaction of viewers.
Following the change, Perry gained hundreds of pounds in weight and later revealed he'd started suffering from a plethora of health-related ailments, including a loss of libido and a fractured rib caused by 'forceful coughing'. This resulted in him using a mobility scooter.
Naturally, therefore, his followers were utterly blindsided back in September when he uploaded a clip seemingly lost a whole lot of weight.
The video - which saw the star partaking in the viral 'Apple' dance trend, accompanied by Charli XCX's new 2024 song of the same name - accumulated millions of likes, and saw Nicholas was praised by many over his transformation.
Titled 'Two Steps Ahead', the video described his weight-gain/weight-loss as a 'social experiment'.
But just days later, viewers were further confused when Perry returned to YouTube - once again visibly overweight - to claim his entire weight loss was a trick, asking his followers: "Who in their right mind does a social experiment gaining 250 pounds for five years in a row?"
Fans were left unsure what to believe.
Thankfully, however, Perry recently returned to social media to present his trimmed-down self once again, and he set the record straight on his controversial health journey.
He began by claiming that his passion for acting prompted him to take on the project, taking his body from one extreme to the other and following in the footsteps of several on-screen stars, name-dropping Christian Bale and Joaquin Phoenix.
Perry added that his 'larger' persona was simply a character he'd created.
"I basically employed myself on my own terms here on YouTube by doing this character and spreading it out for so many years," he explained.
"Something that I learned in my training in school was that actors who had to undergo the greatest physical changes - they lost a lot of weight for their role, or they put on a lot of weight - those actors tended to have the greatest impact."
Since the dubious video landed, however, viewers seemingly can't help but think that the online star is pulling yet another prank.
And as such, many have called for an investigative documentary to be launched centring on the star and shedding further light on the reasoning for his recent decisions.
"We need a Netflix documentary of this experience," one viewer wrote.
Another noted: "He tried to warn us constantly, and we all still fell for it."
"As a community theatre kid of 8 years at a small theatre, i completely understand what you mean," a third went on. "It's still so crazy how you played all of this, massive respect for you man."
A fourth continued: "He told us in every single video, he identified as skinny... And he was literally telling the truth."