Nikocado Avocado

Nicholas Perry (Ukrainian: Ніколас Перрі; born: May 19, 1992 [age 30]), better known online as Nikocado Avocado, is a Ukrainian-American YouTuber who is known for his mukbang videos. He currently has 6 channels that have gained millions of views. He became infamous on YouTube and in the mukbang community for his bombastic personality and drastic weight gain.

Personal Life
Nikocado Avocado was born in the newly-independent Ukraine in Eastern Europe. He was later adopted by an American family and grew up in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, United States. He has a biological sister and information on his biological parents is unknown. He is currently married to Orlin Home since April 10, 2017, and their wedding was filmed at a Chic-Fil-A. They lived in Colombia for three years before moving to Florida. Prior to YouTube, Nikocado worked as a freelance violinist in New York City. At 21, he had dreams of playing in the Broadway pit orchestra. While he believed he had the experience and talent to do so, it was difficult to make a living in the city and the competition was too high. His height is 5'6 1/2 (1690.4 cm) and his weight is 380.4 lbs.

2016
Nikocado signed up for YouTube on May 27, 2014, however his oldest surviving videos were uploaded in 2016. His early eating videos were him eating a vegan or vegetarian menu as his personal diet. On September 2, 2016, he uploaded a video discussing his deteriorating mental health believing that it was significantly caused by veganism, along with the retirement of Henya Mania's YouTube career. Afterward, he shifted to a more open diet, which would eventually consist of absurd amounts of unhealthy foods, which has received positive feedback.

2017-2018
Nikocado grew substantially during the next three years, primarily through his Fire Noodle Challenge videos, but also from his fast-food video mukbangs. People were attracted to his positive and friendly attitude and relatable character. He was gaining thousands of subscribers per day and hundreds of thousands of views per month, and it seemed all was going well for him. In early 2019 and into 2020, things have been on the downward trend for him for many reasons.

2019-2020
In early 2019 and into 2020, things have been on the downward trend for him for many reasons. In late 2019, Nikocado faced controversy with a number of YouTubers, primarily Stephanie Soo and Zach Choi for abusive behavior during several collaboration videos.

AugustTheDuck would create videos about him, to which he responded (those responses ended up getting majorly disliked). Four days after the filming of the video, Stephanie Soo posted a video on her channel titled "Why I'm Scared of Nikocado Avocado", in which she described feeling unsafe before the video and during the filming of it. She claimed that Nikocado harassed her with text messages and disturbing pictures of her house when she briefly left the room. Within hours, the video blew up with hundreds of thousands of views (over 10 million today). Her response prompted a backlash from Nikocado, causing a fight between the two with their channels and the videos they uploaded. These videos have gained millions of views, with support for Stephanie and significant backlash for Nikocado. Nikocado received the most hate during this time period, losing 10,000 subscribers in one day, and with most of his videos having a higher dislike to like ratio, with the comment section being filled with hateful and derogatory comments.

His husband, Orlin, spoke about the controversy, prompting YouTube and the comment section a cause for the decline of his mental health, and the questioning of their relationship. This also prompted many confusing videos from Nikocado where he would tell his fanbase that he and Orlin were down and that he would be leaving YouTube.

This has not been the case, and many people believe that this, combined with the exaggerated thumbnails and toxic relationship between him and his husband is clickbait from Nikocado to boost viewership and restore his channel, which has not been working favorably for him. Perry was interviewed by Keemstar on September 22, 2020, along with LeafyIsHere mainly discussing the future of his personal health. He kept on insisting Keemstar that he is smart enough to overcome his obesity problem and saying that he has a treadmill and is doing light exercise, claiming it to be the fastest way to burn fat.

Recently, Nick had opened an OnlyFans account where he posts pornographic images along with Orlin. Many fans were disgusted by his decision and images, mostly due to the appalling photos and his appearance. Nick had also warned people not to leak the images; otherwise he would sue the leakers. Despite the warn, people who subscribed to his OnlyFans page made several gifs which were uploaded onto Discord with the infamous one being him and Orlin doing the sex position known as back fucking.

2021-present
Another controversy sparked up after he supposedly broke his ribs on September 18, 2021: Nikocado made a vlog in which he was in extraordinary pain from walking. He later went to the hospital and doctors found he broke three of his ribs and his trachea was bent. He had to be bed ridden and was diagnosed with sleep apnea which is why he wears a breathing machine. But over the course of a couple of weeks, he has since recovered from being bed ridden. Despite this insistence that his ribs were broken, there have been many inconsistencies throughout his videos. Such as excruciating pain after only moving a little bit in one video, but sometimes being able to move just fine in another one. After a couple of videos, he appears to have dropped the act or forgotten it, and is now walking around normally. Several fans and other physically disabled people have also voiced their offense and disgust at him since he claimed to be "disabled".

On September 29th, 2021, a new feud was sparked with penguinz0. Penguinz0 uploaded a video in which he expressed concern for Nikocado's health and eating practices. The same day, Nikocado responded and interpreted the video as an attack on him and his fanbase. He also expressed concern over insulting comments that some of penguinz0's fans had left, and claimed that a majority penguiz0's viewers were maliciously attacking his channel with dislikes and hate. The following day, penguinz0 made a response video in which he stated that he wasn't intending to insult Nikocado and apologized for any hateful comments his fans may have left. Following that day, penguinz0 did not upload any follow up videos about ordeal, whilst Nikocado made multiple consecutive videos about the situation throughout the following week. Many people interpreted this as a move to attract more attention and benefit from drama.

On November 9th, 2021, he made a video in which he attacked CoryxKenshin for reacting to MeatCanyon's "King of Mukbang" animation as part of his "Spooky Scary Sunday" video. He then proceeded to say many insulting things about Cory, his fanbase, and once again ridiculed people who play video games. The video has received a lot of backlash, with over 30,000 dislikes in the first 24 hours. Many commenters have stated that Cory didn't say anything mean or derogatory about Nikocado, and labeled Nikocado as a bully who can't handle people expressing genuine concern over his health. He has since lost a large amount of subscribers and has received accusations of being racist due to Cory's ethnicity. Cory commented on the video, saying that while he understands that it was bad that Nikocado said many rude things about him and his fanbase, he doesn't want to fight hate with hate.

During December, 2021, Nikocado would then move out from his house temporary to make mukbang videos with his friend, the Hungry Fat Chick, a total of 2 videos released onto his main and the More Nikocado channel respectively.

On February 14th, 2022, Nikocado uploaded a video titled "I Broke My Heel Spur" onto the More Nikocado channel with him explaining how did he got it. However, most viewers knew it was an act to gain benefit from it similar to how he "broke" his ribs.

Around that same time, a video was uploaded of Nikocado explaining that his videos and controversies were a social experiment in order to observe people's toxic and impulsive behavior online. Many fans thought that he was breaking character and was admitting that he was faking his behavior. Although on TikTok, he responded by saying he's surprised that people believed in him.

On April 3rd, 2022, he uploaded a video called "I might have Cancer". Many people found it hard to take him seriously as he has claimed to have serious medical ailments in the past as a form of clickbait, and believe that him claiming to have Cancer crosses the line.

On June 29th, 2022, he uploaded a video titled "I'm having a REALLY bad day...Mcdonald's MUKBANG". In the video, he appears more subdued and depressed instead of loud and bombastic. This was the latest video he's posted on any of his channels. People are split over whether Nick's exaggerated a situation for sympathy, which he's done in the past, or if he's genuinely depressed and taking a break from YouTube.

On August 6th, 2022, Nikocado Avocado posted a video titled "I wasn't allowed to post this Mukbang". In the comment section of the video, he posted a link stating "Why I Disappeared....:". This would in turn lead to more comment and description links until it lead to the video "Nuclear Fire Noodles With Chick-Fil-A • MUKBANG". Some shrugged it off as another of Nikocado Avocado's attempt on getting attention.

Channel status and health
Currently, Nikocado Avocado has 5 channels: Nikocado Avocado (main), Nikocado Avocado 2, Nikocado Avocado 3, More Nikocado and Noodle King. He makes regular, weekly posts to each of these channels, with a common theme of mukbang, although will sometimes post cooking and vlogging videos. Despite the constant channel creation and uploading, views are on the decline and the dislikes are on the rise. He has stated that for a week he only got out of bed twice, once to go to the bathroom and once to record. Nikocado has also had a serious heart attack on camera, holding his breath, the situation was such that Orlin fearfully went to the kitchen to bring him a jug of water.

Nikocado Avocado has also more recently made videos on his weight gain with the goal of reaching 300 pounds. This has prompted concern from the community, with many saying that he is eating himself to death and that he needs to receive help, but this has constantly been downplayed by Nikocado and his husband. Nikocado claims his weight is water weight and it’s implied he has poor hygiene possibly because he doesn’t take a shower or brush his teeth. In a deleted video, he recorded his incontinence in bed, waking up and surprising his husband, to then sing "Potatoes, chicken and sandwich". He said it was common in people who do "fire" challenges (eating spicy foods).