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A YouTube star played the long game and pranked the Internet over the course of two years while secretly losing a massive amount of weight.
Nicholas Perry, better known as Nikocado Avocado has over 3.9 million followers on YouTube where he is best known for his food content in the specific genre of 'Mukbang' where he and others ate excessive amounts of food.
Perry has been making YouTube videos for over seven years and when she started she had a much slimmer physique, at least compared to her appearance in her penultimate video, shared just three months ago, where she said she had “abandoned her weight loss journey.”
However, Perry was fooling everyone and in a new video shared on September 7, she showed off a new look, having apparently lost 17st (250 pounds) of weight in just a matter of months.
The striking video, called 'Two Steps Ahead', which has already had over 3 million views at the time of writing, begins with Perry wearing a panda head and while in character, she tells viewers: “I'm always two steps ahead.”
He adds: “This has been the biggest social experiment of my life. It is worrying, exciting, exciting to watch all these sick and disoriented beings wandering around the Internet looking for stories, ideas, rivalries in which they feel encouraged, engaged.”
Perry went on to say that he had now woken up from a “very long sleep” in which he had lost “250 pounds off his body.”
However, in another video, titled 'hi' on a separate YouTube channel, Perry, along with his pet parrot, is seen in a much friendlier demeanor where he briefly explains how he managed to perform his stunt.
Before tucking into a big bowl of spicy cheese noodles, Perry explains that she hasn't made a video in two years and has simply been sharing old, pre-made content to sustain her channel while she works on her health.
Perry's big reveal has gone viral and many viewers were stunned by the twist in the story. One fan wrote: “This feels almost unreal, she managed to play us like a fiddle, this redemption arc feels surreal.”
Another wrote: “Nikocado Avocado, you have my full respect. You have managed to scour the internet for two years.”
A third said: “I have never smiled so much looking at Nikocado Avocado and I honestly couldn’t be happier and more proud of it, no irony.”
Perry has said she will now only post on her second channel and hinted that she will share more about her story next week.
