Nikocado Avocado has fooled his community and trolls alike in a major years-long prank.
The YouTuber, real name Nicholas Perry, is known for his 'mukbang' style of videos in which he would eat a large plate of food while chatting with viewers.
The streamer had been targeted online for his 400lb+ weight and mysteriously stopped posting new videos around seven months ago.
Many fans were puzzled as to why his uploads dried up, but a recent video shocked everyone.
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Just two days ago, the 32-year-old dropped a video titled "Two Steps Ahead," showing Nikocado looking drastically slimmer, weighing just 158 pounds reportedly.
What was the shocker?
Well, Nikocado had actually been playing a long con. He tricked viewers into thinking he was losing weight quickly by using pre-recorded videos to maintain the illusion that he was still active.
So, when the latest video hit, people were surprised in that it seemed his weight transformation happened overnight.
What's more, Nikocado hinted at his scheme in a 2022 video monologue titled the same: "Two Steps Ahead".
It seems he made this video with the intention of starting his weight loss journey immediately after.
"I am always two steps ahead," he said in the video.
"This has been the greatest social experiment I've come to know, certainly the greatest social experiment of my entire life."
He described watching endless online comments and speculation about himself as feeling like he was “observing ants on an ant farm.”
The YouTuber went on to hint that people watch stories 'year after year' that are 'deliberately made to blur the boundaries between fact and fiction.'
And it goes to show.
Nikocado deliberately kept himself out of the public eye, doing his weight loss in secret and shaving his head to hide his identity.
"Just yesterday people were calling me fat and sick and boring and irrelevant," the YouTuber said in his recent video drop.
"People are the most messed up creatures on the the entire planet and yet I've still managed to stay two steps ahead of everyone. The joke's on you."
People are shocked, to say the least, by one of the biggest trolling events to happen in recent times.
One YouTube user replied: "Genuinely one of the best trolls I have ever possibly seen performed. His entire persona and ability to captivate us all into thinking he’s some incompetent slob and then he hits us with the final act. This is top level trolling."
Another wrote: "This is definitely the last video he recorded before losing that weight".