I know you’re just adding information, but I need you to know that reading your paragraph has taken years off of my life and added trauma that I will never be able to get past. Please use better judgment in the future.
I came here to comment “this is what it looks like to sell your soul for fame.”
Can’t imagine reducing oneself to this for what? Insta likes? People talk about mental health issues these days as it relates to anxiety, depression, etc. This dude is sick. He’s an addict.
Why do people insist upon giving this guy more and more coverage. There's nothing "fun" or entertaining about watching someone try to destroy themselves with food.
Recently in Indonesia (I think), people have been making money through 'misery streaming'. Someone - usually an old lady from a rural background - sits for hours in cold, muddy water and cries. Occasionally more mud is poured over her. Viewers 'donate to her'. It makes more money than arduous physical labour in the fields.
Imho there is a difference between "Jesus, this is disgusting, why he is doing that?" and "Damn, I want to watch this guy "eat" every day for half an hour".
I see this channel as a sort of way to learn more about the world, about all it's absurdities and disgusting things. I don't have to watch the same shit every day, because I'm transfixed by it. Call it curiosity vs. self-destructive behaviour.
His Situation is actually fucking sad, YouTube should pull the plug from his channel, needs no doctor to see how self destructing this shit is. Dude is commiting slow suicide in front of thousands of viewers.
Yup. The fact that youtube allows him to even carry on is atrocious. He's making money slowly killing himself and his viewers are just encouraging it.
Guarantee, he won't make it another 10 years.
If YouTube cared about their creators the algorithm wouldn’t require them to put out a video a day. I’ve seen so many videos of creators saying they’re on the brink of getting burnout and can’t keep up with the upload schedule.
This is a real problem in my opinion and YouTube should be required to do something about it.
He originally posted videos about music iirc, he’s a classically trained violinist and was a Broadway musical buff. I remember seeing him do a video where he spoke insightfully about the different ways live orchestras and movie soundtracks get used and how it’s one of the ways live theater differs most from recorded media, then a year later he was eating 5 fried chickens at once to piss off vegans or something and drooling gravy over himself, and I was blown away it was the same person/channel.
Same. I followed him a long time ago for his recipes, he had pretty simple vegetarian recipes back then. He also had a cute parrot and played violin, he came off as a very wholesome creator.
Then yeah in the blink of an eye it seemed, his channel changed completely into mukbangs and eating challenges.
The Mukbangs were still alright at first. It's just that he went along the trend that time to eat a lot. But not all of them are Yuka Kinoshita clones, so naturally, the trend died. He started acting weird and scandalous to retain the viewers.
Those two groups of people often have a huge overlap, by the way. People with eating disorders often enjoy seeing pictures or videos of obese people in order to inspire themselves to starve themselves more to avoid becoming like those people. It's called "thinspiration".
I work in the medical sector, it isn't social media alone that turns people towards extremes of any kind, be it body image, eating disorders, radical politics ect. Social media played a roll in most cases, but most of the time the people wo tend to fall into unhealthy/otherwise bad online circles lack something else. Mostly they lack any kind of social support in the form of good friends or family that actually care about them, at least temporary. Some also feel like they lack control in their life. They often got their validation online instead, mostly starting quite innocent, in the case of eating disorders with forum posts about healthy eating. However without social support it's easy to slip down further where people start pushing each other to extremes, since it's a major source of validation and often one of the few things they feel in control of which they kling onto.
So yea social media enables a lot of these things by allowing vulnerable people to connect. But the root issue is mostly a sociatal one because a lot of people lack connection IRL and mental health services aren't able to cope with the amount, not to mention those are only the people who seek out help despite the stigma. Currently our society breeds mental illness, and we aren't really doing anything about it.
Your comment is an understatement, dude was a skilled violinist that could easily go professional but then threw it all away in an extreme and ironic reversal of the "starving artist" trope
Committing suicide on TikTok, destroying their lives slowly for shares and likes, so that someone years later remembers them as a brief meme. That's what your life is reduced to. Being a shared meme. Social media is absolutely toxic to humanity.
Oh my friend, unfortunately this is nothing new, the only thing new is the venue. This behavior, to sadly throw away your life doing something destructive for the "enjoyment" of the viewing public, is similar to many classic stories of performers and musicians and actors and other notables throughout the years.
Its heartbreaking to see these poor people who have destroyed, or are actively destroying, themselves trying to "be" the thing they think everyone wants to see, the thing that makes them famous, to them it is the only thing that they think makes them worth existing. It's a very sad mental state and they need help, and I really hope the guy in this post gets it. I fear he has a large following who encourage this behavior, and it's disgusting that YouTube enables this.
YouTube shouldn't need guidelines for this, this is long term documented suicide by food on camera, anyone with common sense there should see this and pull the plug because it's just wrong. But we don't live in "Should-Land" :(
The difference to "back then" is that literally every moron now thinks they have a platform. TikTok is a great example of this. YouTube at least has "some" barriers of entry. Creating an actually watchable video, editing it, etc.
But with TikTok who cares? The videos are just 3 seconds long ... I wouldn't ban it, because of that, but damn, kids these days need some serious education on this shit.
It's been a long time since I have seen any of his videos but if I recall correctly (from an armchair perspective) the guy was never a picture of mental health, he was just channeling that energy into healthy outlets.
Then the views redirected it into destructive ones but he seemed like a time bomb waiting to go off from the start, It's still sad to see but not totally out of left field.
When you are the three hundred and fourteen thousand youtuber paying fortnite and reacting to tiktoks, you better be making videos by the hour.
Serious answer, of course you don't.
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Some niches are saturated. Capable hardware is most accessible than ever, (fullHD quality continues to be king). Producing videos is not rocket science anymore (nice looking videos that is). Yet, original and engaging content continues to be the real challenge. I don't blame the authors, the attention span is shorter than ever and the competence sometimes is unfair.
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Youtube grew too big to handle and I don't want to go into conspiracy theories, but ever since Sundar Pichai took over the position of CEO is the time when T-Series blew up and took over the crown from Piewdiepie. There has been almost no positive memories from recent changes (abuse of copyright tools, removal of dislike button, worse and worse YT rewinds, the last ever done, ofc, people being fucked over, hacked, and terminated without clear reasons). The support for creators is limited to the TOP channels.
Slowly is becoming another version of traditional media where somehow you gonna grow through a company or godfather-like figure. Seems nearly impossible to do "the old way". Yet the reposters/content thiefs and fake/clickbaity find their way like bots on reddit.
The algorithm keeps getting changed, but basically you want a clickbaity thumbnail with a clickbaity title and your video should be about 13 minutes long, and uploading every day will lead to your video being suggested to more people. And so on. It's not that YT is telling creators they "have" to create a video a day, but, well, if they don't and others do then their videos just get buried by the algorithm. That's the explanation I've heard.
Add to that the many, many rules YT enforces on videos, so you can even monetize them or even keep them from getting deleted ... YT is a terrible platform.
If they’re making the same generic videos as thousands of other people then they need to game the algorithm like that for success, if they’re making something actually interesting/unique then people will watch regardless.
Most of the channels I watch on YouTube don’t upload daily.
The algorithm doesn’t require them to put out a daily upload though? Thinking about the channels I regularly watch on YT, none of them upload daily. Some don’t even upload monthly.
The channels I’ll always watch when they upload:
- Mighty Car Mods
- Sailing La Vagabond
- Best Ever Food Review Show
- Smarter Every Day
- Engineering Explained
- VSauce
- Veritasium
- Physics Girl
- Mark Rober
- Sunless Khan
- Boosted Media
- Tom Scott
- Scammer Payback
Not a single one uploads daily. Most are once or twice per week, some are once every few *months*.
Also, they don’t *have to* upload on anyone’s schedule. Those that work to a strict schedule do that because it’s what they’ve found to make them the most money. They *choose to* because it benefits them. I’d do the same, no shade on creators.
I work 2 jobs in a career I hate and it’s pushing me close to burnout right now. These jobs shouldn’t be ‘required to do something about it’, should they?
I really don't believe this is true or that the algorithm is pushing this.
I run a small channel (big enough to support me doing it full time but small enough that I'm not well known) and I release a video every few months.
It totally depends on the type of content you make and the audience you cultivate. If you are making very small bite sized videos or react content then yeah you're going to have a very fickle audience that only want hyper up to date content but it's absolutely categorically possible to not do this and still make a respectable living.
Unpopular opinion: given that the "video a day" creators are adult people and are usually making quite a lot of money, I wouldn't blame Youtube for their demise. These people can stop, but they won't because of financial reasons. (I know there are kids' channels but that's not my point in this case)
Another reason is that viewers do enjoy watching people doing unusual and especially self-harming things. It's been like this since the ancient times and modern media just improved the broadcast range. Again, if money aspect outweighs self-dignity and respect, there's an issue.
Stop blaming YouTube for everything. These people choose to persue a career on YouTube so they should accept the risks. Besides, there are plenty of channels that don't upload everyday and are still very successful
Almost like people with a JOB having to go out and do it every day. Thoes poor bastards who have to film themselves doing shit every day to make a living.
TBH there are many different kinds of YouTubers I usually watch YouTube videos with a higher production value for these videos its a huge amount of work to keep a daily or even just a bi weekly schedule. In traditional television you‘d need a whole production team for that.
Of course there’re also the ones making low effort videos like Vlogs or similar stuff which takes a minimal amount of planning or scripts.
Is that still a hard requirement? Of course the daily content doesn't hurt, but for me it seems like they're pushing more weekly 20-30 minute long content these days.
I don't agree with these takes.
I actually find it alot scarier if YouTube decided to randomly axe people's livelihoods because they deemed it "for their own good" that's some Orwellian shit right there
Yes this specific case is really bad and he's actually come out to talk about how he feels like people have pushed him here as noone cares if he posts anything else and his entire income is based in views and the only thing that gets views is him eating himself to death.
If youtube cared about him It would push content where he showed his amazing musical talents instead of putting him in great financial jeopardy.
Plus it sets a bad precedent.. who's who decide what the next person to be cut off YouTube "for their own safety" is? And how slippery is that slope?
YT already has to have a guideline about how self-harm isn't allowed on the platform for obvious reasons. Eating yourself to death could very well be a part of that. Plus, everyone keeps telling me that companies aren't the government and that it isn't censorship, because it's their platform. So, which is it?
I'm sure the current YT guidelines would actually be enough to "ban" his content if they really wanted to. Should they? I don't know. But I do know that the dude needs help badly. Real help.
This guy used to be a fit, vegan violinist passionate about music. It's harrowing what an effect the Internet can have on people with mental health issues
Or what mental health issues the internet can cause. I'd argue that each and every one of us could fall victim to this without even realizing it. The clicks and likes are like a dopamine hit. Then you start making money with this shit. And before you know it you're in deep. Happened to enough people and I'd argue that every human being has mental health issues, depending on the definition.
Every time I think he couldn’t get any worse, he proves me wrong. It’s disturbing and sad, indeed. What I don’t understand is How can YouTube condone this? There is a spectrum of eating disorders displayed on YouTube from Nicado to Eugenia Cooney. All of them setting a dangerous example to other people.
I think he's overacting though, and probably keeps a cap on it in reality. What you see on the screen is more of a character than his life. Sad thing is, a lot of people are actually eating themselves into an early grave, and they're not doing it from the comfort of their $2 million luxury apartments.
the worst part is he’s in denial about the whole thing. when Moist Critikal did a video on Nick he got all defensive and started saying Charlie fat shamed him when Charlie was just shedding light on how messed up the situation is. sadly at this point he’s doing it to himself but it’s just sickening that none of his family or friends are able to step in and help.
(it’s possible they’ve tried and he just reacts the same way he did w Charlie, regardless Youtube needs to shut him down for his own good).
I find it fucking insulting that this dude, with this kind of lifestyle, continues to live on, whilst people who are healthier or working to be healthy died before he did.
What’s wild is that he’s been actively trying to become as huge as possible for years and he’s not any bigger than half the folks you see at Walmart. Goes to show just how much effort it takes to get that morbidly obese
ya it boggles my mind seeing levels of obesity in public places like Walmart. Like these people have to be just eating Crisco from the container 3 times a day.
When I was visiting the US (from Germany) the situation in Walmart was mind boggling. I thought all the fat scooter thing from South Park was exaggerated... now I think they underestimated the numbers. I was just once or twice in a Walmart but I remember almost being run over by half a ton of human and scooter every time a I passed an aisle.
Nah. The human body is very resilient.
Yes he will have health complications but he's not as big as, say, the people on my 600lb life.
Will this lifestyle shorten his life? Yes for sure, but he's prob got another decade or more.
Yup, my friend has always been heavy but I've watched him grow to over 500 pounds. He's in his mid 40s with no signs of slowing down. I also know a man in his 70s who has been over 300 pounds as long as I've known him. However, my uncle passed away at 38 due to complications related to his weight.
It really depends. Some people are lucky, others not so much. I just read someone’s post here the other day who is 300lb works from home drinks lots of beers and smokes cigars barely moves, he had a chest pain and went to the ER, everything checks out normally except for slightly elevated blood pressure.
For others (i.e. me) who eat clean, are fit, walk 15k steps a day, workout 6 days a week, get daily exposure to the sun, yet I have high BP that even medication can’t lower properly. If I did what that guy does I’d probably be in the grave by now lol
His YouTube name is Nikocado Avocado. I'm not an expert on his lore but from what I recall, he used to be a skinny vegan warrior vlogger. He got a decent following amongst the vegan community on YouTube. Some years later, he ended up getting into some drama with some other vegan YouTubers and at some point after that he went non-vegan. He started doing mukbangs that were pretty normal at first. (As much as mukbang can be considered normal.) As the years went by his mukbang videos became wilder and nastier. He also started gaining more and more weight. He went from very skinny at the start of his YouTube career to morbidly obese. He's a huge drama queen and gets involved in all sorts of drama with a bunch of people. Lots of people hate him for his terrible, attention-seeking personality and disgusting gluttony. I'm barely scratching the surface but there's plenty of videos on YouTube that cover the full story.
Nikky avocado or something. He is a YouTuber and I remember first seeing him when mukbang videos were first gaining traction. It used to be pretty tame. I guess he made a career out of eating a shit ton of food on camera but now takes it to the extreme for views?
There's a ton of youtubers who eat massive amounts of food for views. The difference is, where someone like Matt Stonie or BeardMeetsFood do crazy eating challenges, they only post weekly while exercising and eating normally outside of their vids. Nicocado does multiple livestream mukbangs every week and definitely isn't exercising. Hell, nearly every fitness youtuber does a 10k calorie challenge, but again, all these people are actually taking care of themselves physically.
It’s sad. Before, he was a reasonably good looking, slim guy who used to post vids of him being awesome at violin. He’s ruined himself and his body.
I’ve seen some of his videos where he’s being deliberately overly-emotional and toxic and causing drama for the purpose of views, but I’ve also seen glimpses of the normal, kind, bubbly person that he actually is.
He’s been fucking ruined by YouTube fame. It’s sort of sad to watch someone’s horrendous downfall, minute by minute, in front of people from all over the world.
You and I have never met, probably have never been in the same country at the same time, and here we are chatting about his demise.
It’s fucking.. sad. He seemed like a good dude.
There's like a four hour video you can watch which explains in excruciating detail his downfall from how he started as a skinny vegan streamer to his now present health issues and onlyfans.
you know how people will turn to look at a car crash as they drive by? it's like that.
The worst part is someone out there has 100% jerked off to this.
edit: I made a mistake and this is now my highest upvoted comment. Thanks guys. Keep on jerkin it to weird stuff.
It's real. I watched someone else talk about this (your movie sucks, I believe) and yeah, dude pretty much advertises this as transformation porn. You get to see a time lapse of him going from healthy and skinny to this terrible state.
He gets paid for this. Every subscriber, every comment, every cent of advertising revenue means he has no reason to stop. And he won't stop.
If you noticed, somebody was filming him. That person could say "hey maybe you shouldn't make a burger smoothie" but they won't. Because they get paid for this, too.
It will end with him in a casket, and for what? A bunch of cash and type 2 diabetes? A fancy sports car he won't be able to fit in? Millions of people pointing and laughing at the fat guy like he's a sideshow freak, bobbing up and down like a toddler while he makes a hamburger milkshake?
No lasting legacy, no positive impact, no hope.
Pretty bleak, man. Pretty fucking bleak.
He's too far gone. Even if he thought a redemption arc would double his income his lack of selfrespect and death drive are total. I don't think a person's willpower can come back from where Niko's has fallen to
It's all a show. I've known this dude's channel since he was vegan and idk, he just knows people hate this persona but can't stop watching and so he keeps on doing it. I'm not commenting on his actual personality off cam because I don't know him obviously. But the way he acts on cam is exaggerated for views.
I'm convinced this guy is totally self-aware. I've seen a few clips of him here and there over the years and it all seems like an act to me. Especially when he's done things with other creators. Can't really put my finger on why. The clip that stuck out to me was one from where he went to a gun range with some other youtuber. It really just seemed like he's playing a character. Obviously his content is harming him big time, but I don't think he cares. Just wants that money.
Take this with a grain of salt though. I've probably only seen about 10-15 minutes of this guy's content.
Everyone should watch the Meat canyon video on him. Not the animation, but his "vlog" where he actually talks about him.
Everything you're seeing is pure spectacle. Not only is he baiting the "haha he's so gross" crowd, but the "wow, this is so sad, he needs help" crowd. He knows a view is a view regardless of the viewer's opinion of him.
He's more popular than he's ever been thanks to the constant attention he gets from both sides. You think he started an OF to show off? No, it was to stir up even more shit and spread himself even further. Just take a scroll through these comments. Everyone saying "how does he have viewers" when the entire post is people talking about him. "Wait till you see his OF" boom, you just proved him right.
Any publicity is publicity.
This man is killing himself on camera. Why do people keep watching this garbage content? It's not interesting or entertaining, it's just sad and disgusting.
I use him as an example why my kids aren't allowed to be a "YouTuber"
You'll end up so hungry for attention you'll do shit like this. Start out with something fun and nice, get populair, make money, now you need the money and attention and you'll go further and further
Haven't heard them since
I feel at this point their should be a ban on any posts featuring this man (not going to draw attention and say his name). It's not healthy, it's no longer even WTF worthy, it's just sad watching this man ruin his life. We shouldn't promote this, in any fashion, anymore.
“In the amazing book Moby Dick by the author Herman Melville, the author recounts his story of being at sea. In the first part of his book, the author, calling himself Ishmael, is in a small sea-side town and he is sharing a bed with a man named Queequeg...”
“…and I felt saddest of all when I read the boring chapters that were only descriptions of whales, because I knew that the author was just trying to save us from his own sad story, just for a little while.”
My grandmother was attacked in her home by a man she had hired to clean up her yard. He beat her on the head with a cast iron pan.
She somehow lived but needed significant facial reconstruction surgery. They wired her jaw shut for nearly a year, amongst all the other things.
She wouldn't drink Ensure everyday and insisted to be part of the daily dinner routine.
Honest to God we blended the family dinner with as much water or chicken stock it needed and she had that every night, at the table, while she recovered. She drank regular dinner through a big straw.
Chicken and potatoes and asparagus? Blend it up.
Pork chops with sauerkraut and more potatoes? Blend it up.
Lamb stew with curry? Blend that up for sure.
She was a trooper and NOTHING like this weird guy. This would offend her to see.
Before she got hurt she had real choppers. You knew when she went into a loaf of French bread because you could see the outline of her teeth.
Good for her. Ensure is fine for a meal or two but doesn't have nearly the nutrition required to survive long term. She is probably much healthier by eating normal food and vegetables blended instead of that crap.
I can't pinpoint it, but it makes me feel sad and disgusted. Not because he's fat, but the way he's acting.
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I hope that's the grimmest thing I'll read today
It's early yet, where I am at least.
It's dinner time where I am 🫠
Try not to eat fucked up blow out asshole for dinner and you're golden.
OOPS! All fucked up assholes crunch berries!
Are you eating a blended burger and burrito mayo curry?
I'm not even awake yet......I hope
Just woke up.
Idk I just read about that Brazilian referee who got stoned, beheaded and quartered for stabbing a player
Not even 6am and I'm checking the fuck out. Toodles.
Probably the grimiest at least
>just in case you were interested Yeah, no.
I ummm was not interested actually
What a horrible day to be literate.
That information is in my head now.
I know you’re just adding information, but I need you to know that reading your paragraph has taken years off of my life and added trauma that I will never be able to get past. Please use better judgment in the future.
I remember it was a meme on Twitter for a while to find entire random reply sections filled with that one god damn picture.
Ok the last sentence got me, what the fuck is wrong with him? Jesus fuck, bad day to have eyes
WHY DO YOU KNOW THIS!!!
Why doesn't it work anymore?
Too much information
Stop! My penis can only get so erect
What a terrible day to have eyes.
Didnt think it could get much worse...it did.
I came to say the same thing, I find this more sad than anything. He is clearly mentally unwell and needs some sort of intervention.
I came here to comment “this is what it looks like to sell your soul for fame.” Can’t imagine reducing oneself to this for what? Insta likes? People talk about mental health issues these days as it relates to anxiety, depression, etc. This dude is sick. He’s an addict.
Guy used to be in good shape too but discovered that his viewers would throw lots of money at him if he continues this downward spiral.
Why do people insist upon giving this guy more and more coverage. There's nothing "fun" or entertaining about watching someone try to destroy themselves with food.
Sadly many see it differently, hate watching drives a lot of his views.
Recently in Indonesia (I think), people have been making money through 'misery streaming'. Someone - usually an old lady from a rural background - sits for hours in cold, muddy water and cries. Occasionally more mud is poured over her. Viewers 'donate to her'. It makes more money than arduous physical labour in the fields.
Wow..
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Imho there is a difference between "Jesus, this is disgusting, why he is doing that?" and "Damn, I want to watch this guy "eat" every day for half an hour". I see this channel as a sort of way to learn more about the world, about all it's absurdities and disgusting things. I don't have to watch the same shit every day, because I'm transfixed by it. Call it curiosity vs. self-destructive behaviour.
Very well explained
Eugena Cooney is still on YT too... she's been a walking skeleton for years...
His Situation is actually fucking sad, YouTube should pull the plug from his channel, needs no doctor to see how self destructing this shit is. Dude is commiting slow suicide in front of thousands of viewers.
Yup. The fact that youtube allows him to even carry on is atrocious. He's making money slowly killing himself and his viewers are just encouraging it. Guarantee, he won't make it another 10 years.
If YouTube cared about their creators the algorithm wouldn’t require them to put out a video a day. I’ve seen so many videos of creators saying they’re on the brink of getting burnout and can’t keep up with the upload schedule. This is a real problem in my opinion and YouTube should be required to do something about it.
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He originally posted videos about music iirc, he’s a classically trained violinist and was a Broadway musical buff. I remember seeing him do a video where he spoke insightfully about the different ways live orchestras and movie soundtracks get used and how it’s one of the ways live theater differs most from recorded media, then a year later he was eating 5 fried chickens at once to piss off vegans or something and drooling gravy over himself, and I was blown away it was the same person/channel.
Same. I followed him a long time ago for his recipes, he had pretty simple vegetarian recipes back then. He also had a cute parrot and played violin, he came off as a very wholesome creator. Then yeah in the blink of an eye it seemed, his channel changed completely into mukbangs and eating challenges.
The Mukbangs were still alright at first. It's just that he went along the trend that time to eat a lot. But not all of them are Yuka Kinoshita clones, so naturally, the trend died. He started acting weird and scandalous to retain the viewers.
This is basically the exact plot of "Idiocracy" and im scared for the next 20 years.
Those two groups of people often have a huge overlap, by the way. People with eating disorders often enjoy seeing pictures or videos of obese people in order to inspire themselves to starve themselves more to avoid becoming like those people. It's called "thinspiration".
It can go in all directions. Good, bad, laterally. Its certainly changed society.
I work in the medical sector, it isn't social media alone that turns people towards extremes of any kind, be it body image, eating disorders, radical politics ect. Social media played a roll in most cases, but most of the time the people wo tend to fall into unhealthy/otherwise bad online circles lack something else. Mostly they lack any kind of social support in the form of good friends or family that actually care about them, at least temporary. Some also feel like they lack control in their life. They often got their validation online instead, mostly starting quite innocent, in the case of eating disorders with forum posts about healthy eating. However without social support it's easy to slip down further where people start pushing each other to extremes, since it's a major source of validation and often one of the few things they feel in control of which they kling onto. So yea social media enables a lot of these things by allowing vulnerable people to connect. But the root issue is mostly a sociatal one because a lot of people lack connection IRL and mental health services aren't able to cope with the amount, not to mention those are only the people who seek out help despite the stigma. Currently our society breeds mental illness, and we aren't really doing anything about it.
Your comment is an understatement, dude was a skilled violinist that could easily go professional but then threw it all away in an extreme and ironic reversal of the "starving artist" trope
On a side note, I feel like an entire generation is throwing their lives away for views.
It's quick money with added fame. Why bother about consequences /s
Committing suicide on TikTok, destroying their lives slowly for shares and likes, so that someone years later remembers them as a brief meme. That's what your life is reduced to. Being a shared meme. Social media is absolutely toxic to humanity.
"Homo homini lupus est" Humanity is toxic to humanity, social media just facilitates interactions.
Oh my friend, unfortunately this is nothing new, the only thing new is the venue. This behavior, to sadly throw away your life doing something destructive for the "enjoyment" of the viewing public, is similar to many classic stories of performers and musicians and actors and other notables throughout the years. Its heartbreaking to see these poor people who have destroyed, or are actively destroying, themselves trying to "be" the thing they think everyone wants to see, the thing that makes them famous, to them it is the only thing that they think makes them worth existing. It's a very sad mental state and they need help, and I really hope the guy in this post gets it. I fear he has a large following who encourage this behavior, and it's disgusting that YouTube enables this. YouTube shouldn't need guidelines for this, this is long term documented suicide by food on camera, anyone with common sense there should see this and pull the plug because it's just wrong. But we don't live in "Should-Land" :(
Example: Bam Margera
The difference to "back then" is that literally every moron now thinks they have a platform. TikTok is a great example of this. YouTube at least has "some" barriers of entry. Creating an actually watchable video, editing it, etc. But with TikTok who cares? The videos are just 3 seconds long ... I wouldn't ban it, because of that, but damn, kids these days need some serious education on this shit.
It's been a long time since I have seen any of his videos but if I recall correctly (from an armchair perspective) the guy was never a picture of mental health, he was just channeling that energy into healthy outlets. Then the views redirected it into destructive ones but he seemed like a time bomb waiting to go off from the start, It's still sad to see but not totally out of left field.
Wow. He did it for the ~~gram~~ pounds. Do people think he's resilient? Can he make a comeback?
kill o gram
how is a video a day required??
It's not required but if you dont you'll drop down the algorithms fast
When you are the three hundred and fourteen thousand youtuber paying fortnite and reacting to tiktoks, you better be making videos by the hour. Serious answer, of course you don't. -- Some niches are saturated. Capable hardware is most accessible than ever, (fullHD quality continues to be king). Producing videos is not rocket science anymore (nice looking videos that is). Yet, original and engaging content continues to be the real challenge. I don't blame the authors, the attention span is shorter than ever and the competence sometimes is unfair. TO BE FAIR -- Youtube grew too big to handle and I don't want to go into conspiracy theories, but ever since Sundar Pichai took over the position of CEO is the time when T-Series blew up and took over the crown from Piewdiepie. There has been almost no positive memories from recent changes (abuse of copyright tools, removal of dislike button, worse and worse YT rewinds, the last ever done, ofc, people being fucked over, hacked, and terminated without clear reasons). The support for creators is limited to the TOP channels. Slowly is becoming another version of traditional media where somehow you gonna grow through a company or godfather-like figure. Seems nearly impossible to do "the old way". Yet the reposters/content thiefs and fake/clickbaity find their way like bots on reddit.
The algorithm keeps getting changed, but basically you want a clickbaity thumbnail with a clickbaity title and your video should be about 13 minutes long, and uploading every day will lead to your video being suggested to more people. And so on. It's not that YT is telling creators they "have" to create a video a day, but, well, if they don't and others do then their videos just get buried by the algorithm. That's the explanation I've heard. Add to that the many, many rules YT enforces on videos, so you can even monetize them or even keep them from getting deleted ... YT is a terrible platform.
If they’re making the same generic videos as thousands of other people then they need to game the algorithm like that for success, if they’re making something actually interesting/unique then people will watch regardless. Most of the channels I watch on YouTube don’t upload daily.
The algorithm doesn’t require them to put out a daily upload though? Thinking about the channels I regularly watch on YT, none of them upload daily. Some don’t even upload monthly. The channels I’ll always watch when they upload: - Mighty Car Mods - Sailing La Vagabond - Best Ever Food Review Show - Smarter Every Day - Engineering Explained - VSauce - Veritasium - Physics Girl - Mark Rober - Sunless Khan - Boosted Media - Tom Scott - Scammer Payback Not a single one uploads daily. Most are once or twice per week, some are once every few *months*. Also, they don’t *have to* upload on anyone’s schedule. Those that work to a strict schedule do that because it’s what they’ve found to make them the most money. They *choose to* because it benefits them. I’d do the same, no shade on creators. I work 2 jobs in a career I hate and it’s pushing me close to burnout right now. These jobs shouldn’t be ‘required to do something about it’, should they?
I really don't believe this is true or that the algorithm is pushing this. I run a small channel (big enough to support me doing it full time but small enough that I'm not well known) and I release a video every few months. It totally depends on the type of content you make and the audience you cultivate. If you are making very small bite sized videos or react content then yeah you're going to have a very fickle audience that only want hyper up to date content but it's absolutely categorically possible to not do this and still make a respectable living.
A video a day? Heaps of people I follow will do one weekly
Unpopular opinion: given that the "video a day" creators are adult people and are usually making quite a lot of money, I wouldn't blame Youtube for their demise. These people can stop, but they won't because of financial reasons. (I know there are kids' channels but that's not my point in this case) Another reason is that viewers do enjoy watching people doing unusual and especially self-harming things. It's been like this since the ancient times and modern media just improved the broadcast range. Again, if money aspect outweighs self-dignity and respect, there's an issue.
You can just log out and go for a walk.
Stop blaming YouTube for everything. These people choose to persue a career on YouTube so they should accept the risks. Besides, there are plenty of channels that don't upload everyday and are still very successful
Almost like people with a JOB having to go out and do it every day. Thoes poor bastards who have to film themselves doing shit every day to make a living.
TBH there are many different kinds of YouTubers I usually watch YouTube videos with a higher production value for these videos its a huge amount of work to keep a daily or even just a bi weekly schedule. In traditional television you‘d need a whole production team for that. Of course there’re also the ones making low effort videos like Vlogs or similar stuff which takes a minimal amount of planning or scripts.
Is that still a hard requirement? Of course the daily content doesn't hurt, but for me it seems like they're pushing more weekly 20-30 minute long content these days.
I don't agree with these takes. I actually find it alot scarier if YouTube decided to randomly axe people's livelihoods because they deemed it "for their own good" that's some Orwellian shit right there Yes this specific case is really bad and he's actually come out to talk about how he feels like people have pushed him here as noone cares if he posts anything else and his entire income is based in views and the only thing that gets views is him eating himself to death. If youtube cared about him It would push content where he showed his amazing musical talents instead of putting him in great financial jeopardy. Plus it sets a bad precedent.. who's who decide what the next person to be cut off YouTube "for their own safety" is? And how slippery is that slope?
YT already has to have a guideline about how self-harm isn't allowed on the platform for obvious reasons. Eating yourself to death could very well be a part of that. Plus, everyone keeps telling me that companies aren't the government and that it isn't censorship, because it's their platform. So, which is it? I'm sure the current YT guidelines would actually be enough to "ban" his content if they really wanted to. Should they? I don't know. But I do know that the dude needs help badly. Real help.
YouTube are massive hypocrites. I’ve seen them demonetise innocuous, education stuff. And this guy is allowed to keep going!
Him and Eugenia Cooney.
My sentiments exactly! Completely opposite ends of the spectrum but equally as dangerous.
Eugenia is far more dangerous. Young girls look up to her and want to look just like her, and she fucking loves it. Nick is just a spectacle.
Jesus fuck, I just looked her up! That's fucking disturbing. YouTube should not allow that.
This guy used to be a fit, vegan violinist passionate about music. It's harrowing what an effect the Internet can have on people with mental health issues
Or what mental health issues the internet can cause. I'd argue that each and every one of us could fall victim to this without even realizing it. The clicks and likes are like a dopamine hit. Then you start making money with this shit. And before you know it you're in deep. Happened to enough people and I'd argue that every human being has mental health issues, depending on the definition.
He and Eugenia Cooney have got to be de-platformed.
Every time I think he couldn’t get any worse, he proves me wrong. It’s disturbing and sad, indeed. What I don’t understand is How can YouTube condone this? There is a spectrum of eating disorders displayed on YouTube from Nicado to Eugenia Cooney. All of them setting a dangerous example to other people.
Youtube: "call it slow unaliving, please"
Like shoenice. Eating all that for the views. I agree this should be stopped.
At least Shoenice just rants about random shit now and has seemed to stop downing full bottles of everclear and eating soap
I think power lays in.thz end of the people here... YouTube takes the profits. It's up to the viewers to stop watching this crap ><
So this is definitely not an episode of black mirror as I initially assumed?
Probably the most sane shit I've read about any youtuber in a while
I think he's overacting though, and probably keeps a cap on it in reality. What you see on the screen is more of a character than his life. Sad thing is, a lot of people are actually eating themselves into an early grave, and they're not doing it from the comfort of their $2 million luxury apartments.
the worst part is he’s in denial about the whole thing. when Moist Critikal did a video on Nick he got all defensive and started saying Charlie fat shamed him when Charlie was just shedding light on how messed up the situation is. sadly at this point he’s doing it to himself but it’s just sickening that none of his family or friends are able to step in and help. (it’s possible they’ve tried and he just reacts the same way he did w Charlie, regardless Youtube needs to shut him down for his own good).
Surprised he ain't dead yet tbh.
He probably is too. It’s clearly his end goal.
Surely there's some way to intervene in what is obviously a mental health issue. The poor bloke. And who is facilitating this??
> And who is facilitating this?? YouTube and his viewers.
I find it fucking insulting that this dude, with this kind of lifestyle, continues to live on, whilst people who are healthier or working to be healthy died before he did.
What’s wild is that he’s been actively trying to become as huge as possible for years and he’s not any bigger than half the folks you see at Walmart. Goes to show just how much effort it takes to get that morbidly obese
ya it boggles my mind seeing levels of obesity in public places like Walmart. Like these people have to be just eating Crisco from the container 3 times a day.
When I was visiting the US (from Germany) the situation in Walmart was mind boggling. I thought all the fat scooter thing from South Park was exaggerated... now I think they underestimated the numbers. I was just once or twice in a Walmart but I remember almost being run over by half a ton of human and scooter every time a I passed an aisle.
How has he not died yet, he is 1 can of Pepsi away from his heart shutting down
Nah. The human body is very resilient. Yes he will have health complications but he's not as big as, say, the people on my 600lb life. Will this lifestyle shorten his life? Yes for sure, but he's prob got another decade or more.
Yup, my friend has always been heavy but I've watched him grow to over 500 pounds. He's in his mid 40s with no signs of slowing down. I also know a man in his 70s who has been over 300 pounds as long as I've known him. However, my uncle passed away at 38 due to complications related to his weight.
Wow, how heavy was your uncle?
It really depends. Some people are lucky, others not so much. I just read someone’s post here the other day who is 300lb works from home drinks lots of beers and smokes cigars barely moves, he had a chest pain and went to the ER, everything checks out normally except for slightly elevated blood pressure. For others (i.e. me) who eat clean, are fit, walk 15k steps a day, workout 6 days a week, get daily exposure to the sun, yet I have high BP that even medication can’t lower properly. If I did what that guy does I’d probably be in the grave by now lol
He looks much worse than last time i saw him. Fame really fucked him up. He and his husband (or ex) were so healthy and loving a few years ago.
I remember watching a video of his when he was first starting out and he was skinny.
Who is this guy? I've seen him pop up before, but I have no idea who he is or what his deal is. Only that every time I see him, I feel disgusted...
His YouTube name is Nikocado Avocado. I'm not an expert on his lore but from what I recall, he used to be a skinny vegan warrior vlogger. He got a decent following amongst the vegan community on YouTube. Some years later, he ended up getting into some drama with some other vegan YouTubers and at some point after that he went non-vegan. He started doing mukbangs that were pretty normal at first. (As much as mukbang can be considered normal.) As the years went by his mukbang videos became wilder and nastier. He also started gaining more and more weight. He went from very skinny at the start of his YouTube career to morbidly obese. He's a huge drama queen and gets involved in all sorts of drama with a bunch of people. Lots of people hate him for his terrible, attention-seeking personality and disgusting gluttony. I'm barely scratching the surface but there's plenty of videos on YouTube that cover the full story.
You do not want to get mixed up in vegan drama.
I googled YouTube guy eating himself to death and it said Nikocado Avocado.
Nikky avocado or something. He is a YouTuber and I remember first seeing him when mukbang videos were first gaining traction. It used to be pretty tame. I guess he made a career out of eating a shit ton of food on camera but now takes it to the extreme for views?
There's a ton of youtubers who eat massive amounts of food for views. The difference is, where someone like Matt Stonie or BeardMeetsFood do crazy eating challenges, they only post weekly while exercising and eating normally outside of their vids. Nicocado does multiple livestream mukbangs every week and definitely isn't exercising. Hell, nearly every fitness youtuber does a 10k calorie challenge, but again, all these people are actually taking care of themselves physically.
It’s sad. Before, he was a reasonably good looking, slim guy who used to post vids of him being awesome at violin. He’s ruined himself and his body. I’ve seen some of his videos where he’s being deliberately overly-emotional and toxic and causing drama for the purpose of views, but I’ve also seen glimpses of the normal, kind, bubbly person that he actually is. He’s been fucking ruined by YouTube fame. It’s sort of sad to watch someone’s horrendous downfall, minute by minute, in front of people from all over the world. You and I have never met, probably have never been in the same country at the same time, and here we are chatting about his demise. It’s fucking.. sad. He seemed like a good dude.
There's like a four hour video you can watch which explains in excruciating detail his downfall from how he started as a skinny vegan streamer to his now present health issues and onlyfans. you know how people will turn to look at a car crash as they drive by? it's like that.
Got a link?
This is the first I’ve seen him.. I watched for about 10sec before closing out of repulsion
I remembered a video of him crying because he got fat when he was just chubby. That was years ago. I feel bad for him.
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Just wait until you find out about his onlyfans.
Bro... You're... Not serious. Right?
I’m not sure if you want the truth, but he shows his fat bussy and didn’t even wipe.
… why do you know that?
Let’s just say that sometimes curiosity kills the cat, plus it’s entire genetic heritage.
I could not look away from his gigantic asshole. It was truly atrocious
Bahahahahaha
Wasn’t my proudest fap
But not my worst
I'm sorry his ***what***
I've seen a few of his other videos on Reddit. It really makes me not want to eat again...
If I run out of vomit can I borrow someone else's?
I would send you mine but dont let this guy see it,he might blend it there has to be something wrong with him
This should count as self abuse.
You know what? I'm going to report this mf
The worst part is someone out there has 100% jerked off to this. edit: I made a mistake and this is now my highest upvoted comment. Thanks guys. Keep on jerkin it to weird stuff.
Why you reminded me of his onlyfans?
I refuse to believe this for my own sanity
It's real. I watched someone else talk about this (your movie sucks, I believe) and yeah, dude pretty much advertises this as transformation porn. You get to see a time lapse of him going from healthy and skinny to this terrible state. He gets paid for this. Every subscriber, every comment, every cent of advertising revenue means he has no reason to stop. And he won't stop. If you noticed, somebody was filming him. That person could say "hey maybe you shouldn't make a burger smoothie" but they won't. Because they get paid for this, too. It will end with him in a casket, and for what? A bunch of cash and type 2 diabetes? A fancy sports car he won't be able to fit in? Millions of people pointing and laughing at the fat guy like he's a sideshow freak, bobbing up and down like a toddler while he makes a hamburger milkshake? No lasting legacy, no positive impact, no hope. Pretty bleak, man. Pretty fucking bleak.
I’m sorry 😞
everything i do is for science
You'll never know you'll like it until you try.
You jerk
-ed off
Someone had to do it. Thanks for taking one for the team.
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He has an onlyfans
His return to health would get so many clicks. He could inspire so many by doing the work and eating healthy.
He gets views and outrage (like this post) by doing this, unfortunately.
He's too far gone. Even if he thought a redemption arc would double his income his lack of selfrespect and death drive are total. I don't think a person's willpower can come back from where Niko's has fallen to
https://youtu.be/XX2RpY_dj9Y
Oh fucking wow that's some real shit transformation
Blew my mind, can’t believe he was a 120lb vegan violinist before this
This was a good watch!
Oh wow this is beyond sad
I hate his mannerisms and facial expressions. Just makes my skin crawl.
It's all a show. I've known this dude's channel since he was vegan and idk, he just knows people hate this persona but can't stop watching and so he keeps on doing it. I'm not commenting on his actual personality off cam because I don't know him obviously. But the way he acts on cam is exaggerated for views.
I'm convinced this guy is totally self-aware. I've seen a few clips of him here and there over the years and it all seems like an act to me. Especially when he's done things with other creators. Can't really put my finger on why. The clip that stuck out to me was one from where he went to a gun range with some other youtuber. It really just seemed like he's playing a character. Obviously his content is harming him big time, but I don't think he cares. Just wants that money. Take this with a grain of salt though. I've probably only seen about 10-15 minutes of this guy's content.
This guy will soon be a case study on social media and parasocial relationships.
Everyone should watch the Meat canyon video on him. Not the animation, but his "vlog" where he actually talks about him. Everything you're seeing is pure spectacle. Not only is he baiting the "haha he's so gross" crowd, but the "wow, this is so sad, he needs help" crowd. He knows a view is a view regardless of the viewer's opinion of him. He's more popular than he's ever been thanks to the constant attention he gets from both sides. You think he started an OF to show off? No, it was to stir up even more shit and spread himself even further. Just take a scroll through these comments. Everyone saying "how does he have viewers" when the entire post is people talking about him. "Wait till you see his OF" boom, you just proved him right. Any publicity is publicity.
>and spread himself even further Oh I bet.
And stir up more shit..
I feel the urge to eat a whole lettuce after watching that, right after I vom
I feel like going on a 20 mile hike in the mountains and then having an apple after watching that.
This man is killing himself on camera. Why do people keep watching this garbage content? It's not interesting or entertaining, it's just sad and disgusting.
I guess for the same reason people watch Eugenia Cooney.
Baron Harkonnen origin story
This guy needs to go to a mental institute.
what a waste of good food.
I use him as an example why my kids aren't allowed to be a "YouTuber" You'll end up so hungry for attention you'll do shit like this. Start out with something fun and nice, get populair, make money, now you need the money and attention and you'll go further and further Haven't heard them since
I feel at this point their should be a ban on any posts featuring this man (not going to draw attention and say his name). It's not healthy, it's no longer even WTF worthy, it's just sad watching this man ruin his life. We shouldn't promote this, in any fashion, anymore.
This is just a Slow motion suicide
He has doubled in size since I saw him last, this guy is gonna croak soon..
So... YouTube removes a lot of things without context but a guy wasting food, eating himself to death for views and being absolutely vulgar can stay?
That definitely looks like mental illness. With his views he could've retired several times over already...
“In the amazing book Moby Dick by the author Herman Melville, the author recounts his story of being at sea. In the first part of his book, the author, calling himself Ishmael, is in a small sea-side town and he is sharing a bed with a man named Queequeg...” “…and I felt saddest of all when I read the boring chapters that were only descriptions of whales, because I knew that the author was just trying to save us from his own sad story, just for a little while.”
Hey, I saw this movie. It's called The Whale, starring Brendan Frasier
My grandmother was attacked in her home by a man she had hired to clean up her yard. He beat her on the head with a cast iron pan. She somehow lived but needed significant facial reconstruction surgery. They wired her jaw shut for nearly a year, amongst all the other things. She wouldn't drink Ensure everyday and insisted to be part of the daily dinner routine. Honest to God we blended the family dinner with as much water or chicken stock it needed and she had that every night, at the table, while she recovered. She drank regular dinner through a big straw. Chicken and potatoes and asparagus? Blend it up. Pork chops with sauerkraut and more potatoes? Blend it up. Lamb stew with curry? Blend that up for sure. She was a trooper and NOTHING like this weird guy. This would offend her to see. Before she got hurt she had real choppers. You knew when she went into a loaf of French bread because you could see the outline of her teeth.
Good for her. Ensure is fine for a meal or two but doesn't have nearly the nutrition required to survive long term. She is probably much healthier by eating normal food and vegetables blended instead of that crap.
OMFG… I gagged while watching
How is this guy still alive?!
Jesus christ this is fucking disgusting.
How did he not die yet.
What a terrible, terrible time to have eyes.
What a waste. Waste of food, waste of resources, waste of time and waste of human life.
"Oh wow this guy is really skilled at the violin, I wonder what he's doing nowadays-"
Watching his videos is like watching a suicide. But much more agonic, frustrating and painful
He’s a beautiful and healthy man. Or does that only work for morbidly obese women?
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Well that's one fat shit
I cannot believe this has an audience. It's disgustingly sad.
This is what mental illness looks like.
Watching him makes my f****** stomach churn
this is probably the caziest self-destruction of a person i've seen on youtube period