Popular Mukbang YouTuber Nikocado Avocado has made a triumphant return to the platform after a short hiatus – 250 pounds lighter.

Avocado uploaded the video on Friday, in which he revealed he’s been secretly losing weight during his time away from the camera.

The 32-year-old shared his health update while wearing a panda mask that he eventually took off, revealing himself as the person in the photo, seemingly slimmer than ever.

Avocado – real name Nicholas Perry – then revealed that he has been fooling his viewers for about two years by secretly uploading old videos in which he is still overweight.

In reality, he had secretly lost hundreds of pounds, pounds he claims he gained on purpose when he became famous on social media.

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Popular Mukbang YouTuber Nikocado Avocado made a triumphant return to the platform on Friday — 250 pounds lighter

Avocado, who is known for his steady stream of videos showing his body bulking up over the years, claimed to have secretly lost weight over the past two years, uploading old videos in the meantime.

“Two steps forward, two steps forward,” the man who was eventually dubbed the self-proclaimed “King of the Mukbangers” told subscribers and viewers before gorging himself once more.

“I’m always – two steps ahead. This has been the greatest social experiment of my entire life.”

The influencer said the following in a soft, teasing voice, as his identity remained relatively unknown: “It’s seductive, it’s compelling, it’s gripping to see all these sick, disoriented creatures wandering around the internet looking for stories.

“They evolve with the stories, they become the product of influence,” he continued, apparently referring to those who have criticized him in the past.

“I feel like I’m watching ants in an ant farm, one following the other,” he said of his critics

“It’s enchanting, it’s enchanting – all those little consumers.

“All these lost and bored people who consume everything they’re told to consume,” he continued, before revealing himself as the man behind the mask.

Following this revelation, which almost immediately became the subject of hundreds of YouTube Shorts, Avocado laid out his master plan.

The 32-year-old showed off his new body while wearing a panda mask which he eventually took off to reveal himself as the person in the picture

He appeared even slimmer than when he began his online adventures, which have long made him the subject of criticism

“Today I woke up from a really long dream and I also lost 250 pounds,” said the 5-foot-6 Avocado.

‘And yet yesterday people called me fat, sick, boring and irrelevant.’

“Humans, humans are the most deranged creatures on the entire planet,” he continued, clearly referring to the thousands of people who criticized his beefy appearance in videos posted just three months ago.

“People consume whatever they’re told to consume,” he said, suggesting that the past few years had also been one big experiment.

So I’m the bad guy, because I made one myself.

“And you will continue to consume these stories about me,” he said, making his point.

‘Year after year, after year, as long as I tell the internet that I’m the bad guy.

“Stories that penetrate, linger and infect the minds of the ants,” he continued, continuing his theatrics.

‘Influence the ants. Brainwash the ants. You are the ants.’

He said he had recorded enough videos to last him two years, during which time he shed the pounds he had gained during his meteoric rise.

At that point, the YouTuber, who had seemingly recorded enough videos to last for years, quickly fell back into his old habits. He cooked a huge plate of noodles, which he ate to his fullest.

In a separate video posted to his other YouTube channel, the influencer gave a more detailed explanation of how he pulled the wool over the eyes of his nearly 4 million subscribers.

“I haven’t made a video in two years,” he said in the clip, after uploading a video three months ago titled, “I’m ending my ‘weight loss journey.’ Time to get fat again.”

He then ate an unusually large plate of food.

The comments under both videos expressed awe at the YouTuber’s deception, with many wondering if his drastic weight gain was, as he himself said, an elaborate ploy.

“The Ozempic has been working overtime,” wrote one commenter, accusing the influencer of using the increasingly popular weight loss drug to shed pounds.

Others pointed to the most recent eating outings posted a few months ago, writing, “He said he hadn’t made a video in almost 2 years… he had enough videos under his belt to keep entertaining, concerned, and controversial throughout that time.

“That guy is truly a genius.”

The influencer was once skinny, but has gained more than 200 pounds over the years — though in reality it appears to have been five pounds instead of seven.

Known for his comic outbursts that accompanied his binge-eating, he claimed the whole ordeal was a social experiment

At the time of writing, the video was ranked number one on YouTube’s website and had been viewed nearly 10 million times.

Another simply added, “Nothing makes sense anymore.”

Once one of the most recognizable faces on the platform, Avocado now looks more like the 24-year-old who rose to internet stardom seven years ago with his ASMR eating videos, when he weighed just 150 pounds.

Within a few years he weighed a whopping 159 kilos.

Because this happened in real time, commentators often paid attention to the way the influencer destroyed his body to attract more viewers, imitating the video style from Korea.

Despite this, Avocado continued with his high-calorie meals, piling on the pounds, while vowing to eventually lose them.

It seems he was more successful than he let on, as evidenced by his Keyser Soze-like lap of honour.

At the time of writing, the video was number one on YouTube and had been viewed nearly 10 million times.