Nikocado Avocado

Some Lesser Known Facts About Nikocado Avocado

• He was born to Ukrainian parents who gave him up for adoption at a very young age. An American family later adopted him.

• He regularly uploads mukbang videos, a Korean-inspired concept of interacting with people while eating huge quantities of food, on his YouTube channels.

• His videos are filled with humourous and dramatic performances, with Nikocado often crying.

• He is a classically trained violinist.

  

• He worked as a freelance violinist and as a worker at a Home Depot store.

• He moved to New York in 2013 to pursue his dream career of working in a Broadway orchestra as a violinist.

• Nikocado abandoned his musical career in early 2014 to settle down with Orlin Home in Colombia.

• He formed his YouTube channel for the first time with his husband and fellow YouTuber, Orlin Home, in 2014.

• He met Orlin through a vegan Facebook group.

• Initially, his videos consisted of lifestyle vlogs with his musical performances and him eating vegan food.

• On 1 September 2016, he released a video explaining why he quit veganism after getting frustrated with the vegan community.

• He started filming mukbang videos in 2016.

• He appeared in an episode of Comedy Central’s comedy TV show, ‘Tosh.0’ in 2018.

  

• He has claimed to have had manic episodes due to his poor diet, which he uses to create clickbait content to earn views on his videos.

• In an interview with MEL Magazine in 2021, he claimed that most of the conflicts that he has on his videos with other YouTubers are created for the growth of his career.

• In 2021, he released a video, informing his viewers that he had fractured his ribs on his left side due to excessive, forceful coughing.

• His husband, Orlin Home once got angry with him as he gained weight along with Nikocado, which made him unhappy.

• On 10 May 2024, he uploaded a video on YouTube claiming that he had given up on his weight loss journey as he failed to lose a significant amount of weight.

• He uploaded a video titled ‘Two Steps Ahead’ on 7 September 2024 on YouTube and revealed that he had lost over 250 lbs (113 kg) of weight in the past two years. At his peak, he weighed nearly 411 lbs or 186 kg.

  

• He has over 9.6 million subscribers across his six YouTube channels as of September 2024.

• In the video, he further revealed that he was strategically using his past videos and edited them in such a way that they looked latest while he was working on losing weight secretly.

• He is an animal lover and owns a parrot, Mr. Noodle, who often features in his YouTube videos.