It seems Nikocado Avocado came up with the idea for his transformation years ago

Nikocado Avocado reckons he has managed to pull off one of the ‘greatest social experiments’ in YouTube history after secretly losing 17 stone while fooling fans into thinking he was still gorging on huge feasts.

Although his millions of subscribers were completely blindsided by the revelation, it turns out that he had actually told viewers that this was his plan all along in a video which was released four years ago.

For those who have been living under a rock over the last weekend, let’s bring you up to speed.

The content creator, whose real name is Nicholas Perry, became an online sensation after he began to share his mukbang (eating show) videos on YouTube, which saw him chow down on ridiculous amounts of food.

He had initially joined the platform in 2014 to document his vegan lifestyle, but he went from one extreme to the other two years later and switched to a high-calorie, and frankly unhealthy, diet.

Perry’s videos provided a mix of shock value, humour, and self-destructive behaviour, but he caused quite the controversy while revealing that he was purposely trying to tip the scales and gain an excessive amount of weight.