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The Man Who Trolled The Mediaverse
Lucuma? No, I’ll try the avocados, please.
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When the large obelisk of names is erected centuries from today; the obelisk that dwarfs the Tower of Babel by at least a lightyear, the very one that displays the names of all the great people who ever walked the Earth, the name Nicholas Perry will be there.
This cute-faced Ukranian-American man has exceeded expectations and shown us that there truly is no limit to the human experience. With a straight face and eerily calm demeanor, one man alone, just over a week ago, sent the entire Social Mediaverse into a raging and mouth-frothing spiral.
And I, for one, was on the weeping-for-joy side of that spiral.
Nicholas Perry, better known on YouTube and generally online as Nickocado Avocado, blew up from posting Mukbang videos on his channel. For those who don’t know, a Mukbang is essentially a video of a person eating a large quantity of food and addressing the audience about some mundane anecdotal event at the same time.
The twist is that Nick used to be thin. We all knew him as the openly gay, sweet, violinist who loved eating weird foods and connecting with his audience. Then, slowly, he started getting a little toxic. He gained a lot…
