I was born with a genetic condition called hypereosinophilic syndrome. My body has literally been trying to kill me since I was born, my heart, stomach, bowels, and lungs have been compromised by this condition. I have to take genetic medication that keeps my immune system in control, so it doesn’t attack itself, but my heart has been ruined. I haven’t been allowed to exercise since I was 18, I’m forbidden from running and doing anything cardio, and only can do weight lifting, needless to say, it has been extremely difficult to lose weight this way. I’m now 30 and still trying to get rid of all the extra weight I put on when I was on corticoids, it feels impossible. I do think people who are healthy, without any inherent conditions or genetically good dna do have a healthy privilege. If it was for me, I would not allow babies with my condition, or others, to be born. My life has been painful. I’ve had to deal with all of this alone, and with no support. Life sucks. People willingly making themselves sick is a privilege. You are healthy and you don’t value that. It’s enraging.
I’m not remotely in the same boat, but I am in enough of the same boat (a meriad of major long bone and spine malformations and ((suspected)) genetic disorder ((EDS)) that have quite literally hobbled me) that I do agree. I would never, _ever_ have a kid with my kind of congenital defects. Even my mother realizes and agrees had the doctors been honest in 1990, and told her I wasn’t just perfectly fine, she’d have tried again. It’s a very, very frustrating thing to watch people trash their own health and then promptly go off and act like they aren’t happily ruining their lives of their own volition. It’s my main reason why I am pro-choice. Children don’t deserve to suffer.
@@Maderlololohio unlikely for Op. my bones aren’t at much risk in the water, and water can be surprisingly taxing on the body, if you’re not just hanging out. (I was on various swim teams). If cardio is forbidden then swimming is probably off the table.
damn, I hate to break this to you, since this seems like kicking you while your down, but a lot of recernt studies have shown that you burn about as many calories not moving as you do by doing exercise. If you want to lose weight it comes down to - 1 your muscle mass, muscle burns the most amount of calories in your body per kilo at rest. - 2 what you eat, which is the biggest factor. Can't get fat if you don't give your body the energy to do so, even if you don't move, 3 - your sex, men's metabolic rate is about 800 calories a day higher than women's due to on average higher body weight and higher % muscle mass, staying slim if your a woman is unfortunately fairly cruel, ironically so considering modern beauty standards. A woman's body is generally more inclined to gain weight via adipose tissue (fat) if there are excess calories due to- lower average metabolic rate and -hormones, estrogen promotes the process of absorbing lipids through the blood and converting glycogen to triglycerides (fat), which women produce more of than men. This was an evolutionary adaptation for surviving food shortages and to make pregnancy less taxing for womens bodies', but in modern society it works against them, making weight loss for women harder, by design. You can generally stay slim without exercise by eating less (boring and painful, but proven to work). Eating lots of fibre with low calorie density, like vegetables, and protien high in HDPs (high density lipoproteins), such as fish like salmon can keep you slim if you keep it up, but if you break the habit you basically gain all the weight back immediately. Of course, exercise helps, but in other ways like reducing inflamation and regulating your immune system, and everyones basal metabolic rate is different, and this is based off of studies who used typically healthy people, I'm not an expert and you should definately ask a doctor first. My guess as to why you can't do cardio is that once you do cardio, during recovery, your immune system is activated to help clean up and start repairs to your tissues, but instead it immediately attacks your organs. God bless you in your struggle though, I hope you'll see the light at the end of the tunnle eventually.
I’m sorry for what you’re going through hope it gets better Life in the end is what we make it to be. Iv seen people who straight up been bed bound from childhood to adult hood bones turning into stone can’t move an each year they move less who are grateful to be alive. Some of the most healthy want to end there lives while some of the most sick/ an deformed want to continue all fighting
Can't imagine going to Stephanie Soo and mock the level of harassment she had to endure from Nikocado and claim "he won" simply because... he lost a dramatic amount of weight?
I don't know much about his story, but when I looked up vids of him playing (while thin), the comment section was filled with judgement. As if the weight gain simultaneously took away his ability to play the violin, and that he had wasted a gift and his life. Aka a disappointment.
@@slapitonabiscuit8482 He did say in an interview he couldn't play as well because of his size increase. But I'm applauding him. Whether it was a cash grab, social experiment, feeder fetish, performance art, institutional critique, or whatever, his actions don't affect me. By all appearances, he was playing an extreme character
Niccocado wasn't middle of the road fat guy, he was VERY obese. But regardless, most people made fun of him for his lunatic emotional breakdowns and cringy behavior (which tbf, were so fake that I'm genuienly suprised people didn't figure it was all an act years ago)
@@Thane3999 I just weighed myself at a clinic last week. I weigh >500 pounds. I'm bigger than he was. I get bullied at work. Not straightforward but in a sophisticated manner. I had to deal with it in a sophisticated manner myself. I can't get another job, it would be extremely difficult because of my weight to get a job outside of fast food because I'm obese, I didn't finish an undergraduate degree. I chose music but switched 5 years in after figuring just how bad my situation was. You can read that again for a laugh. But I also have a mental health diagnosis, which places me in a sense in the same camp as the sort of people I learn about while listening to trucrime podcasts without all the sick stuff they did. No wonder even fast food try to get rid of me. But hey, they tell me to clean a wall, I will clean the mess out of that wall. Nobody cares. 😀
It was obvious but at the same time there is enough mental illness in the world that would make it real. Though I still don't know why people would watch it, at best it's stupid at worst sad.
How easy it is for 1. people to fall for anything on the internet 2. anyone to make money off of the internet by doing nothing of note And he sure did prove it
@@Blackgriffonphoenixgit does nothing of the sort. The point was that people's opinion or reaction to someone changes when they change? Ok? Also, he's still a lolcow and always will be.
Bro is literally just navigating like a business. Farm what brings you the most profits.....and when it becomes too high risk, use said accumulated profits to avert said risk and pivot your efforts in something else to make profits another way.....rinse and repeat. He just added the bonus of not documenting his journey as it happened in real time so he could surprise everyone which would cause an influx of attention and publicity.
As someone who thinks they are addicted to RUclips but must be stuck in a different section, it’s amazing how you can find this whole massive drama that I had never heard about.
People care WAAAYYYY too much about weight. It really does not matter. It is false empathy. People frequently say, "Its for your health" rather than just not giving a shit and caring about people for who they are than what they look like. I am fat and want to be fat. I experienced a severe health scare that caused me to lose so much weight that it almost killed me. I was a skeleton, skinnier than Christian Bale in the Machinist. Now I am a pudgy bear of a man. I love it. I think I look great, and I feel great. Nik just seems to crave attention. Never cared for him not because of his appearance but because in clips I've seen of him, he acts so childish. Even now from clips I see he is just acting like a teen who thinks they know everything. It is off putting.
You say weight doesn't matter but say the weight you are now makes you happy. That being sickly thin almost killed you. So it clearly does matter. It just looks different for every person.
Nikocado pretending the coliseum didn't exist. Yes, we love downfall and destruction...and he did it to himself. Glad he found Ozempic and it worked out, but I doubt he's done being a menacing troll for money.
Ozempic helps you lose weight. But at a moderate percentage. This man has worked out and burned fat for over 2 years just to upload this. And had a lot of prerecorded vids to trick people.
@@leonardo9259 You could have a calorie surplus diet with a carnivore diet and lose weight. However, those people typically do not have muscle wasting. People with Ozempic do lose a noticeable amount of muscle mass and have a calorie deficit from the lack of appetite. So you can lose both ways, surplus or deficit.
I really appreciate kidology's channel sometimes. This is the take I've been waiting to hear outside of my own head for a while. Also, I'm currently learning Japanese for a trip in October. I have no faith in my ability to be conversational by then but maybe I'll pick up Babel in addition to my current study regime for a few weeks!
When a "complex" runs this deep, it's functionally just who that person is. If "having a personality" means anything it's that. The Yotuber Local describes the Enneagram Type system as something a person "has" rather than something a person "is." But this is kind of splitting hairs when you consider that Frenchs uses avoir, the verb for having, with some verbs that English would use the verb "to be" I.E etre, and vice versa. In English, you are hungry, but in French you have hunger. In English, a person is 25 years old. In French, that same person has 25 years. When you look at it like that, the distinction is just splitting hairs. My point is that Kidology talks about Avocado's psychology as though what she regards as a sensible, well-adjusted course of action was really an option for him and that the hypocrisy on display was not in fact the whole impetus of what he was doing. That is to say, were Kidology to approach Avocado and "expose" him for the attention-seekign charlatan he "really is" and not the edgy uno-reverse card slamming manipulative persona he puts on, she would in fact be playing into his "complex." Avocado would very likely agree and very much feed off of languishing in his own inadequacy. Because the mindgames aren't a mask for some deeper insecurity; not some dysfunction waiting to be treated or resolved. If people understood that fact, it would be far more effective in limiting the potential damage of such a personality than attempting to reason some kind of introspective epiphany into him. We generally expect the individual to "put strategies in place" for behaviours deemed disruptive because of the legacy of stoicism within our culture which is preoccupied with such presuppositions as, -- All outside the individual's control is disorder. -- The only thing the individual can control is their mind. (This is the leap, and really ought to be have been discarded with Freud and the discovery of the unconscious.) -- Therefore the individual must cultivate themselves to the exclusion of collective means of organization. It is this questionable line of reason that has been fastened upon by behaviourism. Compare with something like homosexuality. Many parts of the world still regard queerness as a form of disease that the individual must somehow stoically repent for, and yet no effective treatment has ever been forthcoming, let alone a cure. If God himself is capable of changing a person's sexual orientation, the Almighty has been rather disintrested in even the most earnest pleas of the repressed queer unable to accept themselves, nor their families, nor their communites. This is because being gay isn't a complex. Through a comprehensive history of failure we've slowly come to our senses and recognized that it was never a pathology to begin with. How many other patterns of behaviour in the human psyche might be like this and therefore beyond Cognitive Behavioural Therapy? This question is the reason that the concept of pathology itself has had to have been re-evaluated multiple times in the history of psychology and the very term "neurosis" is out of fashion.
"The only thing the individual can control is their mind." Is only a leap if you add the modifier "fully" to "control". It seems evident that people can bootstrap into systems of increased "control" over their own reactions, though whether complete self mastery (of the subconscious) is possible is unknowable without actually having obtained it. John Verveake described stoicism as an emergent defensive reaction to a period of increased change and uncertainty. I see it similarly to the question of free will. We can take the view that free will must be bounded (i.e. we cannot choose the circumstances of our birth, or of our genetics or of our culture), or even that it doesn't exist at all, but we *should* also choose to act as if free will exists because that allows for a stable society with largely predictable behaviours and systems. Likewise, we can understand that humans cannot control their minds, and perhaps even are themselves (as persons) derivative of their minds, but we should also act socially as if that is not the case. With the homosexuality example, the traditional western approach was to suppress the internal state through something like stoic self denial, and integrate into the standard model of relationality (marriage to a woman, and children, if possible) and the current western approach is to accept and work from the internal state, which establishes a counter pattern. These two approaches have different social outcomes - the former suppresses the self in service to the pattern of the social structure, and the latter subverts the larger social pattern to free the individual. Which approach is taken depends on the ability of the culture to sustain a "fringe" element that doesn't replicate its ideals. Both approaches sacrifice something and gain something else. From our current ultra individualist mental framework the emancipation of the individual is considered the moral approach, because we prioritise individual authenticity over conformity. That said, there are uncountable other cases of self repression in service of social norms.
I don't watch him or any mukbanger (I hate the sounds of eating with a passion.) and I never will. (Even had to go forward on some scenes in your video.) But I appreciate your commentary! Thank you!
Agree. I can't stand it. Watching someone eat that much food is disgusting and it makes me hungry. No no no. I hate feeling sick and hungry at the same time. My brain breaks
Homie destroyed his body and did permanent damage to both his body and his repution which includes his professional life purely on a gamble that social media will last till he dies. Even if everything he was saying was true, it's like shitting your pants in the street to prove no one will wipe you.
But if he did, thats fine. He is responsible for his choices. He's got permanently loose skin and whatever else from the 250lb weight swing. If he pivoted to GLP1 agonists to control his hunger, that comes with tradeoffs as well (possible low lean body mass, low bone density) There are no free lunches. But he knew a lot about diet prior to the massive weight gain and character acting.
A few years ago when I watched his OompaVille interview and saw how he stayed in character I knew he was a genius. I started watching his full episodes and I fully enjoyed them. He is entertaining and pleasant throughout his whole mukbangs, whether he is in character or not, he is pleasant and or entertaining. He's able to do it for 40 minutes plus. There have always been people in our society who fills Nikocodas niche ie geishas, fools, poet courtiers. It is a talent. He went to the best preforming arts schools in the US. He is a genius entertainer, was and will always be, no matter his body type. Him revealing his wieght loss in such a dramatic catty unhinged way is the icing on the cake. I'd love for him to do more, but I understand if he wants to retire.
As he emerged from his pupal tissue, he found himself reborn. Slimy, naked, but breathing free. But what he left behind still retains some aspects of him. The ravenous desire to consume, to 𝕓𝕖 𝕒𝕝𝕝. Nikocado's fat is still out there, roaming, burbling, looking to 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎. It flows onto you, around you until it is all you can see and digests you entire, but mostly it desires to make your bones its own. They strain and snap under the weight of its monstrous form as it attempts to stand once more, and so it remains unsated, ever unsated.
I'm also learning portuguese and hope to travel to Brazil one day, it's such a beautiful country and the people are so friendly! Plus they have a huge ammount of fruits that I can't wait to try, you chose a great language to learn!
My take on it is that he planned this from the beginning. People like to watch failed people online, because it makes them feel better about themselves. They look like less of a failure. Also, the movie Idiocracy is not a comedy film, it's a documentary these days. The comeback at the end is just genius. He is the RUclips version of Christian Bale. Nice acting.
I post this comment about the movie Idiocracy (the parallels with it) on TokTok “all the time” and it gets reported or removed for being inappropriate and violating community guidelines every time!
So I can confidently say I never *willingly* watched any of his content, just videos *about* him and something I can say is...while I never really cared for him as a person, after this new revilation of it all being a "social experiment", I find him fascinating..not like in a good way, just in a way of...wow..this man really did *aaaaaaaaallllllllll* that..and then lost all this weight in the end when we never would have suspected or expected him to...he's definitely very smart in his own right, dare I say that he's a genius??? and the fact that he fooled us all, even those of us who weren't all that invested..in a way he kind of scares me. he definitely knows how to get attention and I think it's a perfect commentary about society as a whole. a part of me sees a very sad and hurt little boy and that sad and hurt little boy was exactly right about the world
Dude made milions of dollars and came out the other side seemingly unscathed. I don't think the continuing viability of his channel really matters at this point but you can understand why he'd give it a shot. He wanted to get thin, knew he'd make more money while he was fat, and somehow managed to have his fluorescent cake and eat it. In my book that's a solid win.
I find your take more sane & true to what actual motives for all the fluorescent cake eating were for Nic, than what I heard in the video (as someone who genuinely loves the style&content of Z’s video commentary otherwise).
I've also seen the opposite where skinny people who were in a tank top or bikini dancing on TikTok/social media were shamed in the comments and were called "toxic", "spreading unrealistic beauty standards" but then also saw videos of obese people dancing and the replies were pretty much praise e.g. "you look amazing", "queen", etc.
@@enginerdy Sure, true, but it's been a growing exception, especially since the body positivity movement has grown. Skinnier people have been getting shamed a lot more, at least on social media.
@@ireaditnerd8306fully agree with your statements. As a somewhat slimmer woman who follows other women/creators mainly on TT who look like myself weight-wise or slimmer, the frequency, amount and disgusting vitriol & accusations those women r on the receiving end of boils my blood. It’s frequent and everywhere, and certainly not “an exception”. And Dog forbid they r beautiful & successful on top of it all. … People also wan’t to criticize the consumerist nature of the Western societies but never dare to apply that same scrutiny/criticism when it comes to overconsumption of food. And that’s just one issue of it.
@@drsalka Why not just make fun of them for being ugly and fat? They're attacking you from a position of weakness and low status. You can defeat them with a roll of your eyes.
Little side note, but as a brazilian I just can't let you mention my country and not say anything lol it's our curse Hope you can visit us one day! The little bits I heard from your pronunciation is very good! Gringos usually have difficulties with our "ão" or just nasal sounds altogether so practice that and you'll be even better
I think Nick stumbled on a niche corner of RUclips at just the right time, and he is smart enough to have figured out how to fine-tune and exploit that market. He said years ago that he would quit when he turned 30 to save his health, and it looks like that's exactly what he's done. Comparing him to people like Amberlynn is really unfair, since he's been playing a character this whole time, and she has not. I don't believe he was ever truly addicted to food; he grew up slim and his body wants to be slim. It was actually probably pretty difficult for him to gain and maintain so much weight, and, conversely, it would have been relatively easy for him to lose it, especially over a 2-year period of time. His body would have been working with him, as opposed to Amberlynn, Chantal, or Candy who have legitimate food addictions and have struggled with obesity since childhood, and whose bodies work against them when they try to lose weight. Love him or hate him, the guy is a marketing genius.
to my surprise you suddenly started speaking Portuguese! Você tá indo super bem, espero que consiga vir pro Brasil e colocar seu português pra jogo! Abraços 🫂
I went from 17st at my heaviest to 13st today as an average height guy and you absolutely do get treated worse when you're obese compared to when you're just moderately overweight. It can be as loud as verbal abuse or as quiet as a small comment or a look. I was lucky enough to have my weight largely within my control as an otherwise able-bodied guy in my 20s but for someone who is older, disabled or uses food as an emotional crutch I can 100% see how getting treated badly for your weight can cause a degenerating cycle where you eat in response to problems in your life and eating makes those problems worse. That's how people end up at crazy weights. Being chubby is laziness but being heavily morbidly obese is cyclical self-harm.
He got a bunch of rage bait views. I'm still not sure what the mind-blowing social experiment was... It's like he's doing mental gymnastics to give this whole scheme some sort of profound meaning... where there isn't any. The whole thing is cringe
10:01 I just have to say that your take on him having a complex and wanting to be relevant so he "picks fights with the likes of Trisha Paytas..." That rings as false. If only because I heard Trisha talking about how she really did screw him over, convinced him they were gonna collaborate, told him to fly in and then when he did she literally ignored his calls and ghosted him. No explanation, no apology. So I mean... that doesn't really sound like manufactured to be relevant issues there. I don't keep up with RUclips drama, so I could not say if the other names you listed did fall into truly him picking fights to be relevant kinda thing. I've also heard other content creators over the years commenting about how Niko could have gotten more attention and relevancy and spots on HUGE podcasts and etc but ultimately refused, even when he was offered a ton of money. And this was way before the last 2 years. So... while I agree with you that his whole great social experiment you're all ants deal doesn't wholly ring true to me either, this explanation of a complex and need to be relevant missed the mark also. Trisha I think it's an excellent study in half complexes and drives to be relevant. But whereas Trisha very much lives it day to day, and it exudes out of her pores, that insatiable need to be relevant... Niko seems to put it on for an hour or however long the camera is on. As you said earlier, he most certainly is and did play a role and wholly committed to that role. He obviously BECAME the lolcow on purpose. Not for a social experiment cuz that makes no sense. And not to be relevant cuz that's not really tracking either. I think the real questions we need to answer to start to get to the bottom of this is, first... why had we never seen Mr Noodle for 8 years? And secondly... why is his head shaved? And third when were any of these recent videos recorded and who has actually seen him IRL to confirm or deny?
I have not followed Nikokado. Never have. I applaud his decision and two year drive to lose weight. Hope he has a bigger goal in mind. Eating is an addiction, and the easiest thing to do is to just replace it. I hope for his sake he can come off of his revenge saga and destroy the ring. You never want to try and place the hunger for attention, which I can say from experience is just the worst thing for your self esteem with the worst thing for your health which is the obsession for payback and a quest for a lost identity which I can again say from personal experience. I have liver enlargement at 34 which I blame both of those for.
I don't think he was ever truly addicted. I think he was fighting his body to maintain that weight the whole time. It was probably relatively easy for him to drop 250 lbs over a 2-year period of time, because his body wants to be 150.
@MollieFrieWeevilGenius what is a true addition? Is that a medical thing? Where all the systems in your body are used to a certain stability, and the tendency is to go back to that?
@puertoaeternus486 Compulsion. Inability to control yourself around certain stimuli. Most of us knew people who binge drank every weekend in college. After graduation, most of them were able to walk away from it and become social drinkers. Others were not, and it great affected or ruined their lives. That's the difference.
@@MollieFrieWeevilGeniusdo the people who considered themselves true addicts and overcome that addiction qualify as having had a true addiction or are they only true addicts if their addiction results in example like u provided or death?
Well, I admire his dedication, potentially shortening his life for a "social experiment" and yet, a majority of the world would remain ignorant of his sacrifice - myself included, this is the first I've heard of the guy.
I know there is a real person in there somewhere but he makes it hard to believe. His online character has nothing genuine. It's like watching a car crash. And as you said, we don't know how he lost the weight. Ozempic could have taken more years off his life than obesity has.
I never really doubted that he would lose the weight and I think a lot of people aren’t that surprised either. He talked about it before and it’s just like yea I believe it, you’re a crazy person whose only job in life is to make shocking content. Just because he’s determined enough to do this, dosent mean he’s a genius. He has the time, the resources, and the complex. Edit: He was in control the whole time of his weight. I don’t think it meant much to him personally, and so it’s easy for him to make such big changes. Again that does not make him better than anyone. He expected us to have a big reaction to this, but all us OGs who knew about him when he was a big talking point, know he’s just a drama Queen.
He legit couldve admitted he spiraled instead of attemtpting to gaslight us all into thinking we're lab rats in his lil experiment. It's also almost giving what Drake think he did to Kendrick when he admitted to giving Kendrick fake info through one of his "sources". 😂
I’m certain he planned this because of how I know him to operate within the raw vegan community cca 2012-15ish era which I was a part of myself. Many main figures of that community came out with stories of how they have been used, deceived or put in a problematic situation by him (the events & accusations/reports all happened way before his mukbang and larger fame era). He is intelligent & cunning enough to have calculated & pull this one off as well, bcz it’s very on brand.
Whats wrong with losing weight ? Yes being too thin is bad. But that doesnt mean being weight is good either. Being thing gives us many advantages like jumping or in sports. If you suffer from genetic conditions. Then its fie. But if you eat too much a d gain weight then you should should lose it. Or burn that fat through exercise. Debate me if im wrong.
I want Babel for my boyfriend! He is Flemish and having a difficult time learning Romanian through English. I hope he'll be able to learn without an English interpreter.
Honestly as funny and weird as this is to say, Nikocado‘s reveal reminded me a lot of Michael Haneke. The filmmaker behind *Funny Games* He also has films that basically explore violence and ultimately question and interrogate the audience itself for why they love seeing violence and suffering happen to other people so much. If this was actually an intentional experiment on Niko’s part, then I’ll even be so bold to consider him one of the few, and even among the first great Outsider artists of the 2020’s social media age.
As someone who has been obese class II, thin "privilege" doesn't exist, it's just pretty privilege. It's not really a privilege if you can loose weight regardless of your situation if you're willing to put the effort in. It's is pretty privilege though, and people definitely do treat you better and the difference is night and day.
Privilege is about having something more( not like fat rolls, obviously😅), so the word privilege is indeed not appropriate when you are simply as you should be, a regular size. But not everyone is great looking , so yes, that can be considered a privilege. Not having the standards of respect or acceptance for any minority difference doesn't make the majority privileged, it makes the minority/ the outsider underprivileged. It's not the same thing. Hence I. The class system: Poor= underprivileged Middle class = standard Rich= privileged
I've known too many people who use the phrase "social experiment" to excuse years of deranged behaviour. If it's not being written, measured and submitted as a study it isn't a social experiment. Never saw the appeal of this particular drama queen before now, a thinner version makes no difference to me. I think you are correct in this being more about a pathalogical demand for attention. Unfortunately by going for low hanging fruit Nick has anchored himself to an audience he can't help but despise. Given the nature of his content I'm sure many are hate watching. So it's an all round ugly, toxic situation.
I don't agree with the false equivalence Nikocado provided. I'm not a nutritionist or a fitness expert, but from the limited knowledge I have, I'm sure that those athletes need all that caloric intake in order to bulk up--or at least not pass out during their intense work-out regimen.
I don’t believe a word of this “control”. I am 99% sure he used Ozempic or Wegovy. Fortunately for him he is rich enough to keep using it, because the rebound munchies are reported to be extreme, and most people gain much of the weight back when they stop using it.
Watching someone stuff their face whether thin or fat really turns my stomach I’ve been watching/ using RUclips since 2007 I’m so glad I’ve not come across this content in that time.🤢.
Putting your life at risk is not a genius mastermind move really. And stirring old drama isn't it either. He's just greedy for attention Also a weight loss this fast couldn't happen without ozempic, if it didn't existed he still would be in the same place today. So no, I don't buy the social experiment thing
I don’t know how people stomached his videos when he amped up the dramatics and over the topness. He is a bit unbearable in the reveal video too. You can tell yourself what ever story you like but you have to deal with the ripples of emotions u create in urself by doing these actions. Ur burden seems like a hard one nick but maybe don’t spray it all over the internet it’s making peoples lives worse for the most part overall.
i dont buy it. i have avoided his garbage content for years. dude has issues and created a narrative that he can use for another round of trolling. who watches this trash to begin with???
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how did you comment hours before the video came out?
I was born with a genetic condition called hypereosinophilic syndrome. My body has literally been trying to kill me since I was born, my heart, stomach, bowels, and lungs have been compromised by this condition. I have to take genetic medication that keeps my immune system in control, so it doesn’t attack itself, but my heart has been ruined. I haven’t been allowed to exercise since I was 18, I’m forbidden from running and doing anything cardio, and only can do weight lifting, needless to say, it has been extremely difficult to lose weight this way. I’m now 30 and still trying to get rid of all the extra weight I put on when I was on corticoids, it feels impossible. I do think people who are healthy, without any inherent conditions or genetically good dna do have a healthy privilege. If it was for me, I would not allow babies with my condition, or others, to be born. My life has been painful. I’ve had to deal with all of this alone, and with no support. Life sucks. People willingly making themselves sick is a privilege. You are healthy and you don’t value that. It’s enraging.
I’m not remotely in the same boat, but I am in enough of the same boat (a meriad of major long bone and spine malformations and ((suspected)) genetic disorder ((EDS)) that have quite literally hobbled me) that I do agree. I would never, _ever_ have a kid with my kind of congenital defects. Even my mother realizes and agrees had the doctors been honest in 1990, and told her I wasn’t just perfectly fine, she’d have tried again. It’s a very, very frustrating thing to watch people trash their own health and then promptly go off and act like they aren’t happily ruining their lives of their own volition. It’s my main reason why I am pro-choice. Children don’t deserve to suffer.
Are you allowed to swim?
@@Maderlololohio unlikely for Op. my bones aren’t at much risk in the water, and water can be surprisingly taxing on the body, if you’re not just hanging out. (I was on various swim teams). If cardio is forbidden then swimming is probably off the table.
damn, I hate to break this to you, since this seems like kicking you while your down, but a lot of recernt studies have shown that you burn about as many calories not moving as you do by doing exercise. If you want to lose weight it comes down to - 1 your muscle mass, muscle burns the most amount of calories in your body per kilo at rest. - 2 what you eat, which is the biggest factor. Can't get fat if you don't give your body the energy to do so, even if you don't move, 3 - your sex, men's metabolic rate is about 800 calories a day higher than women's due to on average higher body weight and higher % muscle mass, staying slim if your a woman is unfortunately fairly cruel, ironically so considering modern beauty standards. A woman's body is generally more inclined to gain weight via adipose tissue (fat) if there are excess calories due to- lower average metabolic rate and -hormones, estrogen promotes the process of absorbing lipids through the blood and converting glycogen to triglycerides (fat), which women produce more of than men. This was an evolutionary adaptation for surviving food shortages and to make pregnancy less taxing for womens bodies', but in modern society it works against them, making weight loss for women harder, by design.
You can generally stay slim without exercise by eating less (boring and painful, but proven to work). Eating lots of fibre with low calorie density, like vegetables, and protien high in HDPs (high density lipoproteins), such as fish like salmon can keep you slim if you keep it up, but if you break the habit you basically gain all the weight back immediately. Of course, exercise helps, but in other ways like reducing inflamation and regulating your immune system, and everyones basal metabolic rate is different, and this is based off of studies who used typically healthy people, I'm not an expert and you should definately ask a doctor first.
My guess as to why you can't do cardio is that once you do cardio, during recovery, your immune system is activated to help clean up and start repairs to your tissues, but instead it immediately attacks your organs. God bless you in your struggle though, I hope you'll see the light at the end of the tunnle eventually.
I’m sorry for what you’re going through hope it gets better Life in the end is what we make it to be. Iv seen people who straight up been bed bound from childhood to adult hood bones turning into stone can’t move an each year they move less who are grateful to be alive. Some of the most healthy want to end there lives while some of the most sick/ an deformed want to continue all fighting
Can't imagine going to Stephanie Soo and mock the level of harassment she had to endure from Nikocado and claim "he won" simply because... he lost a dramatic amount of weight?
Tbh good on Soo for not entertaining him.
Also, Niccocado was shown respect many times when people found out that he was former violinist and musician.
I don't know much about his story, but when I looked up vids of him playing (while thin), the comment section was filled with judgement.
As if the weight gain simultaneously took away his ability to play the violin, and that he had wasted a gift and his life.
Aka a disappointment.
@@slapitonabiscuit8482 He did say in an interview he couldn't play as well because of his size increase. But I'm applauding him. Whether it was a cash grab, social experiment, feeder fetish, performance art, institutional critique, or whatever, his actions don't affect me. By all appearances, he was playing an extreme character
@@slapitonabiscuit8482 Of course being that size took away from his ability to play . What planet do you live on
@@jasonscott7527 The planet with videos of him playing, while at that size.
Niccocado wasn't middle of the road fat guy, he was VERY obese.
But regardless, most people made fun of him for his lunatic emotional breakdowns and cringy behavior (which tbf, were so fake that I'm genuienly suprised people didn't figure it was all an act years ago)
@@Thane3999 I just weighed myself at a clinic last week. I weigh >500 pounds. I'm bigger than he was. I get bullied at work. Not straightforward but in a sophisticated manner. I had to deal with it in a sophisticated manner myself. I can't get another job, it would be extremely difficult because of my weight to get a job outside of fast food because I'm obese, I didn't finish an undergraduate degree. I chose music but switched 5 years in after figuring just how bad my situation was. You can read that again for a laugh. But I also have a mental health diagnosis, which places me in a sense in the same camp as the sort of people I learn about while listening to trucrime podcasts without all the sick stuff they did. No wonder even fast food try to get rid of me. But hey, they tell me to clean a wall, I will clean the mess out of that wall. Nobody cares. 😀
Yeah he was over the top with his performance, it was obvious.
It was obvious but at the same time there is enough mental illness in the world that would make it real. Though I still don't know why people would watch it, at best it's stupid at worst sad.
I used to find him hilarious, not sure why people took him so seriously, it was clearly an act
If this was a social experiment, I am confused as to what aimed to prove exactly.
I feel this video explains it pretty well.
@@Blackgriffonphoenixg Yes but unfortunately I am an idiot, care to explain in simpler words, please?
How easy it is for
1. people to fall for anything on the internet
2. anyone to make money off of the internet by doing nothing of note
And he sure did prove it
@@bird3938 Thank you, my tired brain cannot handle anything more complicated than a carrot today.
@@Blackgriffonphoenixgit does nothing of the sort. The point was that people's opinion or reaction to someone changes when they change? Ok? Also, he's still a lolcow and always will be.
New human feat discovered: the weightloss jumpscare.
off topic but have you considered doing audiobook recordings? your voice is very pleasant and i bet you'd make bank
This video was physically difficult to watch. What’s clear is that Nick is good at the online game - thin or fat.
Bro is literally just navigating like a business.
Farm what brings you the most profits.....and when it becomes too high risk, use said accumulated profits to avert said risk and pivot your efforts in something else to make profits another way.....rinse and repeat.
He just added the bonus of not documenting his journey as it happened in real time so he could surprise everyone which would cause an influx of attention and publicity.
He said years ago that he would quit when he turned 30. Every step of this was calculated.
As someone who thinks they are addicted to RUclips but must be stuck in a different section, it’s amazing how you can find this whole massive drama that I had never heard about.
People care WAAAYYYY too much about weight. It really does not matter. It is false empathy. People frequently say, "Its for your health" rather than just not giving a shit and caring about people for who they are than what they look like.
I am fat and want to be fat. I experienced a severe health scare that caused me to lose so much weight that it almost killed me. I was a skeleton, skinnier than Christian Bale in the Machinist. Now I am a pudgy bear of a man. I love it. I think I look great, and I feel great.
Nik just seems to crave attention. Never cared for him not because of his appearance but because in clips I've seen of him, he acts so childish. Even now from clips I see he is just acting like a teen who thinks they know everything. It is off putting.
Sounds like cope ngl
You say weight doesn't matter but say the weight you are now makes you happy. That being sickly thin almost killed you. So it clearly does matter. It just looks different for every person.
@@apatheliac good point. I did contradict myself.
Weight matters if u want to live long
Nikocado pretending the coliseum didn't exist. Yes, we love downfall and destruction...and he did it to himself. Glad he found Ozempic and it worked out, but I doubt he's done being a menacing troll for money.
Ozempic helps you lose weight. But at a moderate percentage. This man has worked out and burned fat for over 2 years just to upload this. And had a lot of prerecorded vids to trick people.
I bet he lost it with Ozempic and serious calorie deficit. People who take those shots have serious muscle wasting like him.
Absolutely. If I were morbidly obese, I'd rather consider steroids than Ozempic.
No, surely he lost weight with a serious calory surplus!
@@leonardo9259 You could have a calorie surplus diet with a carnivore diet and lose weight. However, those people typically do not have muscle wasting. People with Ozempic do lose a noticeable amount of muscle mass and have a calorie deficit from the lack of appetite. So you can lose both ways, surplus or deficit.
@@FEVERDREAM889 it isn't a carnivore thing, it's a protein thing
@@leonardo9259 .... obviously.
I really appreciate kidology's channel sometimes. This is the take I've been waiting to hear outside of my own head for a while.
Also, I'm currently learning Japanese for a trip in October. I have no faith in my ability to be conversational by then but maybe I'll pick up Babel in addition to my current study regime for a few weeks!
When a "complex" runs this deep, it's functionally just who that person is. If "having a personality" means anything it's that.
The Yotuber Local describes the Enneagram Type system as something a person "has" rather than something a person "is." But this is kind of splitting hairs when you consider that Frenchs uses avoir, the verb for having, with some verbs that English would use the verb "to be" I.E etre, and vice versa. In English, you are hungry, but in French you have hunger. In English, a person is 25 years old. In French, that same person has 25 years.
When you look at it like that, the distinction is just splitting hairs.
My point is that Kidology talks about Avocado's psychology as though what she regards as a sensible, well-adjusted course of action was really an option for him and that the hypocrisy on display was not in fact the whole impetus of what he was doing. That is to say, were Kidology to approach Avocado and "expose" him for the attention-seekign charlatan he "really is" and not the edgy uno-reverse card slamming manipulative persona he puts on, she would in fact be playing into his "complex." Avocado would very likely agree and very much feed off of languishing in his own inadequacy. Because the mindgames aren't a mask for some deeper insecurity; not some dysfunction waiting to be treated or resolved. If people understood that fact, it would be far more effective in limiting the potential damage of such a personality than attempting to reason some kind of introspective epiphany into him.
We generally expect the individual to "put strategies in place" for behaviours deemed disruptive because of the legacy of stoicism within our culture which is preoccupied with such presuppositions as,
-- All outside the individual's control is disorder.
-- The only thing the individual can control is their mind. (This is the leap, and really ought to be have been discarded with Freud and the discovery of the unconscious.)
-- Therefore the individual must cultivate themselves to the exclusion of collective means of organization.
It is this questionable line of reason that has been fastened upon by behaviourism.
Compare with something like homosexuality. Many parts of the world still regard queerness as a form of disease that the individual must somehow stoically repent for, and yet no effective treatment has ever been forthcoming, let alone a cure. If God himself is capable of changing a person's sexual orientation, the Almighty has been rather disintrested in even the most earnest pleas of the repressed queer unable to accept themselves, nor their families, nor their communites. This is because being gay isn't a complex. Through a comprehensive history of failure we've slowly come to our senses and recognized that it was never a pathology to begin with.
How many other patterns of behaviour in the human psyche might be like this and therefore beyond Cognitive Behavioural Therapy?
This question is the reason that the concept of pathology itself has had to have been re-evaluated multiple times in the history of psychology and the very term "neurosis" is out of fashion.
"The only thing the individual can control is their mind." Is only a leap if you add the modifier "fully" to "control". It seems evident that people can bootstrap into systems of increased "control" over their own reactions, though whether complete self mastery (of the subconscious) is possible is unknowable without actually having obtained it.
John Verveake described stoicism as an emergent defensive reaction to a period of increased change and uncertainty.
I see it similarly to the question of free will. We can take the view that free will must be bounded (i.e. we cannot choose the circumstances of our birth, or of our genetics or of our culture), or even that it doesn't exist at all, but we *should* also choose to act as if free will exists because that allows for a stable society with largely predictable behaviours and systems.
Likewise, we can understand that humans cannot control their minds, and perhaps even are themselves (as persons) derivative of their minds, but we should also act socially as if that is not the case.
With the homosexuality example, the traditional western approach was to suppress the internal state through something like stoic self denial, and integrate into the standard model of relationality (marriage to a woman, and children, if possible) and the current western approach is to accept and work from the internal state, which establishes a counter pattern.
These two approaches have different social outcomes - the former suppresses the self in service to the pattern of the social structure, and the latter subverts the larger social pattern to free the individual. Which approach is taken depends on the ability of the culture to sustain a "fringe" element that doesn't replicate its ideals. Both approaches sacrifice something and gain something else. From our current ultra individualist mental framework the emancipation of the individual is considered the moral approach, because we prioritise individual authenticity over conformity. That said, there are uncountable other cases of self repression in service of social norms.
Fully agree with you, you put it far better than I could.
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I don't watch him or any mukbanger (I hate the sounds of eating with a passion.) and I never will. (Even had to go forward on some scenes in your video.) But I appreciate your commentary! Thank you!
What’s upsetting is there are so many people starving who would appreciate even just a bite of all that food he wastes. Just mind boggling.
@@Jules2439.5what does that have to do with anything, people don’t starve cause of lack of food but because of war and supply chain issues
Agree. I can't stand it. Watching someone eat that much food is disgusting and it makes me hungry. No no no. I hate feeling sick and hungry at the same time. My brain breaks
Homie destroyed his body and did permanent damage to both his body and his repution which includes his professional life purely on a gamble that social media will last till he dies. Even if everything he was saying was true, it's like shitting your pants in the street to prove no one will wipe you.
There really are whole worlds out there that we don't know exist...
Mercifully
@@sararichardson737 I would've been so ok with not knowing lol
Go you for learning Portuguese! You’re doing an excellent job 🎉🎉🎉
i was counting the days for you to analyze this. Is bloody interesting.
6:37 - “Sickly Trixie Mattel” 😂. The shade! But also… accurate.
6:44 I think he can control his overconsumption of food only because of Ozempic.
Dayum…im glad I lost my extra weight about 5 years ago, had I lost it nowadays, people would dismiss my hard work, attributing it to ozempic
But if he did, thats fine. He is responsible for his choices. He's got permanently loose skin and whatever else from the 250lb weight swing. If he pivoted to GLP1 agonists to control his hunger, that comes with tradeoffs as well (possible low lean body mass, low bone density) There are no free lunches. But he knew a lot about diet prior to the massive weight gain and character acting.
It’s because he is not naturally fat in the first place, therefore it was easy for him to go to his natural weight
@@LondonMoneyCashEnterpriseno homo sapiens is naturally fat.
He transformed from the gluttony victim at the beginning of Se7en to the envy victim at the end of Se7en.
full circle😅 (actually a great theory with all the villain talk)
A few years ago when I watched his OompaVille interview and saw how he stayed in character I knew he was a genius. I started watching his full episodes and I fully enjoyed them. He is entertaining and pleasant throughout his whole mukbangs, whether he is in character or not, he is pleasant and or entertaining. He's able to do it for 40 minutes plus. There have always been people in our society who fills Nikocodas niche ie geishas, fools, poet courtiers. It is a talent. He went to the best preforming arts schools in the US. He is a genius entertainer, was and will always be, no matter his body type. Him revealing his wieght loss in such a dramatic catty unhinged way is the icing on the cake. I'd love for him to do more, but I understand if he wants to retire.
His true hunger is eternal.
But who am I to judge
As he emerged from his pupal tissue, he found himself reborn. Slimy, naked, but breathing free. But what he left behind still retains some aspects of him. The ravenous desire to consume, to 𝕓𝕖 𝕒𝕝𝕝. Nikocado's fat is still out there, roaming, burbling, looking to 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎. It flows onto you, around you until it is all you can see and digests you entire, but mostly it desires to make your bones its own. They strain and snap under the weight of its monstrous form as it attempts to stand once more, and so it remains unsated, ever unsated.
“Im two steps ahead” No, dude who destroyed his life and reputation for fame, you are not 😂
I'm also learning portuguese and hope to travel to Brazil one day, it's such a beautiful country and the people are so friendly! Plus they have a huge ammount of fruits that I can't wait to try, you chose a great language to learn!
The Thinberlynn jumpscare SENT ME 😂😂
My take on it is that he planned this from the beginning. People like to watch failed people online, because it makes them feel better about themselves. They look like less of a failure. Also, the movie Idiocracy is not a comedy film, it's a documentary these days. The comeback at the end is just genius. He is the RUclips version of Christian Bale. Nice acting.
100% you hit the nail on the head
Yes and made a lot of cash
Fitting pfp
I post this comment about the movie Idiocracy (the parallels with it) on TokTok “all the time” and it gets reported or removed for being inappropriate and violating community guidelines every time!
I'm not convinced about that whole Babel thing. Maybe you can upload a video in Portuguese talking about your learning journey.
I would love to see this!
"Sickly Trixie Mattel" made this SO much more enjoyable, Thank You 😂🙌🏾💕
So I can confidently say I never *willingly* watched any of his content, just videos *about* him and something I can say is...while I never really cared for him as a person, after this new revilation of it all being a "social experiment", I find him fascinating..not like in a good way, just in a way of...wow..this man really did *aaaaaaaaallllllllll* that..and then lost all this weight in the end when we never would have suspected or expected him to...he's definitely very smart in his own right, dare I say that he's a genius??? and the fact that he fooled us all, even those of us who weren't all that invested..in a way he kind of scares me. he definitely knows how to get attention and I think it's a perfect commentary about society as a whole. a part of me sees a very sad and hurt little boy and that sad and hurt little boy was exactly right about the world
Could you talk about this trend of Romanians and Gypsys being thieves stereotype
oh my god kidology come to brazil era! you are very welcome here
Always curious about your takes , and never ever been disappointed.
Dude made milions of dollars and came out the other side seemingly unscathed. I don't think the continuing viability of his channel really matters at this point but you can understand why he'd give it a shot. He wanted to get thin, knew he'd make more money while he was fat, and somehow managed to have his fluorescent cake and eat it. In my book that's a solid win.
I find your take more sane & true to what actual motives for all the fluorescent cake eating were for Nic, than what I heard in the video (as someone who genuinely loves the style&content of Z’s video commentary otherwise).
I've also seen the opposite where skinny people who were in a tank top or bikini dancing on TikTok/social media were shamed in the comments and were called "toxic", "spreading unrealistic beauty standards" but then also saw videos of obese people dancing and the replies were pretty much praise e.g. "you look amazing", "queen", etc.
It’s easy to find exceptions to nearly anything with enough samples, but on the main, no.
It's called hammering the nail that sticks out
@@enginerdy Sure, true, but it's been a growing exception, especially since the body positivity movement has grown. Skinnier people have been getting shamed a lot more, at least on social media.
@@ireaditnerd8306fully agree with your statements. As a somewhat slimmer woman who follows other women/creators mainly on TT who look like myself weight-wise or slimmer, the frequency, amount and disgusting vitriol & accusations those women r on the receiving end of boils my blood. It’s frequent and everywhere, and certainly not “an exception”. And Dog forbid they r beautiful & successful on top of it all. … People also wan’t to criticize the consumerist nature of the Western societies but never dare to apply that same scrutiny/criticism when it comes to overconsumption of food. And that’s just one issue of it.
@@drsalka Why not just make fun of them for being ugly and fat? They're attacking you from a position of weakness and low status. You can defeat them with a roll of your eyes.
you're so CUTE speaking Portuguese 🥹❤️🥰 Brazil loves you, Kid!
I love your videos.
I honestly dont care about any of the topics you make videos on but you still manage to make them interesting.
Little side note, but as a brazilian I just can't let you mention my country and not say anything lol it's our curse
Hope you can visit us one day! The little bits I heard from your pronunciation is very good! Gringos usually have difficulties with our "ão" or just nasal sounds altogether so practice that and you'll be even better
I think Nick stumbled on a niche corner of RUclips at just the right time, and he is smart enough to have figured out how to fine-tune and exploit that market. He said years ago that he would quit when he turned 30 to save his health, and it looks like that's exactly what he's done. Comparing him to people like Amberlynn is really unfair, since he's been playing a character this whole time, and she has not. I don't believe he was ever truly addicted to food; he grew up slim and his body wants to be slim. It was actually probably pretty difficult for him to gain and maintain so much weight, and, conversely, it would have been relatively easy for him to lose it, especially over a 2-year period of time. His body would have been working with him, as opposed to Amberlynn, Chantal, or Candy who have legitimate food addictions and have struggled with obesity since childhood, and whose bodies work against them when they try to lose weight. Love him or hate him, the guy is a marketing genius.
That sponsor segue was masterful!
She has the best of those.:)
I really enjoyed this, thank you-
Excellent production!
Edit to say;
he reminds me of Steven asanti now and he really needs sunshine!!! ☀️
Eu sou brasileira e seu sotaque está melhorando amiga! Uma gringuinha mas a gente entende kk
always wait for your interpretations on current issues
to my surprise you suddenly started speaking Portuguese! Você tá indo super bem, espero que consiga vir pro Brasil e colocar seu português pra jogo! Abraços 🫂
How long did you watch his videos for, to cut all these little sound bites ?
The original creators of the various protocols that made up the internet must be wondering why they bothered.
I always wanted to learn lithuanian. I'm coming from Poland. Generaly I find baltic languages and cultures very underrated.
I went from 17st at my heaviest to 13st today as an average height guy and you absolutely do get treated worse when you're obese compared to when you're just moderately overweight. It can be as loud as verbal abuse or as quiet as a small comment or a look. I was lucky enough to have my weight largely within my control as an otherwise able-bodied guy in my 20s but for someone who is older, disabled or uses food as an emotional crutch I can 100% see how getting treated badly for your weight can cause a degenerating cycle where you eat in response to problems in your life and eating makes those problems worse. That's how people end up at crazy weights. Being chubby is laziness but being heavily morbidly obese is cyclical self-harm.
2:56 : "in which he informed us that, this:" *cuts to Nick stretching* "Be quiet toad".
uh, what.
I never watched him, but I am happy to see he made positive changes.
I'm highly considering using Babbel to continue my Dutch studies. I have to learn the language and it's been slow going 😬😅.
He got a bunch of rage bait views. I'm still not sure what the mind-blowing social experiment was... It's like he's doing mental gymnastics to give this whole scheme some sort of profound meaning... where there isn't any. The whole thing is cringe
Still better than what any politician ever promised or delivered. Not that I watch/appreciate either Nick or politics.
I think he's partially right. People like to watch another person's downfall, unfortunately. Hopefully, he stays healthy.
Hegel and Nikocado Avocado, what a time to e alive.
Damn I hope you got your bag for that sponsor because ypu sure did stretch that shit out
I hate this guy and I hate that youre covering him lol
10:01 I just have to say that your take on him having a complex and wanting to be relevant so he "picks fights with the likes of Trisha Paytas..."
That rings as false.
If only because I heard Trisha talking about how she really did screw him over, convinced him they were gonna collaborate, told him to fly in and then when he did she literally ignored his calls and ghosted him. No explanation, no apology.
So I mean... that doesn't really sound like manufactured to be relevant issues there.
I don't keep up with RUclips drama, so I could not say if the other names you listed did fall into truly him picking fights to be relevant kinda thing.
I've also heard other content creators over the years commenting about how Niko could have gotten more attention and relevancy and spots on HUGE podcasts and etc but ultimately refused, even when he was offered a ton of money. And this was way before the last 2 years.
So... while I agree with you that his whole great social experiment you're all ants deal doesn't wholly ring true to me either, this explanation of a complex and need to be relevant missed the mark also.
Trisha I think it's an excellent study in half complexes and drives to be relevant. But whereas Trisha very much lives it day to day, and it exudes out of her pores, that insatiable need to be relevant...
Niko seems to put it on for an hour or however long the camera is on. As you said earlier, he most certainly is and did play a role and wholly committed to that role. He obviously BECAME the lolcow on purpose.
Not for a social experiment cuz that makes no sense. And not to be relevant cuz that's not really tracking either.
I think the real questions we need to answer to start to get to the bottom of this is, first... why had we never seen Mr Noodle for 8 years? And secondly... why is his head shaved? And third when were any of these recent videos recorded and who has actually seen him IRL to confirm or deny?
Not sickly trixi mattel😂
I have not followed Nikokado. Never have. I applaud his decision and two year drive to lose weight. Hope he has a bigger goal in mind. Eating is an addiction, and the easiest thing to do is to just replace it. I hope for his sake he can come off of his revenge saga and destroy the ring. You never want to try and place the hunger for attention, which I can say from experience is just the worst thing for your self esteem with the worst thing for your health which is the obsession for payback and a quest for a lost identity which I can again say from personal experience. I have liver enlargement at 34 which I blame both of those for.
He wasn't addicted to food, this isn't a "600 pound story" , he just willingly became morbidly obese for clout and money.
I don't think he was ever truly addicted. I think he was fighting his body to maintain that weight the whole time. It was probably relatively easy for him to drop 250 lbs over a 2-year period of time, because his body wants to be 150.
@MollieFrieWeevilGenius what is a true addition? Is that a medical thing? Where all the systems in your body are used to a certain stability, and the tendency is to go back to that?
@puertoaeternus486 Compulsion. Inability to control yourself around certain stimuli. Most of us knew people who binge drank every weekend in college. After graduation, most of them were able to walk away from it and become social drinkers. Others were not, and it great affected or ruined their lives. That's the difference.
@@MollieFrieWeevilGeniusdo the people who considered themselves true addicts and overcome that addiction qualify as having had a true addiction or are they only true addicts if their addiction results in example like u provided or death?
Please come to Brazil ❤
Oi, sis! sending lots of love from Brazil! 🎶Aquele abraço!🎵
brasileira aqui que te assiste! haha legal que esta aprendendo português
Well, I admire his dedication, potentially shortening his life for a "social experiment" and yet, a majority of the world would remain ignorant of his sacrifice - myself included, this is the first I've heard of the guy.
I don't care what his real intentions were/are. Dude needs to touch grass. I mean my god. 😑🙄
Thank you for speaking about the Stephanie soo situation that poor girl didn’t deserve that
First it was the Roman coliseum, then the public witch trials, then jerry springer... now lolcows.
THE PEOPLE DEMAND ENTERTAINMENT!
I know there is a real person in there somewhere but he makes it hard to believe. His online character has nothing genuine. It's like watching a car crash. And as you said, we don't know how he lost the weight. Ozempic could have taken more years off his life than obesity has.
i think you are far more interesting than that guy and are far more transparent with your motives
Let ma boy Nick enjoy his revenge tour , damn!
I think he is in the rebound zone of the boogie-redemption-to-selfdestruction chart
"If i knew or cared how to vote" 😂
I never really doubted that he would lose the weight and I think a lot of people aren’t that surprised either. He talked about it before and it’s just like yea I believe it, you’re a crazy person whose only job in life is to make shocking content. Just because he’s determined enough to do this, dosent mean he’s a genius. He has the time, the resources, and the complex.
Edit: He was in control the whole time of his weight. I don’t think it meant much to him personally, and so it’s easy for him to make such big changes. Again that does not make him better than anyone. He expected us to have a big reaction to this, but all us OGs who knew about him when he was a big talking point, know he’s just a drama Queen.
He legit couldve admitted he spiraled instead of attemtpting to gaslight us all into thinking we're lab rats in his lil experiment. It's also almost giving what Drake think he did to Kendrick when he admitted to giving Kendrick fake info through one of his "sources". 😂
I’m certain he planned this because of how I know him to operate within the raw vegan community cca 2012-15ish era which I was a part of myself. Many main figures of that community came out with stories of how they have been used, deceived or put in a problematic situation by him (the events & accusations/reports all happened way before his mukbang and larger fame era). He is intelligent & cunning enough to have calculated & pull this one off as well, bcz it’s very on brand.
Whats wrong with losing weight ? Yes being too thin is bad. But that doesnt mean being weight is good either. Being thing gives us many advantages like jumping or in sports. If you suffer from genetic conditions. Then its fie. But if you eat too much a d gain weight then you should should lose it. Or burn that fat through exercise. Debate me if im wrong.
I want Babel for my boyfriend! He is Flemish and having a difficult time learning Romanian through English. I hope he'll be able to learn without an English interpreter.
I think you got it right
Yeah but, i think you might be overthinking this.
100%
Honestly as funny and weird as this is to say, Nikocado‘s reveal reminded me a lot of Michael Haneke. The filmmaker behind *Funny Games*
He also has films that basically explore violence and ultimately question and interrogate the audience itself for why they love seeing violence and suffering happen to other people so much.
If this was actually an intentional experiment on Niko’s part, then I’ll even be so bold to consider him one of the few, and even among the first great Outsider artists of the 2020’s social media age.
It wasn't a social experiment to prove anything, he was just making money off idiots and/or kids who would watch anything, it was trash TV in youtube.
I didn't even know he plays the violin!!!!!!!!!!
Seus vídeos são demais! Vai ser muito bem vinda! Beijos de seus fãs de São Paulo!
As someone who has been obese class II, thin "privilege" doesn't exist, it's just pretty privilege. It's not really a privilege if you can loose weight regardless of your situation if you're willing to put the effort in. It's is pretty privilege though, and people definitely do treat you better and the difference is night and day.
Privilege is about having something more( not like fat rolls, obviously😅), so the word privilege is indeed not appropriate when you are simply as you should be, a regular size.
But not everyone is great looking , so yes, that can be considered a privilege. Not having the standards of respect or acceptance for any minority difference doesn't make the majority privileged, it makes the minority/ the outsider underprivileged. It's not the same thing.
Hence I. The class system:
Poor= underprivileged
Middle class = standard
Rich= privileged
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I think the real lolcows were the paypigs all along. Thanks for another entertainingly insightful video. But where tf is that AMA vid? 😉
hello from russia! been watching you for over a year 💘
I've known too many people who use the phrase "social experiment" to excuse years of deranged behaviour. If it's not being written, measured and submitted as a study it isn't a social experiment. Never saw the appeal of this particular drama queen before now, a thinner version makes no difference to me. I think you are correct in this being more about a pathalogical demand for attention. Unfortunately by going for low hanging fruit Nick has anchored himself to an audience he can't help but despise. Given the nature of his content I'm sure many are hate watching. So it's an all round ugly, toxic situation.
I don't agree with the false equivalence Nikocado provided. I'm not a nutritionist or a fitness expert, but from the limited knowledge I have, I'm sure that those athletes need all that caloric intake in order to bulk up--or at least not pass out during their intense work-out regimen.
I don’t believe a word of this “control”. I am 99% sure he used Ozempic or Wegovy. Fortunately for him he is rich enough to keep using it, because the rebound munchies are reported to be extreme, and most people gain much of the weight back when they stop using it.
I'm not the fool because I never really cared or watched him. He's not as interesting as Chris Chan 😆🤣🤣
Watching someone stuff their face whether thin or fat really turns my stomach I’ve been watching/ using RUclips since 2007 I’m so glad I’ve not come across this content in that time.🤢.
God that wink at the end 😅
The boxings gloves were on for this one 🥊
I really enjoyed this, thank you
Pot calls kettle
Putting your life at risk is not a genius mastermind move really. And stirring old drama isn't it either. He's just greedy for attention
Also a weight loss this fast couldn't happen without ozempic, if it didn't existed he still would be in the same place today. So no, I don't buy the social experiment thing
I don’t know how people stomached his videos when he amped up the dramatics and over the topness. He is a bit unbearable in the reveal video too. You can tell yourself what ever story you like but you have to deal with the ripples of emotions u create in urself by doing these actions. Ur burden seems like a hard one nick but maybe don’t spray it all over the internet it’s making peoples lives worse for the most part overall.
He should become a gym bro instead
9:15, but their weight isn't causing a health problem 😅
I didn't even know this shit happened. Lol
i dont buy it. i have avoided his garbage content for years. dude has issues and created a narrative that he can use for another round of trolling.
who watches this trash to begin with???