by Risto » Mon Jul 22, 2019 10:54 am
Jeff Nelson's recent videos on the VegSource Youtube channel got me to look at the current state of the vegan Youtube drama, after a long, long time. The drama nonsense is the same old, but what happened to really strike me was Nikokado Avocado's channel. He was a young, lean, healthy vegan Youtuber, who interviewed Dr. McDougall over Skype at one point. Then (three years ago?) he quit his plant-based diet, deleted his old videos, including the interview with Dr. McDougall, and started to post mukbangs of him eating fatty non-vegan fast food, by the ton. How interesting can it be to watch one guy eat cheesy noodles, over and over, you may ask. Well, apparently he now gets over 300 000 views regularly, and some videos have over a million views. One had over three million. 1.6 million subscribers. I imagine that's enough to make a living as a Youtuber, which is clearly why he does it. The mukbangs are interspersed with videos of Mr. Avocado crying to the camera about his personal life, which seems to be all made up for Youtube.
I haven't watched Nikocado's recent videos, I only took a look at the channel page. Watching him basically eat himself to death for show is not exactly enjoyable. I'm not going to link to it (you can easily find it with his name). It was just amazing to me to see that he was not only still at it, two years or so after I last took a look, but approaching the major Youtubers in terms of viewership. He gets more subscribers and views than a dozen of your favorite plant-based channels put together. I guess this is the world we live in.