Being Bullied for Profit: The Man Who Lived as a Fictional Character for a Decade

In this eye-opening episode, we dive deep into the world of internet personas, viral phenomena, and the shocking truth behind Nikocado Avocado's recent transformation. We explore the concept of disintermediated social interactions in the online world and how content creators like Nikocado capitalize on human psychology to build their audience.

Key topics covered:

* Nikocado Avocado's dramatic weight loss reveal and its implications

* The psychology behind parasocial relationships in the digital age

* How internet personalities craft their personas for maximum engagement

* The role of supernormal stimuli in online content creation

* Insights into Elon Musk's public persona and social media strategy

* Discussion on Trump's 2024 campaign and proposed Government Efficiency Commission

* Analysis of public misconceptions about demographic statistics

* Personal anecdotes and insights from the hosts' experiences as content creators

Whether you're a content creator, a social media enthusiast, or simply curious about the psychology behind internet fame, this video offers valuable insights into the complex world of online personas and audience engagement.

[00:00:00] the online environment has become a disintermediated set of social interactions in which I have a conversation with you, the audience, while you lose the interactive portion of the conversation, what you gain is the ability to, instead of being limited by the types of people you could actually get to spend time conversing with you, you can get anyone to converse with you. So I'll explain this using a porn analogy, right? In the real world, you are limited to sexual partners, like you would have a conversation partner, who would actually deign to have sex with you.

But what we need to talk about here is the role that Nick Avocado ended up playing in this disintermediated social contract. He had become, for a lot of the internet, that fat, pathetic kid. Yeah. You engage with him for the emotional context you get for picking on the fat, pathetic kid [00:01:00] in school. He filled that niche.

Speaker 7: Stupid noodles!

He filled

that niche and he had been saying for years that when he turned 30, he was gonna lose all the weight and then just go back to a normal life,

So I am

The point being is that Nick Acato, Avocado, people should have known this about him. This guy went to Juilliard.

Speaker 12: I got a full ride scholarship to my school. Could you, could you show us? The Juilliard School .

He, he was a concert level violinist. No way.

Speaker 13: A YouTuber named Violin Mechanic also watched all of Nick's violin videos, concluding he was near professional.

It goes to show though, there's, what are the career prospects?

Well, and that's the point to all of this. This was an incredibly talented actor, a diligent individual who, Understood the new social contract of the internet [00:02:00] and used it to make enough money that he never needed to do anything again by playing the fat kid

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Hello, Simone. I am excited to be here with you today. Today. We are going to be discussing a number of recent viral online phenomenon and moments that I think are you know, there was a post Elon had not long ago when he's like, when you are trying to determine between multiple things happening on the world stage, what would be the most interesting thing to happen?

And that's the one that's going to happen. And he's like. When people were discussing Elon buying Twitter, it was like, is that going to happen? Will it be more interesting if it happens? So yes. Is Trump going to win the first election cycle? Well, I guess it'd be more interesting if it did. So yes. You know, like, is, is Biden going to randomly drop out and instead of hosting a primary, they're just going to dictatorially choose?

Well, then that, that would mean that Trump's going to win. It would mean that Trump's going to win, which is what I believe.

There was a very [00:03:00] long off topic section here where Simone and I debated, who is going to win the presidential election.

That I have moved to the end of the video, . But anyway, so, sorry, that, that's, that's too much of an aside. Let's get back to the weird. So basically we are in clown world timeline, which means that the quantum direction of tiny fluctuations that tip the scales of reality will move in clown world direction. Not in Clown World direction, it will, it will, we right now, for anyone who saw that episode of South Park, where it turns out we're a show and we have to keep from getting cancelled we're in that timeline.

Ahhhh.

Speaker: We're a production company. We make intergalactic television programs that the whole universe watches. Television?

We Started with great shows like Who Wants to Marry a Galgamek and Antares 6 Millionaire. But then of course there's our signature show. Earth A few billion years ago, we realized, what if we took species from all different planets in the universe and put them together on the same planet. [00:04:00] Great tv, right? Asians, Jews, and Hispanics, all trying to live side by side on one planet. It's great. We put them all together on Earth, and the whole universe tunes in to watch the fun!

Speaker 3: Please don't cancel us. Oh, I'm sorry, Earthlings, but you have to realize the universe is a business. a shOw should never go past 100 episodes, or else it starts to get stale with ridiculously stupid plotlines and settings.

But, sirs, we think our show is just getting good. I mean, we're just now starting to see people get really pissed off at each other.

We are a live action show and they are wanting to, and Show me what you got!

Speaker 5: Show me what you got! Show me what you got! I want to see what you got! Hmm I like what you got. Good job!

Goodbye!

This is a different show, obviously, but yeah. Yeah, different show, but one of the big, big, big things, that happened recently and was shocking to me as a [00:05:00] totally online person is Nick Avocado, Nick Avocado, Avocado, Nick Avocado, Avocado did something that was completely wild and unexpected.

And I think it highlights the new social contract that we socially operate under as a society online. So what happened was is, for those who haven't heard of this yet, and we'll get into, like, bigger thoughts on this Nikocado was a very widely viewed mukbanger who basically made mukbang famous within the United States.

Mukbang is when you eat a lot of food in front of a camera and people parasocially eat along with you. And when I say widely viewed, I mean across his platforms, he had over a billion views. Gosh. So, across his various channels and everything like that. He is highly widely viewed. That puts him above, like, mainstream TV shows from our childhood.

If you're wondering, like, what that means in terms of views. Yeah. [00:06:00] So, very mainstream figure. And what he was mainstream for was being. fat having no shame. He didn't start out as fat. He, he, audience captured his way to obesity. Yeah, not exactly. We'll talk about that in just a second. Okay. Okay. Okay.

No spoilers. Okay. Or just being this really sad human being. And he was essentially one of the things that we. Have talked about is that the online environment has become a disintermediated set of social interactions in which I have a conversation with you, the audience, but I'm basically having a conversation at you through Through my wife, right?

And then you are choosing to listen to this conversation very much the same way that somebody historically would have had a conversation with an interesting person. They would be like, oh, I know