Niko Avacado is doing anything for attention. YouTube is the medium, but not to blame. Neither is your television for making Kardashians a thing. It's humans responding to humans, the technology doesn't have a factor.
Nik has a choice here. But he is choosing fame over his health. I'm not judging, Evil Knievel and all of the jackass guys made the same choices. But do you lay the blame at the inventor of the camera? or MTV? Or the fans? Or the companies that commercials ran during these events? Where exactly does the blame stop?
Youtube is a shit platform literally boosting immoral thieves on official platforms because they're "popular" with little kids who don't know how to skip ads.
This is about Niko Avocado or whatever the fuck his name is right? I heard that he was losing weight (again) but that it actually seemed likely to happen this time, anyone know his current state?
Self esteem and peer pressure are probably a part of it, but I think money is too. Both youtube and nikado are making money off of what could be considered self harm through binge eating. The company could easily demonetize or ban his content to remove that motivating factor, but chooses not to. (I'm not up to date on the latest drama with this so maybe they changed their tune)
I mean, they are not a public service like roads which are mandated to allow everyone. They are a private company that decides who gets to say what and who they promote. So they are encouraging him.