Everyone is shocked that the Chicken Connoisseur kid is actually a 23-year-old man

Less than 24 hours after he entered the public consciousness, we've already been hit with a shock revelation about Britain's newest cultural icon, the Chicken Connoisseur.

If you're not aware, the Chicken Connoisseur hosts a YouTube show, The Pengest Munch, in which he visits London's chicken shops and reviews their produce. They are absolutely brilliant. Despite his youthful looks, it turns out that the Connoisseur (real name Elijah Quashie) isn't an enterprising schoolboy, but is in fact a 23-year-old man. In fairness, he'd already said that he's 23 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/4wings_please/status/784493623601664000 But because he looks and sounds so young, it was widely assumed that he was a teenager, and that the above tweet was just a joke. However, BuzzFeed reporter Victoria Sanusi spoke to Quashie and confirmed that he is indeed 23.

And yet, the public still can't believe it.

https://twitter.com/Adil_M97/status/807242199616389120   https://twitter.com/MikezAFC_/status/807256545859956736   https://twitter.com/krissjay1/status/807241355516841984   https://twitter.com/buckotb/status/807228925885743104   https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/807181237144219648  

Even Members of Parliament are shocked.

https://twitter.com/jessphillips/status/807215631556870144  

And if you ever needed confirmation of status as an icon, a Twitter poll on the subject of whether or not you'd bang said icon for bragging rights is a sure sign of it.

https://twitter.com/bridgetminamore/status/807254937524699137   Now the question is, does it matter that he's 23? Obviously part of the joy of the videos was in thinking that a young lad at school had gone out and made these really excellent videos, but does the fact that he's a grown man make them less joyful? And to think, yesterday we didn't even know who he was. It's been a funny old year, hasn't it?