From factory work to the idea of video reactions on TikTok: the biography and all the curiosities about Khaby Lame, the young influencer who surpassed Zuckerberg in number of followers on Instagram thanks to his funny videos.
Who is Khaby Lame
Khaby Lame is the new “king” of TikTok and Instagram and comes from Italy. Born in 2000, Khaby can count more than 11 million followers on his social profiles, where he mostly posts funny and hilarious videos. The young Khaby, born Khabane Lame, is known by adults and children alike and has created an audience on social media, including numerous famous people who do not fail to comment under his posts.
The influencer was born in Senegal but, since he was only one year old, he moved to Italy with his family. Lives in Chivasso, a town in the province of Turin, precisely in the public housing in via Togliatti to which he is very attached. Before breaking into social media, the boy he worked with numerical control machines: unfortunately the Covid health emergency has taken away his job too, as well as many other Italian children and adults.
For this reason, from the months of lockdown, he tried his hand at funny videos on TikTok. Hence his rise: he began to collect more and more followers on all his social profiles.
Who is Khaby Lame: videos on TikTok
The key to success on Khaby Lame’s TikTok and Instagram are her funny videos. At first Khaby interacted with his followers with other types of content, but he found the key to success thanks to video-reactions format. Basically Khaby edits some absurd videos found on the web, where people strive to find the most absurd solutions to their small problems and daily actions, with videos that portray him. In the latter, Khaby Lame offers obvious and very simple solutions to these problems, arousing great laughter also for his facial expression and the gesture of his hands, with which he closes all his videos.
Some examples of his videos? A boy closes the car door and thus fits his t-shirt. He manages to free himself by putting his hand through the open window and taking some scissors placed on the car seat. Khaby proposes a much more obvious solution that does not involve ruining the shirt: putting your hand in the open window and, instead of taking the scissors from the seat, open the car door thanks to the inside handle.
Who is Khaby Lame: curiosity
Khaby, the idol of TikTok, has always loved comedy and has always wanted to make others laugh and develop his acting skills: his idol is Will Smith, the actor best known for his role in various films and TV series including Willy, the prince of Bel Air.
The young influencer he even surpassed ‘boss’ Mark Zuckerberg in the number of followers on Instagram. The latter in fact has ‘only’ about 7 million followers while Khaby has more than 11 million. For the occasion, the boy posted a video on his social profiles, to which Mark responded with the thumbs up emoticon.
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