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Khabane Lame is a Senegalese social media personality based in Italy.

He is known for his TikTok videos in which he silently mocks overly complicated life hack videos.

As of July 2022, Lame is the most-followed TikToker. Lame was born in Senegal on 9 March 2000.

His family moved to a public housing complex in Chivasso, Italy, when he was one year old.

He has three siblings.

He studied in Italian schools until he was fourteen when his parents decided to send him to study temporarily in a Quranic school near Dakar.

Lame worked as a CNC machine operator at a factory near Turin before getting laid off in March 2020.

Khaby Lame is a practicing Muslim: he is also a Hafiz-e-Quran.

Lame announced his engagement to Zaira Nucci in October 2020.

As of 2021, Lame lives in Milan as an ex-pat with his agent.

Although he has lived in Italy since he was an infant, he is a Senegalese citizen and does not hold Italian citizenship.

He has stated Sincerely, I don’t need a piece of paper to define myself as Italian.

However, on 24 June 2022, the Italian Undersecretary of the Ministry of the Interior Carlo Sibilia announced that Lame would be granted citizenship.

After he was laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lame began posting on TikTok.

His early videos showed him dancing and watching video games and were mostly filmed in Italian and included Italian subtitles.

He rose to popularity with his video responses in the form of TikTok’s duet and stitch features to videos depicting overly complicated life hacks in which he performs the same task in a simple way, without saying anything.

In April 2021, he surpassed Gianluca Vacchi as the most-followed Italian TikToker, and, in July 2021, he surpassed Addison Rae to become the second most-followed TikToker.

In August 2021, Lame appeared as a co-star for Juventus F.C.’s announcement of Manuel Locatelli.

In September 2021, he attended the Venice Film Festival as a special guest for the first screening of the French film Lost Illusions by Xavier Giannoli.

In January 2022, Lame signed a multi-year partnership with Hugo Boss and was featured in the #BeYourOwnBoss campaign.

On 22 June 2022, Lame became TikTok’s most followed creator, surpassing Charli D’Amelio with 142.1 million followers.

Taylor Lorenz and Jason Horowitz of The New York Times attributed Lame’s success to his ‘universal exasperated everyman qualities and described his rise to fame as different from most TikTok stars as it was entirely organic.

Samir Chaudry, the founder of The Publish Press, a newsletter focused on the creator economy, stated that Lame’s appeal was due to him representing authenticity over production and not trying too hard.

Christina Ferraz, the founder of the American marketing agency Thirty6Five, stated, that his exasperation is relatable, and feelings are universal.

Lame has credited his own rise to fame to his humorous facial expressions and his silence, which he has described as a way to reach as many people as possible.

As of October 2021, 8 of the 25 most-liked videos on TikTok are his.

Likes: 2.3 billion

Followers: 146.8 million

Page Direct URL: khaby.lame

Questions About Khaby Lame

How much money does Khaby Lame make?

$5 Million a year

Is Khaby Lame religion?

Islam

What language does Khaby Lame speak?

English and Italian

How did Khaby Lame get famous?

Lame quickly gained popularity on the app with his humourous, yet wordless, videos which largely consist of him silently mocking other Tik Tokers, especially those suggesting ‘life hacks’.

How did Khaby Lame become rich?

Creating TikTok videos to keep himself entertained.

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