Senegalese-born TikToker/Instagram Influencer based in Chivasso, Italy, Khaby Lame has become one of the most followed celebrities on social media.
He is known for his TikTok videos in which he silently mocks overly complicated life hack videos. As of 2021, Lame is the second most-followed TikToker.In March 2020, during the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Khabane Lame, a young factory worker in the northern Italian industrial town of Chivasso, lost his job.
He went back to his family’s modest apartment, and despite the urging of his Senegalese father to apply for other jobs, he began spending hours each day posting videos to TikTok under the name Khaby Lame.
Using the social media app’s duet and stitch features, Mr Lame, 21, capitalized on the momentum of viral and often absurdly complicated life hack videos-slicing open a banana with a knife, using odd contraptions to put on socks by responding to them with wordless, easy-to-understand reaction clips in which he would do the same task in a much more straightforward manner.
He peels the banana.
He puts on a pair of socks. And almost always he punctuates his gags with the video equivalent of a “duh” punchline, extending his arms as if to say voilà and offering an expressive roll of the eyes or shake of the head.
Today, Khaby has over 70 million followers on Instagram, 132 million followers on Tiktok and over 1.5 billion likes.
He within a year, Khaby has gone from a broke jobless man to a filthy rich young man worth several millions of dollars. Here are some videos of him.
