(ANSA) - TURIN, 23 JUN - Khaby Lame, the young man who started posting silent videos on TikTok during the pandemic from Chivasso (Turin) has become the most followed character in the world on TikTok, with 142.4 million followers.
With his ironic and comic films, without the need for spoken language, he overtook Charli D'Amelio (142.2 million), an American dancer who choreographs with trend songs.
Khaby Lame, 22, born in Dakar and arrived in Italy when he was one year old, became famous with the social network, reaching such popularity that he was named as a juror in the section dedicated to tiktokers at the Cannes festival.
An experience that made him say he wanted to try colcinema, after working as a worker in Turin and being fired in March 2020, with the Covid 19 pandemic. (ANSA).
