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Khaby Lame, the king of TikTok with 77 million followers: "The mute overcomes all barriers"

2021-07-02T00:00:09.057Z


SEEN FROM ELSEWHERE - He arrived in Italy at one year old with his family. Then there was school and work at the factory. The Covid was like a spotlight for him. The story of an impromptu success.


Riccardo Luna (La Repubblica)

Khaby Lame is already in the room without our knowledge. We were editing the video material for the interview and he must have come in quietly, because at one point we turned around and he was there. He wears a sky blue T-shirt with the inscription "

Some Days I Feel Nothing

", loose black sports shorts and basketball shoes without socks, revealing long and thin calves. In just over a year, he got a billion likes (on TikTok alone). This feat allowed her to surpass Chiara Ferragni in number of followers on her favorite field, Instagram. When it happened, Adam Mosseri, the big boss of Instagram in person wrote him this message: "

I love your work

(I like what you do).

Khaby Lame makes videos on his smartphone: short, funny, a little surreal videos.

Why mute: "

mute is a universal language, if you want to communicate with everyone, you don't

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Source: lefigaro

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