These silent but expressive reactions have made him one of the most recognizable digital creators on social media. Sometimes he throws in an eye roll or a shake of the head. After his common-sense approach to a task, Lame extends his arms with his palms facing upward, as if to say duh. His reactions personify the term “shaking my head,” or SMH in internet shorthand. In another, he reacts to a video of a woman noisily peeling a cucumber with her teeth by using a vegetable peeler to accomplish the same task. In one video, Lame peels a banana with his hands in response to a video of someone gingerly slicing open a banana with a cleaver. TikTok says it now has more than 1 billion monthly active users TO GO WITH "Interview: How TikTok works to connect creative talents with relevant industries" (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa via Gerrt) (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa via Getty Images) Ahmed Gomaa/Xinhua/Getty Images 1, 2020 - Photo taken on Dec, 1, 2020 shows a mobile phone running the TikTok app in Cairo, Egypt. In most of his clips, he lampoons videos of people doing overly complicated hacks by responding with a simplified, more logical way of doing the same task.ĬAIRO, Dec. Lame is a slender Senegalese man with long limbs and an expressive face. I thought of a way to reach as many people as possible. “The type of gesture came by chance, but the silence didn’t.
“I came up with the idea because I was seeing these videos circulating, and I liked the idea of bringing some simplicity to it,” Lame told CNN in a recent video interview. The only other person ahead of him is dancer Charli D’Amelio, a California teen who posts playful videos, often with her older sister Dixie.Īnd Lame, 21, does it all without saying a word. Now Lame (prounouced Lah-MAY) is the most popular man on TikTok, with 114 million followers. Then, earlier this year, he began making fun of the life-hack videos that flood social media platforms – reacting to them with a wordless shrug or a look of exasperation – and he struck a chord. And gradually, a surprising career was born.Īt first, like a lot of TikTokers, he created clips of himself dancing, watching video games or doing comedy stunts. One day, he downloaded TikTok and started tinkering with it in his bedroom, posting videos of himself under the name Khaby Lame. He spent his days holed up at his parents’ home in Chivasso with his three siblings, looking for other jobs. When Italy first went into a coronavirus lockdown last year, Khabane Lame had just lost his job at a factory near the northern city of Turin.
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