The Italian star of TikTok Khaby Lame lands on Instagram and challenges Mark Zuckerberg: in just 2 weeks he surpasses him in number of followers
He never said a word in his short videos on TikTok, but his facial expression was enough to make him a star. So Kabhy relaunched by challenging Mark Zuckerberg on his own social and beating him: in two weeks he surpassed the owner of Instagram in number of followers. And they continue to rise.
The numbers of Khaby, alias on social networks of Khabane Lame, are staggering. In just two months, the young Italian born in 2000 and of Senegalese origin has recorded over 50 million followers on TikTok. In just two weeks, however, he has exceeded 11.5 million followers on Instagram. A goal that he celebrated with one of his funny short videos, where facial expressions are more eloquent than words. To notice him, now become impossible not to notice, is also Zuckerberg. To Khaby’s challenge post, among millions of comments and likes, comes also the “surrender” of the founder of Facebook and owner of Instagram: a thumbs up for the famous Italian tiktoker.
Khaby and the challenge (won) with Zuckerberg on Instagram
The young Italian who in a short time has become the star of TikTok has decided to relaunch the videos also on his Instagram profile. It only took two weeks of posting with his funny videos that Khaby registered 8.7 million followers against the 7.5 million of the owner of the platform, none other than Mark Zuckerberg. And that number in a few days has grown again: at the time of writing, followers are already 11.5 million.
The star of TikTok that is preparing to conquer Instagram has thus amused to launch a challenge, already won, to Zuckerberg: a video in which he shows the difference in followers, absolutely devoid of a word like all his other clips, but from the looks and the caption rather eloquent: “Boss.. only in two weeks ?😎😂 Mention @zuck in the comments below this video, and I will follow one of you. Forgive me @zuck I love you 😆”.
In short, “Zuck” lost but you can’t say he wasn’t ready to accept defeat. The owner of Instagram congratulated Khaby, although in a decidedly concise style: the emoji of a thumbs up right between the comments of the video, which became popular in a short time.
Who is Khaby Lame, the Italian star of TikTok
Let’s take a step back and find out more about Khaby. The young man born in 2000 in Senegal arrived in Italy when he was just one year old. Khabane Lame, this is his name, lives in Chivasso, in the province of Turin, and grew up in the council houses of via Togliatti, where he still lives. The debut on TikTok for him has arrived during the lockdown, when he found himself without a job and with the desire to occupy his time.
Khaby has become in a few months a real star and in the interviews released to the main Italian newspapers he explains that he has always had a comic vein and that his dream, after all, was to be an actor, taking inspiration from Will Smith. The secret of his success are the video-reactions: the tiktoker looks for the most absurd videos and proposes a simple and nice solution to the most useless problems. No words, just gestures and his facial expressions: this was enough to conquer his large audience of millions of followers. And his success seems destined to grow further.