All We Know About Khaby Lame biography, Career, Family, Networth

Khaby Lame

Khabane Lame (b. March 9 in 2000) is a Senegalese born internet sensation who hails from Italy. The internet personality is famous for his TikToks where his silent mocking of absurd life hacks videos. The popularity of his TikToks have made Lame among the top famous people on social media nowadays. In 2022, Lame is the second most followed TikToker.

Lame is a native of Dakar, Senegal and his family relocated to Italy when he was just a year old. Lame has three siblings. Lame was employed as an operator on CNC machines in an industrial plant near Turin and was fired in march 2020 as per the NYT.

Profiling Khabane Lame

In the beginning in the covid-19 epidemic Lame started posting on TikTok. The first videos he posted showed his dancing and playing video games. They most of them were filmed in Italian as well as Italian subtitling. The internet exploded with his video responses in format of the TikTok’s “duet” as well as “stitch” feature to videos showing overly complicated and ridiculous “life hacks” that accomplishes the same job in a more straightforward manner without saying a single word.

Taylor Lorenz and Jason Horowitz of The New York Times attributed Lame’s sudden success in part to his “universal exasperated, everyman-like quality” and said that his rise to fame was in a different way from other TikTokers since it was “entirely natural” and unheard of.

Samir Chaudry, who is the creator of The Publish Press, which is focused exclusively on creator economy and industry said that the appeal of Lame to the public at large was due to his “authenticity in the face of the production” and “not doing too much” when compared with others TikTok famous people of his time.

Lame has stated that his increasing popularity is because of his facial expressions as well as his lack of silence. This he claimed is “a method of reaching the maximum number of people possible” According to his interview on Quartz Africa. At present 8 of the 25 videos most popular posted on TikTok is his (source: Newsweek).

Career 

TikTok

Before getting involved in platforms like Facebook, Khaby worked as a machine operator at a factory close to Turin, Italy. In March of 2020 the company laid him off. He began posting on TikTok shortly thereafter and quickly gained a huge popularity due to the fact that he simplified complex life hacks in videos, and without ever saying anything.

Then, in the month of April 20, he was the most followed Italian TikToker and surpassed Gianluca Vacchi. Then, in July 2021 the TikToker beat Addison Rae, to become the second most followed TikTok creator, the record he has until today.

Khaby is also one of 19 TikTokers who, in the year 2020 were part of the $2 billion TikTok Creator’s Fund, and has utilized the funds to create his own content.

According to reports in the media and social media stats websites, he’s estimated at earning around $200,000 per year. An Influencer Marketing Hub estimates that Khaby might earn between $61,501 to $102,502 per TikTok post taking into account the average TikTok structure of pay, excluding endorsements, sponsorships and promotions agreements.

YouTube

Khaby was added to YouTube on May 9th 2021. At the time of his 2022 debut Khaby has 4.84 subscribers and 1.7 million viewings. He is currently posting YouTube videos to his YouTube channel. most of which are also shared on TikTok.

Instagram

Khaby also shares content on the Instagram account, and is home to 77.9 million fans. Khaby has also started a #learnwithinstagram series that seeks to simplify complex tasks that are shown in online videos, in addition to other comedy sketches.

Other work- endorsements Promotions, collaborations and endorsements

In the past, he has worked with famous personalities such as King Bach, Alessandro Riggio, Marco Zedda, Ceppe, Joel Lirica, Daniel LaBelle and celebrities such as Terry Crews, Naomi Campbell, Ed Sheeran, J Balvin and activist Greta Thunberg. He has also worked along with Mark Zuckerberg on the campaign for the Metaverse venture by Meta. He is renowned for his partnerships with famous footballers, such as Paul Pogba, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Kylian Mbappe, Paulo Dybala Vinicius Jr. as well as Raphael Varane.

Then, in August of 2021 Lame made an appearance as co-writer on Juventus F.C. the public announcement about Manuel Locatelli. Paulo Dybala, USMNT star Weston McKennie, noted Juventus player Alessandro Del Piero and Brazilian player Arthur Melo have all featured in his TikTok videos, as per Goal.com.

He was in September of 2021 when he was a guest at in September 2021 the Venice Film Festival as a guest at the film screening of the French movie Lost Illusions, which was directed by Xavier Giannoli.

On January 20, 2022 Lame was signed to a long-term collaboration in 2022 with brand Hugo Boss and has been a major part of the campaign #BeYourOwnBoss. He also appeared as a model during their Spring Summer 2022 fashion Show which took place in Dubai. He is currently signed on endorsement contracts for Xbox as well as Amazon Prime.

In the month of October 2021, when “Squid Game” became a global phenomenon and he filmed an advert for Netflix in keeping with the theme of the show, starring the AC Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic. This caught the attention of TikTok as well as Instagram and AC Milan as well, according to Goal.com. At the time of writing, 2022, he’s signed an endorsement agreement on the stream platform.

The month of September was 2021. Khaby made an appearance in a commercial for an Indian fantasy sports app Dream 11, for a cost of Rs. 2 crore, as per Livemint. The video that was created in collaboration with White Rivers Media, featured Indian creators Viraj Ghelani and Tanish Shah. The video carries over Lame’s signature theme of simplicity using the slogan of the campaign “Dimaag Lagana Hai to Dream11 Pe Laga Na’.

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Khaby Lame’s net worth 

By 2022 Khaby Lame’s wealth is estimated at $5 million in accordance with Celebrity Net Worth. Most of his income comes from endorsements for brands and posts on social media.

Social Media 

In along with TikTok, Khaby is active on Instagram, Twitter and YouTube, predominantly creating original short-form content as well as cross-posting videos from TikTok.

Personal Life 

Khaby Lame is a practicing Islam. Lame confirmed his wedding with Zaira Nucci in October of 2020. In 2022, the couple are believed to be getting married as per The New York Times in 2021.

Lame has a home in Milan in the capacity of an expatriate working with his agent. While he has lived in Italy since the age of a child however, Lame is an Senegalese citizen, and is not a holder of Italian citizenship. He has said “Sincerely I don’t need an official document to identify myself as Italian”.

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Lame in his The New York Times interview says that because he is the Senegalese citizen, he’s had difficulties obtaining Italian citizenship and also visas for other countries such as the US.

For a long time even though he had a huge following on TikTok but he could not make enough money to purchase a home with an infrastructure that was comparatively better. According to his latest videos, he’s successful in achieving this.

Q. How much is Khaby Lame worth?

A. He is worth $5 million as of 2022, according to Celebrity Net Worth.

Q. How many languages does Khaby Lame speak?

A. He speaks two languages- English and Italian.

Q. How much money does Khaby Lame make in a month?

A. According to media reports and social media statistics websites, he is estimated to earn $200,000 per month. Influencer Marketing Hub estimates that Khaby may be earning $61,501 and $102,502 per TikTok post, taking into consideration average TikTok paying structures.

Q. Can Khaby Lame speak French?

A. It is unconfirmed as to whether he speaks French as of 2022.