Khabane Lame, known as Khaby Lame, is currently the most-popular influencer on TikTok, with reports suggesting that the social media star is earning more than $740,000 a posting. The silent star of TikTok, Khabane Khabby Lame, has officially emerged as the most followed star of TikTok, after overtaking Charli DAmelio, who has accumulated 142.8 million followers.
The quiet TikTok star was crowned the most popular TikToker in the world with a massive 142.8 million followers on Wednesday, according to The New York Post.
Khabane Khabi Lame has overtaken Charli DAmelio to become the most followed person on TikTok, with a record-breaking 142.8 million followers, according to Guinness World Records. Khaby now has 142.8 million followers on TikTok, which puts him ahead of the previous highest-ranked TikTok creator, Charli DAmelio (who currently has 142.3 million). The 22-year-olds comedic bits have gained him a huge following, making him one of the most recognized and loved TikTok creators worldwide.
Khaby Lame has gained fame with his comedic facial expressions and reactions videos, where, while looking into the camera, he breaks the fourth wall - a little like the TikTok version of Jim Halpert in the TV series The Office, where he serves as a straight man in the sitcom. One day, Khaby Lame downloaded the platform and started messing around on his bedroom, posting videos of himself as Khaby Lame. Khaby Lame took to social media to kill time, and through his videos, which were unobtrusive, shot his way into the TikTokker starsdom that was the worlds most watched.
In June of 2021, Senegalese comedian Khaby Lame had 65.6 million followers...and counting on TikTok, according to The New York Times. As of this moment, neither Khaby Lame nor the influential Charli DAmelios has openly acknowledged the recent change in ranking for most-followed TikTok accounts. Influencer Charli DAmelios following numbers imply that the Khaby Lame
TikTok has officially surpassed the 18-year-old DAmelio, who has 142.3 million followers, and has been the most-followed person on the app since 25 March 2020.
In addition to being previously the most-followed creator on the platform, influencer Charli DAmelios is also the highest-paid as of 2021, with Forbes reporting she earned $17.5m last year. Holding the top spot on the list of the most-followed for such a long time, Charli Damelio was also the first to hit the 10-billion-like mark on TikTok. Charli DAmelio broke the 100 million followers mark for the short-video platform way back in November of 2020, and has added another tens of millions of followers since.