On June 22, KhabyLame became the most followed TikToker in the world. And he did it without words. “Body language is universal,” he says. “By staying silent, I am understood.' Find out why Lame is part of TIME's newest class of Next Generation Leaders
, the then 20-year-old laid-off factory worker from Senegal started spoofing the platform’s overly complicated “life hack” videos with simple, commonsense solutions. His exaggerated facial expressions, comic timing, and a memeable everyman shrug earned him tens of thousands of new followers with every clip.in the world, with nearly 150 million fans. And he did it without words. “Body language is universal,” he tells TIME from the Milan apartment he shares with two friends.
Now that Lame has TikTok’s biggest audience, he has set his sights on a bigger screen. His recent posts have evolved from lo-fi DIY reaction videos to highly produced original skits, and in January he will move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in Hollywood. His inspirations are and Will Smith, but for the moment his rubber-faced silence is more reminiscent of Rowan Atkinson’s Mr. Bean. Once he finds his voice on an even bigger platform, he promises, he will have much more to say.
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