Khaby.Lame is a creator with a presence on YouTube (12,900,000 followers), TikTok (160,500,000 followers), based in ITA.
Total Followers +0.1%
173.4M
Across YouTube, TikTok
Primary Platform
YouTube
12.9M followers · 7% of audience
Engagement
2.9%
vs. 1.5% category median
Sponsorship Tier
Mega
Est. — / IG post
| Window | YouTube | TikTok | Combined | |
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| Last 7 days | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +0 |
| Last 30 days | +101K +0.8% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +101K |
| Last 90 days | +203K +1.6% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +203K |
| Last 365 days | +203K +1.6% | +0 +0.0% | +0 +0.0% | +203K |
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Khaby.Lame is a creator with a presence on YouTube (12,900,000 followers), TikTok (160,500,000 followers), based in ITA. Their content sits in the comedy space. Their YouTube bio reads: "Se vuoi ridere sei nel posto giusto😎 If u wanna laugh u r in the right place😎". The full audience and engagement breakdown is below.
Khaby.Lame reaches an audience concentrated in ITA primarily through YouTube, and is best activated via long-form YouTube integrations, TikTok branded content. As a comedy creator they map naturally to brands targeting that space. Engagement on YouTube runs around 2.9%, pointing to an audience suited to category-relevant, mid-funnel brand campaigns rather than pure-reach buys.
Benchmark estimates for a creator at Khaby.Lame's tier (Mega, 173.4M combined followers, ITA). Pulled from CreatorDB's category benchmarks.
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His full name is Khabane Lame — "Khaby" is the nickname he goes by online. He was born on March 9, 2000, in Dakar, Senegal, and grew up in Chivasso, a small town near Turin, Italy.
Khaby lost his factory job during Italy's COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 and started posting short videos on TikTok. His format — watching an overcomplicated life-hack clip and then wordlessly demonstrating the obvious, simpler solution — went globally viral and required no translation to land.
Almost never — his signature silent reaction style relies entirely on deadpan facial expressions and a slow, exasperated shrug rather than any spoken commentary. That language-free format is the core reason his audience stretches across the United States, Italy, the UK, India, and dozens of other countries.
Khaby surpassed Charli D'Amelio in June 2022 to become the most-followed account on TikTok, and he has maintained an audience of well over 160 million followers on the platform. It was one of the fastest organic rises in the platform's history.
Yes — Khaby was granted Italian citizenship in August 2022, a moment that drew widespread media attention across Italy and internationally. He had lived in the country since early childhood but did not hold citizenship until that point, making the news culturally significant alongside his global rise.
#learnfromkhaby is the hashtag Khaby uses for his core comedy format, in which he reacts to an unnecessarily complicated trick or life hack and then demonstrates the dead-simple alternative. It is his flagship content signature and appears consistently across both TikTok and YouTube Shorts.
Khaby was born in Senegal and moved to Italy as a baby, growing up in Chivasso near Turin. He identifies strongly with both his Senegalese heritage and his Italian upbringing — his YouTube channel even signs off with the phrase "From Italy with Love."
Recent campaigns visible in his content include Experience Macao for travel promotion, DoorDash, and the James Bond game 007 First Light. As a Mega-tier creator with global reach, he commands some of the largest brand partnership deals available in the creator economy.
Because he never speaks — his entire punchline is delivered through a universal facial expression and a slow, disbelieving hand gesture. There is nothing to subtitle or localize, which is a major reason his audience is spread across the United States, Europe, and South Asia rather than concentrated in a single market.
Khaby Lame was born on March 9, 2000, making him 26 years old as of mid-2026. He reached over 100 million TikTok followers before he turned 22, which remains one of the most remarkable growth stories in short-form video history.
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