
In January 2022, Lame signed a multi-year partnership with Hugo Boss and was featured in the #BeYourOwnBoss campaign. In September 2021, he attended the Venice Film Festival as a special guest for the first screening of the French film Lost Illusions, by Xavier Giannoli. In August 2021, Lame appeared as a co-star for Juventus F.C.'s announcement of Manuel Locatelli. In April 2021, he surpassed Gianluca Vacchi as the most-followed Italian on TikTok, and he subsequently surpassed Addison Rae, to become the second most-followed personality on the platform overall. He rose to popularity with his video responses in the form of TikTok's "duet" and "stitch" features to videos depicting complicated "life hacks", in which he performs the same task in a simple way, without saying anything, followed by a trademark hand gesture. His early videos showed him dancing and watching video games. CareerĪfter he was laid off during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lame began posting on TikTok. Lame worked as a CNC machine operator at a factory near Turin, before getting laid off in March 2020. He studied in Italian schools until he was fourteen, when his parents decided to temporarily send him to study at a Quranic school near Dakar. His family moved to a public housing complex in Chivasso, Italy, when he was one year old.

Lame was born in Senegal on 9 March 2000. As of August 2023, Lame is the most-followed user on TikTok. He is known for his TikTok videos, in which he silently mocks overly complicated " life hack" videos. Khabane " Khaby" Lame ( French:, Italian: born 9 March 2000) is a Senegalese-born Italian social media personality.
