Lame has virtually 150 million followers on TikTok.

Khaby Lame, essentially the most adopted TikToker on the earth, acquired Italian citizenship at a ceremony on Wednesday within the northern city of Chivasso the place he grew up.

Born in Senegal, the 22-year-old Lame has lived in Italy since he was a child and says he has “at all times felt Italian”, nevertheless he retained his Senagalese passport and was not an Italian citizen till at the moment.

After swearing “to be loyal to the Republic and to watch the Structure and the legal guidelines of the state”, a visibly moved Lame advised reporters he was “very proud” and felt “a fantastic duty for the oath I took”.

With greater than 14.5 million followers on TikTok, Lame has loved meteoric success on the social media platform because of his wildly common movies, together with his ironic takes on “life hacks”.

After dropping his job in a manufacturing unit at first of the covid pandemic, Lame turned to TikTok throughout lockdown and developed his pure present of constructing folks chortle.

He depends on comedic facial expressions and heavy use of irony in his movies most of that are delivered with out talking, which means the humour is known universally.

Earlier this summer season he overtook the American social media character Charli D’Amelio because the world’s largest TikTok star.