{"id":6265,"date":"2022-07-09T06:36:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-09T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/09\/khaby-lame-from-factory-job-to-king-of-tiktok\/"},"modified":"2022-07-09T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-09T04:36:07","slug":"khaby-lame-from-factory-job-to-king-of-tiktok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/09\/khaby-lame-from-factory-job-to-king-of-tiktok\/","title":{"rendered":"Khaby Lame: from factory job to king of TikTok"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senegalese-Italian has enjoyed a meteoric rise, becoming the most followed creator on video app<\/p>\n<p>Like many of us, Khaby Lame turned to TikTok in the early days of the pandemic. The Senegalese-Italian had just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/06\/02\/style\/khaby-lame-tiktok.html\">lost his job working in a factory in Chivasso<\/a>, a suburb of Turin 12 miles north-east of the city centre, thanks to Covid and was at a loss for what to do.<\/p>\n<p>Just as countless others did, he began posting videos \u2013 at first, videos in subtitled Italian, but later silent, up-close reactions to absurd events. Unlike most of us, Lame\u2019s dalliance with the short-form video-sharing app turned serious. After an astronomical two years, the 22-year-old is now the king of TikTok.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jul\/09\/khaby-lame-from-factory-job-to-king-of-tiktok\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75b71d1fa9aa267b4a2dce4f78b8ce86ae0394d9\/0_132_4928_2957\/master\/4928.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=71ebc0f50c0cd7bf74e3034f6839ca3b\" title=\"Khaby Lame: from factory job to king of TikTok\" \/>Senegalese-Italian has enjoyed a meteoric rise, becoming the most followed creator on video app<br \/>\nLike many of us, Khaby Lame turned to TikTok in the early days of the pandemic. The Senegalese-Italian had just lost his job working in a factory in Chivasso, a suburb of Turin 12 miles north-east of the city centre, thanks to Covid and was at a loss for what to do.<br \/>\nJust as countless others did, he began posting videos \u2013 at first, videos in subtitled Italian, but later silent, up-close reactions to absurd events. Unlike most of us, Lame\u2019s dalliance with the short-form video-sharing app turned serious. After an astronomical two years, the 22-year-old is now the king of TikTok. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegalese-Italian has enjoyed a meteoric rise, becoming the most followed creator on video app Like many of us, Khaby Lame turned to TikTok in the early days of the pandemic. The Senegalese-Italian had just lost his job working in a factory in Chivasso, a suburb of Turin 12 miles north-east of the city centre, thanks &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/09\/khaby-lame-from-factory-job-to-king-of-tiktok\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Khaby Lame: from factory job to king of TikTok<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}