Another person who inspires me is this Senegalese youngster, Kaby Lame. This guy is a TikTok sensation. The last time I checked, he had the highest TikTok follower count in the world, at over 160 million followers. That’s a lot of followers!
Of course, his fame and massive follower count meant big sponsorships and advertising deals. To date Kaby has worked with some big players, like Pepsi, Hugo Boss and Epic Games – the makers of Fortnite. He has even partnered with major Hollywood studios like Paramount to promote Mission Impossible 7, Universal Pictures to promote Idris Elba’s movie Beast, and with Disney to promote the Marvel movie, Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
In short, this guy is super-famous and super-successful. But it wasn’t always like that for him. Kaby, Khabane, was born in Senegal. His family moved to Italy when he was one year old. He grew up there, and studied in Italian schools until he was fourteen, when his parents decided to temporarily send him to study at a Quranic school near Dakar. On his return to Italy, he began to work at a car factory.
Unfortunately, he was laid off during the Covid lockdowns, and could not find a job after that. That’s when he came up with the idea to become an online content creator.
He began to create funny videos with his cell phone and to post them to TikTok. He started doing these funny videos where he recorded himself reacting to other people’s “life hack” videos, and he did it in a very funny way. His videos caught on and they started doing well, and his follower count started to grow and grow, and the rest is history.
Today he’s a very successful person who has come a long way. Think about it: a young unemployed kid, loses his job, tries to get another job, fails, and then comes back and builds himself up to a point where he’s worth tens of millions of dollars, and doing videos with some of the biggest movie stars in the world; and being paid by some of the biggest movie studios in the world like Disney to promote their movies.
Now that is incredible. That is a life worth living, if you ask me.