Who is the most famous tiktok star

We all know that deep down social media is not a popularity contest, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t a little curious about who is the most popular TikTok user.

It turns out the most-followed accounts on the platform tend to be young people in the performing arts like dancers, singers, entertainers and actors. However, one older Hollywood star did manage to make the cut! 

Here are the 10 most-followed TikTok users as of June 28, 2022:

1. Khaby Lame (@khaby.lame) — 144.6 million

Khaby Lame, who used to be an Italian factory worker, skyrocketed to the top of the list in mere months.

2. Charli D’Amelio (@charlidamelio) — 142.9 million

@charlidamelio

@dixiedamelio

♬ original sound – r

Charli Grace D’Amelio is a dancer from Connecticut and the most-followed TikTok account. 

3. Bella Poarch (@bellapoarch) — 90.3 million

Bella Poarch, who didn’t have much of a social media presence before April 2020, is the proud creator of TikTok’s most-liked video and a controversial figure.

4. Addison Rae (@addisonre) — 88.1 million

@addisonre

@brycehall

♬ Nightcore Forever She looks so perfect Newk82 – Kev

Addison Rae Easterling, a dancer-actress who hails from Louisiana, is the second most-followed user on TikTok. 

5. Will Smith (@willsmith) — 72 million

You know Will Smith, the actor and famous husband/dad. He’s been killing it on TikTok lately and has the followers to prove it.

6. Zach King (@zachking) — 68.9 million

Zachary King is a Los Angeles-based illusionist and filmmaker whose magic TikToks have solidified him as one of the most-followed accounts on the platform. 

7. Kimberly Loaiza (@kimberly.loaiza) — 64.5 million

Kimberly Loaiza is a Mexican American content creator and singer.f She began posting content on YouTube in 2016, and her success quickly translated into huge numbers when she joined TikTok. 

8. TikTok (@tiktok) — 63.5 million

Well, TikTok is, um, TikTok. Of course, the platform is going to be on the list of most popular TikTok accounts. 

9. Burak Ozdemir (@cznburak) — 59 million 

@cznburak

CZN FAİL😂❤️🙈

♬ orijinal ses – cznburak

Turkish chef Burak Ozdemir is known for his charming personality and is allegedly the highest-paid creator on TikTok. 

10. Dixie D’Amelio (@dixiedamelio) — 57.4 million

@dixiedamelio

@charlidamelio

♬ ENVY ME – 𝔰𝔞𝔣𝔦𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔰♡

Dixie D’Amelio is Charli D’Amelio’s big sister and a singer. 

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A list of the most popular Most Followed TikTok Users right now. These are the most popular Users sorted by TikTok followers.

Wordless comedian Khaby Lame has officially become the most followed TikTok star on the planet.

Lame, 22, reached 142.5 million followers Thursday night, dethroning North American influencer Charli D'Amelio, who had held the top spot since 2020. 

Posting under the TikTok name @khaby.lame, Lame crept past D'Amelio's 142.2 million fans, after a months-long follower war.

The social media star, who was born in Senegal but grew up in Italy, previously worked in a factory. He joined the platform in March 2020 after losing his job. His real name is Khabane Lame.

Lame quickly gained popularity on the app with his humourous, yet wordless, videos which largely consist of him silently mocking other Tik Tokers, especially those suggesting "life hacks". 

"If u wanna laugh u r in the right place," reads his TikTok page. 

Over Lame's two-year TikTok career he has rubbed shoulders with the great and good, attended glamourous events and landed lucrative sponsorship deals with the likes of Hugo Boss, despite his humble beginnings. 

The majority of Lame’s videos rack up millions of views, with his most popular TikTok video boasting more than 300m views. 

Lame was born in the west African country Senegal, and moved to Chivasso, Italy, aged one.

Although growing up in poverty and living in social housing with his parents, Lame says he owes everything he has to his roots. 

"Public housing is a place to which I owe everything," Lame told Olhar Digital last year. "They taught me education and allowed me to cultivate many bonds."

In 2020, Lame was working as a machine operator at a factory in Turin, northern Italy. As the pandemic swept through the country, Lame was laid off.

He told Forbes that making Tik Tok videos was a way of fighting the boredom of being unemployed during the lockdown. 

"The pandemic had just started, and I was bored with a lot of time on my hands so I started making videos on TikTok," he said.

Lame began making videos in which he would mock 'life-hack' videos made by other users, acting out simple ways to do what they made complicated, and topping it off with a wide-eyed stare or a shrug.

"I came up with the idea because I was seeing these videos circulating, and I liked the idea of bringing some simplicity to it," Lame said to CNN last year, "I thought of a way to reach as many people as possible. And the best way was not to speak."

In his more recent videos, Lame has continued to stick to comedy but has broadened his methods by introducing both friends and costumes into his vids. 

“You're number one," one fan wrote, while another said: “You did it, you passed Charli.”

Others referred to Lame as the “new king of TikTok,” with some expressing how he has inspired them to create content. 

“You’re now on top bro," one person wrote. "Thanks for inspiring thousands and thousands that everything is possible.” 

Looking to the future, the TikTok titan hopes to one day make a film with Will Smith, counting the star as one of his fans.