Khabane Lame

For Khabane ”Khaby” Lame, silence is golden. TikTok’s million-dollar mime fetches $750,000 to feature a product in a TikTok and Instagram post. In 2019, Lame was assembling car filters in a factory outside the Italian city of Turin; he now has more than 240 million social media followers and has scored lucrative partnerships with Hugo Boss, State Farm and Middle Eastern bank QNB. This fall, he was featured as a character in “Fortnite,” the blockbuster multiplayer video game with more than 230 million monthly players.