Khaby Lame poses upon arrival at the “Top Gun: Maverick” premiere in Cannes, France, in May. Charli D’Amelio was the first person to pass 100 million followers on TikTok, but she’s the social media platform’s queen no more. Senegalese comic Khaby Lame, 22, now has nearly 144 million people who are very interested in what he has to say — …
Several Syrians face deportation from Turkey after posting videos of themselves eating bananas as part of a “provocation” while “inciting hatred” following tensions between the host community and refugees over their financial wellbeing. Videos of people purporting to be Syrians eating bananas have sprung up since October 17, when an online news outlet filmed an argument between a young Syrian …