. Gone are the days when the platform's most recognizable creators break out into dance.
Take Khaby Lame, for instance, who silently reacts to videos. He has amassed 155 million followers on the app, surpassing D'Amelio as the most followed creator on TikTok. To show how the platform has evolved, and which creators rose to fame each year, we used data from the creator information site, which acts as an IMDB for creators, influencers, and other notables. The platform is visited by up to 25 million monthly unique users, and the search engine on Famous Birthdays is searched up to 20 million times per month, according to the site's founder Evan Britton.
From analyzing searches on its platform, Famous Birthdays is able to identify which creators are rising in real time.