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TikTok’s young “Hungarian Messi” already has more than 3 million followers
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Dávid Izmael Király has more than 3 million followers on TikTok, and his videos have millions of views already.
We have recently written about a Brazilian-Hungarian ex-model becoming very popular on TikTok. She has a lot of likes for sure, but she cannot reach the heights of the Hungarian young guy we are about to introduce to you.
He created a TikTok profile and started uploading meme videos related to football. He managed to trick many people around the world into thinking that he is the Argentine footballer, Lionel Messi. It got so huge that there really are many people who think that Messi himself leaves comments under the official profiles of Real Madrid players, trolling them.
24.hu reached out to
the young Hungarian Dávid who decided to conduct an interesting social experiment by setting up a profile of someone known and popular all over the world but who does not have an official profile on the application.
He chose the 6-time Golden Ball-winning player of Barcelona, Lionel Messi, and opened the @messi_barcelona_offical TikTok profile.
“I was most interested in how easy it was to gain followers with this method and how many people I could reach on the internet,” explains Dávid.
According to him,
followers suddenly flooded his page; he gained 2 million of them over the course of two weeks.
He managed to do that using short, funny videos that most of the time include Lionel Messi against a rival of football club Barcelona.
One of his popular videos is when he cut a shot of Messi stopping with his car to give autographs to his fans, then the next shot shows Cristiano Ronaldo walking on the street with his bodyguards, and when a fan asks for a photo with him, the footballer simply pushes him away. He generated a crazy amount of views and likes with this type of distorted content.
@messi_barcelona_official Messi VS Ronaldo ?????
♬ eredeti hang – Leo Messi Fan
To generate even more views on his own videos, he started commenting under videos uploaded by Messi’s rivals, for instance, on the profile of Sergio Ramos, World Cup champion defender of Real Madrid.
“These videos have millions of views, are reached by many, containing a crazy amount of comments. I started trolling here, and my comments received so many likes that they jumped to the top of the list, thus making my profile reach even more people.“