Acclaimed most popular TikTok personality, Khaby Lame, has been allowed to self deport from the United States after being detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in Las Vegas.

A spokesperson for ICE said the Senegalese Italian influencer was held at the city’s airport on Friday after “overstaying the terms of his visa”.

He arrived in the US on 30 April and had attended the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual fundraising gala in New York.

Lamy was allowed to leave the country without a deportation order, which could have barred him from being allowed back into the US for up to a decade.

The 25-year-old, whose birth name is Seringe Khabane Lame, has over 162 million followers on TikTok alone was born in Senegal, but moved to Italy with his parents when he was an infant and has Italian citizenship.

He rose to international fame during the pandemic without ever saying a word in his videos, which would show him reacting to absurdly complicated “life hacks”.

Lamy’s internet fame quickly evolved. He signed a multi-year partnership with designer brand Hugo Boss in 2022. In January, he was appointed a UNICEF goodwill ambassador.

He has not publicly commented on his detention and has continued posting on TikTok since.

Lamy’s detention and voluntary departure from the US comes amid President Donald Trump’s escalating crackdown on immigration.