Younes Zarou: This is Germany's new Tiktok-king

He studied in the fourth Semester, business Informatics, and reached to Tiktok so many people like no one else in Germany: Younes Zarouist with 9.1 million followers, Germany's new Tiktok-king, and overtook the carpenter "Falco Punch", which bore this title so far. The have congratulated him already, said Zarou.You understand well, soon there might be a common Videos.

Gustav Theile

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Zarou is 22 years old and claims to be the first in ten months active on the platform. He posts there colorful Videos and photos in which he lubricates often the color in the face or wet. In addition to the actual Video playing with some visual effects that can be triggered by the color or the water, he's posting a Video from the shootings, explains these effects.

The Tiktok-king is well-organized, he wanted to be a professional football player, once trained even a few months with the B-youth of Eintracht Frankfurt. "Because you have to be very disciplined," said Zarou. His Manager is Adil Sbai, of being cared for in Germany many of the great Creator, so the producers hot on platforms such as Tiktok–, Zarous press work professionally.

Videos family productions

But if Zarou tells of his Videos, it sounds almost a bit amateurish. Although the Videos are planned, but most of the time he turns in the driveway of his parents house, he represents it as a family production: "The video I'm shooting all with my family." For a Video, he needs several hours. A classic day, he describes to this: in the Morning he runs in, two hours in the family house, looking for items he can incorporate in his Videos, and also from other Tiktokern inspire. Then comes the implementation, together with the family, but one which is camera shy. "Working together," said Zarou.

Five brothers and sisters he has, the mother is a nurse, the father has an auto shop."A small Moroccan family," he says, smile about it, even if the mother in Germany, to become only the father grew up in Morocco. "Everything you see, actually my family." A friend he has not out of date.

No alcohol

even as a child he wanted to become a football professional or a Social Media Star, says the devout Muslim who prays five times a day, no alcohol drinks and also little stops to celebrate. Just before the diploma in the 11. Class didn't he have to realize that it is not enough to football star. "As I told my coach, I listen, I focus on school, because I cried in front of him," says Zarou.