Many people can do many things to become famous, but fame fully achieves itself when the lucky ones come across it on a global occasion such as the World Cup, so what did the young Abu Bakr Abbas do to become famous?
Fame knocked on the door of the Kenyan youth, Abu Bakr Abbas, an employee standing to guide the World Cup fans in the metro stations, and the fans interacted with his style and imitated him, so his distinctive phrase “Metro” spread through his videos, which were circulated by tens of thousands of people who came from all over the world to follow the course of events. Qatar World Cup 2022.
In the wake of this sudden fame, the man who calls himself "Master of the Metro" opened an account for him on Tik Tok, and the number of his followers in a very short period reached more than 23 thousand, and some of his clips approached achieving a million views, and he is happy with that.
What drew the public's attention and was the reason for his fame was his style of calling out the word "metro", with which the masses interacted and imitated him.
Sayed Al-Metro posted a clip on TikTok welcoming those who wanted to take pictures with him for free, and said, "Meet me in Souq Waqif even while doing my work. You are all welcome. You can take selfies with me, and video clips, I have no problem with that. And for free, I will not." I ask you in return for this. This is my job and I love it.”
one word
And the episode (11/23/2022) of the “Shabakat” program monitored the interaction of the platform’s pioneers with the story of the master of the metro, where the activist Muhammad Qassem wrote in a tweet to him: “It is one word, and we will shorten it. He does it and people love it.”
In turn, activist Hamza Sabri commented on people's desire to imitate the master of the metro, and wrote: "His blood is light.
As for the tweeter, Awad Radwan, he saw that fame has a great relationship to luck, and he said: “I stayed in the spirit of singing with him, metro, metro, all people come to see him, so it is trending, and by God, this world is luck. You don’t know where your luck is.”
As for Abd al-Rahman Zaki, he commented, "You don't know how it suddenly hits a trend, and people imagine it with it, even though it is not a talent or an extraordinary need. The man says only metro, it is really acceptance and luck."
It is noteworthy that many people achieved fame with simple movements and ordinary situations, including the young man Khabi Lam, who became famous for his comic clips on Tik Tok, as he films himself and makes movements and expressions without saying a word, and has now become the second most followed person on the Tik Tok application, and is followed by more than 152 million people, and on Instagram he is followed by more than 80 million people.