Their names are Raissa and Momo and they are one of the most famous couples on social networks: their popularity is given by their approach to racism, which they fight with irony in their videos on TikTok. The two boys have to deal daily with the unpleasant and racist comments of the haters, and so they decided to break down stereotypes with sympathy.
The couple quickly became famous, giving interviews to the major Italian newspapers and the news and landed on TV, participating in Tu Si Que Vales and showing an excerpt of their most popular videos.
- Name and surname: Raissa Russi and Mohamed Ismail Bayed
- Date and place of birth: 26 March 1996, Moncalieri; 1993, Casablanca
- Where they live: Turin
- Nickname: Raissa and Momo
- TikTok: Raissa & Momo
- Instagram: Raissa Russi and Momo
The beginnings of Raissa and Momo Raissa and Momo
‘s web activity began in spring 2020, during the first lockdown caused by the pandemic: the couple began to make ironic videos on mixed couples for fun, making fun of stereotypes and trying to fight discrimination with a smile.
Success literally exploded in their hands: their posts on TikTok and Instagram began to amass hundreds of thousands of views and at the same time, they began to attract racist and disparaging comments. Their strategy was simple: responding to malice with irony, to destroy the spiral of hatred on social media. The love story of Raissa and Momo Raissa Russiand graduated in administration sciences and labor consultancy, and Mohamed Ismail Bayed was born in Morocco but raised in Turin from the age of five. The boy graduated in physical education with a diploma as a physiotherapist, and has been engaged to Raissa for almost two years.
The two met in high school, where, however, they only knew each other by sight. The spark was struck years later, in the gym: she had to recover from an accident, he was the physiotherapist who treated her. Since then they have never left each other, facing many prejudices and negative comments. The families of Raissa and Momo
The two creators are very fond of their families of origin: Raissa very often publishes some shots together with her mother Daniela and her sister Rebecca. Momo is also very close to his older sister Soukaina – suffering from Down syndrome – who often appears in their videos on TikTok.
The couple experienced some difficulties at the beginning of their story, because they met some resistance from Raissa’s parents, as she told Webboh.it: “Even my parents initially disagreed about our relationship for” religious reasons ” “And cultural, but they changed their mind as soon as they met him”. Collaborations and quarrels
Friendly and helpful, Raissa and Momo have become a point of reference for many couples like them: “Every day many mixed couples write to me with problems in being together because of families, religion, or who tell us about various discrimination. For us to give advice or just snatch a smile and a pleasure ”, confessed Raissa Russi to Webboh.it. The activities of Raissa and Momo
Their success on social media led them to write a book that is climbing the charts: it is called Di mondiiffer e soul alimi, published in May 2021 and published by DeAgostini. The book is about their life, starting from their childhood and telling how their paths crossed and fell in love.
A love that has gone beyond cultural differences and that every day leads them to fight: “It is not easy to become aware of the difficulties experienced by the person you love. It is not easy to talk about love to strangers. But, above all, it is not easy to fight for rights that cannot be obtained, for an equality that is still too far away, because if you come from “different worlds” the perspective of life that is offered to you many times changes “, they wrote on Instagram.
Raissa and Momo, photos from Instagram
