Did you know Taryn Delanie Smith does the voice of Tammy — one of the characters in her comedic sketches — with her real, actual voice and not by using a filter?
It’s one of the many details we discovered about the content creator during a video interview celebrating her place on Mashable 101’s list of impactful influencers. The comedian sat down with us to chat about the unlikely journey that took her from a West Seattle-raised U.S. diplomat hopeful to Miss New York and one of the internet’s most beloved voices.
With more than 1.1 million followers on Instagram and 1.6 million followers on TikTok — not to mention the podcast she co-hosts with her best friend Tiffani Singleton, We’re Your Girls — she’s building a world defined by humor and empathy.
She tells us about the moment her second-ever TikTok video exploded overnight, the parts of the internet worth remembering forever, and what she hopes the digital world will look like ten years from now.