Carisa Lee

Danielle Sam­lals­ingh is known on so­cial me­dia, most­ly Tik­Tok, for her fun­ny im­i­ta­tions of T&T’s cul­ture.

Con­tent she has re­ceived pos­i­tive feed­back for.

“10/10 would put Danielle Sam­lals­ingh in a sit­com,” one per­son com­ment­ed.

“I hope Danielle Sam­lals­ingh is hav­ing a great day to­day. Bless her for those Tik­Toks,” an­oth­er per­son wrote.

But to date, the lo­cal Tik­Tok­er said the best feed­back she re­ceived about her videos was from the videos she did high­light­ing vi­o­lence against women in this coun­try.

“I did a video ba­si­cal­ly on how women are treat­ed in Trinidad and To­ba­go and peo­ple liked how I spoke out and they thanked me for that so, I look back on that and you know what there is a rea­son I make my videos and do what I do,” Samalals­ingh said.

She’s orig­i­nal­ly from San Fer­nan­do but is cur­rent­ly study­ing in New York and was not able to join the thou­sands of peo­ple at can­dle­light vig­ils across the coun­try for An­drea Bharath and the oth­ers so she used her plat­form.

“At the end of the day it’s nice to make peo­ple laugh but it’s al­so nice to like spread a mes­sage that you tru­ly be­lieve in to,” she said.

Sam­lals­ingh has over 104,000 fol­low­ers on Tik­Tok and more than three mil­lion likes.

She said her most viewed video was the one she did on how of­ten Trinida­di­ans bathe in com­par­i­son to Amer­i­cans. Her first lo­cal video was com­par­ing teach­ers from the two cul­tures.

“I love shar­ing my cul­ture with the world,” she said.

The in­dus­tri­al psy­chol­o­gy stu­dent told Guardian Me­dia that she was al­ways a fan of the arts and she was al­ways, “su­per-cre­ative.”

She said it takes ap­prox­i­mate­ly five min­utes for her to come up with a skit and 20 min­utes to ex­e­cute it and post to the app. She posts twice dai­ly.

“My mom is very strict and so she doesn’t think that I should do a de­gree in some­thing in the arts.. I think in the back of my head there is this hope that I can pur­sue act­ing,” she said.

But they have no prob­lem with her cre­at­ing fun­ny con­tent part time, Sam­lals­ingh said her friends and fam­i­ly were not sur­prised when she blew up on so­cial me­dia, es­pe­cial­ly since she was al­ways the live­ly one in the group.

“I’ve al­ways been the class clown,” she said laugh­ing.

“My fam­i­ly love it, my mom says that I am em­bar­rass­ing her, she says I por­tray­ing her in a bad light, “she con­tin­ued.

Since she start­ed post­ing lo­cal con­tent on Tik­Tok a year ago, Sam­lals­ingh has done videos on grow­ing up in T&T, how Caribbean par­ents act and what she ex­pects at her wed­ding, fu­ner­al and from her di­vorce.

“You bring me joy on my dark­est days,” one per­son on twit­ter wrote.

She said one of her favourite things to do is make peo­ple laugh.

“The fact that I get to make not just my friends laugh any­more but like just peo­ple on the plat­form and peo­ple in gen­er­al, I’m just hap­py that I get to make peo­ple hap­py” she said.

You can find her Tik­Tok ac­count at: @ddsam­lals­ingh.