Tanu Tripathi, your Tiktok study buddy

Tanu visited the waterway in The Woodlands in October, 2020.

Andrea Aguilar

Tanu visited the waterway in The Woodlands in October, 2020.

Tanu Tripathi is a senior at The Woodlands High School who has made a career for herself through helping students learn how to master different subjects on her TikTok account, @YourStudentSupporter.
She began her account in December of 2020 with posting various videos about test prep, how to organize yourself, and different study strategies you can use to be successful in your classes and in January 2021 she made her first viral video.
“I remember sitting in class and seeing all the notifications, I was excited and overwhelmed but that’s when I realized this could go somewhere.” Tripathi said. “When I started my account I didn’t tell anyone, it wasn’t until I started to come up on peoples ‘For you’ page that they started to find out about it.”
She started her account with no plan for it, but as her account continued to grow, companies/start-ups started contacting her with various sponsorship opportunities.
Tripathi was recently asked to speak at a DECA meeting to discuss the many opportunities that her TikTok account has given her. Not long after she started being asked to sponsor different companies she realized that sponsorships can get you a lot of money.
“I wasn’t sure if they were real at first until they started to send me contracts.” Tripathi said.
TikTok has helped drive her to the business side of things. She plans to use her work experience from TikTok to help get accepted into colleges, where she will be double majoring in business and politics. Tripathi’s fans were worried she might stop using her account after she graduates, but Tripathi has assured us she isn’t going anywhere.
“I plan to minimize how much I post, but my account is not going anywhere,” Tripathi said.
Tripathi currently works for a social media start-up company as a part time employee, she said that she plans to travel to Los Angeles after graduation in order to work closer with the company.