"Heaven's Receptionist on TikTok: A Source of Comfort and Inspiration"

TikTok creator Taryn Delanie Smith's character Denise, heaven's receptionist, is helping people cope with grief and abstract questions about the afterlife. Smith's videos about Denise manage to stand out in the popular #Grief conversation on TikTok by pairing grief with playfulness, secularity and spirituality, authenticity and vulnerability, and the personal and the universal. Smith, who is also Miss New York, is in it for the human connection and finds inspiration for the videos in the comments section.