Dylan Zhang



Tanya (known as ASkylitAvenue) is a growing YouTuber that has made vlogs, challenges, collabs, and music videos since December of 2011. She was born on February 9th, 1996 and currently resides in British Columbia, Canada. Tanya is planning on moving to Los Angeles, California at the end of June 2014. Tanya is well known for referencing and using "marinated bean salad" in her videos. At every 1,000 subscriber mark, she releases an episode of Ask Tanya.

YouTube History
On December 24, 2011, Tanya uploaded her first YouTube video which was a lip dub to Taylor Swift's popular track, "Mine." From December 2011 to February 2012, Tanya was very inactive. In March 2012, Tanya began to post travel vlogs of her in San Francisco, New York City and Disney World. Soon after, she uploaded her first big hit video which was a My Strange Addiction parody that received a lot of negative comments at first, due to a rumour that it was a real episode. It wasn't until March of 2013 when Tanya became more active on her channel.

Popularity
Tanya's channel began to rapidly grow in June of 2013 when her Smoothie Challenge went viral across YouTube. In July of 2013, Tanya hit 1,000 subscribers. The trend continued as she hit 2,000 in August 2013, 3,000 in September 2013, and 4,000 in October of 2013. Below is Tanya's top 5 most popular videos.

Challenges
Tanya is now well known for collabing with her friends to complete challenge videos. Marinated bean salad is frequently used and referenced in her videos with her friend Ashlie. Tanya has also been known to create original challenges that are also very popular. Below is a list of all of the challenges that Tanya has done, from oldest to most recent.

SimpleCollab
On July 21, 2013, Tanya auditioned for a collab channel (SimpleCollab) which was created by fellow collab-mate, Simon Karterud. Sometime later, it was announced that Tanya made it into the collab and would upload every Tuesday. On August 27, 2013, Tanya posted her first introduction video on the channel where she beat her own record of saying the alphabet backwards in 2.2 seconds. The channel currently has 500+* subscribers 17,000+* views, and is active.

VlogAvenue
On October 15, 2013, Tanya opened a new channel (VlogAvenue) dedicated to vlogs. The channel already has 100+* subscribers, but not yet any videos. Tanya stated that her vlogs would soon be making a new home over on VlogAvenue, rather than ASkylitAvenue.

YouTube Gatherings
Tanya has attended VidCon in 2013 with her friend Shyla. The gathering was held from August 1–3, 2013 at the Anaheim Convention Center. The conference sold out a month in advance with attendance reaching 12,000. Tanya met a few of her own fans at the conference and was also able to meet many of her biggest inspirations which includes Meghan Camarena (Strawburry17) and Joey Graceffa (JoeyGraceffa). She has also posted a photo album titled "Vidcon 2013" on Facebook of herself with all of the YouTubers that she met. Tanya also stated that she will be attending Vidcon 2014 from June 26 –28, 2013.





Merch Store
On October 1, 2013, Tanya opened her very first merchandise store on District Lines. She has a wide variety of t-shirts, hoodies, and accessories that were designed by herself and friend, Brittany Dyck.

Social Networks
Below are the official social networks that are run by Tanya herself. Any others that claim to be her are fake. 