A 96-year-old woman in the United States has become famous on the internet. Lillian Droniak, known online as Grandma Droniak, has 15 million followers on social media. She makes popular videos and earns enough money to pay for her care home.
Her care home costs 12,000 dollars every month. Droniak pays these fees with money from companies that pay her to show their food and beauty products. Her grandson first helped her post a video in 2020 because they were bored. Now, he helps edit her videos. The money also helps pay for college for her great-grandchildren.
Droniak says many young people think older people only sit and do nothing. She makes videos to show that life does not stop as you get older. She tells her followers that people can still have fun and go to parties in their nineties.
Other older women are also finding fame online. In the United Kingdom, 82-year-old Viv Truran shares videos of her colorful outfits with hundreds of thousands of followers. Many young people message her to say that her videos help them feel less afraid of getting old.