October 11, 2024

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‘Grandfluencers’ defy age boundaries as TikTok information creators

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Lagetta Wayne, with 130,500 followers amassed considering the fact that joining in June 2020, owes her social media success to a teenage granddaughter. Her quite to start with video, a backyard garden tour, clocked 37,600 likes.

“One working day my garden was extremely very and I got all fired up about that and I asked her if she would take some shots of me,” Ms. Wayne recalled. “She mentioned she was heading to place me on TikTok and I explained, very well, what is TikTok? I had under no circumstances read of it.”

Ms. Wayne, at 78, has teens asking her to be their grandmother as she tends to her greens and cooks them up in Suisun City, California, as @msgrandmasgarden on TikTok.