{"id":730,"date":"2026-10-23T13:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=730"},"modified":"2026-10-23T13:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T13:08:17","slug":"tiktok-grannies-grandma-droniak-15-million-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=730","title":{"rendered":"A 96-YEAR-OLD IS PAYING HER NURSING HOME BILL WITH TIKTOK! | Grandma Droniak has 15 million followers, a party settlement with her retirement home, and brand deals you\u2019d kill for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE GRANNIES HAVE TAKEN OVER! <strong>Lillian Droniak<\/strong>, 96, known online as <strong>Grandma Droniak<\/strong>, has <strong>15 million followers<\/strong> and earns enough from social media to cover her nursing home fees of <strong>$12,000 a month<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c63r5xpezz51o\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>She went viral in June after claiming her retirement home threatened to evict her for throwing parties. The home later confirmed it, then settled: she can keep partying, just not supply alcoholic drinks. \u201cI always knew I had it in me to be famous, I just didn\u2019t think it would happen in my 90s,\u201d she said. Her grandson started helping her post in 2020, and the brand money also feeds a college fund for her great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s not alone. <strong>Viv Truran<\/strong>, 82, from Cardiff, shows off her outfits, 22 pairs of glasses and two drawers of scarves to more than <strong>800,000<\/strong> followers, posting two videos a day and tracking her numbers in a notebook that\u2019s now on book five. <strong>Grace Geramita<\/strong>, 85, aka Nonna Gracie, cooks for millions and now earns more than she did in any previous job. And 77-year-old former teacher <strong>Barbara Costello<\/strong> of Brunch with Babs says followers call her \u201cthe mom I never had\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Why brands love them: older creators have \u201cdeeply established, highly loyal\u201d communities with more purchasing power, which \u201ccarries a massive premium,\u201d said Naomi Baker of agency We Are Social. Droniak\u2019s own pitch is simpler: \u201cThey think old people just sit and stare at a wall but I\u2019m showing it\u2019s not that bad to get old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only crowd not impressed? Her fellow residents. \u201cThey don\u2019t get it as they don\u2019t go on TikTok.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c63r5xpezz51o\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandma Droniak has 15 million followers, a party settlement with her retirement home, and brand deals you\u2019d kill for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-tiktok-grannies-1023.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}