‘Best decade ever’: Gaston County grandma has ’80s flashbacks in her ‘TikTok room’

DALLAS, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) – Grandmothers don’t relax on a porch rocking chair anymore. At least that’s not how a Gastonia woman rocks.

Somewhere along the line, Sharon Stewart lost track of time.

“It was fun in the ’80s, that was the best decade ever,” she remembers.

In the comfort of home, she can explore the ’80s and just about any other era and share it on social media.

She also hosts a Friday night TikTok show called KSK Live, where folks meet and sing.

“This is my red leather jacket,” she explains, pulling out the collection in what she calls the TikTok Room.

“This is one of my ’80s jackets,” she shows us before moving on to the next item. “Red pleather.”

Five years ago, she took TikTok for a spin and kept going.

Sharon creates content that’s probably not like your grandmother used to make.

The green screen set up in the TikTok room allows her to transport herself to just about any place and era you can imagine.

“I’ve got wigs galore; I’ve got my ring light,” she says.

“It’s like an MTV vibe,” Stewart told Queen City News.

In one stop, we watched her lip sync to Joan Jett (“I Hate Myself for Loving You”), Bon Jovi (“You Give Love a Bad Name”), and Def Leppard (“Pour Some Sugar On Me”).

She had a different get-up for each tune.

If you think the production in front of the camera is something, oh Baby Boomer, the fun has only just begun,

“I do all the editing, I do all the filters and effects and everything like that, string everything like that and make one big, beautiful video, haha,” says Stewart.

The most beautiful visual we saw all day had nothing to do with TikTok.

“He is the light of our lives,” she explained.

Her grandson Holden has a genetic disorder called Williams syndrome. He also has autism.

“I’m his guardian and his caregiver. You can see, he is just so sweet and so special to us,” Stewart said.

Occasionally, Holden is in one of her video posts.

“He has seen me in my wig so much he’s like whatever, haha,” she says.

Sharon cherishes simple moments with Holden as well as making TikTok moments.

Through the magic of social media, she can relive the old days but still live in the present.

“If you would have told me six years ago that, ‘You [are] going to be on TikTok making all these videos and being interviewed on television,’ I’d be like, ‘You are crazy!’”