u/earthtoneblues

I’m a mom and just turned 43 this month. I just wanted to show that it’s possible to make money with UGC regardless of your age or experience. This month I made around $8,740 from brand deals (bonuses not included). I started completely from scratch, and it took months before I started getting consistent paid collabs

One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of people think you need to be great at editing, have expensive equipment, or already have a big following. That really wasn’t my experience. I learned basic editing with capcut, filmed everything on my phone and slowly improved over time. Most brands just want content that feels authentic and relatable.

From my experience, I don’t really limit myself to just one niche. I take almost everything (unless it’s sketchy/weird) Since I’m a mom I naturally tend to get a lot of brand deals in parenting, lifestyle, home products, wellness, and similar. The only niche I avoid: gifted collabs unless Dior and Gucci is reading this lol

The main reason I’m posting this is because I don’t see a lot of older ugc creators sharing their experience here on reddit and I remember thinking this was something only younger people or influencers could do. There are brands for basically every age range, and some brands actually prefer older creators because they feel more trustworthy and relatable.

So whether you’re Gen Z or in your 40s. If you enjoy making content and you're willing to learn, it's definitely something worth trying.

I've seen a lot of discussion around Anthropic restoring Claude Fable 5, and I think the interesting part isn't the model itself, but what the decision says about how they're approaching AI governance.

A lot of AI companies talk about responsibility, but this feels like one of the first cases where a company is actually willing to revisit an earlier decision instead of pretending every change is final. Whether you agree with restoring it or not, it shows they're treating model behavior as something that can evolve rather than locking everything behind one-way policy updates.

What also stands out is how different Anthropic's philosophy seems compared to the rest of the industry. People have been praising Claude lately for its reasoning, debugging ability, and willingness to challenge incorrect assumptions instead of simply agreeing with the user. That's a surprisingly rare quality, and it's probably one reason developers have been gravitating toward it. Me included!

I also wonder if this ties back to Anthropic's overall culture. They seem more focused on research, careful training methods, and long-term alignment than shipping features as quickly as possible. Things like Constitutional AI, extensive internal testing, and even giving Claude a bit more of a distinct personality all seem connected to that mindset.

Obviously, we'll have to see how this plays out over time, but restoring Fable 5 feels less like a simple product update and more like a signal that Anthropic is still experimenting with what responsible AI governance should actually look like.

Curious what everyone else thinks. Is this a meaningful change in philosophy, or are people (me) reading too much into it?