check_token in PUT method not working DRF

Question

So I have a view that sends a confirmation email to the new user to activate with a uid and token. That part works fine. When the user clicks on the link it's suppose to send a PUT to my ActivateUserAPI where it grabs the 'uid' and 'token' from the url and sets email_confirmed = True, but it is not getting past djangos check_token function

url:

path('api/auth/activate/<path:uid>/<path:token>',
     ActivateUserAPI.as_view(), name='activate'),

tokens.py

from django.contrib.auth.tokens import PasswordResetTokenGenerator
import six


class AccountActivationTokenGenerator(PasswordResetTokenGenerator):
def _make_hash_value(self, user, timestamp):
    return (six.text_type(user.pk) + six.text_type(timestamp)) + six.text_type(user.email)


account_activation_token = AccountActivationTokenGenerator()

serializer:

class ActivationSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer)
class Meta:
    model = User
    fields = ('id', 'email_confirmed',)

view:

class ActivateUserAPI(generics.UpdateAPIView):
serializer_class = ActivationSerializer

permission_classes = [
    permissions.AllowAny
]

def put(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
    token = self.kwargs['token']
    try:
        uid = force_str(urlsafe_base64_decode(self.kwargs['uid']))
        user = User.objects.get(pk=uid)
        print(account_activation_token.check_token(user, token)) # **this always returns False**

    except(TypeError, ValueError, OverflowError, User.DoesNotExist):
        user = None

    if user is not None and account_activation_token.check_token(user, token):
        serializer = ActivationSerializer(user, data=request.data)
        if serializer.is_valid():
            user.email_confirmed = True
            user.save()
            return Response(serializer.data)

        return HttpResponse('Thank you for your email confirmation. Now you can login your account.')
    else:
        return HttpResponse('Activation link is invalid!')

The weird thing is that if I access the api directly through the url it works fine, like in the link below

View of DRF