Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/ Shirley Curry
Shirley Curry, aka the “Skyrim Grandma”, is no longer publishing video gaming videos, she's informed her audiences. An approaching eye surgical treatment is going to leave her recuperating for some weeks and (more significantly to her) she is merely tired of playing video games for an audience.
“It isn't enjoyable any longer,” she states in a video. “I'm sick of it. I'm tired with it, tired to death with it. I am making the choice now – absolutely, lastly – I am not going to be making any more video gaming videos and publishing them.”
In the video message, she talks honestly about the decreasing desire to tape her exploits in video games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
“It looks like I invest the majority of my time being in here at this computer system,” she stated. “And recently … I stroll in here and take a look at my computer system and believe: ‘I've got to make a video today'. And after that I simply shake my head at myself and state: ‘I do not wish to, I have no desire to'. And I reverse and stroll back out.”
Over her time as a gamer of Skyrim, Curry has actually acquired over 1.29 million customers on YouTube, (however she jokes she can count the variety of real routine audiences on 2 hands). She ended up being popular enough that Bethesda scanned her similarity and have actually vowed to celebrate her as an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6, whatever it ends up being.
Now, rather of video gaming, she's going to hang out on other interests. And she may make irregular videos about those, she states. She's fed up with doing it for video gaming, particularly. Reading and other pastimes may still bring her to the cam now and then.
“I'm going to begin making a quilt that I've been wishing to produce a very long time. I created the squares a long period of time ago … and I will reveal you it bit by bit as I make it.
“I'll inform you something about a book I'm checking out, inform you a bit about it, simply in case you ‘d like to read it.”
This isn't the very first time the octagenarian YouTuber has actually minimized her vlogging. In 2020 she was used down by the energy and time needs of making videos and began to do less. As she keeps in mind in this video, the quantity of work would frequently sneak back up over time. It's something she does not wish to repeat, it appears, as she discovers it hard now to merely remain engaged.
“Sometimes, when I awaken of an early morning and I'm so comfortable in the bed, and it simply feels so excellent and I believe: ‘Oh my goodness I've been here all night long, I ‘d like to simply lay here all cuddled up all day'. Isn't that horrible?”
Not awful at all,
