Shirley Curry, the 88-year-old YouTuber higher generally known as the Skyrim Grandma, has introduced her retirement, saying she’s „bored stiff“ of constructing gaming movies.
Curry uploaded her first Skyrim gameplay video to YouTube in 2015, and had amassed over 1m subscribers by 2021. Regardless of struggling a stroke that very same 12 months, Curry quickly returned to her gaming chair and has continued to submit movies of her adventures in Tamriel since then.
However now, Curry’s Skyrim journey has lastly reached its finish. In a vlog titled ‚No Extra Gaming Movies‘ shared over the weekend, Curry instructed followers, „It appears I spend most of my time sitting in right here at this laptop, and recently – in all probability for the final month – I stroll in right here and take a look at my laptop, and assume ‚I’ve received to make a video immediately‘. After which I simply shake my head at myself and say, ‚I do not need to, I’ve no want to, and I flip round and stroll again out.'“
„I am simply doing it for enjoyable, and it is not enjoyable anymore. I am bored with it, and I am bored stiff with it. So I am making the choice now, completely, lastly, I’m not going to be making any extra sport movies.“
Curry would not, nonetheless, plan on disappearing from YouTube totally. Regardless of admitting to followers, „I am outdated and I am drained, and I do not really feel like doing a lot anymore“, she says she’ll nonetheless make vlogs „on occasion“. These will embody updates on her life, the books she’s studying, perhaps even a few of her personal writing. And away from the digicam, Curry is „going to begin making a quilt I have been eager to make for a really very long time“.
And as Curry factors out – earlier than signing off with, „I am going to see you in a weblog in a while, I promise“ – these lacking her common gaming escapades have practically a decade of earlier movies to take pleasure in. And if that is nonetheless not sufficient Skyrim Grandma, there’s all the time 2021’s fan-made Shirley Follower Mod, which provides Curry to Skyrim as a two-handed barbarian companion, full with a completely fleshed-out, lore-friendly backstory.
That individual mode emerged following a fan petition to „immortalise“ Curry in The Elder Scrolls 6, after she lamented the sport was probably so distant she „in all probability will not get to play it“. Three years later, The Elder Scrolls 6 continues to be nowhere in sight, however here is to Curry’s well-earned retirement from gaming, and finest needs on that quilt.
