Beloved YouTuber Shirley Curry, colloquially often called the Skyrim Grandma, has introduced her retirement from making gameplay movies after doing so for 9 years.
A YouTube video asserting her retirement aged 88 has an acceptable 8,800 upvotes on Reddit, the place followers of her content material thanked her for making movies for therefore a few years and crossed their fingers for a return when The Elder Scrolls 6 lastly comes out.
Curry mentioned she will not be making gameplay movies anymore just because she not enjoys it, however is not quitting YouTube altogether. She’ll proceed posting vlogs on occasion and will often do studying movies of the books in Skyrim and even her personal tales.
“I am simply doing it for enjoyable and it is not enjoyable anymore,” Curry mentioned. “I am uninterested in it. I am tired of it. I am fed up with it. So I’m making the choice now, completely, lastly. I’m not going to be making any extra recreation movies and importing them.”
Along with her new free time, Curry goes to make a quilt, learn some extra, and perhaps even write a e book. And he or she’ll make vlogs about the entire above.
Whether or not or not she returns to creating gameplay movies when The Elder Scrolls 6 comes out stays to been, however Curry’s legacy with the franchise is already immortalised. Having amassed greater than one million subscribers, she has lengthy since gained recignition from different members of the Skyrim group and even developer Bethesda itself.
Followers petitioned to have Curry immortalised within the subsequent recreation again in 2018, and Bethesda ultimately responded and, as reported by Eurogamer, introduced she would get her personal NPC character within the extremely anticipated recreation.
The Elder Scrolls 6 nonetheless feels a good distance away although, regardless of its teaser trailer being launched greater than six years in the past. Bethesda mentioned “early builds” of the sport have been being labored on in March 2024, however has not indicated any form of launch window in any other case.
Picture Credit score: Shirley Curry on YouTube.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll discuss The Witcher all day.
