YouTuber Shirley Curry aka “Skyrim Grandma” has announced her retirement after 15 years of making content.
ShirleyCurryTheOlderGamer is an 89-year-old Grandma from Ohio who, according to her YouTube channel’s description, “loves to play and record games”. She joined YouTube in 2011 and uploaded her first Skyrim video in 2015.
However, 2400 uploads and 1.3million subscribers later, she’s announced plans to step back from making Skyrim videos.
In her latest vlog called ‘My Goodbye to Skyrim’, Curry explains that she’s no longer going to be uploading Skyrim content. “This has come to this because I’ll soon be 90 years old,” she said. “Every time I come up with a new idea of how to play a story in Skyrim – which is what I’ve mostly always done, made up my own stories in there – I may make one or two or three [videos] with a new character and then I’m just bored again. So that’s why I’m just going to stop uploading anything with Skyrim.”
She also blamed a lack of meaningful engagement from “young kids” as one of the reasons for her retirement. “All i get is [comments saying] ‘hi Grandma’ or ‘I love you Grandma’ and that isn’t what i was spending my time on making and uploading videos for.”
“I’m tired. I’m not having any fun with it anymore. I hope my older viewers will stay with me and keep talking to me like you have been.” She went on to say she will be uploading the occasional vlog “when I have something to talk about”.
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In 2019, Bethesda promised to include Curry in Skyrim sequel The Elder Scrolls 6 following a fan campaign. “This means a lot to me because I would be extremely happy to know that somebody else was playing with my character in a future Elder Scrolls game,” she said at the time. A popular mod has also added her to Skyrim as a playable character.
The Elder Scrolls 6 is currently due to launch in “2026 or later”.
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