{"id":1340754,"date":"2025-09-29T14:12:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/LwJzmrkcNY5opCwWJ9R5Lb"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:12:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:12:40","slug":"almost-90-years-old-skyrim-grandma-shirley-curry-says-shes-retiring-from-the-adventuring-life-im-tired-im-not-having-fun-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/almost-90-years-old-skyrim-grandma-shirley-curry-says-shes-retiring-from-the-adventuring-life-im-tired-im-not-having-fun-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost 90 years old, Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry says she’s retiring from the adventuring life: ‘I’m tired, I’m not having fun anymore’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a decade of uploads, Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry is stepping back from the adventurers’ life. In a new video, Curry\u2014who’s amassed over a million followers and gotten her own character<\/a> in The Elder Scrolls 6<\/a> (whenever that happens)\u2014said she’s just grown tired of it all, and “I am no longer going to be uploading Skyrim [videos].”<\/p>\n

If you’re experiencing deja vu, it’s not just you. Curry actually made a similar announcement almost exactly a year ago, releasing a video in which she announced there would be “no more gaming videos” from her\u2014in effect, that she was retiring from the Let’s Play life. But the following December, Curry felt the Skyrim urge once more and returned to the game, and even fired up Oblivion Remastered<\/a> in May to check out Cyrodiil for the first time.<\/p>\n

So it’s entirely possible that Curry might change her mind once again, and have a second come-to-Todd moment after a well-earned rest much like she did before. But I wouldn’t put any bets down to that effect. Curry sounds tired, and in particular she doesn’t seem to be getting the things she <\/em>wants from her Skyrim uploads.<\/p>\n

“I have a few older regular viewers”, Curry said, “but most of them seem to be very young kids, children, and I’m not getting any feedback from them on the videos. All I get is ‘Hi grandma, I love you grandma’. That isn’t what I was spending my time on making and uploading videos for.”<\/p>\n

Curry says she’ll still try to keep in touch. “I will be leaving a vlog once in a while when I have something to talk to you guys about, you older ones. When I say older ones, I’m talking about teens and up\u2014the ones who have regularly commented on my videos, actually talked to me. I will still hope that I hear from you in my vlogs or emails like I have been.”<\/p>\n

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