[STEAM] Beloved 'Skyrim Grandma' Retires From Making Gameplay Videos at 88 Years Old

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Beloved YouTuber Shirley Curry, colloquially known as the Skyrim Grandma, has announced her retirement from making gameplay videos after doing so for nine years.

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video announcing her retirement aged 88 has an appropriate 8,800 upvotes on

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, where fans of her content thanked her for making videos for so many years and crossed their fingers for a return when

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finally comes out.

Curry said she won't be making gameplay videos anymore simply because she no longer enjoys it, but isn't quitting

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altogether. She'll continue posting vlogs once in a while and may occasionally do reading videos of the books in Skyrim or even her own stories.

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-embed-wrapper iframe { margin-left: 0 !important; } "I'm just doing it for fun and it isn't fun anymore," Curry said. "I'm tired of it. I'm bored with it. I'm bored to ****** with it. So I am making the decision now, totally, finally. I am not going to be making any more game videos and uploading them."

With her new free time, Curry is going to make a quilt, read some more, and maybe even write a book. And she'll make vlogs about all of the above.

Whether or not she returns to making gameplay videos when The Elder Scrolls 6 comes out ******** to been, but Curry's legacy with the franchise is already immortalised. Having amassed more than a million subscribers,

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and even developer Bethesda itself.

Fans petitioned to have Curry immortalised in the next game back in 2018, and Bethesda eventually responded and, as reported by

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, announced she would get her own NPC character in the highly anticipated game.

The Elder Scrolls 6 still feels a long way away though,

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. Bethesda said

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, but has not indicated any sort of release window otherwise.

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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He'll talk about The Witcher all day.

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