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Age is just a number when it comes to gaming and this grandma is definitely the proof of that… but she’s now taking a break due to "health concerns"
87-year-old gamer Shirley Curry, or more famously known as the “Skyrim Grandma” gained her popularity after posting videos of her playing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim game.
Many people enjoy watching the grandma play the game, so much that the game developers plan to make her a character in the next game, The Elder Scrolls 6!
But she recently revealed that she will be taking a break due to the stress and health concerns.
“My blood pressure is going insane. My stress level is way too high. And I’m going to have to take control of it. Some of the comments are stressing me out way too much,” Shirley said.
“I know that I shouldn’t let these things stress me out, but they do. That’s just the way it is.”
But Shirley explained that many of her fans on her channel are very nice and she wasn't attacked by "'onslaught' of patronizing comments" when a news outlets reported that she's taking a break due to internet trolls.
Shirley has been regularly posting since 2015 and became one of the biggest gaming streamers on Twitch after she went viral.
She expressed that pressuer of being watched while gaming all the time and that it's not as enjoyable as when she's playing by herself.
“I’m not enjoying recording any more at all. It’s no longer fun’, said Cury. ‘I feel like I’m under a microscope all the time. I have much more fun and I play much better when I’m just playing by myself,” she added.
‘It puts a lot of pressure on me, and any gamer, when people are watching them play, especially when they nit-pick everything.”
She said that she wants to get her health under control and is not trying to be “cranky, mean or hateful.”
We hope to see Shirley return and slay some dragons soon!
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