This 'Gamer Grandma' Has More Than 900,000 'Grandkids':
Shirley Curry, 84, has cultivated a following on YouTube with her charming videos of journeys through The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
[...] Shirley Curry has clocked thousands of hours of gameplay since the 1990s. She's been a gamer longer than many of today's top competitors have been alive. Still, when people rave about her charming walk-throughs of the blockbuster role-playing game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, she feels their praise is out of place.
[...] She joined YouTube in 2011 to watch some of her favorite gaming channels and uploaded her first Skyrim video in 2015. That clip, in which she does battle with a giant spider, hit 2.1 million views. "Petition for Grandma Shirley to be classified as a national treasure," one of the top comments reads.
Now, Ms. Curry is a fixture in the global gamer-influencer world. Alongside her hundreds of thousands of YouTube subscribers, she has 75,000 followers on Twitter and an additional 7,000 on Instagram. Bethesda, the studio behind the Elder Scrolls franchise, has promised to include her as a character in the forthcoming sequel to Skyrim.
"Everyone at the studio knows who she is. I wanted to do it right. That meant not only capturing her likeness, but also her skin detail and facial expressions," said Rick Vicens, a senior artist at Bethesda. "When we spoke about the process and what it would take, Shirley was completely on board. I'm excited for everyone, and most importantly Shirley, to see the final result."
[...] Ms. Curry said she makes decent money from her YouTube channel, enough at least that she can afford to travel on the gamer convention circuit, where she has met some of her die-hard fans. Those tours have been sidelined during the pandemic, but Ms. Curry said that her daily routines haven't changed much in 2020. ("I get my coffee, I sit down at my computer, turn both my screens on, and go through my emails, comments and Twitter," she said.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:22AM (1 child)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLxnUfHAdrQ [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @01:34AM
Happy that the covid economy is working out for her.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:06AM (4 children)
> "I get my coffee, I sit down at my computer, turn both my screens on...
that's exactly how I imagined a granny would speak in 2020.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @04:47AM (3 children)
Why not three monitors? [dilbert.com] [2010-11-04]
Granny is so out of touch, she hasn't even caught up to 2010 yet.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday September 02 2020, @07:49AM (2 children)
Maybe Granny can't reach all three power buttons while seated?
Personally, I find two monitors and some virtual desktops to suffice for all of my needs. Maybe if I tried a third monitor, I wouldn't want to go back to two, but two suffice.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 2) by looorg on Wednesday September 02 2020, @11:23AM (1 child)
It's probably like all things tech, when you get used to more you can't ever go back. Nobody wants a computer that is slower then the one they had previously. Nobody has, probably, ever said the words that this computer is to fast for me, have to much memory or is displaying way to good graphics. Same with monitors. As soon as you get used to a second one you'll never want to be back with just one. Once you get used to three then two is no longer enough.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday September 05 2020, @04:59PM
Well once I played a FPS on a videoprojector, soon realizing that it's too immersive to be effective, so if you have to stand way back the advantages vs a normal screen become negligible. Mostly, more relaxing sight focus.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @12:39PM
If you came for the links..
https://www.youtube.com/c/ShirleyCurryTheOlderGamer [youtube.com]
https://www.twitch.tv/gamermom36 [twitch.tv]
https://twitter.com/shirleyscurry [twitter.com]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday September 02 2020, @03:53PM (1 child)
I thought society had determined to everyone's satisfaction that the term "gamer" only applied to hateful white males who doxx and send death threats /s
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 02 2020, @09:15PM
You mean a small group of click-bait journalists? Thankfully gaming has become popular enough that such nonsense is as valid as saying movie fans are all Nazis. Sadly gaming is one of the primary "social" outlets for the alt-right shit heads.
Yes I saw your /s just adding my 2 cents.