Shirley Curry, aka the "Skyrim Grandma", is no longer posting gaming videos, she's told her viewers. An upcoming eye surgery is going to leave her recovering for some weeks and (more importantly to her) she is simply tired of playing games for an audience. "It isn't fun anymore," she says in a video. "I'm tired of it.
I'm bored with it, bored to death with it. So I am making the decision now - totally, finally - I am not going to be making any more gaming videos and uploading them." In the video message, she talks frankly about the dwindling desire to record her exploits in games like The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. "It seems like I spend most of my time sitting in here at this computer," she said. "And lately...
I walk in here and look at my computer and think: 'I've got to make a video today'. And then I just shake my head at myself and say: 'I don't want to, I have no desire to'.
And I turn around and walk back out." Over her time as a player of Skyrim, Curry has gained over 1.29 million subscribers on YouTube, (but she jokes she can count the number of actual regular viewers on two hands).
She became popular enough that Bethesda scanned her likeness and have pledged to immortalize her as an NPC in The Elder Scrolls 6, whatever it turns out to be.