89-Year-Old Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry Announces The Elder Scrolls Video Retirement

Shirley Curry, known to fans arsenic Skyrim Grandma, has announced her status from uploading The Elder Scrolls videos up of her upcoming 90th birthday.

In a YouTube video published contiguous entitled "My Goodbye to Skyrim," Curry said that her clip trying to find much The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim contented for her followers was yet over, aft a decennary of uploads.

"This has travel to this due to the fact that I'll soon beryllium 90 years old," Curry explained. "Every clip I travel up with a caller thought for however to play a communicative successful Skyrim... I whitethorn marque 1 oregon 2 oregon 3 with a caller quality and past I'm bored again. So that's wherefore I'm going to halt uploading thing to bash with Skyrim.

"I'm tired, I'm not having immoderate amusive with it anymore, astir apt due to the fact that of each the small kids connected there," Curry continued, saying that she was nary longer "getting immoderate feedback" from her viewers successful the aforesaid mode that she utilized to. "All I get is 'Hi Grandma, I emotion you Grandma' — that isn't what I'm spending my clip making and uploading videos for."

Curry has announced her status before, lone to yet instrumentality — specified arsenic earlier this year, erstwhile she began playing The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered — but this clip the Elder Scrolls fable suggested she truly was present done.

In her video today, Curry repeatedly told anyone inactive wanting Skyrim contented from her to download the fan-made mod which adds her arsenic an in-game follower (it's disposable from Nexus Mods). Alternatively, Curry said she had a book survey YouTube transmission she would proceed to station videos to, and encouraged immoderate fans who were funny to travel her there.

Curry made nary notation of waiting for her planned quality successful The Elder Scrolls 6, whenever that yet arrives. Bethesda has antecedently said it volition adhd Curry to its upcoming task successful immoderate capacity, though there's nary motion of the crippled materialising immoderate clip soon, contempt its teaser trailer being released much than 7 years ago.

"The regulars that person been with maine a agelong clip - due to the fact that I've been playing Skyrim and uploading it for astir 15 years - those I volition inactive admit proceeding from," Curry said. You usually person my email and I volition beryllium leaving a vlog erstwhile successful a portion erstwhile I person thing to speech to you guys about." In the statement container for the video, Curry has besides near her postal address, successful lawsuit anyone wanted to get successful interaction via carnal mail.

"I deliberation that's astir each I person to say," Curry concluded. "I anticipation my older viewers volition enactment with maine and support talking with maine arsenic you person been."

Image credit: Shirley Curry.

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