‘I’m just doing it for fun, and it isn’t fun anymore’: Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry is hanging up her gauntlets and retiring from making gaming videos

After nine years of traversing northern Tamriel and amassing over one million subscribers on YouTube, Skyrim Grandma Shirley Curry is done with making gaming videos. 

The 88-year-old announced her retirement in a 13-minute video titled “No More Gaming Videos,” explaining that she wasn’t entirely happy with her decision but that it’s for the best. “I’m old and I’m tired, and I don’t feel like doing much anymore,” Curry said. As well as her age, it seems like the classic content creation burnout has hit our Skyrim Grandma pretty hard.

“It seems I spend most of my time sitting in here at this computer, and lately—probably for the last month—I walk in here, look at my computer and think ‘I’ve got to make a video today,'” she said. “And then I just shake my head at myself and say ‘I don’t want to, I have no desire to,’ and I walk …