Beloved ‘Skyrim Grandma’ Retires From Making Gameplay Videos at 88 Years Old

Beloved YouTuber Shirley Curry, colloquially known as the Skyrim Grandma, has announced her retirement from making gameplay videos after doing so for nine years.

A YouTube video announcing her retirement aged 88 has an appropriate 8,800 upvotes on Reddit, where fans of her content thanked her for making videos for so many years and crossed their fingers for a return when The Elder Scrolls 6 finally comes out.

Curry said she won’t be making gameplay videos anymore simply because she no longer enjoys it, but isn’t quitting YouTube altogether. She’ll continue posting vlogs once in a while and may occasionally do reading videos of the books in Skyrim or even her own stories.

“I’m just doing it for fun and it isn’t fun anymore,” Curry said. “I’m tired of it. I’m bored with it. I’m bored to death with it. So I am making the decision now, totally, finally. I am not going to be making any more game videos and uploading them.”

With her new free time, Curry is going to make a quilt, read some more, and maybe even write a book. And she’ll make vlogs about all of the above.

Whether or not she returns to making gameplay videos when The Elder Scrolls 6 comes out remains to been, but Curry’s legacy with the franchise is already immortalised. Having amassed more than a million subscribers, she has long since gained recignition from other members of the Skyrim community and even developer Bethesda itself.

Fans petitioned to have Curry immortalised in the next game back in 2018, and Bethesda eventually responded and, as reported by Eurogamer, announced she would get her own NPC character in the highly anticipated game.

The Elder Scrolls 6 still feels a long way away though, despite its teaser trailer being released more than six years ago. Bethesda said “early builds” of the game were being worked on in March 2024, but has not indicated any sort of release window otherwise.

Image Credit: Shirley Curry on YouTube.

Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.