Gamer
Grandma (and her Grandkids)
I
was reading a paper about elderly gaming when I remembered a 60second
documentary I saw once about an old lady who was a huge fan on
Skyrim. You might have seen it too, as it went viral about an year
ago, but if you haven't, here what I'm talking about:
I
went in the comments section (if there's a video that can't attract
haters is this one, right?) and I found this:
I
immediately wondered: “Wait, are you telling me that she's a
meme?”. I googled her and, BAM, I stumbled upon the best fanbase of
the Internet. I was immediately in love.
Shirley
Curry, a.k.a. Gamer Grandma, has a YouTube channel where she streams
her Skyrim games (1 million views!) and, sometimes, her treadmill strolls, some pretty good
fan art and even a Steam group (that I immediately joined):
GradmaShirley'sGrandkids (2631 members). The media also noticed her
and wrote several pieces about her (e.g. here, here and here).
Gamer
Grandma is also quite active on Twitter, and seem to bring out the
best from people.
As
every Grandma she's always an advice for her grandkids in distress .
By
the way, she also have some rather good piece advice on how to deal with online
bullying: “Older
gamers leave me comments on my channel saying that they don’t even
record because they’re afraid of getting nasty comments. Well, it
isn’t anything to be afraid of — either ignore them or delete
them! You have the power. ”
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