Shirley ‘Skyrim Grandma’ Curry has been regularly posting Skyrim Let’s Play videos since 2015, and is a figure so beloved that her likeness has been scanned for inclusion in The Elder Scrolls 6.

But she’s now taking an extended break for the sake of her health, which Curry says “isn’t very good” – in large part due to the stress of managing a YouTube channel and dealing with negative comments.

Curry says she’s scaling back how many comments she responds to and deleting those from backseat gamers – “if you want to do those things go on and play your game, and let me play my game, and if you don’t like that go watch somebody else play their game.”.

She also feels like the difference in viewer expectations versus the content of her videos has gone out of balance in sheer numbers – she’s got hundreds of thousands of subscribers, but only a few thousand views per video.

Curry explains that she’s not trying to make a living from her videos, but that discrepancy has added to the feeling that she’s unsure of why she’s making them.