fans for grandma's P diagram / > at dusk, you see one A steep path winds up and passes through the castle between the clouds. This city is the capital of Solitude, "the ancient scroll 5: skyline". It's a 79 year old old lady who leads you in this parallel world.
if you are an online game player, you can certainly understand what I'm talking about: 79 year old "Granny" Shirley Curry, more than 115000 subscribers on YouTube, two times the population of her native town. The 79 year old lady experienced the world war, the birth of the first game, the invention of the Internet, and the final success in the modern world, which is quite different from her growing environment.
in the middle of the 90s, her son installed the classic round strategy game "civilization 2" on her computer, and she has been obsessed with the game since then. The opening of the ancient scroll 5: the skyline brought her to a new height, and the game also brought her into a big pit for video video.
a friend called "Jacobthebro" shares her video game video to Reddit, which is widely spread in cyberspace like a virus. On the morning of the second morning, Shirley's e-mail box was filled with over 11000 emails from all over the world.
"I was sitting there, some at a loss, and then screamed," in our intermittent Skype interview with her, she shared her experience with her overnight fame.
now many of the video bloggers on youTube are anxious to become household names. In contrast, Shirley just wants to play a good game, but it is indescribably famous overnight. But the overnight success is also a price, and she is now putting all her time on video games: recording video, interacting with fans, and paying attention to other bloggers. To her, it was like a whirlpool that could never be divorced. She had stripped all her hobbies and amateurs, and she could no longer sew clothes or read a science fiction leisurely as she used to. All these busy, let her feel heartfelt confusion and exhaustion. The irony of
is that the video game video compresses her daily game time to less than half an hour, which makes her feel dissatisfied. "Sometimes I really want to play a few hours a day like I used to, but now people don't want to watch such a long video. I can only compress the time of each video to that..."
her former calm life has been permanently changed by YouTube. The comment area of
YouTube is not always harmonious, and some comment areas are full of small abuse and slander. The comments in the Shirley video area are usually harmonious and warm, and some people will leave a message below and say, "I like your video and will collect your web site." But even such a nice 79 year old lady will still have many sunspots on her. Shirley frankly, sometimes she had to pull some black people out, because those people thought that the identity of the 79 year old woman was disguised by some young people.
granny's game equipment
now Shirley is the only old person on YouTube to record video in public, but she insists that many older people are hiding on the network to record video games. "The older people should upload their real images and write their real age in the information, so that many people will know their true identity, so (an old person playing the game) will not become a sensation." In her view, even if the real age and identity of the elderly are disclosed, they will not prevent them from integrating into the Internet culture perfectly.
should let the topic of "lack of elderly participation in Internet culture" continue to ferment. Shirley said young people should take the initiative to invite older people to play games together. Sometimes it may take some extraordinary patience to teach them to play games, but this is also a good way to cross the generation gap. When asked if there was such an example in Shirley's life, she laughed and said, "no, but my grandson thinks it's really cool to make video on the Internet!"
under her celebrity aura, Shirley is just an ordinary old lady. Such a trip to YouTube has no regrets for her. She has made a small profit in her YouTube career and successfully realized her channel in January of this year. Next, she just wants to play the game well and simply.
listening to the story of Shirley, I can't wait to go home with my grandmother to have a plate of "iron fist", but the real shock to me in this conversation is that old players should not be ignored, they should become the norm in the Internet culture.