It’s the end of an era as Shirley Curry, better known by her online nickname “Skyrim Grandma,” officially retired from gaming content creation at 88.

Curry uploaded a video to her YouTube channel on Sept. 22 entitled “No More Gaming Videos” in which she discussed an upcoming surgery on her right eye and informed viewers she will be retiring from making gaming videos after almost a decade of content. “It doesn’t make me too happy, but it’s something I feel now, and I don’t think you’re gonna like it either, but I can’t help it,” she said. “I’m old; I’m tired.”

IShowSpeed has inked his name into the internet history books as he tours around Asia, with many now dubbing him the “greatest of all time” after the 19-year-old blitzed several long-standing records to become the world’s number one English-speaking streamer.

Speed’s latest grand stop across South East Asia came in Indonesia, where the ever-watchable YouTube personality racked up more than 14 million views across an IRL stream in the city to bust several personal records—a milestone that saw him burst into tears with happiness. The magnitude of the broadcast even knocked down the huge haul he’d scored in Thailand days earlier and, more importantly, confirmed his status as the world’s biggest star.

The streaming world’s erupted in confusion after Kai Cenat suggested he may actually walk away from streaming to pursue a career in professional basketball—a claim he made a long 46 hours into his huge Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice marathon stream.

Now, wilder things have happened in the world of streaming entertainment, but it’s rare to see any superstar streamer at the height of their powers pack it in for a huge career change, let alone trying to make it in a hyper-competitive sporting league. There are plenty, however, who believe Kai’s shocking claim may well carry a kernel of truth.

With the legal bout between Palworld developers Pocketpair and Nintendo underway, many are beginning to take a side, and top streamer Asmongold has made his decision—he wants to see Nintendo lose.

During a stream this week, Asmongold went over the finer details of Nintendo’s lawsuit against Pocketpair with the former seeking an injunction and “compensation for damages” brought about by Palworld and its supposed infringement of “multiple patent rights.” He zeroed in on the patents surrounding monster capture in games that Nintendo filed, suggesting these patents were created specifically to sue Palworld. Asmongold believes this strategy comes off as unfair at best, and at worst, deliberately underhanded.

Popular VTuber Ironmouse has had her main YouTube channel—containing hundreds of recorded videos and songs—taken down today without warning by the video streaming platform, supposedly due to multiple copyright strikes on an affiliated channel that was removed a little over a week ago.

The streamer’s VOD channel on YouTube was removed on Sept. 9 after it received back-to-back-to-back copyright strikes—something Ironmouse was made aware of at the time. “It’s going to get deleted because I don’t want to dispute it because I don’t want to submit my personal information to whoever it is,” she said during a stream shortly before the takedown. Now, as a result of the VOD channel termination, YouTube has made the connection between it and Ironmouse’s main account and terminated it too as it is an “affiliated” channel.

If you were hoping for another chance to nominate and vote for your favorite streamer to win an award or two, QTCinderella and offbrand have the perfect opportunity for you with the fourth edition of the Streamer Awards coming this December.

Started in 2022, QTCinderella’s award show honoring the best in streaming has quickly become a must-see event for streaming fans and a must-attend party for the stars of platforms like Twitch and YouTube alike. The last edition of the show in February 2024 featured some of the biggest names in the award ceremony’s history, including musical performances from legitimate stars like bbno$. Last year’s awards also solidified Kai Cenat as the biggest streamer of the past couple of years after he won his second consecutive Streamer of the Year award.

Former League of Legends professional turned streamer Pobelter was briefly banned from broadcasting on Twitch today for what he claimed was because he made a “Hawk Tuah” joke while losing a League game mid-way through his Sept. 19 stream.

The grave mistake, as Pobelter described it, came as he was playing Ryze mid lane and preemptively planning on doing what most League players tend to do when they’re strong: Roam the map, help wave clear, and take turrets. Just before the streamer was about to split push, he threw out the joke—”Hawk Tuah, split on that lane”—was nearly immediately banned.

Kai Cenat is up to the “last stop” on his FromSoftware journey: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

Cenat informed his Twitch followers of his plans to play through Sekiro in a marathon stream starting Friday, Sept. 20 at 6pm EST, with the caveat being he won’t end the broadcast until he beats the game. This format brought plenty of attention to his other FromSoftware streams, especially because the action RPG games are notoriously high difficulty.

IShowSpeed has cemented himself as an internet sensation with many viral moments—and his latest stream broke his personal records.

On a trip to Indonesia, Speed went live on YouTube while exploring the streets of Jakarta. The stream featured many Indonesian viewers finding Speed on the street, and quickly became the streamer’s biggest achievement. He recorded a massive peak concurrent viewer count of over one million concurrent viewers. At the time he announced it was his biggest stream ever, Speed’s stream data also showed that there were over 14 million views throughout the entire live stream.

At the height of streaming’s exclusivity wars earlier this decade, stream queen Pokimane had the chance to make “life-changing” money if she dumped Twitch for YouTube—but loyalty and her “idiotic” honesty saw her turn down the cash.

Pokimane, who’s no longer exclusivity signed to Twitch anyway, opened up on YouTube’s hardline recruitment drive on her Sweet ‘n’ Sour podcast: Right when the Google-owned platform was looking to draw title names away from Twitch, the company’s negotiating squad approached Pokimane to open conversations. It started with a “very big offer” the 28-year-old described as life-changing money; notable considering she’s worth close to $25 million.