WowGrandma78, an older streamer who has been broadcasting on this platform since January 2020, celebrate her 80th birthday last month. In honor of her eight decades around the sun, WowGrandma78 is hosting a multi-day sub-athon on Twitch, which has entered its 15th day as of this writing. It’s unclear if she intends to stop soon, but Kotaku got a chance to strike up her in the middle of a break to chat about streaming, World of Warcraftand live off the platform owned by Amazon.
WowGrandma78 is not a new streamer. She has been on the platform nightly since 2020. Never planned to be a full-fledged content creator, but she was convinced by an ex.OH association members.
“I said who would want to watch an older person play the game,” says WowGrandma78 Kotaku on discord. “[I left that guild for personal reasons], but it was he who took me away. Finally, one day I received a camera, and a friend came over and showed me how to set up OBS. I took it from there. Another streamer helped me create graphics for my homepage when I was clueless. “
And she went, earning hundreds of hours of streaming later World of Warcraft, Blizzard’s MMORPG, she’s been playing for almost 20 years now. WoWGradme78 has played other MMOs but found them difficult to continue investing when the others left. So, OH is still the game of her choice.
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WowGrandma78 says, “I like the environment graphics, I like raids, and I guess dungeons because they pressed those people into us,” says WowGrandma78. “I love my characters. My Second and Main Alliance [restoration] druid has 767 days playing on her. You are tied to these digital characters. ”
When OH maybe her main game, not her first game at all. WowGrandma78 told Kotaku that she “wanted to learn how to build computers in 1998” so that she could play the games she saw at the time. This includes StarcraftAnd after that Warcraft 3 and Runescape. She was caught up in OH to the point where she had five different potions, a hybrid shapeshifter capable of taking on multiple roles, she switched between them.
When she’s not kicking the orc ass, WowGrandma78 is busy taking care of her poodle Zoey, spending time with her large family, or “lurking” on another stream giving player credits. Hey, streamers have to support each other.
WowGrandma78 says: “I directed children’s musicals from 1979 until the pandemic hit. “I directed a school musical last fall. In the past, hiking and climbing were my addictions, [but] it’s streaming now and [WoW]. I usually have five or more people streaming while I’m streaming. ”
Her first subathon may be coming to an end — unless more people subscribe to her Twitch channel. WowGrandma78 calls the entrant’s marathon “overwhelming” because she never expected it to blow up. But she says she’s loved it so far and that the support is “incredible.” However, she remains dedicated to the foundation and may even be considering another spin-off for her 81st birthday.
“I make a plan [to] keep streaming for as long as I can,” said WowGrandma78. “I haven’t missed a single day of streaming since it started. Even when I flew to my son’s house for the summer, I bought a PC and set it up [it] up there [so] As soon as I got there, I was about to go live. People told me to take a day off. I may have to do it someday, but for now, I’m fine with [seven] days of week.”
And if you’re wondering if she should change the number “78” in her branding:
“We decided not to change the number 78 because of it [was] my age when I started streaming [and] viewers think it should stay the same,” said WowGrandma78. “They’re happy to know me for that.”
