Streamer Rachel “Valkyrae” Hofstetter (29) has become the world’s largest gaming streamer on YouTube. But that comes with some disgusting things, as people online are crazy and cross boundaries, Valkyrae explains. Besides tasteless videos and masturbation fantasies, delusional stalkers pose a danger.
This is Valkyrae:
- The 29-year-old American worked in various odd jobs after college, including at GameStop, before she started streaming. Starting in 2015, she streamed on Twitch and gradually built a career as a streamer. Especially with streams of Fortnite and LoL, her channel grew to just under a million subscribers.
- In January 2020, however, the head of YouTube Gaming, Ryan Wyatt, recruited her: he saw star potential in Valkyrae and brought her on for a content offensive for the streaming part of YouTube. She signed an exclusive contract.
- Shortly after the switch, she faced a personal and private crisis: a move became a nightmare due to difficult neighbors, her long-term relationship ended, and the platform switch proved complicated.
- Yet Valkyrae overcame the crisis and became the biggest streamer in the world during the Covid lockdown due to the hype around the game “Among Us.” This allowed her to surpass her friend Pokimane, with whom she briefly lived in a streamer house. She is now a co-owner of the eSports clan 100 Thieves and a gaming star with 3.4 million subscribers on YouTube.
“There’s nothing I haven’t seen”
This is what Valkyrae says about the “disgusting things” online: In a stream, the streamer explains what type of content she faces since she became so popular. She says:
There’s nothing I haven’t seen. I’ve seen it all.
Valkyrae
As an example, she mentioned:
- A porn video titled “Valkyrae and Sykkuno doing [a sexual act].” Although the people in the video bore no resemblance to her and her streaming colleague Sykkuno, such things still shock her.
- Furthermore, she has discovered Twitter accounts that were dedicated to masturbating on photos of her and her friends.
Valkyrae says:
People need to know this. That’s actually one of the big downsides of being on the internet. There are a lot of crazy people you are exposed to. Be careful out there and stay safe.
Valkyrae
The big downside of the internet is: You’re exposed to crazies – a lot of crazies
This is the real danger: Valkyrae explains that it’s not just about masturbation fantasies and porn. Many of her friends have stalkers, and there’s no “internet police” to protect them from them.
This is really scary. Especially for people wanting to get into streaming, they must be aware of the negative aspects of being “famous on the internet.”
It’s frightening.
What does she mean by stalkers? There are some creepy stories about stalkers to Valkyrae and female streamers around her:
- Valkyrae has reported about a stalker who created hundreds of accounts and kept messaging her on Twitter even when she blocked him.
- One of Valkyrae’s roommates, “LilyPichu,” had a stalker who harassed her on Twitch.
- Another roommate of Valkyrae, Pokimane, told in February 2020, that a fan suddenly showed up at her streaming house, thinking Pokimane was his girlfriend.
- The English streamer, SweetAnita, reports about a stalker who even followed her to her place of residence, waited in front of her house, and stalked her with a smile while carrying a cheap kitchen knife. SweetAnita said the police could not help her because nothing had happened yet.
Especially when female streamers live together in “content houses” whose location is publicly known, the fear of stalkers increases. There are recurring reports of stalkers coming to the streaming location of the female streamers believing the streamer is “their girlfriend.”
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