Valkyrae \u201cconsidering quitting\u201d YouTube & Twitter over social media hate YouTube: ValkyraeRachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter has shocked her YouTube fans with a huge bombshell \u2014 the new 100 Thieves co-owner is tossing up \u201cquitting\u201d streaming and social media to move into business, after a barrage of TikTok hate following a \u201csilly\u201d TommyInnit and Addison Rae mixup. There can be no denying Valkyrae has had a stellar past 18 months. The popular streamer ousted Pokimane as the internet\u2019s most-watched female creator, scored a slice of the 100 Thieves pie in an ownership shuffle, and was even dubbed the new \u201cQueen of YouTube\u201d by yours truly here at Dexerto. Her meteoric rise could be cut short, though, Hofstetter has revealed. According to the YouTube stream queen, there\u2019s a very good chance she\u2019ll \u201cpivot into business and investing,\u201d leaving her online stardom behind. \u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about it a lot,\u201d she said during her April 27 stream. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely going to be a time in my life where I pivot out of social media especially. I don\u2019t want to live this way [with her online fame] for the rest of my life.\u201d \u201cI don\u2019t know when,\u201d she added, \u201cbut it\u2019s been on my mind.\u201d The reason, Valkyrae explained, is her place in the public eye. In particular, the 29-year-old has struggled with the vitriol often leveled at content creators \u2014 women in particular \u2014 on Twitter and other social platforms. \u201cI actually really, really hate social media. It\u2019s scary\u2026 I hate it. All the trolls, and hate, and creepiness,\u201d she said. \u201cI just don\u2019t think this fame is really that fulfilling. It\u2019s incredibly invasive. It [quitting] has been on my mind a lot.\u201d That \u201cinvasive\u201d beast reared its ugly head recently for Hofstetter too. On Monday, the YouTube star was accused of removing Minecraft personality TommyInnit from the popular DreamSMP server, mainly by Addison Rae followers. It was an odd melting pot of fandoms, and Valkyrae was caught right in the middle of a torrent of misdirected online abuse. \u201cThis whole TikTok thing,\u201d she said, \u201cI don\u2019t even know how I got involved in that. It all feels so unnecessary, but it just keeps happening and happening.\u201d Whether Valkyrae actually goes through with her \u201ctimes up\u201d promise or not, it\u2019s clear she\u2019s reaching some kind of breaking point. \u201cWhat makes me happy is being safe,\u201d the YouTube star explained. \u201c[This life] is so exposing, and people \u2014 especially on social media \u2014 are always looking for the worst in you. They want to find something bad about you, and actually use it against you. It\u2019s just scary, really scary.\u201d \u201cI already have things in business and investing, so I can pivot when I\u2019m ready,\u201d she concluded. \u201cI have that plan, I just don\u2019t know when I want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valkyrae \u201cconsidering quitting\u201d YouTube & Twitter over social media hate YouTube: ValkyraeRachel \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter has shocked her YouTube fans with a huge bombshell \u2014 the new 100 Thieves co-owner is tossing up \u201cquitting\u201d streaming and social media to move into business, after a barrage of TikTok hate following a \u201csilly\u201d TommyInnit and Addison Rae mixup. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}