Valkyrae leaves YouTube fans in panic after joking about 2022 retirement plans YouTube: ValkyraeRachell \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter left her YouTube fans in a panic recently after the star streamer suggested she may retire as early as 2022 \u2014 when her current contract ends \u2014 over worries she may be too old to keep going. Valkyrae has sent her \u201cvalktwt\u201d fandom into a tizzy recently after joking she may actually retire early next year because her 30th birthday is just around the corner. The 29-year-old 100 Thieves streamer has spoken about her exit plans before, often suggesting she would hang up the microphone when she no longer enjoyed playing games and interacting with fans, but a casual joke regarding a 2022 end went down like a lead balloon. \u201cLook, it\u2019s almost time to retire,\u201d she joked. The reason, Valkyrae continued, was her age: \u201cReally, Granny Rae will be over the hill in just a few weeks, a few weeks! The end, it\u2019s just a few weeks now.\u201d Valkyrae laughed at her own suggestion, but her YouTube fans were less thrilled with the suggestion, joke or no. They flooded her chat with comments begging her to think twice on what they thought was a legitimate decision. \u201cPlease Rae, I don\u2019t want to think about it,\u201d one wrote. Others chimed in with praise and encouragement, suggesting the YouTube star still has \u201cmany years\u201d left in her streaming career. One even said \u201cI\u2019d die\u201d multiple times in response before the chat washed the reply away. There\u2019s no cause for concern, of course; \u201cGranny Rae\u201d was only joking about abruptly exiting the bright lights of streaming fame in the coming weeks. The only reason it may have shocked fans more than usual is that her YouTube contract is also on the verge of expiring, leaving her a free agent again. While it\u2019s unlikely the end of her YouTube deal would see Valkyrae hang up the microphone, fans seemed to think it was one very possible future. Valkyrae has touched on her potential retirement plans before, revealing if she ever was to stop streaming entirely, it would be to \u201cpivot\u201d into business and investing. \u201cI\u2019ve been thinking about it a lot,\u201d she revealed at the time. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely going to be a time in my life where I pivot. I don\u2019t want to live this way [streaming fame] for the rest of my life. I don\u2019t know when, but it\u2019s been on my mind. Social media especially, I just can\u2019t stand it, it\u2019s so difficult.\u201d Read More: Best YouTubers of 2021: Top 5 Ranked – \u201cAll the trolls, and hate, and creepiness,\u201d she continued. \u201cI just don\u2019t think this fame is that fulfilling. It\u2019s incredibly invasive. It [quitting] has been on my mind a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Valkyrae leaves YouTube fans in panic after joking about 2022 retirement plans YouTube: ValkyraeRachell \u2018Valkyrae\u2019 Hofstetter left her YouTube fans in a panic recently after the star streamer suggested she may retire as early as 2022 \u2014 when her current contract ends \u2014 over worries she may be too old to keep going. Valkyrae has […]<\/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-63273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63273","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=63273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}