Valkyrae Shares 7 Things About Being a Female Gamer | 7 Things | Hello Sunshine

Don’t let anyone tell you women can’t game! Valkyrae, aka Rachell Hofstetter, visits Hello Sushine’s studio to spill seven things she’s learned from her iconic career as a female gamer and influencer. And even for those of us who might not be into gaming just yet, she has wise words for following your dreams and leaving the naysayers behind.

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[Applause] hi my name is Rachel Hoffer AKA Valkyrie and these are the seven things that gaming has taught me number one you can actually turn your hobby into a career I didn’t even know it was possible to do gaming for a living but I mean I’ve been gaming my whole life and I just played it for fun I played it to build a community to make friends and over time it just kind of opened up all these doors and opportunities where all of a sudden I’m getting a manager and an agent and I’m doing all these other things in life that is literally because I started playing video games number two people are going to judge so you might as well do what makes you happy I’ve always heard that gaming was kind of a male thing to do but I’ve been doing my whole life so it’s like well that’s kind of weird so I feel like if I would have listened to those people telling me not to do everything that I’ve done I wouldn’t be where I am today so and I’m very happy so definitely do makes you happy number three consistency is key streaming and gaming has been a grind in my career I’ve been doing it for 8 years and I feel like if I didn’t put as much effort consistently doing that I wouldn’t be where I am today when I first started streaming I was streaming to like 25 to 50 people and no matter how many people were watching I was consistently streaming 8 to 9 hours a day number four the value of collaborating I’ve learned in my years years of being on social media that whoever you work with whether it’s someone that streams to three viewers or a brand a company no matter what it helps everyone involved so um that’s like three people that may not have known who I was or you know that’s like I’m playing with other streamers you know that’s all of our audience like get to learn about the other people that they’re watching so it kind of helps all Tides rise number five authenticity is everything I’ve been doing this for a very long time and something that I learned is that it’s very difficult to put up an act and I feel like anyone that’s watching me live in the moment because it’s not edited people are watching me live and they can see how I’m feeling on my face and I’m so expressive like I cannot hide how I’m feeling so I just feel like being true to myself and expressing how I really am and how I feel is what brought a lot of people to my streams and have really enjoyed my content because they can tell it’s me just being me number six G gaming teaches you Real Life Unexpected skills I’ve played many games I’ve played countless games you name it and there’s a lot of games that are like puzzle games there’s games that help your accuracy your reflexes everything you’re doing like sure it’s entertainment and it’s fun but I’ve recognized that over time like my reflexes are so much better in real life like I could definitely swerve out of the way if there is a car coming at me I think the biggest skill that gaming has taught me is decision making there are actually games where you have to choose a decision in the game and it affects the outcome of the game there’s like multiple endings on a certain game and so you have to make the right decision and I’ve applied that to real life like sometimes there’s just a a fork in the road and you have to choose what is the best path and you can’t go back like one example I can use for when decision making made a real impact in my life was when I had to decide whether to keep streaming on Twitch or to sign over to YouTube no one else was really signing over I was one of the first people to sign and I had to really think like is this going to affect my brand is this going to like be horrible for my companies and bad for just just my community um and that was the decision I made it was a risk I took and it paid off number seven gaming has never been just for boys okay I’ve been gaming my whole life I was a tomboy and I kept hearing you know like I’d get bullied for it teased for it but then I realized everyone was getting teased for gaming uh when I was growing up and I also learned that there are a lot of girls online that are gaming just like me that stay hidden because of the people that are teasing them about it so if you’re a girl and you feel discouraged about gaming just don’t don’t literally no matter what you do in life people are going to judge you for it have fun