Valkyrae

At 32 years old, Valkyrae has this physical status:

Rachell Hofstetter (born January 8, 1992), also known as Valkyrae, is an American video game streamer.

Spending the majority of her time playing Fortnite, she now streams on Twitch and YouTube videos.

Personal life

Hofstetter was born in Moses Lake, Washington, and is of Filipino and German descent. She has two brothers and one younger sister. In 2017, her father died of cancer. She earned her associate's degree in arts from a Washington community college.

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Career

Hofstetter served in various capacities, including a GameStop job, after graduating from community college. She began posting her gaming hobby on Instagram in 2014, gaining a large following. Beginning in 2015, Twitch followers, acquaintances, and Twitch streamers had encouraged her to start streaming on Twitch. Hofstetter began posting gaming clips on YouTube after gathering a following.

She was the first female gamer and content creator for 100 Thieves, a competitive American esports team in 2018. Hofstetter left Twitch for a limited subscription deal on YouTube on January 13, 2020. Although initially struggling to maintain an average viewer count of 5,000 people in 2020, her YouTube channel Among Us saw a major jump when she launched Among Us, dissolving Toast, Sykkuno, Pokimane, Jacksepticeye, Cr1TiKaL, Corpse Husband, and Fuslie.

Hofstetter was the year's fastest-growing female streamer, surpassing Pokimane as the most viewed female streamer of 2020. Hofstetter's stream hit a record breaking 100,000 viewers per week, notably during Among Us sessions at the end of 2020.

Hofstetter, a fellow 100 Thieves content creator, CouRageJD, was announced on April 7, 2021, as co-owner of 100 Thieves. They join Scooter Braun, Dan Gilbert, the rapper, and Matthew 'Nadeshot' Haag, together. Valkyrae and CouRage will receive equity in the company, which Forbes magazine recently valued at $190 million. Hofstetter and content creator Natsumiii released a cover version of LilyPichu's "Last Cup of Coffee" in March 2021. In the music video for the song "Daywalker" later this month, she portrayed Corpse Husband. Corpse Husband appears in Machine Gun Kelly's The Corpse Husband. Hofstetter made cameo appearances in Bella Poarch's "Build a Bitch" and "Inferno" later this year.

Hofstetter, along with Sykkuno and Corpse Husband, was involved in a fundraiser for Feeding America hosted by Jimmy Fallon as part of a segment on The Tonight Show in April. The segment featured them among Us with members of The Roots, Tariq Trotter, Kirk Douglas, and Questlove, as well as cast members of the critically acclaimed American television series Stranger Things, Gaten Matarazzo, and Noah Schnapp.

Hofstetter unveiled the RFLCT, her skincare brand, on October 19, 2021. Users are vulnerable to skin damage caused by prolonged exposure to blue light, according to the brand, which is mainly geared toward gamers and those who put in a lot of screen time. RFLCT received backlash because of insufficient evidence to back up the claim, according to Kathleen Suozzi, the Yale University aesthetic dermatology program's chief, because people were unlikely to suffer any harm from sitting in front of a screen for long stretches of time.

Hofstetter addressed RFLCT's skepticism in October 2021, claiming that "all the hate, suspicion, and criticisms are legitimate and valid" and that "all of the hate, mistrust, and concerns are all justified and true" on the website, although she said that changes were being made to the website. She later announced that she had previously been given access to RFLCT-funded studies and that the findings would be made open to the public at launch of the product, but that the study would not be released until the public. Hofstetter expressed a desire to abandon RFLCT but was legally bound, but it was not contractually bound. RFLCT's website and online store shut down on October 30, 2021, and RFLCT ceased operation on October 30, 2021. According to a statement on the website, "While we believe in the formulations, after further reflection, we've decided to move forward on new paths, effectively ending the RFLCT brand."

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