From modder to streamer to game changer
Amira Virgil is driven.
That is her brand.
“I didnt even know about the gaming space online.
Amira Virgil
I discovered everybody when I started [streaming] and started Googling.
I was wondering where are the Black creators?
Where are the Black women,” she said in a phone interview with Lifewire.
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Her success has been prolific, to say the least.
Her preferred stomping ground?
The digital dollhouse appropriately titledThe Sims.
The franchise, which celebrated its 20th anniversary last February, became a quick favorite for the Twitch streamer.
It combined her favorite gaming components: time management, tycoon-style gameplay, and customization.
Around 2015 she decided to try her hand at content creation.
This success would eventually lead her back down the road of streaming.
“I went to YouTube and put out videos consistently for a year.
Then, I started streaming over there.
I started off with 60 people,” the streamer told Lifewire.
“Then one day it turned into 200.
Then 700 and some days it would go up to 1,300 [concurrent viewers].”
At this point, she quit her part-time job at Walmart to become a full-time content creator.
She had bigger dreams, but wasn’t sure if she’d made the right decision.
Now, she knows.
Lights, Camera, Action!
It reached developers at EA.
And Virgil was the de facto captain of the ship.
The 12 contestants competed to win a grand prize of $100,000.
Her streams provide a place of joy and laughter for people to get away from their troubles.
The community boasts over 165,000 members, in addition to 20,000 in arelated Facebook group.
Virgil is here to check that these platforms and companies do the work.
Not only by providing appropriate content, but also supporting underserved voices.
