YouTube streamer Valkyrae is one of the most popular personalities in the streaming community. Entertaining her audience by playing games like Valorant, League of Legends, and many others, she has built an empire for herself. Known to be honest and friendly with her audience, she has reflected on her anxiety-copping mechanism.

Rachell Hofstetter, known as Valkyrae, is also the co-owner of the esports and gaming organization 100 Thieves. Recently, the fans were utterly happy to see that she would be co-hosting The Streamer Awards 2023 alongside QTCindrella.

During her last stream, where she had a great time playing Valorant with her peers, she shared with the audience her anxiety-coping mechanism. More so, admitting that streaming helps her in coping with it.

Fans comfort Valkyrae as she shares her anxiety-coping mechanism with her community

While welcoming viewers and preparing to start a stream, she was giving some updates on what would be happening in the few days regarding the upcoming projects. As she was sharing information, she admitted, “I’ve never talked about this before but my whole life I have had this uh my copium, my copium? My coping mechanism for anxiety is uh picking and scratching. And I think it’s a mixture of everything that’s happening coming up and also uh my increase of caffeine.”

She further shared that she had been doing this since middle school and once her mother had to take her to the hospital as she would scratch her scalp until it would bleed. She went on to share that she likes streaming as it then helps her in avoiding scratching.

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Valkyre went to Twitter to share this information with her fandom. She tweeted, “Hi I’m Rachel and I cope with anxiety by scratching and picking my skin until I bleed 👋😀.” The audience took the response warmly, and fans along with other streamers replied to her tweet.  Streamer BrookeAB replied, “hi I’m Brooke and I rip out my hair because that’s my only coping ability 😅❤️ love ya!”  

A Twitter user replied, “We all do different things to cope! I just hope you are ok!” To get a good view, below are the replies of the community comforting Valkyrae for sharing the information with her community:

Surely, this admission made an even deeper connection between Valkyrae and her community. What would you like to say to Valkyrae? Do share your thoughts in the comments below.