DontRachQuit

Rachel "Rach" Shackleton (born: ) better known online as DontRachQuit, is a Scottish YouTuber and Twitch streamer.
==Beginnings==
Coming from a background in graphic design, Rach moved to Newcastle from her native Scotland with her then boyfriend (who is now her husband) Mike, and worked as an illustrator from home but found it to be a lonely experience working from home in a new city, so she took up what she thought would be a short-term job in retail at a branch of GAME. After working there for a few years, the smaller store she worked at was closed to make way for a larger branch at the Metrocentre, and as luck would have it the larger store was picked by Xbox's evangelists team as a venue to trial livestreaming, meaning that part of Rach's 9-to-5 job involved streaming the latest Xbox releases and reviewing them. Realising how much streaming appealed to her, she started her Twitch channel in May 2012, later becoming a full-time streamer in 2017.
Eventually tiring of the retail experience, Rach left GAME and began working as a freelance editor and writer, although found it a stressful experience. By a stroke of luck, a friend of hers mentioned to her that WhatCulture Wrestling were looking to hire editors, and while she was initially sceptical - especially as she isn't much of a wrestling fan- she was persuaded they had gaming and film channels too and she should give it a shot not just as an editor, but a presenter too.
==WhatCulture Gaming==
Rach began working for WhatCulture in February 2018, working for the WhatCulture Gaming channel. Initially working as an editor for the channel's Top 10 lists, Rach suggested to Gaming head Jules Gill that she start presenting videos for the channel. Another suggestion of Rach's was the channel's Chatty Faces videos, where the various hosts talk about games and gaming moments that mean a lot to them, which became the most successful series on the channel.
Due to her background in streaming, Rach suggested to the WhatCulture higher-ups that the channel should start up their own Twitch channel as well as livestream games on their YouTube channel, which were both taken on board by the channel.
===Departure from WhatCulture===
Having returned from her honeymoon in October 2019, Rach immediately returned to the WhatCulture office and was soon headed to EGX with the rest of the team, although she was starting to feel creatively stifled by doing the same thing day in day out,YouTube: Life Gave Me Lemons, But I Love Lemonade // Vlog and by this time her Twitch channel was making her a third of what she was earning at WhatCulture.YouTube: One Year On. | Whatculture, The Whole Story & A Year In Review.
Towards the end of 2019, at a point where Rach claims she was working 45 hours a week for WhatCulture on top of her YouTube and Twitch channels, she was given a Cease & Desist from the WhatCulture higher-ups stating that she could not continue using her YouTube and Twitch channels if she wanted to remain at the company, or if she did she would have to split her earnings with the company, with fellow WhatCulture Gaming editor Rich Hutson being given the same ultimatum. Rather than accept these terms, Rach opted to leave WhatCulture, albeit having to serve two week's notice which she says was an unpleasant experience. Once she had finished her notice, WhatCulture did not mention her leaving on the channel, nor was she given a leaving party. Having served her notice, WhatCulture still used Rach as a freelancher, but paid her considerably less than she was paid as a full-time member of the team while also not using the video where she bade farewell to the channel's viewers.YouTube: I Left WhatCulture, But I'm Helping Cure Children's Cancer! // Vlog
On March 18, 2020, Rach announced she had left WhatCulture.Twitter: @DontRachQuit There have been a lot of lovely people messaging me recently wondering why I haven't been in any WhatCulture videos in a while. For those who didn't know:
==Going solo==
With a lot more free time on her hands, Rach devoted herself to her YouTube and Twitch channels, also starting her Patreon in January 2020. In January 2020, after the death of Mike's grandmother and also feeling a tad lonely working from home on her own again, Rach decided to adopt a dog. At the beginning of February, they adopted Eevee, with Rach uploading dog vlogs to her channel.YouTube: MEET EEVEE! Our New Puppy! // DogVlog #1
At the end of February 2020, Rach was approved for Twitch partnership.
==Personal Life==
Rach was married on 4 October 2019, with the two taking their honeymoon in Iceland. 
==Trivia==
*She is a big fan of The Legend of Zelda franchise, and has a Triforce tattoo on her left wrist.
==References==
Category:Gaming YouTubers
Category:Scottish YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2011