Valkyrae

**Rachell Marie Hofstetter**, better known by her online alias **Valkyrae**, is a Filipino-American YouTube streamer. She is a content creator and co-owner of 100 Thieves, and a longtime part of Offline TV and Friends.

Valkyrae is known for her energetic and enthusiastic personality, which garnered her a large following and several accolades. Aside from streaming, she has organized events for charity and has also acted in music videos and animated programs.

## Background

Rae was born to a German-American father and a Filipina mother; she is also part Swiss through her father and part Filipino through her mother.

Prior to streaming, Rae worked at a variety of jobs, such as being a Gamestop employee and a bank clerk.

## Career

Rae previously streamed on Twitch before signing a 2-year contract with YouTube in January 2020. In January 2022, Rae announced a 1-year contract extension with YouTube.

### Name

Rae's gamer tag used to be Legend of Rae, referencing the game *Legend of Zelda*. She began to think the username was awful, so she tried to find a new one. She found about the word Valkyrie, and she attached Rae at the end, leading to the name Valkyrae.

### YouTube

As of September 27, 2021, Rae has 306 uploads, 3.55 million subscribers, and 201 million views on her videos. She has videos uploaded to her channel every week. Her videos mostly consist of *Among Us*, *Minecraft*, *Valorant*, *Fortnite*, and vlogs. Rae streams on YouTube nearly every day.

### Valorant

Rae had been playing Valorant since the closed beta in April 2020. She has mained Viper since then, who is not a commonly played agent in Valorant. This soon turned to a joke where people would tell her that she is the best Viper they know, to which Rae would respond with, "I am the only Viper you know!".

Rae quit Valorant in November 2020, focussing on streaming Among Us. However, in January 2021, she started playing again, leading her friends to play the game more.

She is also known as the Clutch Queen/ClutchyRae since she can clutch rounds surprisingly and win really important rounds on the way to Victory.

### Among Us

Rae started playing Among Us in late August 2020. This is what first ignited the astonishing fame she would later achieve. Because of Among Us, Rae started gaining a lot of viewership and followers. She started creating Among Us content for her YouTube channel. Even though she was already relatively popular, Among Us had a huge impact on her success in 2020 and gave her many different opportunities.

Rae's go-to character in Among Us is the red color with the mask. On her YouTube thumbnails, her character is still red; however, her long hair would also be a part of it.

Among Us is where Disguised Toast, Sykkuno, Corpse, and Rae formed their small group, Amigops.

### Filmography

Aside from streaming, Rae has been featured in the music videos listed below.

## Personal Life

Rae lost her father due to cancer in April 2017. She has talked about her father not understanding what she did for a living, thinking she was working at PayPal.

Rae has three older paternal half-brothers, and one younger sister, KC, who has appeared in some of her streams; one of her brothers passed away due to suicide. Her mother, Marie, has appeared several times on her streams often during holidays or special occasions. In October 2022, Rae announced that she purchased a place for her mother so she could return and retire in the Philippines.

Rae dated fellow streamer Sonii for four years. They started dating in January 2016 and broke up in January 2020 to focus on their careers. The two lived together before their breakup, and Rae moved to the Screamer House.

Rae currently lives in the Roomies House with Kkatamina, Fuslie, Yvonnie, TinaKitten and Sykkuno.

## Trivia

* Her name was misspelled on her birth certificate, so it's legally written as Rachell.
* Rae was the first-ever female content creator that joined 100 Thieves.
* She is not fluent in Filipino because her mother wanted them to be fluent in English, as she was also trying to be fluent as well and didn't want to subject Rae and her sister to the same struggle. Due to this, Rae is also not familiar with Filipino culture and customs aside from her mother's Filipino cooking and occasional visits to the Philippines.
* She was initially planning on becoming a flight attendant and join her uncle who was a pilot for Delta Airlines before deciding to pursue streaming full-time.
* Both Rae and IGumdrop have a pet white Shiba Inu.
	+ In addition, 5 people in OTV and Friends have a pet Shiba Inu: the two mentioned, Eatswithanthony (joint ownership of Shiro with Jaime), Ryan Higa (Roku), and Buddha (Toph, Zuko).
* Rae once revealed in a Q&A reaction video that she used to smoke weed in the mid-2010s but quit citing greater life priorities.
	+ This makes Rae one of 2 people in the OTV universe to partake in narcotic use, the other being Steven Suptic (vaping).
		- Coincidentally, both use the color red in Among Us.
* Rae was the final member of the Screamer House to move out.
* Rae was one of several streamers in the OTV universe that ventured into *Fortnite*, the others being Pokimane, Myth, BrookeAB, Alexiaraye, and Dakotaz.
* Rae is 1 of 7 content creators in the OTV circle streaming on YouTube, the others being Fuslie, Sykkuno, Ludwig, Lilypichu, Myth, and CouRageJD.
* According to Stream Hatchet, both Rae and Pokimane were in the Top 5 Most Watched Female Streamers in 2020, having 23.6M and 23.3M hours, respectively.
* Although they have been close friends for years, she and Sykkuno became known as the "Infernal Twins," stemming from their quick and collaborative synergy in *Among Us*.
* There is a running gag of netizens and Rae's own friends believing she's shorter than she actually is on multiple occasions. This running gag is usually summoned whenever Rae is sitting while her friends are standing or when chat (either her or her friends) questions Rae's height in general. When Rae gets into her breaking point, she would scold at chat or force her friends to measure her.
* Brooke says that Rae is the member who often leaks future 100 Thieves activities the most.

## Quotes

* "Listen.."
* "The audacity!"
* "\*hiccups\*"
* "F\*ck you Peter!"
* "BABUSHKA!"
* "OWA OWA"
* "THAT PENIS WAS MASSIVE!"
* "I'm gonna beat Sykkuno with a stick! I bet he's into that!"
* "We need to kill Sykkuno!"
* "Sykkuno is a SWEAT!"
* "They have SOME NERVE..."
* "I'm 5 feet 3 and a half!"
* "Beeeeessshh"
* (calling Corpse) "CHOKE ME LIKE YOU HATE ME"
* "He built different!"
* "What did you say about my height Sykkuno?"
* "TWO HAMMOCKS!!!"
* ”First of all…”
* "It's Valkyrae here with some CARROTS!"

## References

1. ↑ Hofstetter, Rachel (2018-03-01). Instagram Post. Instagram. Retrieved on 2021-07-27.
3. ↑ FORTNITE STREAMER VALKYRAE YOGA BATTLES POKIMANE - OFFLINE HIGH EP3 ft. LILYPICHU, TOAST & MORE (Video). *OfflineTV*. YouTube (2019-03-27). Retrieved on 2021-07-27.
4. ↑ Baker, Colson (2021-03-18). Machine Gun Kelly ft. CORPSE - DAYWALKER! (Official Music Video) (Video). Machine Gun Kelly - YouTube. Retrieved on 2021-07-27.
5. ↑ Poarch, Bella (2021-05-14). Bella Poarch - Build a B\*tch (Official Music Video) (Video). *Bella Poarch*. YouTube. Retrieved on 2021-07-27.
6. ↑ Poarch, Bella (2021-08-12). Sub Urban & Bella Poarch - INFERNO (Official Music Video) (Video). *Bella Poarch*. YouTube. Retrieved on 2021-08-15.
7. ↑ Valkyrae x Natsumiii Ft. Lily - Last Cup of Coffee ♫ (A LilyPichu Cover) (Video). Natsumiii (2021-03-15). Retrieved on 2021-08-24.
8. ↑ The Shorty Awards. shortyawards.com.
10. ↑ 27 Innovators Who Are Unlocking the Creative Potential of Social Media. Adweek (6 May 2021).
11. ↑ The Esports Awards 2021: All winners and nominees. Dexerto.
12. ↑ 11th Anual Winners. Streamys.
13. ↑ [hhttps://www.forbes.com/30-under-30/2022/games Forbes].
14. ↑ The Streamer Awards 2022.
15. ↑ 12th Streamy Awards.
16. ↑ 12th Streamy Awards.
17. ↑ Esports Awards.
18. ↑ https://twitter.com/Valkyrae/status/948318790294515712
19. ↑ https://twitter.com/valkyrae/status/1576745684211929088
20. ↑ valkyrae mika naru and soni (Video). *TAKACHU*. YouTube (2021-07-11).
21. ↑ Hofstetter, Rachel (2020-09-13). Tweet. Twitter. Retrieved on 2021-07-27.