

Like Adams, Lynn found that her pre-Covid skills came in handy. This has given me the freedom to find and become myself.” When you’re in a corporate environment you have to be a version of yourself that’s appropriate, especially as a people manager – you have to conform. Losing my career gave me a way back into games – I had a bunch of what-if scenarios and becoming a streamer was one of them. “I started as a flight attendant, then I was a customer service agent, a supervisor, a technical support specialist … I was in middle management during Covid and unfortunately I was made redundant. We meet on the Sega stand where she’s just been streaming Endless Dungeon with MissVadams. Molly Lynn, better known as MollyBerry, is an old school PC gamer who was in the aviation industry for 15 years. So I thought, I like games, I’m creative, let’s see how streaming goes! I quickly realised there are a lot of transferable skills from the entertainment industry and I really enjoyed it. I needed work, but more that that I needed a creative outlet. “I was starting to work my way into the field, getting gigs, but then everything dried up. “When lockdown happened I was training to be an opera singer,” says Victoria Adams who streams as MissVadams. Inclusive space … TwitchCon Paris, 2023, Drag Showcase.
