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Watch: Celebrity YouTuber Bored With The Sims Quickly Becomes Queen of Second Life, Basically

Ms. Carmen King is a gaming YouTube celebrity with nearly 1 million subscribers, and earlier this month, an amazing thing happened.

"If you've watching my channel lately," she announces, "I've been talking about how bland the Sims 4 has been getting — that Star Wars pack did not make it any better, bitch."

But rather than switch to a recent game, she reaches all the way back 17 years to launch Second Life:

"I'm not here to troll or make enemies or anything I like that," she begins, in a nod to YouTube's many a-hole SL trolls, "I genuinely want to do stuff in SL like create myself in Second Life, go shopping, find me a man, go to a strip club, get pregnant — and I'm not even kidding, you can literally get pregnant in Second Life and literally deliver a baby, like straight out your cootchie deliver, I'm not even joking,"

… which should give you a taste of her girl gamer-meets-Cardi B charm and NSFW Rabelaisian patois. What follows is more or less the "WAP" of game streaming, adventures in avatar enhancement, apartment hunting, and later on, road rage in a diamond pink car. Yes:

Maybe you thought Second Life was conceived as a virtual Burning Man or the birth of the Metaverse. Whatever we once thought, it's Carmen King's world now, and we just live in it. 

Carmen King SL Sims YouTuber

Hat tip: Cajsa!

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19 responses to “Watch: Celebrity YouTuber Bored With The Sims Quickly Becomes Queen of Second Life, Basically”

  1. Fionalein Avatar
    Fionalein

    Looks like she was having fun, which might be the best kind of advertisement LL could hope for.

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  2. Nastasia Avatar
    Nastasia

    She is so entertaining and authentic. It’s nice to have an influencer that doesn’t hype up everything just for a paycheck. She tells it how it is and makes it so fun to watch her videos!

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  3. pinch Avatar
    pinch

    Carmen is amazing!!!

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  4. Alicia Avatar
    Alicia

    She can kiss her Twitch account goodbye the second she posts SL videos.
    https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/list-of-prohibited-games?language=en_US

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  5. Lola D. Avatar
    Lola D.

    Wow, is actually on the banned list with a bunch of porn games, prolly less the exposure they need:) you’d think all anyone ever did was have sex;)

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  6. Haha thot Avatar
    Haha thot

    One less thot on twitch one less money grubbing thot on sl.

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  7. Notanidiot Avatar
    Notanidiot

    Queen of second life? Get a grip.

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  8. CronoCloud Creeggan Avatar
    CronoCloud Creeggan

    Oh my God, she says Oh my God every minute! But she’s like missing cat ears for her Razer Kraken Quartz headset, I mean like Oh My God, I can’t even!
    More seriously her SL is not that different from the SL of most socializing popular girls in SL. Though I would have picked the non-bedazzled pink car, it was cuter.

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  9. Jude_Connors Avatar
    Jude_Connors

    Meh

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  10. Jenelva Avatar
    Jenelva

    You literally could’ve covered one of the dozens of youtubers that make SL look fun and actually talk about real things. You choose this one….

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  11. Pulsar Avatar
    Pulsar

    A youtuber with over 900k subscribers (about 84 times Draxtor right now) who creates fun videos about SL without trolling. Pink from the UI to the funny car and lots of smiles. I agree with Fionalein.
    Oh, and on Twitch she streams GTA and drivers cars. Someone on Youtube commented: “Second life is like gta, imvu, and the sims”. Maybe a bit, but imagine if you could really make city blocks, roads and cars at least like those in GTA in a seamless social virtual world and have fun with it in infinite possibilities together with your friends.

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  12. Karrie Fi Avatar
    Karrie Fi

    Carrie Tatsu is the real queen of SL! Anyone in has something that she created in their inventory! 🤣

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  13. Jennifer29751 Resident. Avatar
    Jennifer29751 Resident.

    I actually watched several of her vids. She’s entertaining. Her brand of narcissism is a breath of fresh air as far as SL narcissistic personalities go.
    If we’ve lost the ability to ask ourselves why we socially need people like this in the first place, then give the girl a crown. At least she knows she’s fake.

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  14. Tami Avatar
    Tami

    “Queen of SL” huh??? She doesn’t have a clue about SL and neither do you!
    /me Waves from 2006

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  15. Jinx Avatar
    Jinx

    Rofl I have never heard of this “Queen” and I have been part of the SL community for quite a few years. I think the narcissism is strong with this one.

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  16. Tad Noodle Avatar
    Tad Noodle

    Honestly if someone is having fun with SL, that’s all I need. I love videos where people experiment and explore, and it’s a plus if they are super entertaining. I tend to zone out when it’s someone talking in monotone at the screen about nothing in particular. Granted, she got a little annoying after the second episode, but that’s probably on me for binge watching them sweats I’m curious though how she got away with streaming that much of the game without getting banned by Twitch lmao

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  17. sirhc desantis Avatar
    sirhc desantis

    Brilliant, a breath of fresh air

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  18. pixels sideways Avatar
    pixels sideways

    I watched Carmen’s videos. She’s an acquired taste and she states in one vid her target demographic is 18-24 year olds. She also notes she is a first and foremost a gamer girl and doesn’t give a shit about image – she genuinely loves gaming and built up her channel and rep doing that.
    She’s fun, upbeat, swears like a sailor and is genuinely having fun and her energy is infectious. Why anyone who is a resident in SL would have an issue with that is beyond me.
    She does need some direction on exploring regions and would benefit with various “resident guides” taking her to places that are more active with avatars.
    Her Bad Girls concept looks interesting as far as creating “programming” for youtube on the SL platform.
    I hope she continues enjoying her Second Life experience.

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  19. Mint Avatar
    Mint

    She’s giving SL so much free advertising. I’ve seen so many people in her comments talk about how they want to try SL too because she makes it seem so fun and so luxe.
    Nothing against some of the other SL Youtubers, but the difference between Carmen’s video and theirs is that the editing on Carmen’s video is very slick. The videos are a digestible length, she cuts the content well so that interesting content is always being shown, and she at least tries to pick a theme for each video. I can’t say the same for other SL Youtubers. Obviously, there’s a big difference in the size of their audiences, but I often find that SL videos are too long and edited poorly.
    The future in attracting people to your game/virtual world is through Youtube and through streaming (as seen with the monumental rise of Among Us through Twitch), and I think there could be huge opportunities for SL to partner with people like Carmen and reach out to new audiences.

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