Comicon, Kurolily for the first time in Naples: “They told me it was a world only for males”
At the 22nd edition of the Comicon arrives, for the first time ever, in Naplesthe streamer and content creator Sara Stefanizzibetter known by his stage nameKurolily“. It is a real one Twitch star, a reference social network for the gaming world, where it has an audience of about 170 thousand followers. She was also among the very first Italians to land on the platform where he started his live shows as a hobby. First in English, to address mainly an international audience, and only later in Italian thanks to the large audience that arrived later. Precisely at this juncture she chose to leave her job to be employed in a video game store to devote herself, full time, to his greatest passion.
“There have been people who told me that as a girl I couldn’t play video games but I always didn’t care»Says Kurolily with a hint of cheerfulness. «Already as a child – remembers the streamer – I played with the Power Rangers and swapped the boxes (of videogames ed) under the house. For me this binary never existed games for boys or games for girls“. So, in spite of the sad male stereotypes, she chose to pursue her dream. A choice that has proved successful since today you are among the most followed players on the web in the entire national panorama. «It’s a hard world – explains Sara – where a lot of criticism is suffered. You are always in the spotlight, always judged. You need to have a certain amount of indifference to be able to bear certain criticisms that sometimes strike you even in the most fragile points ».
In fact, Kurolily’s visit to the International Comics and Game Show is an unprecedented visit, where she had never been a guest, probably also due to the stops due to the pandemic.
“It’s my first time at Comicon but it’s actually my first time in Naples – he specifies, already announcing visit to future editions – I will gladly return there because I immediately fell in love with this city and it is already one of my favorite fairs. First of all because I saw a great kindness but also an enormous fairness received from people: it is beautiful and warm but at the same time I greatly appreciated the respect received ».
For the rest of the day and until tomorrow 25 April it will be possible for the many Twitch fans to get to know their favorite live. Visiting the stand of the Red Bull Gaming Ground, in Hall 5 of the Mostra d’Oltremare. Where, already today, the project – which sees Kurolily as its godmother – put in place by the well-known brand of energy drink named “Red Bull Indie Forge“. An innovative work “dedicated to the independent development studies of the country, with a special panel that will start the registrations for developers” explain the same organizers. Thanks to which it will be possible to bring to light the projects created by very young Italian independent developers in order to make the most of them. Among the prizes up for grabs, dedicated to developers who will take part in the contest, there is also the possibility of being able to see their work live on Twitch with Sara Stefanizzi. “We try to give space – emphasizes Kurolily happily, inviting everyone to register for the contest through the Red Bull Indie Forge site – to independent developers of the Italian market to try to give them the right visibility”.