Longest, scariest and simply the worst 33 hours of my life. My immediate family is on the train to western Ukraine right now and we have solid plans in place for their safety, but not everyone is as lucky as them. Grandma, friends and other family members are still in Kiev 😢
🇺🇦
Also got laid off today. It is hard to leave a much beloved product and people behind. I spent the last 3 years living and breathing VAL and will forever cherish every colleague, influencer, community member I got to work and interact with during this time! ❤️
Super excited to announce that today was my first day in a new role at Riot as the Influencer Manager for UK&Nordics for VALORANT 🥳 Grateful to be joining a very talented and incredibly cool team (yes, I can already tell)!
Happy to announce my new home -
@FACEIT
, where I started today as a Community Partnerships Manager 🥳 Excited to soon be working with the Overwatch content creators and communities again😏
Bonus: office views are kinda unbeatable
On Monday my 8 year long journey at
@Blizzard_Ent
is coming to an end. The memories, the friendships, the lessons learnt will last me a lifetime. Take care everyone, and stay safe! ❤️
👋Are you a
@PlayVALORANT
streamer or content creator?
🌍Do you live in the UK, Ireland or Nordics?
📨Drop me a DM, let's chat!
Note: I'm also interested in hearing from English language creators in other European countries.
Just submitted my handover to the team, have one day left in the role of VAL Influencer Manager, moving onto bigger and better things on Monday (same office, EMEA team). Will miss working with my influencers dearly 🥲 You made me love this job, thank you ❤️ You’re AMAZING!
When I think that my family (including 12y.o siblings) woke up to this sound today I want to cry.
Meanwhile Russian president keeps feeding the news that this operation is done in order to "free the oppressed".
Do your research, get educated on what this war is really about 🙏
Air raid sirens could be heard in Ukraine's capital Kyiv this morning following Russia's military escalation.
The sound could be heard just after 7am local time.
Read more here:
Posting this announcement early. In 2,5months I'll be switching to a different role at Riot (same office, not going far!), so my team is now looking for my replacement. You don't need to be as cool as me, but it wouldn't hurt🙃
HMU for info, if interested
Been 2 weeks since I started at Riot and I already feel like I belong and that my team is my home. Honestly, I did not have any expectations, but I'm blown away by how easy it was to fit in! They are all SO WEIRD and I LOVE IT!!! 🥰
It's now been 3 months since the start of the war. Yesterday I had a dream I was in Kyiv and most of it was fine except 3 tall buildings I passed by that were completely destroyed and even the dream was terrifying. I hope none of you ever have to go through a war in your country.
Had the best time last night, after the most amazing event. Love my colleagues ❤️
And SO MUCH LOVE to these three ❤️❤️❤️ Now we’re off to a well-deserved little vacation ⛵️
Tomorrow will mark 2 months since a full scale war was brought upon Ukraine. I’m lucky to have all of my friends and family alive and well, for now. But most Ukrainians by now have lost someone.
Please continue talking about the war, and supporting Ukraine 🇺🇦
I appreciate you!
Really happy to be able to wrap up the year with a small event, hosted by the lovely
@TheGooseHouse
at the
@redbullgaming
sphere. Thanks everyone for coming and sharing this big moment for VALORANT with me <3 SOOOO nice to finally meet some of you!!
Our team won the EMEA Riot Rumble (internal Rioter tournament) on VALORANT! 🥳
Big GGWP to everyone who worked on running it and the other teams and players.
Playing VALORANT as a 5 stack is ♥️
Haven’t been to Turkey in 12(?) years 😱 And what an occasion this is!
#VALORANTChampions
👏🥰🥹🥳
Oh, I have to say this cause we’ve confused people at events before. If you see me at Champs and I’m not recognising you - that’s probably my twin sister
@Olesia_OP
xDDD
Flying back home in a few hours.
Big thank you to every content creator for sharing your love for Arcane and being so so sweet and lovely during the event!
Big thank you to every Rioter for being absolutely amazing, you really smashed it this week! Now go get some rest!! ❤️❤️❤️
I have a few more days left to chill before starting a new gig, which I can't wait to tell y'all about 🤩
I am, however, spending the week sick and primarily on the couch, but thaaaaat's oookkkkk 😒
Past week has been difficult for all of us, but especially for the amazing, talented and incredible women at Activision & Blizzard offices, that are still working there. Women of the entire gaming industry are thankful for what you are doing today. Stay strong💙
#ActiBlizzWalkout
One of my cats is in the hospital, getting all sorts of tests done and an IV drip, after not eating for 3 days. She usually devours anything edible, so watching her over the past days has been heartbreaking 😭 Hoping it’s just a virus and nothing dangerous 😭🙏
About to kick off our last day of Atlantic Showdown. Our amazing host,
@anaxisde
is ready, and so are
@angrytitans
- ready to get the second Gauntlet spot back to EU by winning the whole thing!!
Remember seeing these maps in your history lessons? Well, this is NOW. Families are separated, people dying, lots of wounded. But Ukrainian army is pushing back bravely and decisively 🇺🇦
Still hard to believe that the game has only turned 1 year today! And that I'm working on it and WITH all the wonderful content creators that choose to dedicate their time to VALORANT. Appreciate you all ❤️🥳🎂
CG is a masterpiece and the song, by none other than
@eaJPark
, is A BOP🤩
These type of collabs, where my two worlds collide, give me goosebumps😌Adding it to my gym spotify playlist ASAP!
I hear OW2 is coming out tomorrow. I still remember tearing up at the OW reveal cinematic. I was at the company for about 2 years at that point and had no idea what OW would bring to my life - professionally and personally. Thanks and farewell, OW1!
✈️ Off to LA to spend the week basking in
#VALORANTChampions
activities and games! Probably last work trip of the year so I intend to have ALL the fun!🤩
And to make it even better, my sister
@Olesia_OP
is going to be there too🥰 Prepare to be confused 😏