Perrikaryal Biography

Perrikaryal is a Twitch streamer, content creator, and social media influencer known for streaming while playing Elden Ring. In a world where Twitch has been flooded with streamers of all sorts, Perrikaryal stands out because she is not a regular streamer. She recently went viral for playing the game in the most fascinating and unconventional way, with her mind! Yes, you heard me right, Perri has brought a new way to play the famous AAA game. 

Perrikaryal’s Mind Control Gaming

From the above intro, I bet you can already tell that Perrikaryal is by no means your regular gamer. With love for Elden Ring, it seems she couldn’t help herself, making a rather bold move to play the game with nothing but her mind (by mind, i mean she doesn’t use a controller or keyboard).

For real, though, I kid you not. She recently beat the first bass on Shadow of the Erdtree in a rather convincing manner and the video of her doing it went absolutely viral. However, she didn’t stop there, she went on to beat the second boss, Renalla, and she just kept getting better and better with her mind control and zero-hand approach to playing games. Some of her feats include attempting to beat the hardest boss in Elden Ring with her mind, and also sticking the world’s hottest chili up her nose 😬 (totally unrelated, but I felt like y’all needed to know).

A true revolutionary, Perri is bound to stamp her name among the streaming greats like PewDiePie, Scump, Pokimane, and KayceeeDilla as her channel grows immensely day by day. Some other games she has played using mind control include Deep Dip 2, Minecraft, and PacMan.

Perrikaryal’s Setup

So how does she use her mind to play a game like Elden Ring? Well, if you watch her explanation on YouTube, it doesn’t really take away the awesomeness of playing a game with zero hands. She has revealed that it takes a lot of training to be able to get things like “attacking,” “movement,” and “healing” right, as you have to “switch your thoughts on and off as you play through the game.”. In other words, she uses An electroencephalogram, which picks up the electrical signals produced by the brain. The same technology is used by doctors to check a patient’s brain🤯.

You might be wondering, How did she even know she could do this? She recently explained on YouTube that she loves gaming, and with a background in psychology, she used EEG for medical research purposes, She thought, “It might be a cool experiment to try and combine the two.” Her original plan was to use EEG to show what her brain was doing when getting jump scared while playing horror games or when she was super relaxed when playing the same game. So can anyone follow in her footsteps? If you can afford an EEG headset, then it’s quite easy to start, and she shows her fans how to set it up on her YouTube channel. The EEG headset she uses is the EPOC X – 14 Channel Wireless EEG Headset by EMOTIV¹.

EEG For Gaming?

Perri took her plan to the next level and used the data from her first experiment on a program that would send the signals to her keyboard. She taught the program to detect each piece of data, and after long periods of trial and error, she was finally able to make it work. She had help from the EEG’s official app, which records brain activity while thinking about different things. Perrikaryal revealed that her initial plan was to train an AI model, which would have taken ages.

The whole process of getting to know her to use the EEG perfectly—its programming, and setup for every game is on her YouTube channel, and I recommend checking it out. 

Social Media Presence

Perrikaryal currently has a significantly large fanbase, which is bound to grow, (why wouldn’t anyone want to follow a baddie who plays games with her mind?😂). On her YouTube channel², she has over 23,000 subscribers, whereas on Twitch³, she has managed to surpass 42,0000 followers. She is also very popular on Instagram and TikTok, with over 63,000 followers on Instagram⁴ and over 56,000 followers on TikTok.

Family Life

As revealed on her Twitch page, Perrikaryal is in her twenties. She holds both British and Canadian nationality. She was born and raised in the UK.

Intriguing Facts About Perrikaryal

• Perri has a Master’s degree in psychology.
• Her name is derived from the word, ‘Perikaryal’ which means biology of or pertaining to the perikaryon of a nerve; involving or occurring within a perikaryon.
• She also does psychology-related content outside the realm of gaming and talks about things like autism, mental health, and ADHD.

References

1. EEG Device by EMOTIV ↩︎
2. Youtube channel ↩︎
3. Twitch profile ↩︎
4. Instagram page ↩︎