Sajam

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About

Stephen Lyon, known online as 'Sajam,' is an American entertainer, gamer, online personality, professional commentator/analyst, streamer, and content creator in the fighting game community (FGC). ^[1] ^[2] ^[3]

Online History

Will It Kill

Sajam is known for his series "Will It Kill," a show about watching clips of fighting game matches and pausing before a potential match end, prompting him and his audience to determine if the player made the winning kill.

As described on his Youtube channel,^[1]

Can you guess if these fighting game combos are going to kill? "Will it Kill?" is a show about funny fighting game clips, throwing rocks, betting fake points, mind palaces, and bad audio. We'll show a fighting game clip and pause it on one of the hits of a combo. You have to vote on whether the combo will kill or not. There are no drops, Time-outs don't count, and we try to get as close to optimal as possible. Nothing can be done about the audio, we're trying our best our here bruh. It does get better after the half."

Reputation

As one of the most recognized representatives in the FGC, Sajam has been a forefront and subject of meta-humor and memeability.

does anyone have more of these sajam memes pic.twitter.com/DUw71lFbo7

— greed_ (@greedx__) March 4, 2023

Chipotle

For Evolution Championship Series (EVO) 2023, Chipotle was one of the main sponsors, specifically towards Street Fighter 6, for the fighting game tournament. Sajam was a sponsored partner promoting Chipotle.

Partnering up with @chipotletweets to let you know carne asada is BACK.

It’s available for a limited time, so head to Chipotle and grab yourself some while you can.

Excited to be a #chipotlepartner yet again. pic.twitter.com/b5AFgVe5aY

— Sajam (@Sajam) September 21, 2023

Sajam also made an appearance as a Chipotle worker on EVO's announcement trailer for their upcoming tournament in 2024.

This partnership with Chipotle has garnered jokes and memes about his influence in the FGC.

"hi welcome to chipotle what can i get for you?"
"can i get a carne asada power bowl?"
"sure do you want some guac on that?"
"uh hold on."
fishes this outta my pocket
"sajam what should I do?"
"Get the guac gamer. You'll need the energy to get outta pools"
"extra guac please." pic.twitter.com/EK7J52OlWv

— dee (-no) 👉✨🎵 (@ManzIsMe) January 7, 2024

We as the FGC should start printing out pictures of Sajam and leaving them at our local Chipotles to mark our territories and notify other freaks that there are others like them in the area pic.twitter.com/Z9of1N6W1e

— Geo the Geo | 🔜 COMBOBREAKER (@SplatGeo) February 8, 2024

.@sajam green screen pic.twitter.com/jaq984BuYI

— Murdoink (@Murdoink) February 7, 2024

https://t.co/DV9TesOfzH pic.twitter.com/sPkAdvFoy4

— Ｓｉｒ５０００ @ 🤙Infinite Wealth🐲 (@Sir5000) September 21, 2023

Who is Sajam?

On February 20, 2021, Twitter user @poru_kun tagged Sajam in a tweet during the Japan Fighting Game Publishers Roundtable. Sajam has been mistaken for another content creator Andrew "Jiyuna" Fidelis.

You’re looking for @jiyunaJP https://t.co/mnWqcwTUZU

— Sajam (@Sajam) February 21, 2021

As a result of these mistaken identities, both Jiyuna and Sajam made several tongue-in-cheek videos in response to being identified as 'Sajam', which resulted in the FGC commenting with meta-jokes of the Jiyuna/Sajam identity.

This phenomenon would later snowball into more meta-jokes of the Sajam identity, encompassing to comparisons of other FGC content creators to members of the FGC themselves.

On March 26, 2024, Twitter user @AzureCrowDJ made custom Sajam profile pictures ranging from LGBTQ+ sexualities to country nationalities.

The Sajamification of the FGC is rapidly approaching critical mass. It’s only a matter of time before one of these zoomers shows up with a Sajam tattoo.

Soon we will all be Sajam… https://t.co/NYj8xkSvE3

— J I Y U N A (@jiyunaJP) March 29, 2024

On April 1, 2024, as an April Fool's Joke, the frame data wiki website Dustloop created an online game called "Rare Sajams," a collectible card game "featuring 52 different Rare Sajams and 20 Mysterious Venues." The collectable cards include various FGC in-jokes and references to other fighting games such as Guilty Gear. Rare Sajams are humorously and spiritually similar to another online phenomenon known as 'Rare Pepes'.^[6]

The wiki is more or less ready to go, but we're missing a lot of key Sajams and Venues.

Templates are available on their respective pages here: https://t.co/JOhlMOPH2J

If you'd like to help edit, please check out our Discord. pic.twitter.com/XwsUUKZ9PS

— Dustloop (@DustloopWiki) April 1, 2024

Following

As of April 2024, Sajam has accrued 148,000 followers on Twitch^[3], 169,000 subscribers on Youtube^[1], 110,500 followers on X (formerly known as Twitter)^[7].

Personal Life

Sajam initially wanted to be either a teacher or a comedian. In high school Sajam competed in varsity wrestling and would return as a wrestling coach after graduation.^[9] Sajam has a history of professionally competing in fighting games before focusing on his professional commentary career starting in the game Injustice: Gods Among Us.^[2]