Cooking with Lynja

Lynn Yamada "Lynja" Davishttps://alum.mit.edu/slice/cooking-lynja-turns-retired-mit-engineer-internet-celebrity † (July 31, 1956 - January 1, 2024 [aged 67]https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/dining/lynja-davis-cooking-tiktok-dead.htmlhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=etipRobcPzw), better known online as Cooking With Lynja (or simply Lynja), was a Japanese-American YouTuber and chef who was well-known for making videos of her cooking meals and food, accompanied with her humor that resonated well with the late-Generation Z/early-Generation Alpha demographic, of which the majority of the Internet consists of.
Though Lynja's YouTube channel originally started out as a way to keep herself busy during the COVID-19 pandemic, it did not gain traction until around late-2020.https://web.archive.org/web/20220306061647/https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/lynja
==History==
Lynja's channel was created on November 18, 2013, and her first video, titled "Chicken Wings With Mom", was uploaded on August 12, 2015. The video had received about 8 views, 7 of which were Lynja and her son rewatching the same video multiple times.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxjSO5TMoUs However, the video was set to private/unlisted from her channel on an unknown date, but was later made public following her passing on New Year's Day, 2024.
During the pandemic, she began making short-formed content, with her first viral video being "Bacon egg and cheese". The video received over 300,000 views overnight.
==Personal life==
Lynja was born in New York City, New York, United States, on July 31, 1956.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NqINJ0YCrc She was married to Keith Davis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL2ttClmF4k
===Health and death===
In 2019, Lynja was diagnosed with throat cancer, which caused her voice to change to what she describes to be similar to "Marge Simpson, Mabel Pines, and Toad". In 2021, she was also diagnosed with esophageal cancer.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUPdH7lXG1w About a few days before her death, she entered hospice care.
On January 1, 2024, Lynja passed away at the age of 67 of esophageal cancer. Her death was announced on January 12 by her son, Tim Davis.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZYZaCWBWWQ Her family was in the process of uploading shorts and videos on her channel that were recorded prior to her death, most of which were a vlog she took of herself and Nick DiGiovanni with Italy.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gmmd7xJ9Amw?si=rswmDAwA6plUY0rJ
====Tributes====
After Lynja's death was announced, fellow YouTuber and chef Nick DiGiovanni uploaded two tribute shorts to Davis,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPWT9WRBHno along with a full-video dedicated to Lynja. All of the proceedings from the long-form video was donated to the Monmoth County SPCA, which was her favorite animal shelter, in request from her family. From the donations, he raised over $25,000 from the video.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxMUrPvE_NPbFxDB8rUcxPkGgg-xn_RTef Along with the tributes, several YouTubers had made comments to pay their respects or make tribute videos, such as Bayashi TVhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40zvxDPbfvEhttps://www.instagram.com/p/C2AeqqVROZ_/ (Rest in peace Lynja 🙏❤️) Tommy Winkler,https://www.instagram.com/p/C2AxDA4p-2l/ (Lynja you were amazing and so talented, thank you for all the content you created and the positivity you spread. Rest In Peace❤️) and Lionfield.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZYZaCWBWWQ&lc=UgwpyDYlylNkpXiXLWB4AaABAg Guinness World Records made a tribute video for Davis, showing her records with Nick DiGiovanni.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vujteA2sYhk
==Trivia==
*She was the mother of soccer player and videographer Tim Davis (the latter being who helps with her videos).
*She held four Guinness World Records; one for the largest cake pop in November 2021https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/1/tiktok-stars-nick-digiovanni-and-lynja-create-worlds-largest-cake-pop-690550, the second for the largest chicken nugget in May 2022https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/6/tiktoks-nick-digiovanni-and-lynja-create-worlds-largest-chicken-nugget-707422, the third for the most fast food restaurants visited in 24 hours in August 2022https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/8/most-fast-food-restaurants-visited-in-24-hours-record-achieved-by-tiktokers-713601, and the fourth for the largest sushi roll in October 2022.https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2022/10/largest-sushi-roll-tiktok-chefs-nick-digiovanni-and-lynja-break-two-more-records-723645
**Previously, she held the world record with the most turkeys donated in 24 hours before the record was reclaimed by the Jennie-O Turkey Store.https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/462393-most-turkeys-donated-in-24-hours Before the record was broken, they donated 142,117.55 lbs.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_xMAJGPdMQ
***All records were collaborations with Nick DiGiovanni.
*She won three Streamy Awards; two for editing in both the 11th and 12th Streamy Awardshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBlVnHM7w1Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58e5LR3zYj0, and the third for food in the 12th Streamy Awards.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMXRHu6viSk?t=5474
*She ran over 8 marathons, one in which she broke one of her legs at mile 7, but continued to run despite the injury.
==Gallery==
Nick and Lynja on GWR 2024.jpg|Lynja with Nick DiGiovanni on the Guinness World Records 2024 book on page 95, displaying the world's largest chicken nugget.
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