Sketchy Sam

Not to be confused with Sam or Sketchy.

**Sketchy Sam**, sometimes stylized as **SketchySam**, is an online artist and YouTube animator specializing in comedy animations/animatics about popular video games such as Deltarune, Friday Night Funkin', and the Five Nights at Freddy's series which utilize audio from popular videos, also including animations/animatics of popular videos starring Sam herself. Sam runs a small YouTube channel where she posts videos every week or so and a Tumblr blog where she posts art and where viewers can submit fanart. As of October 2022, she has around 7.4 thousand YouTube subscribers and is growing considerably.

## History with Gobcord

While the story of Sketchy Sam as a wholly unbeknownst YouTube animator is nothing spectacular in and of itself, Sam has a mildly rich (and admittedly mostly one-sided) history with the Gobcord community. On 8 December 2021 at 6:35 PM EST, Gobcord user Samuel Popculture posted a screencap of Sketchy Sam's channel -- who was recommended to him by YouTube -- mentioning Gobernor Sketchy with the caption "THEY STOLE YOUR SWAG"; this was in reference to the fact Sketchy's real-life nickname is Sam, with Sketchy Sam's username being a slightly amusing coincidence to such fact. 11 minutes later at 6:46, then-server owner and administrator Greem Jestay replied to the image with "they kinda bad tho." This comment -- a promiscuous compliment of the appearance of Sketchy Sam's avatar -- sparked outrage and vitriol which would grow to envelop a large portion of the active community.

The relatively cartoony featurelessness of the avatar, along with the question of Sketchy Sam's age, was invoked in targeted disgust toward Jestay's catcall. Minutes later, Jestay rescinded the comment and issued a public apology, rephrasing their compliment as Sam having a "cute" avatar, which was a much more acceptable observation. The outrage weaponized Sketchy Sam's name as a means of lambasting Greem for their unswag indignance, eventually turning Sketchy Sam into a server in-joke.

Despite the memes, Sketchy Sam's avatar design inspired fanart from three server members: Kerzid, Sketchy (the frog), and Pink. The trio of marauders initially had trouble sending Sketchy Sam the fanart as she had not set up any means for art to be submitted to her. Eventually Ker contacted Sketchy Sam via Tumblr to inform her of the fanart she'd received (Sketchy and Pink had created Tumblr accounts just to submit fanart to her). Ms. Sam then took it upon herself to advertise her Tumblr as a means of viewers to submit fanart, where it has been featured on her YouTube channel ever since.

Sam's first fanarts were featured at the end of her video "Some Deltarune Animations" on 15 December 2021. Although they weren't really given proper credit (and she was corrected on this by Ker), this was seen as a forgivable error for a novice to online curation. Since these initial fanarts, Sketchy Sam has occasionally received more fanart of her characters and has featured them at the end of her videos -- now with credit.

To this day, Sketchy Sam remains a debatably funny in-joke in Gobcord. Her various community posts and uploads are sometimes mentioned and celebrated by server members. As of late, Sketchy Sam is not aware of Gobcord's existence, and it is intended to remain this way.

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/KerzidR/status/1470078988827512838?s=20&t=GLzCjFul\_PNnxEv9yrH29g
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/SketchyStuff2/status/1471106736324943872?s=20&t=GLzCjFul\_PNnxEv9yrH29g
3. ↑ https://thepinkest1.tumblr.com/post/670552896187908096/drip
4. ↑ https://imgur.com/7lqEmFr
5. ↑ https://youtu.be/M0E38iJuqII?t=48