A Ram Sam Sam

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About

A Ram Sam Sam, also known as Aram Sam Sam, refers to a children's nursery rhyme that was created in 2012 by the YouTube channel The Learning Station. The "A Ram Sam Sam" song gained various remixes leading into the 2020s, including a notable one created by Chiki Toonz which later gained memetic usage. The song and its dance trended on YouTube and TikTok, eventually leading to increased memetic usage in 2023 via videos that paired the song with people Getting Sturdy.

Origin

On October 30th, 2012, the YouTube^[1] channel TheLearningStation posted a video with an original song called "A Ram Sam Sam." In the video, many teenagers were performing the dance associated with the song which involved slapping both knees to the beat. Over 11 years, the video received roughly 37 million views (shown below).

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Going into the 2010s, the song was redone by Cocomelon adjacent channels on YouTube, such as one video posted by the YouTube^[2] channel HeyKids on February 21st, 2018, gaining over 264 million views in five years. On October 1st, 2022, the YouTube^[3] channel Chiki Toonz posted its own iteration, receiving roughly 32 million views in one year (shown below).

In 2023, the song and its remixes gained notable meme attention on TikTok, predominantly inspired by a video posted by TikToker^[4] @quesomozarella09 on July 15th, 2023, which showed a video game avatar with a Jotchua face dancing to the song, gaining over 17.5 million plays and 1.9 million likes in four months (shown below, left). Using the video's sound,^[5] Spanish-speaking creators made videos in which they used a Roblox Man Face filter (TikTok^[6] example shown below, right).

Later in 2023, the song gained more usage on TikTok when paired with videos of dancers "getting sturdy." For instance, on October 22nd, 2023, TikToker^[7] @_philip_gabalec posted a video of himself getting sturdy to the song, receiving over 3.7 million plays and 513,700 likes in 10 days (shown below).