In May 2021, a single chicken nugget from the BTS meal sold on eBay for $99,997 because it looked like a crewmate from Among Us. This episode explains how a game that launched in June 2018 to 30 to 50 concurrent players became a global obsession. We break down the rules: crewmates completing mundane tasks on maps like the Skeld and Polus while up to three impostors kill, sabotage, vent, and lie their way through emergency meetings and ejection votes.

We trace Innersloth developers Marcus Bromander and Forest Willard's inspiration from Mafia and John Carpenter's The Thing, the stubborn decision to keep updating a ghost town, and the 2020 pandemic surge sparked by streamer Sodapoppin that hit 3.8 million concurrent players on a free Amazon server tier. Then we cover the canceled sequel, the word sus entering Merriam-Webster in 2022, the AOC a ...