Among Us was released by Innersloth in 2018 and surged in popularity during 2020, when its crewmates, tasks and emergency meetings became a shared online language. In early 2021 the deliberately misspelled Amogus version took off, reducing the crewmate shape to a crude, instantly readable character used in comics and edits. Pairing that name with the game's theme links the joke directly to its source, so viewers recognise both the sus reference and the original game in seconds, which is why the clip still circulates in gaming memes.