Among Us was released by American studio Innersloth in 2018 and surged in popularity in 2020 through Twitch streams and YouTube videos. The impostor kill animation and its accompanying effect became one of the game's most copied moments as players clipped betrayals and turned them into memes. Short edits on TikTok and Discord kept the stab sound in circulation long after the peak, and it is now used as a general shorthand for a sneaky takedown, similar to other gaming clips like the roblox oof.