Among Us was released by InnerSloth in 2018 and surged in popularity during 2020, when its social deduction rounds made words like sus everyday online slang. Shortened from suspicious, sus became the go to accusation for impostors and soon escaped the game into memes, streams and short videos. Chants and edits built around we are sus grew from that culture, turning a simple in game suspicion into a shared joke that audiences still use whenever behaviour looks dishonest, evasive or just a little off in real life situations.