Space Station 13 is a multiplayer role-playing game set aboard a space station, where players take jobs such as security officers and can call admins for help with the ahelp command. In its community, shitcurity became a running joke for security players seen as heavy-handed or corrupt, and clips of frustrated players shouting the term spread through gameplay videos and soundboards. The sound endures because it captures a familiar in-joke for anyone who has played the game, turning a routine arrest into a punchline about power-tripping security.