Among Us is a social deduction game by InnerSloth, first released in 2018 and widely popularised in 2020 through streamers and short-form video. Crewmates complete tasks while impostors secretly eliminate them, and reporting a discovered body triggers an emergency meeting where players discuss and vote out a suspect. That kill-to-report moment became a recognisable shorthand online for betrayal, suspicion, and sudden exposure, and creators still reuse the short clip to signal that someone has been caught in the act.