Among Us was released by Innersloth in 2018 and exploded in popularity in 2020 through streams and short videos, turning its sabotage alarms into familiar gaming sounds. When a crisis is triggered in a match, the alarm warns crewmates to fix it before time runs out, and that urgency made it perfect to reuse outside the game. Creators now treat it as a generic danger alarm sound effect for memes, edits and pranks, and its link to impostor suspicion keeps it instantly recognisable years after the game's peak.