Among Us was released by Innersloth in 2018 and surged in popularity in 2020 through streams and videos, turning its ship sounds into widely recognised meme audio. The door sound comes from moving between rooms on its spaceship maps, where opening doors is tied to movement, tasks and suspicion about nearby crewmates. As gameplay clips spread online, editors lifted the short whoosh for use outside the game. It remains popular because even listeners who never played instantly read it as a sci-fi entrance or a suspicious arrival.