Among Us is a multiplayer social deduction game developed by InnerSloth and released in 2018, which became a huge online hit in 2020 as streamers and friends played it together. Its lobby screen, where players gather before a round starts, became a familiar part of that experience, and short sounds from its menus were clipped and shared across meme pages and soundboards. The join sound remains popular because it is instantly tied to waiting for friends, starting a game and the suspense of finding the impostor.