3 devs. 500M monthly players. "Sus" entered the language. AOC played it.
Innersloth released Among Us in 2018. Nobody played it. Two years later, Twitch streamers discovered it during lockdown and it hit 500 million monthly active users — the most viral game in history. Three developers built it; at peak, it was generating $86 million per month on mobile alone. The social deduction gameplay ("who's the impostor?") entered everyday language: "sus" became a generational slang term. AOC played it on Twitch to drive voter registration and hit 435,000 concurrent viewers. From dead-on-arrival to cultural phenomenon in 24 months.

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