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Among Us and Innersloth
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- 0:00For 2 years, almost nobody played it.
- 0:02Then, in a few months, [music] the whole
- 0:04world did.
- 0:06InnerSloth was a tiny studio. Marcus
- 0:08Bromander, Forest Willard, [music] and
- 0:10Amy Liu. In June 2018, they released
- 0:14Among Us. A few crewmates on a
- 0:16spaceship. [music]
- 0:17One of them is secretly the impostor.
- 0:20It barely got noticed. Then, in the
- 0:23summer of 2020, [music] streamers found
- 0:25it. Everyone was stuck at home looking
- 0:28for a game to play with friends.
- 0:30InnerSloth [music] had started work on a
- 0:32sequel. They canceled it to keep up. By
- 0:35November, [music] Among Us had around
- 0:36half a billion monthly players. The most
- 0:40played mobile game of the year. The
- 0:42studio had about four employees. The
- 0:45impostor was among us all along. [music]
- 0:47Follow Viberg Economies for more.
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Original YouTube title: “Nobody played it for 2 years. Then half a billion did.”. The original title may contain claims not confirmed by this companion.
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