The Among Us Potion — Person holding a small cork-stopped glass bottle filled with orange-red liquid, staring at the camera in a dark room.

The Among Us Potion

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Published October 19, 2026

YouTuber Arcade Craniacs opened a May 2021 video by announcing he had 'ordered the Among Us potion from the dark web,' revealing a round glass bottle of red liquid1. Almost a year later, TikTokers started lip-dubbing the audio over slow reveals of embarrassing possessions, and by January 2023 single posts in the trend topped 14 million views3.

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Overview

On TikTok, posters play the Arcade Craniacs line over a reveal of some mundane but disgusting item, including crusty eyeshadow4, a stained old sports bra5, or cheap foundation ordered from Shein6. The joke recasts junk as sinister dark-web contraband, letting anything red-tinted or grimy stand in for the 'potion' itself7.

Captions often reframe the item through a social scenario, like the April 2022 version where @random.....meme used the sound to describe a cousin's weird behavior2. Audio-only reuse was heavy in early 2023, when the clip circulated as a generic TikTok template that no longer required any Among Us reference3.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (source), TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
Arcade Craniacs
Date
2021

Arcade Craniacs uploaded the source video on May 16, 2021, titling it 'ORDERING AMONG US POTION FROM THE DARK WEB AT 3AM!! *IMPOSTOR*'1. The opening seconds, where he holds up the red bottle and delivers the title line, became the only portion of the three-minute clip that TikTok users later reused7. The upload passed three million YouTube views in its first year1.

How It Spread

Audio from the original video began migrating to TikTok in early 2022, with scattered reposts of the Arcade Craniacs clip itself7. On April 18, 2022, @random.....meme used the sound in a video captioned about playing with a strange cousin, drawing over 13 million views and more than a million likes2.

A second surge arrived in January 2023. @andshiddedandfarted set the audio over dirty eyeshadow on January 44, and @katiiejoyce used it to show an old sports bra on January 155. @razzledazznaz posted the biggest version on January 16, hitting over 14 million views and 2 million likes within a week3. The same day, @lacisrancidb0ngwater2.0 applied the sound to Shein foundation makeup6, and @samiesmiles joined the trend shortly after with another household-item reveal8.

Timeline

2021-05-16

Arcade Craniacs uploads the original 'ORDERING AMONG US POTION FROM THE DARK WEB AT 3AM!!' video to YouTube[1].

2022-04-18

@random.....meme posts the first viral TikTok lip-dub using the audio, reaching over 13 million views[2].

2023-01-04

@andshiddedandfarted uses the sound over dirty eyeshadow, kicking off a new TikTok wave[4].

2023-01-15

@katiiejoyce films an old sports bra reveal set to the audio[5].

2023-01-16

@razzledazznaz posts the biggest version of the trend, topping 14 million views; @lacisrancidb0ngwater2.0 posts a Shein-foundation version the same day[3][6].

How to Use This Meme

Posters typically dub the Arcade Craniacs audio over a slow reveal of something gross, embarrassing, or weirdly cheap, like dirty makeup4 or an old piece of clothing5. A common convention is to let the camera linger on the item at the exact moment the word 'potion' plays, so the voiceover and visual reveal line up.

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