Things That Look Like Among Us Crewmates — Red playground capsule with dark visor dome resembling an Among Us crewmate

Things That Look Like Among Us Crewmates

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Published November 15, 2026

Things That Look Like Among Us Crewmates is an image macro format where people post photos of everyday objects, backgrounds and logos that resemble the oblong astronaut from Innersloth's 2018 game Among Us. First documented on r/AmongUs in October 2020, the format reached peak absurdity in March 2021 when LEGO piece 26047 became a viral 'don't look up' subject on TikTok.

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Overview

Posts in the Things That Look Like Among Us Crewmates format typically pair a photo of a mundane item, a fire alarm, a chicken nugget, a Minecraft block texture, with caption text performing distress at having spotted the shape26. The joke sits in an absurdist lineage beside Amogus and Among Drip, playing on how saturated late-2020 internet culture became with the character's silhouette3.

Captions often lean on the 'voices in my head' or 'this game ruined my brain' bit, where the sighting becomes a curse the poster wants out from under. A second strain of the format mashed these with the Don't Go to X, Worst Mistake of My Life warning template, directing viewers to search specific objects, most famously LEGO piece 2604711.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reddit (r/AmongUs) / Twitter (insanity-caption variant)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2020

Innersloth released Among Us in 2018, but the game exploded during late 2020, with Twitch viewers watching more than 221 million hours of it in Q4 2020 alone1. On October 9th, 2020, Reddit user u/Pitvabackla posted a photo titled 'Funny fire alarm' to r/AmongUs showing a red fire alarm shaped like the game's imposter, offering no explanation of the resemblance in the title2. That post collected more than 21,000 upvotes. Later the same day, a now-deleted account shared a trash can with a knife taped to it under comparable implicit setup4.

How It Spread

Submissions trickled through late 2020. u/The-Uncrustable posted a McDonald's chicken nugget that looked like a crewmate on October 20th, 20205. The insanity-captioned variant hit on February 13th, 2021, when Twitter user @floppafriday paired the Champion logo rotated 90 degrees with the text 'im gonna go insane,' which drew over 75,900 likes in ten days12. Two days later, u/Jackeg74 parodied They Did Surgery On A Grape by giving the grape a crewmate silhouette6, and reposts of the original fire alarm photo returned with explicit cries-for-help captions3.

On February 18th, 2021, a Minecraft map generating in a crewmate shape drew 8,400 upvotes in four days7. Things peaked on March 1st, 2021, when TikToker @boyfriend.xmi filmed a Google search for 'lego piece 26047' over the caption 'when lego piece 26047 is sus,' with the clip drawing more than 223,000 views in six days8. YouTube reuploads followed within hours9, and user propigskillz turned the brick into a Sweaty Speedrunner edit10. Within days, Instagram users were mashing LEGO piece 26047 with the Don't look up warning template11.

Timeline

2020-10-09

U/Pitvabackla posts the 'Funny fire alarm' photo to r/AmongUs, the earliest documented object-looks-like-a-crewmate post.

2020-10-20

U/The-Uncrustable shares a McDonald's chicken nugget shaped like a crewmate.

2021-02-13

Twitter user @floppafriday tweets a rotated Champion logo with 'im gonna go insane,' kicking off the insanity-captioned variant.

2021-02-15

U/Jackeg74 parodies They Did Surgery On A Grape with a crewmate-shaped grape.

2021-02-18

U/waffles_yesyes posts a Minecraft world generation shaped like a crewmate.

2021-03-01

TikToker @boyfriend.xmi tells viewers to Google 'lego piece 26047,' starting the biggest spike of the format.

2021-03-02

U/DaBuilder_Bob and YouTuber propigskillz turn LEGO piece 26047 into 'don't look up' and Sweaty Speedrunner edits.

2021-03-04

Instagram and Twitter users combine LEGO piece 26047 with the Don't Go to X, Worst Mistake of My Life template.

How to Use This Meme

A typical post shows an object, logo or screenshot detail whose shape vaguely matches a crewmate's dome and legs, captioned with text performing frustration or insanity at having noticed. Common conventions include calling the object 'sus,' warning viewers against searching a specific product code, or asking to be put out of one's misery over the resemblance.

Frequently Asked Questions