Why Is The Impostor Sus?

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Why the Impostor is Sus : An Essay

Ok, let's say in that if we were to break down the general structural moments of a game, a riddle, a book, a question, a conundrum, or anything of the likes we would find consistencies between them, specifically they all have a scenario. For example, in the book of "Harry Potter", the scenario was that Voldemort, the evil guy, proceeded to kill a bunch of humans after being abandoned from the Harry Potter School (idk haven't read the book), it was then Harry Potter's task to seek out and execute Voldemort. In this game of deceiving, teamwork, sabotaging, detective work, and strategy, between 4 to 10 humanoid creatures face each other, but not in the way you think, but in actuality one of the humanoid creatures is a creature with generally unaccepted behaviors among the majority. Their main task is too deceive and fool the other humanoids into thinking that they are on the same side, working for the same goal of survival, while in reality the ill-mannered humanoid has a secret task to sabotage and kill the normal humanoids, ultimately winning and showing superiority over their inferior counterparts. It is then the normal humanoid's task to survive, and seek out the corrupt humanoid creature, however there is one difficulty amongst them, the ill-mannered humanoid creature is from a different species, of which they can morph into other creatures, ultimately disguising themselves as one of them, this means that if the humanoid people aren't smart enough, they can vote out one of their own kind and actually helping out the "alien" in succeeding their goal. However, here's the interesting part: If the humanoid alien isn't smart enough, they can accidentally, or sometimes intentionally (depending on their ultimate goal as the "Imposter") give away small hints, or something generally concieved as suspicious, which may give away their actual intentions amongst the 'crewmates', this'll cause them to perhaps panic, and try to get rid of the evidence, however sometimes they fail to succeed which'll only put them off track and cause them to grow ever more suspicious depending on the severity. Eventually the crewmates will find enough clues to properly and clearly come to the conclusion that the humanoid alien is the deceiver, and they can then agree on executing the creature by ejecting them either to lava or outer space, and thus putting a stop to their reign of deceiving, murder, paranoia, terror and depression between the crew. Now, I want to touch something new, that is often seen within these social clichés such as games, books and other various things, more specifically the racism and how the skin color determines your fate, especially in this game of deception and murder. There's one color that may come immediately in your head when I say this, namely the color red. When you see red, you may associate it with words such as "sus", "impostor", and possibly "Among Us". If we look at the statistics, we can see that there's a large difference between how often humanoids with the color red and humanoids with other colors get accused of being suspicious, often wrongly accused. This may shock you but if you think of it, this checks out most of the times, there's even an iconic meme of the red humanoid being "sus", however in most of these cases they weren't actually the impostor, instead the crewmates acted on racism and cultural habits. If we compare this racism to the real world we can find connections, what connections you may ask? Well, the racism between normal humanoid humans and monkeys, apes, however it would be ignorant to compare real life to a video game, so we can't compare these, can we? Well as it turns out during studies executed by Hans Harlington at the University of Cambridge, 2014, he found that racism is caused by paranoia and fear of the unknown, which if we see in the game, is true. So if we take all of this information into consideration, we can accurately and precisely figure out that the connection between racism between social scenarios both in video games and in real life is strong.

tl;dr : Red sus!!!!

So to recap the essay for those of you who didn't read (yes, you), the Impostor is sus because they aren't smart in their Impost-y decisions. Thus making them "sus" in the eyes of the Crew Members. However there is a certain phenomena that occurs when Red is a color chosen by anyone in that Among Us Lobby. I will call it the "Red Sus Theory". The Red Sus Theory states that no matter what, red is sus, which is blatant racism and segregation. Thus making the Impostor (and red) "sus".

The equation for this theory is RED=SUS(VENT/69). This took me years of research so I promise it is ready for use. Also to calculate SUS, you need to divide TASKS by EMERGENCYMEETINGS. To calculate VENT you need to add ENGINEERS and IMPOSTORS