That sets up for 50-50 situations at the end of the game, just like what Disgusted Toast did to AOC. Then in the next meeting, the person being marinated will vouch for your innocence and you can misdirect suspicion to someone else.
The murderer just needs to make sure they see the person they're marinating at least once after every meeting to instill a sense of false security around them. This deceitful plan is wickedly effective when there's a sole Imposter left in the game. But the strategy itself has long been used to net wins in the murder-mystery game since its 2018 launch. The term was coined by the groups of Twitch streamers that have been binging Among Us since the tail end of summer 2020. "Marinating a Crewmate" is a popular strategy that AOC fell for during her Twitch stream. To avoid suspicion, Imposters need to deceive the crew. Throughout the course of the three-and-a-half-hour stream, it introduced newcomers to the game's jargon, specifically what it means to " marinate" someone in the social deduction game.Įvery game of Among Us begins with every player being assigned the role of a " Crewmate" who needs to complete tasks while avoiding being killed, or the " Imposter," whose sole task it is to kill the crew. Congresswomen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar played indie game sensation Among Us with several popular Twitch personalities on a livestream aimed at encouraging Americans to vote in the 2020 Presidential Election.Įsports consultant Rod Breslau reports that AOC's Twitch debut peaked at 439,000 concurrent viewers, making it the third-highest individual stream by viewership in the platform's history. On Tuesday night, the worlds of Twitch streaming personalities and U.S.