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Weird Among Us Cosplay Lets You Be All 10 Players At Once

Weird Among Us Cosplay Lets You Be All 10 Players At Once An Instagram user is making "low-cost" Among Us cosplays using his own body parts to represent the crew members of the beloved multiplayer game. An Instagram user has found a bizarre way to cosplay multiple Among Us characters at the same time. The social deduction game has taken the internet by storm despite being largely ignored when it released in 2018. The game has reached such incredible amounts of popularity that the developer cancelled a sequel to focus up on developing the current game. Among Us, like the similarly explosive Fall Guys before it, owes much of its success to its adorable, minimally designed characters. The astronauts in Among Us are small, beanlike creatures, decked out like Skittles in bright primary colors. Like in Fall Guys, players can purchase cosmetic accessories for their astronaut, including hats, and even little pets that can follow them around. While players are mostly interested in Amo...
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Among Us Hacks Are Being Advertised Front & Center On YouTube

Among Us Hacks Are Being Advertised Front & Center On YouTube

Among Us hacks are being advertised on YouTube's main feed on mobile devices, despite these types of ads going against Google's own ad policy.

Among Us Hacks Are Being Advertised Front & Center On YouTube

YouTube is littered with advertisements for hack and cheats for different video games, and its latest victim is the popular indie social deduction game, Among Us. This type of advertisement and enablement of hacking/cheating could ruin a title like Among Us and is against YouTube's own advertising guidelines, however, these ads seem to be more prevalent than ever.

Among Us is not the first victim of hacks and cheats being advertised on YouTube. Shooters such as PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds have seen wallhacks and ESP hacks advertised on different gaming channels' videos that led to furious content creators and pro-creators confronting YouTube via social media. The creators of Fall Guys posted multiple PSA's on the game's official Twitter warning players of scam advertisements being run on YouTube for a fake mobile version of Fall Guys.

Now, advertisements are being run on YouTube for cheats and hacks for Among Us. The ads pictured below were found while scrolling through the main feed on YouTube's mobile app and as the first video to appear after selecting a video to watch. The videos are from users Gai and astrogirdo3. While Gai's channel is an assortment of random videos, astrogirdo3 frequently posts video tutorials on how to illicitly hack different multiplayer mobile games.

Among Us Hacks Are Being Advertised Front & Center On YouTube

While hacking video games isn't illegal, strictly speaking, advertising these types of products is against Google's ad policy. Enabling dishonest behavior is listed as a prohibited form of content in Google's ad policies, and "hacking software or instructions" is one of the specific examples provided under that subsection. Since Google owns YouTube, and advertisers must go through Google to advertise on YouTube, these types of advertisements are prohibited from appearing on the platform. However, they consistently appear on YouTube's main feed for mobile users.

These types of advertisements can be incredibly harmful to developers and gaming communities, but some of YouTube's heinous advertisements go beyond allowing people to exploit game mechanics. Some of these advertisements coax viewers into downloading harmful software while others promise ways to bypass paywalls on certain websites. Among Us is only one game in a series of many titles that have been exploited and then had those exploits advertised to hundreds of thousands of people on YouTube. As the number 1 most visited website on the internet, YouTube needs to change the way it reviews advertisements to ensure that it is a safer platform for developers. At the very least, YouTube needs to find a way to follow its own advertising guidelines.

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