WHAT Are They?! (Among Us)

July 14, 2026

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5 min read

In the Among Us TV show, a character named Green casually mentions growing up on a worm farm. It sounds like a throwaway line, but it might be the single most important clue to figuring out what these little colored beans actually are. The show, which dropped a full ten-episode season during Summer Game Fest, dives deep into the anatomy of its characters—revealing that their colored bodies aren't spacesuits but actual skin, that they have a single eye that can crack like glass, and that they possess exactly one bone. For years, fans assumed the crewmates were humans in suits. The show proves that wrong, and the evidence points to something far stranger: these creatures are highly evolved, spacefaring worms.

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1 (00:00) **Advertisements and Host Banter** - Two ad segments for Bows and Stinger are followed by the Game Theory host arguing with the Film Theory host over who gets to cover the new Among Us TV show.
2 (03:13) **The Single Eye: Anatomy and Evolutionary Advantages** - The host analyzes the crewmates' single, visor-like eye, using evidence from the show (squinting, crying, sparkling) to argue it's a real biological eye, not a helmet visor.
3 (05:48) **Breathing and Eating Without a Mouth** - The host notes that crewmates eat pizza and need oxygen, yet have no visible mouth, suggesting they absorb nutrients and oxygen through their skin.
4 (06:49) **The "Back Area": Reproduction and Cloaca** - The show reveals a sensitive, private area under the crewmates' backpacks, heavily implied to be their reproductive organs.
5 (08:28) **Surviving Nuclear Fallout** - The show's backstory reveals the crewmates survived a reactor meltdown that decimated a city, implying a high resistance to radiation.
6 (10:11) **The Single Bone and Lobopod Limbs** - The show confirms crewmates have only one bone, which is used in scanners to identify imposters (who have zero bones). Their limbs are fleshy and unjointed.
7 (12:16) **The "Worm Farm" Revelation** - A throwaway line from the character Green about growing up on a worm farm triggers the host's final hypothesis: the crewmates are worms.

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Show Notes

With the release of the Among Us TV show, there is ONE thing in this story that stood out to me and actually changes almost every theory we’ve made on this game. It appears that these crewmates may not be human?! And if so, then what ARE they? Let’s find out in today’s video!