We created this repository as a way to facilitate access to information regarding the Among Us dating situation.
For proof and a 40k+ record database of Among Us E-Daters collected by us, check out AUFiles.
E-Daters ("Daters", "the Daters") have been plaguing Among Us since its rise in 2020 (it's mostly why they randomized lobby names at some point!). The game's easy access to chat features and a customizable, public matchmaker with a filter make it incredibly easy for Daters to find people through the game, including children.
Due to the existence of 4-Player lobbies, the lack of a good name filter (they bypass it all the time!) and the ability to just ban anyone who joins makes it hard to trace them or report them to Innersloth. Multiple attempts at communication with Innersloth have been attempted by now, yet none of them led to a real result, most tickets being either completely ignored or answered once or twice before being ignored. It is important to not only hold these players accountable, but also the people at Innersloth due to their negligence to the game's state and complete and utter ignorance to our attempts at enlightening them of this situation.
To spread awareness of this issue. Innersloth doesn't want to acknowledge the game's state, so we will. This is a very real problem at Among Us overall, mostly happening due to them refusing any and all community collaborations (reports, tickets, etc.) and instead targeting us.
However, a bigger issue (side effect of this whole situation) has also been noticed by us while exploring lobbies, the presence of predatory content and luring children off-platform. This is an incredibly serious problem, and if left unaddressed, could lead to real-world harm (if it hasn't already) to actual people, not just our decoys/personas.
People with usernames such as SxRp9to12, CpGooner, etc. have been noticed within the game, along with "regular" Daters also luring children (who they believe are 13, 14 or 16) outside into platforms such as SnapChat, Instagram or Telegram or making them give out their personal phone numbers. Those Daters usually make the game private after somebody joins to maintain privacy and hide themselves from the Public matchmaker of which they used to claim their victim in the first place.
To add even more concern to this situation: all of this behavior was observed on public, easy-to-access lobbies within Among Us' public matchmaker throughout multiple regions.
Innersloth patched the bots.
We aren't asking for much. In fact, we only need the bare minimum. What we need Innersloth to do is:
- Add a better reporting system: Make it easier for players to report inappropriate lobbies or players even after they've left the lobby. (INNERSLOTH RESPONDED ABOUT THIS AND SAID THEY WOULD ADD THIS IN A NEW UPDATE)
- Completely remove or restrict 4-Player lobbies: These make it easy for those Daters to hide from regular players and blend into normal game traffic while keeping themselves private after a person joins. We are asking for the minimum player count be higher than 6.
- Volunteer moderation: There are multiple players willing to help make Among Us a safer place. Allowing them to moderate and explore public lobbies would guarantee human moderation and higher accuracy.
- Better name filter: The current Among Us name filter isn't enough to stop inappropriate names as it is easily bypassed with extra letters between banned words. A stricter filter would help stop these names.
- Remove public -> private toggle: After a game has been made public, it should not be able to be private again. This is what the Daters use to hide themselves and their victims after they've joined their match.
- Public acknowledgement (Important!): The Among Us players should know about this, whether it gives Innersloth bad PR or not. This is a serious situation that should not be hidden from the public.
To prevent having your game frozen by the bots, simply add "AD" to the end of your Among Us name.
You should also fight for this cause with us! Among Us deserves better safety and moderation, so spreading this page helps more people know about this ongoing issue.
Thank you for your attention!