The last year has seen the rise of multiple streamers across Twitch and YouTube as people were kept at home thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Three of those streamers - CorpseHusband, Sykkuno, and Valkyrae - saw a notable boom in their audiences and are now considered three of the biggest streamers online playing games like Among Us and Valorant. They've shown no signs of slowing down, either, as their next game of Among Us will be alongside Jimmy Fallon and two of the stars from Netflix's hit show Stranger Things.
Among Us is the online deception game from InnerSloth LLC which released in 2018 but exploded in popularity over the last year. This was thanks to streamers like the aforementioned Sykkuno and Valkyrae playing alongside other notable streamers like Pokimane, DisguisedToast, xQcCow, and Ludwig. InnerSloth released the fourth and largest map to date, Airship, on March 31, 2021.
Valkyrae tweeted on Monday herself, CorpseHusband, and Sykkuno would be playing their next game of Among Us on Tuesday with Jimmy Fallon on the late night host's Twitch channel. It also marks the official debut of Fallon on Twitch.
Fallon isn't the only one from The Tonight Show playing, either, as The Roots' Questlove, Tariq Trotter, and Kirk Douglas will playing as well. On top of that, Stranger Things' Noah Schnapp and Gaten Matarazzo will try to kill, deceive, and survive as part of the special stream. Among Us community director Victoria Tran was later confirmed to be the final player in the game.
Valkyrae added the stream will also be aired on a later episode of The Tonight Show, likely in an edited version highlighting the stream's best moments.
Fallon is hardly the first mainstream personality to hop on the Among Us train as several notable celebrities, influencers, and even politicians have hopped onboard. One of the biggest Among Us games streamed in the past year saw New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez make her Twitch debut playing alongside Valkyrae, Sykkuno, Corpse, Pokimane, HasanAbi, DrLupo, and other popular players to encourage people to get out and vote ahead of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. It was an instant success and remains one of the most viewed Twitch broadcasts in the platform's history.
Some other notable personalities who have enjoyed the deception game include musicians Logic and T-Pain, actor Jason Mewes, and social media influencer James Charles.