After a strange confluence of events, a chicken nugget may become the latest addition to the indie smash-hit Among Us, with the developers showing off a nugget-themed impostor in a Twitter video. The video comes after a McDonalds chicken nugget shaped like an Among Us crewmate (or impostor, always hard to tell) was sold for an astonishing $99,997 on eBay.
Polizna, the eBay seller who sold the chicken nugget, started the auction at a reasonable 99 cents, likely assuming that the item would receive very few bids. However, after a user placed an insanely high bid of $14,869.69, the price for the nugget skyrocketed. The Among Us nugget's success could be partly put down to the fact that it came from a McDonald's tie-in with K-pop group, and worldwide phenomenon, BTS, whose limited-time meal offers unique spicy sauces chosen by the group themselves.
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With the chicken nugget selling for such an astronomically high price, it quickly gained internet fame, and it's unsurprising that the developers of Among Us followed the story themselves. After the Among Us nugget's big sale, the devs took to Twitter, stating that "THE NUGGET SAGA IS OVER," and offering what they described as a "cursed tribute" to the entire affair with an attached video, showing an in-game version of the $100,000 nugget (aptly named The Nugg) killing a red crewmate.
While the video itself is likely just a joke, many Among Us fans are now requesting a chicken nugget skin be implemented by the developers as an homage to the eBay sale, with the official McDonald's Twitter account even commenting on the thread, lamenting the fact that McDonald's didn't win the bid on the nugget itself. Despite the Among Us developer's tweet being mostly tongue-in-cheek, McDonald's has worked with Pokemon and other video game franchises in the past, so a cross-promotional chicken nugget skin may not be unreasonable to expect.
The internet is a constant source of surprising moments, none more-so than a McDonald's chicken nugget selling for the price of a luxury car, and with Among Us dropping from a peak player count of 438,000 to just 26,000 over the last 8 months, this insane bit of internet news may be just the headline the game needs to bring content creators back to the game for a little while. With the Epic Games giveaway boosting the Among Us player count over Memorial Day weekend, it may be that the game is on its way to a resurgence, and counting out a game that went from a peak player count of 19, to becoming an internet sensation, would be about as silly as paying $100,000 for a chicken nugget.
Among Us is available for Mobile, PC, and Switch. PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S versions in development.