If you’ve jumped on the Among Us bandwagon recently, you may have noticed that a few players are appearing in the game without a name. This makes it harder for other users to identify them, especially if they’re the impostor. However, you have to wonder how much of a deterrent it is when crewmates can also be identified by color. But since blank usernames are all the rage right now, and whether it’s for the deception or coolness points, we’re taking a closer look at this trend.

But Among Us doesn’t let you start a game without a name, so how exactly do you do that? Unicode characters, that’s how! Let’s take a quick look at Unicode characters and how you can use them for a blank name in Among Us.

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Unicode is an encoding format for most text-based applications that helps the system understand your input. It includes over 154 scripts, including historical additions and modern additions such as emojis.