As such, a non-player character in a game is controlled by the computer, and typically interacts with the player through simple and repetitive actions, such as communicating the same sentence each time the player approaches the NPC. The initial NPC refers to non-player character, a term used in video-games for characters the player cannot control. The shape of the NPC face resembles that of Wojak, and is drawn crudely. In appearance, the NPC character is grey in color, and usually short in stature simple in its design, with an expressionless face, a triangular nose and a blank stare.
The current thing has been Ukraine, essential workers, the Women's March, Notre Dame after it caught on fire, etc." In March 2022, Elon Musk tweeted a version of the meme. According to Slate, the meme is mainly used by the political right to mock liberals for "perceived conformism, frivolousness, and distractibility" who "blindly flit from news story to news story, issue to issue, changing their Facebook profile pics and Twitter display names to 'support' whatever 'Current Thing' dominates news and commentary. In 2022, a variation of the NPC meme called "I Support The Current Thing" was popularized. This can be compared to the Wojak meme on which NPC is based, which has 787,000 page views, 6 videos, 332 images and 47 comments as of December 31, 2019. On the website of the meme community Know Your Meme, the NPC meme has 858,000 page views, 33 videos, 597 images and 749 comments as of December 31, 2019. Īlthough the NPC meme was created 6 years after the Wojak meme, the NPC meme rapidly gained attention in comparison with the Wojak meme. The number of searches for the search term "NPC Wojak" remained relatively constant during 2019, though at a level significantly lower than its peak from early October through mid November 2018. The re-election campaign for then- Iowa Representative Steve King also tweeted an NPC meme around the same time, aimed at the sitting Democratic members of Congress. President Donald Trump on February 2019 before it was removed for copyright infringement. The winning entry, by a Twitter user named "Carpe Donktum", was later retweeted by then- U.S. In November, InfoWars held a competition promoting creation of NPC memes.
In October 2018, a large number of Twitter accounts were created which presented themselves as NPCs, and more than 1,500 such accounts were subsequently banned by Twitter. A large number of animated videos based on the NPC meme were uploaded to YouTube in the second half of October 2018, and Google searches for the term "NPC Wojak" peaked around the same time. ĭuring the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, the NPC meme gained remarkable attention, with relatively high media coverage, publication of new NPC memes online, and several noticeable events. Unlike the NPC meme, the Wojak meme (also known as Feels Guy ) appeared first on the image hosting website vichan and has mainly been used for expression of feelings, most often melancholy or regret. The design of the NPC meme character is based on Wojak ( Polish: Wojak, lit.'warrior, soldier', ), a meme created in Microsoft Paint in 2010. Anonymous, "Are you an NPC?", 4chan (July 7, 2016) it's like in a when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the exact lines word for word once more. They're the kind of 69 who make a show of discomfort when you break the status quo like by breaking the normie barrier to invoke a real discussion. If you get in a discussion with them it's always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments.
In 2016, the concept was revived in a 4chan post by an anonymous user who initiated the NPC meme, titled "Are you an NPC?", detailing the behaviour of individuals acting similarly to non-player characters in video games by repeatedly using phrases such as "JUST BE YOURSELF", and ended the post with the following description of people the NPC meme intends to depict. In 2022, the meme garnered popularity on video sharing service TikTok. The NPC meme gained widespread attention and in October 2018 was covered in numerous news outlets, including The New York Times, The Verge, and the BBC. The NPC meme, which graphically is based on the Wojak meme, was created in July 2016 by an anonymous author and first published on the imageboard 4chan, where the idea and inspiration behind the meme were introduced. NPC ( / ɛ n p i s i/ each letter separately also known as the NPC Wojak), derived from non-player character, is an internet meme that represents people who do not think for themselves or do not make their own decisions those who lack intrapersonal communication.
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