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NPC meme gold (gold, Jerry!) triggering leftoids and twatter/faceborg


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2018 Oct 16, 5:51pm   51,633 views  288 comments

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4Chan Sparks Mass Triggering With NPC Meme; Twitter Responds With Ban Hammer
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The "weaponized autists" at 4Chan have done it again, because they can; a new meme suggesting that liberals are soulless idiots who can't think for themselves has gone viral. The concept compares Democrats to "nonplayable characters," or NPCs - the recurring characters in video games with repetitive lines and limited knowledge. Lack of an "inner voice" is a dead giveaway that someone may be an NPC.



The NPC meme essentially meant to ridicule the post-election perpetual outrage culture in which liberals simply parrot the latest talking points from their favorite pundits, who do their thinking for them.


The 4chan version is a simple greyed out, expressionless face known as "NPC Wojak" - which has triggered the left so hard that Twitter conducted a mass-banning campaign for accounts promoting the meme, and the New York Times wrote an entire article trying to figure it out.









The Times writes of the Twitter bans:

Over the weekend, Twitter responded by suspending about 1,500 accounts associated with the NPC trolling campaign. The accounts violated Twitter’s rules against “intentionally misleading election-related content,” according to a person familiar with the company’s enforcement process. The person, who would speak only anonymously, was not authorized to discuss the decision. -NYT

There is precisely zero evidence that the accounts were spreading "intentionally misleading election-related content," so we're just going to have to take Twitter's word for it.





Origins:

According to KnowYourMeme, the NPC meme was created in 2016 after an anonymous 4chan user made a threat titled "are you an NPC?" to the /v/ video games board.




On September 5th, 2018, several threads were submitted to 4chan discussing people who did not have an "inner-voice." In the comments sections, many described those who do not have an internal monologue as "NPCs." On September 7th, a grey-colored variation of Wojak began appearing in threads about NPCs (shown below). KnowYourMeme







The triggering begins

After the meme began to spread, Twitter user @brightabyss accused those who "refer to living humans being as NPCs" as being "facist



And according to KnowYourMeme, "On September 15th, Twitter user @DreddByDawn tweeted that NPC was "dog whistle" used by "fascists." The same day, Twitter user @Sharessan accused a centrist of being a "fascist in denial" after labeling them an NPC. Meanwhile, Twitter user @stackflow33 tweeted a screenshot of the tweets along with the message "What the fuck is even going on anymore? Lmao.



Angry NPCs Twitter users continued their opposition to the meme, telling users to "report and block" anyone using the "dehumanizing" NPC meme.




Once the meme reached critical mass, it was only a matter of time before Silicon Valley did something about it:


And before they're totally scrubbed from the internet, here are a few NPC memes that slipped through the cracks:

NPCs are even getting ready for Halloween:

More:

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210   RWSGFY   2021 Sep 4, 10:30pm  

Booger says


And ban the butt stuff - it spreads HIV and cancer.
213   mell   2021 Sep 16, 4:40pm  

217   zzyzzx   2021 Sep 27, 10:32am  

Ripped off from another thread:

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221   AmericanKulak   2021 Nov 10, 1:06pm  

"We're not teaching Marxist Theory in K12.

We are teaching about the Class Struggle view of history, the Labor Theory of Value, and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat.

How right-wing disinformation characterizes those things as Marxist Theory, well, Late Nite Unfunny Man, they're a bunch of stupid rednecks

(LAUGH TRACK, Silly Dance)"
229   Hircus   2022 Jan 12, 7:46pm  

ascii npcs

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