Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.
As a Reddit user, BasedMedicalDoctor, explains in a thread about the appeal of the meme, NPCs are “completely dependent on their programming, and can’t do or think on their own.”
Is there more to the NPC meme?
Sort of. There is NPC Wojak — a crudely drawn, gray cartoon avatar with a pointy nose and a blank face.
NPC Wojak is a variation of Wojak, an old cartoon (also known as “feels guy”) that has become a kind of collective mascot for the far-right commenters online. In recent weeks, users on 4chan and Reddit have made all kinds of memes featuring NPC Wojak.
Here is one:
Here is another:
This NPC meme is gold. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/3X3IhGyWnv
— 🇺🇸👍Phataken (@Phataken) October 12, 2018
And this is a thing … why?
It’s a long story, but the short version is that a group of young, extremely pro-Trump internet trolls have spent the past several years mocking anti-Trump people as whiny, easily triggered snowflakes who are primarily motivated by social acceptance rather than by logic and critical thinking.
Naaa, they’re not whiny and easily triggered… that’s why Twitter banned hundreds of accounts using the NPC theme!
They created dozens of Twitter accounts using fictional NPC personalities, the NPC Wojak avatar and bios like “fighting against Nazi Racist Drumpf Fascist Cheetofinger.” They used these accounts to follow and tweet at one another, as well as at liberals, creating the semblance of an army of resisters mindlessly repeating anti-Trump talking points.
The campaign began as a joke. But a few of the accounts started posting misleading information about the midterm elections, including encouraging liberals to vote on Nov. 7. (Election Day is Nov. 6.)
Nothing is more “dehumanizing” than calling an unborn baby a fetus to rationalize abortion.
The Left can F*CK OFF.
p.s. PJW has a GREAT vid on this topic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0aienuCBdg
NPC away!
I just read about this latest phenomemenon (Get it? Uh-huh!) last night. BRILLIANT.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Paul Joseph Watson video on the NPC meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0aienuCBdg.pjw
IAMAI
Neil Diamond – I am I said wid Lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxDyXK93o6g
L.A.’s fine, the sun shines most the time
And the feeling is lay back
Palm trees grow and rents are low
1971 Stones
I AM AI
Tapper Toe Tappin’
“The campaign began as a joke. But a few of the accounts started posting misleading information about the midterm elections, including encouraging liberals to vote on Nov. 7. (Election Day is Nov. 6.)”
…and the campaign is still a joke. A very old joke. Which the NYT feels the need to explain to its NPC readers, who are so fired up for the Blue Wave that they don’t even know when Election Day is.
Any other “misleading information” besides an ancient joke? I highly doubt it.
You will all be banned for liking racist orange man. Stop dehumanizing. We’re coming for your guns.
I could have sworn, upon first glance, the guy in this video was a leftist goof.
Then I heard what he was saying.
For some if the older readers, not so hip to the gamers and 4chan. This guy has a great explanation of NPC.
https://youtu.be/NxdB-jD_4OY
August 2016: Old Lady Hillary explains the Alt-Right Pepe menace to us.
October 2018: Old Gray Lady explains the Alt-Right NPC menace to us.
History is rhyming again.
As a proud white man, I don’t understand 99.98% of what 4chan is or does, but i love the bejeesus out of them. Funniest, trendiest, most effective stuff on the intertubz today.
What does it mean at 1m55s
” Did you ever read about a Frog who had a crazy dream of being a King and then became One ”?
I A M A I A M I A M A I
Thanks BFH and commentors for edifying us old people who would be left in the dark about this. Good stuff guys.
Thanks for the tip. NPC is now part of my vocabulary for trolling the libs.
I’m so uninformed that I thought “NPC” stood for “Not Politically Correct.” Maybe it still could.
Thanks, Old Oaks. I’ve seen the MEMEs but did not know what NPC was. Should have asked my kids or grandkids.
Jimmy:
IF (MOB == TRUE)
{ shift(+1) }
M = N
O = P
B = C
My My MTV – I just listened to I Am I Said the other day.
Take the lyrics out of the song and say them slowly to yourself without the music –
“I’ve got an emptiness deep inside, and I’ve tried, but it it won’t let me go.
And I’m not a man who likes to swear but I never cared for the sound of being alone.
I am I said. To no one there. And no one heard at all, not even the chair.
I am I cried. I am said I. And I am lost and I can’t even say why.”
What a lovely lonely statement. It pretty much sums up the younger generation who need safe spaces and coloring books to deal with the NORMAL stresses of life, let alone the stresses from emergencies and unexpected losses, and who are unable to find the correct words to express themselves.
They can’t understand the One who is the “I AM” and incapable of figuring out who they are in the big scheme of things, so they actually want to be the essence of NPCs.
“Tell me what to do, I can’t figure it out for myself.
Why can’t I make it in this world, someone or something must be holding me back!”
Which is also why most of the liberal songs have the same liberal theme of “I’m so confused, what’s going on”.
A perfect example is 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xYGuheq1TM
LMAO! I hadn’t heard about this until just this evening. I haven’t laughed this hard in a long time!