What is NPC?
Non Player Character like the ones used in video games. They’re being used now to describe leftists as nonthinking conformists who regurgitate the same talking points and don’t have an original thought of their own.
Here is a good article about it:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/16/what-is-the-npc-meme-liberals-rage-at-cartoons-mocking-their-scripted-thoughts/
What is NPC?
non-player characters (NPCs)
Thanks, Steely.
Classic Streisand effect. I had no idea what they were until the Levo-nazis tried to ban them.
The joke is that NPCs all say and do the same things, repetitively, all day. And the stuff they say is predictable and cliche. They do not think because they cannot think, what seems like independent activity is just programming.
In other words, same as SJWs.
The term came about in the 90’s when MMORPGs (multiplayer online video games) took the adventure PvM (player versus monster (computer)) into the PvP world of online play. But you still had an old phenomenon carry over from the PC and console games where you needed software driven characters to man the shoppes and contribute to quests/adventures. The term NPC was born to describe non players that were still in-game characters. They generally had very limited set of dialogue capabilities, if any at all.
These days, some NPCs can have extensive dialogue and even A.I. (to adapted to in game variables and user input) but it’s really always obvious you’re not dealing with a real human, and that’s the point of the meme.
While they are correct that the meme is ‘dehumanizing’ in a way, that is also why the meme is so effective in making the point. Lefties and snowflakes often seem to be reading from a script written by PC (that’s politically correct, in this case) programmers. They’re going from a script. They’re parrots, and while they may actually have a mind of their own, the generally only tend to use it to try to be clever (which usually fails miserably) in sticking with their programming.