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To: EdnaMode
For those who are wondering:

The new “NPC” meme mocks leftists by depicting them as unthinking and reflexive automatons. The meme has upset the left so much that Twitter is now banning people posting it for “dehumanizing speech,” but its humble origins are the computer-controlled characters of limited intelligence found in most video games.

The popular NPC meme trend frames its targets as non-player characters (NPCs) who reflexively spout neo-Marxist axioms in response to real-world events. Actual NPCs are computer-controlled characters in video games with limited scripted responses given the parameters of the games in which they appear. For example, NPCs may assign quests to the player in games like Skyrim, or join the player as a companion in Fallout.

Built on the long-running Wojak meme, the NPC meme mocks leftists as expressionless in appearance and bot-like in behavior. The universal standard appearance illustrates the left’s political homogeneity.

—Breitbart


2 posted on 10/17/2018 6:55:29 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: Steely Tom
But yet, Twitter can't quite suppress the #NPC and #MeSioux hashtags. Ooops!
4 posted on 10/17/2018 7:04:37 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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To: Steely Tom

“For those who are wondering”

I think he explains it at the beginning of the vid. But still, with people not into gaming - such as myself, there can never be enough explainin’. I think a lot of people will stumble just at “meme”.


5 posted on 10/17/2018 7:05:33 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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