Current Events > What's this NPC thing about

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only started noticing it like yesterday or the day before
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some dumb meme about how liberals just parrot the same lines over and over again like a programmed npc
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Just more right wing projection. Mark them for flaming and move on.
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What are you talking about?
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but aren't they parroting their own talking points?
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ThyCorndog posted...

but aren't they parroting their own talking points?

That's where my amusement of this comes from
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BLAKUboy posted...

Just more right wing projection. Mark them for flaming and move on.

NPC135652576447
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Its a meme that the right wing uses in a sad, ineffective attempt to dehumanize liberals. Just mark and move on.
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They somehow created an even lamer meme then soyboy and cuck
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It's true though and pretty accurate how libs all say similar stuff.
Esopcially the ones that go on about white guilt and white privilege.
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yeah that's really stupid. thanks for the clarification guys
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lol nevermind
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DoubleDare posted...

It's true though and pretty accurate how libs all say similar stuff.

Unlike Trumps stories, the truth never changes
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The alt-right have created a new flaming term since they get modded for using the others.
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Just a modern version of "sheeple"
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DoubleDare posted...

It's true though and pretty accurate how libs all say similar stuff.
Esopcially the ones that go on about white guilt and white privilege.

the right is also guilty of it. both people who are on the extreme ends of the political spectrum are morons.
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DoubleDare posted...

It's true though and pretty accurate how libs all say similar stuff.

and conservatives don't get by on fear mongering through talking points? lmao..ok...
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Its funny because the righties doing it are far more akin to NPCs than those theyre mocking
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Libs getting at thing #284858699:9/
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https://imgur.com/Qrr61o6

It serves the same function as "SJW." When you see someone using it unironically, you can immediately disregard everything else they've said. It's very handy.
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so far imo
cuck >> sjw >>>> soyboy >>>>>>>>> npc

npc is the least self conscious one so far. the alt righters are going backwards on this one
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I think the NPC meme only caught on because the far left got so pissed about it, and rule #1 on the internet: Don't feed the trolls
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

the far left got so pissed about it,

Who's pissed lol

P much everyone I've seen thinks it's hilarious in a stupid way
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As far as I can tell it comes from this:


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I wouldn't be hearing about this shit if you /pol bots weren't coming over here and bringing their shit with you.
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Doom_Art posted...

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

the far left got so pissed about it,

Who's pissed lol

P much everyone I've seen thinks it's hilarious in a stupid way

Most people aren't but the vocal minority tumblrinas and twitter folks claiming it "dehumanizes" them trying to get all the NPC accounts banned, and then Twitter followed through and banned thousands of accounts. Kind of funny they don't ban real bot accounts, but they have no problem banning people pretending to be bots lol
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The Great Muta 22 posted...

They somehow created an even lamer meme then soyboy and cuck

I thought "soyboy" and "cuck" was started by incels which was later picked up by conservatives through association.
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You guys gotta admit, conservatives are better trolls
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Why is CE always late to the party when it comes to memes? NPC has been around since September. It was around even before that but it started to really gain traction last month.
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DoubleDare posted...

You guys gotta admit, conservatives are better trolls

Tough to troll when you're trying not to offend.
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UnfairRepresent posted...

some dumb meme about how liberals just parrot the same lines over and over again like a programmed npc

Wait what

Trump's rallies are literally him saying the same fucking thing as every other rally but with like one or two new things sprinkled in that then get repeated at the following rallies
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The_Scarecrow posted...

Why is CE always late to the party when it comes to memes? NPC has been around since September. It was around even before that but it started to really gain traction last month.

I only smoke the dankest of memes and this oregano is garbage.
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

Doom_Art posted...

AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

the far left got so pissed about it,

Who's pissed lol

P much everyone I've seen thinks it's hilarious in a stupid way

Most people aren't but the vocal minority tumblrinas and twitter folks claiming it "dehumanizes" them trying to get all the NPC accounts banned, and then Twitter followed through and banned thousands of accounts. Kind of funny they don't ban real bot accounts, but they have no problem banning people pretending to be bots lol

Are you literally complaining that a statement made to insult other people is getting the people using it modded?
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littlebro07 posted...

UnfairRepresent posted...

some dumb meme about how liberals just parrot the same lines over and over again like a programmed npc

Wait what

Trump's rallies are literally him saying the same fucking thing as every other rally but with like one or two new things sprinkled in that then get repeated at the following rallies

That's what's funny about all this. The people calling others programmed blindly worship a cult leader.
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The_Scarecrow posted...

Why is CE always late to the party when it comes to memes? NPC has been around since September. It was around even before that but it started to really gain traction last month.

oh wow sorry my dude. i'll be sure to keep up on the latest shit 4chan spews next time
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https://kotaku.com/how-the-npc-meme-tries-to-dehumanize-sjws-1829552261

Part crackpot social theory and part elementary school insult, the NPC meme originated from a deeply comical medley of bogus physics and stupid religion found on the messaging board 4Chan. Originally posted in 2016, it resurfaced last month. I have a theory that there are only a fixed quantity of souls on planet Earth that cycle continuously through reincarnation, a 4Chan poster wrote. However, since the human growth rate is so severe, the soulless extra walking flesh piles around us are NPCs [sic], or ultimate [redacted], who autonomously follow group think and social trends in order to appear convingly human. NPCs arent even worthy of a classic wake up, sheeple. They cant!

Heres where things get interesting. Around the time a lot of us were assigned to read The Catcher in the Rye in middle school, it was normal to have edgelord thoughts about phonies or being one of the few who is capital-A awake. The NPC meme takes things a step further into a political zone where mass outcry against, say, serial harassers, racial injustice, or Trumpian ideas is dismissed as not just inherently uncritical but prima facie evidence of a lack of human consciousness.

NPCs, the poster continued, say the same shit, including SPORTSBALL, THE NEW ADELE SONG XD OMG and JUST BE YOURSELF. The poster also cites a political example: TRUMP IS HITLER, adding:

If you get in a discussion with them its always the same buzzwords and hackneyed arguments. Theyre the kind of people who make a show of discomfort when you break the status quo like by breaking the normie barrier to invoke a real discussion. its like in a vidya [game] when you accidentally talk to somebody twice and they give you the exact same lines word for word once more.

Essentially, some large portion of society (normies, pop-culture fanatics, and Trump-haters, among others) who speak in cliches are, in fact, NPCs with no internality, agency, or capacity for critical thought. Like townies in Pokemon idly parked outside the same house day and night, constantly ready with the same contrived one-liners, these IRL NPCs arent thinking for themselves. They cant.

I thought it was talking about the Russian trolls using social media to get people angry or pretend to be angry/offended about it. "False Flag bigotry", like a white nationalist making a fake account and pretending to hate America so his real account can respond to it.

Just social bots online that just troll are NPCs, I thought.
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ThyCorndog posted...

The_Scarecrow posted...

Why is CE always late to the party when it comes to memes? NPC has been around since September. It was around even before that but it started to really gain traction last month.

oh wow sorry my dude. i'll be sure to keep up on the latest shit 4chan spews next time

You better, my guy.
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alt right 4chan dudes kept hearing "holy shit you're stupid" and "go away you racist fuck" repeatedly and the first thing that came to their minds at being told this by everyone around them was "holy shit these guys repeat lines just like in my favorite video game final fantasy vii." so now they're stuck on calling people an embarrassingly nerdy insult for the next few months that they'll later look back at and be really embarrassed about
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ultimate reaver posted...

alt right 4chan dudes kept hearing "holy shit you're stupid" and "go away you racist fuck" repeatedly and the first thing that came to their minds at being told this by everyone around them was "holy shit these guys repeat lines just like in my favorite video game final fantasy vii." so now they're stuck on calling people an embarrassingly nerdy insult for the next few months that they'll later look back at and be really embarrassed about

This implies that they have shame.
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is this what you're all talking about?

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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...

BLAKUboy posted...

Just more right wing projection. Mark them for flaming and move on.

NPC135652576447

Its almost cute how the alt-right is close to realizing their invented boogeyman version of liberals doesnt sound like people actually sound
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You know, I never really put together the fact that a lot of the /pol/ anon's are simply wannabe Holden Caufield's who are crying nonstop about a society that hates them at large and how they are a unique and special person who deserves so much more.

"You know what the trouble with me is? I can never get really sexy- I mean really sexy- with a girl I don't like a lot. I mean I have to like her a lot. If I don't, I sort of lose my goddam desire for her and all. Boy, it really screws up my sex life for something awful. My sex life stinks."

- Holden Caufield
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@refmon posted...

Trying to drive the whole "npc" thing home by posting the same thing in multiple topics eh
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>liberals are emotional
>liberals are robots

:thinking:
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