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RIGHT WING WATCH EXPLOREABOUT DONATEC A project of People For the American Wy Supreme Court Immigration Anti-LGBTQ Donald Trump Election 2018 The Right-Wing Internet Gets Hip to NPC" Memes By Jared Holt |October 12 2018 430 pm Right-wing circles online have become increasingly obsessed with "NPC" memes, which they've utilized to compare their critics to non-playable characters in video games. The comparison, they hope, serves to ascribe a degree of intellectual apathy to, and dehumanize, those who do nat hold their own far-right beliefs According to the meme-tracking website Knaw Your Meme, the NPC meme originated on 4chan in a 2016 thread posted to the portion of the site dedicated to video games. The post projects a hybrid of simulation theory philosophy and belief structures held by many conspiracy theorists, who become convinced that they have discovered a "truth that has broken them from a previously autonomous ifestyle in normal society In early September, the meme experienced a brief renaissance on 4Chan's "politically incorrecr anonymous image board (known online simply as "ipol)but appeared to wander out of the spatight neary as quickly as it had entered. But since the publication of a Kotaku article explaining the meme last week, users have made a play to replace the tem "SJW-referring to the caricature of a socia ustice warrior-and has given birth to a new tangle of spin-offs. As Ceclia D'Anastasio at Kotaku in some corners of the intemet, NPC is beginning to replace the term "SJW. According to ex-World of Warcraft dev Mark Kern, NPCs have the following qualities: "Incapable of independent thought. Wants everything done for them. (Quests) Constantly needing coddling (escort quests). He published his checklist after another developer accused him of being a "right wing hack. The tweet evidently was meant to compare so-caled SJWs to these NPCs. It's a now-common refrain on Reddit, with posts on r/ The_Donald saying. The Left is just a meme of lunacy come to life. They're just NPCs in the game of life" or, in reference to economic experts widely condemning tarifts, "here we are with one of the best economies in US history. Only brainwashed NPCs belleve what experts' say when those claims are contradicted by realityl Now that the NPC meme has been re-framed as a way to "own the libs,"it's inspired a new wave of enthusiasm among Trump supporters online. Google Trends shows a massive spike in interest in the Google Trends 100 12 Ju Weltweit. Letzte 90 Tage. Websuche. Users at Reddit's largest pro-Trump forum board have praised the meme's supposed potency, one user writing, I guarantee this is demoralizing enough iberals to make a dfference on Election Day Users adapted the meme to depict NFL player Colin Kaepernick, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, and panel guests on CNN. One user even created a custom snapchat filter that users can apply to anyone's face into the "NPC" meme. NPC Lens Moderators for the subreddit posted the meme on Twitter NPC's confirmed pic.twitter.com/ecukZCbQPM -nThe Donald(thedonaldreddit) October 12, 2018 The meme has also taken a grip over the 4chan board that birthed it In the last week, more than one hundred threads discussing the NPC meme have been created Jack Posoblec, a pro-Trump figure who works at One America News, took interest in the meme earier this week Jack Posobiec We now turn to our panel of experts 141 AM 10 Oct 2018 lan Miles Cheong who Kotaku identified as a primary popularizer of the meme, has been using the tenm to sneer at his critics Naturally your opinions don't change because you're an NPC - lan Miles Cheong (@sillgray) October 10, 2018 Tags: lan Miles Cheong, Jack Posobiec, Memes, 4Chan, One America News, Reddit

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RIGHT WING WATCH EXPLOREABOUT DONATEC A project of People For the American Wy Supreme Court Immigration Anti-LGBTQ Donald Trump Election 2018 The Right-Wing Internet Gets Hip to NPC" Memes By Jared Holt |October 12 2018 430 pm Right-wing circles online have become increasingly obsessed with "NPC" memes, which they've utilized to compare their critics to non-playable characters in video games. The comparison, they hope, serves to ascribe a degree of intellectual apathy to, and dehumanize, those who do nat hold their own far-right beliefs According to the meme-tracking website Knaw Your Meme, the NPC meme originated on 4chan in a 2016 thread posted to the portion of the site dedicated to video games. The post projects a hybrid of simulation theory philosophy and belief structures held by many conspiracy theorists, who become convinced that they have discovered a "truth that has broken them from a previously autonomous ifestyle in normal society In early September, the meme experienced a brief renaissance on 4Chan's "politically incorrecr anonymous image board (known online simply as "ipol)but appeared to wander out of the spatight neary as quickly as it had entered. But since the publication of a Kotaku article explaining the meme last week, users have made a play to replace the tem "SJW-referring to the caricature of a socia ustice warrior-and has given birth to a new tangle of spin-offs. As Ceclia D'Anastasio at Kotaku in some corners of the intemet, NPC is beginning to replace the term "SJW. According to ex-World of Warcraft dev Mark Kern, NPCs have the following qualities: "Incapable of independent thought. Wants everything done for them. (Quests) Constantly needing coddling (escort quests). He published his checklist after another developer accused him of being a "right wing hack. The tweet evidently was meant to compare so-caled SJWs to these NPCs. It's a now-common refrain on Reddit, with posts on r/ The_Donald saying. The Left is just a meme of lunacy come to life. They're just NPCs in the game of life" or, in reference to economic experts widely condemning tarifts, "here we are with one of the best economies in US history. Only brainwashed NPCs belleve what experts' say when those claims are contradicted by realityl Now that the NPC meme has been re-framed as a way to "own the libs,"it's inspired a new wave of enthusiasm among Trump supporters online. Google Trends shows a massive spike in interest in the Google Trends 100 12 Ju Weltweit. Letzte 90 Tage. Websuche. Users at Reddit's largest pro-Trump forum board have praised the meme's supposed potency, one user writing, I guarantee this is demoralizing enough iberals to make a dfference on Election Day Users adapted the meme to depict NFL player Colin Kaepernick, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, and panel guests on CNN. One user even created a custom snapchat filter that users can apply to anyone's face into the "NPC" meme. NPC Lens Moderators for the subreddit posted the meme on Twitter NPC's confirmed pic.twitter.com/ecukZCbQPM -nThe Donald(thedonaldreddit) October 12, 2018 The meme has also taken a grip over the 4chan board that birthed it In the last week, more than one hundred threads discussing the NPC meme have been created Jack Posoblec, a pro-Trump figure who works at One America News, took interest in the meme earier this week Jack Posobiec We now turn to our panel of experts 141 AM 10 Oct 2018 lan Miles Cheong who Kotaku identified as a primary popularizer of the meme, has been using the tenm to sneer at his critics Naturally your opinions don't change because you're an NPC - lan Miles Cheong (@sillgray) October 10, 2018 Tags: lan Miles Cheong, Jack Posobiec, Memes, 4Chan, One America News, Reddit

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