4Chan Sparks Mass Triggering With NPC Meme; Twitter Responds With Ban Hammer

The "weaponized autists" at 4Chan have done it again, because they can; a new meme suggesting that liberals are soulless idiots who can't think for themselves has gone viral. The concept compares Democrats to "nonplayable characters," or NPCs - the recurring characters in video games with repetitive lines and limited knowledge. Lack of an "inner voice" is a dead giveaway that someone may be an NPC.

The NPC meme essentially meant to ridicule the post-election perpetual outrage culture in which liberals simply parrot the latest talking points from their favorite pundits, who do their thinking for them. 

The 4chan version is a simple greyed out, expressionless face known as "NPC Wojak" - which has triggered the left so hard that Twitter conducted a mass-banning campaign for accounts promoting the meme, and the New York Times wrote an entire article trying to figure it out. 

The Times writes of the Twitter bans:  

Over the weekend, Twitter responded by suspending about 1,500 accounts associated with the NPC trolling campaign. The accounts violated Twitter’s rules against “intentionally misleading election-related content,” according to a person familiar with the company’s enforcement process. The person, who would speak only anonymously, was not authorized to discuss the decision. -NYT

There is precisely zero evidence that the accounts were spreading "intentionally misleading election-related content," so we're just going to have to take Twitter's word for it. 

Origins: 

According to KnowYourMeme, the NPC meme was created in 2016 after an anonymous 4chan user made a threat titled "are you an NPC?" to the /v/ video games board. 

On September 5th, 2018, several threads were submitted to 4chan discussing people who did not have an "inner-voice." In the comments sections, many described those who do not have an internal monologue as "NPCs." On September 7th, a grey-colored variation of Wojak began appearing in threads about NPCs (shown below). KnowYourMeme

The triggering begins

After the meme began to spread, Twitter user @brightabyss accused those who "refer to living humans being as NPCs" as being "facist"

And according to KnowYourMeme, "On September 15th, Twitter user @DreddByDawn tweeted that NPC was "dog whistle" used by "fascists." The same day, Twitter user @Sharessan accused a centrist of being a "fascist in denial" after labeling them an NPC. Meanwhile, Twitter user @stackflow33 tweeted a screenshot of the tweets along with the message "What the fuck is even going on anymore? Lmao.""

Angry NPCs Twitter users continued their opposition to the meme, telling users to "report and block" anyone using the "dehumanizing" NPC meme.

Once the meme reached critical mass, it was only a matter of time before Silicon Valley did something about it: 

And before they're totally scrubbed from the internet, here are a few NPC memes that slipped through the cracks: 

NPCs are even getting ready for Halloween: 

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    Comment by DTOM on October 17, 2018 at 8:09pm

     

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    0lrgeu8txgo6i Comment by 0lrgeu8txgo6i on October 17, 2018 at 6:58pm

    I then rang as an african called shoola adjidahan and asked, having verified its not ok to be white if its ok to be black, same sheila that was so rude before and hung up walking on eggshells trying to be oh so politically correct, also rand the health minister as a Kenyan worried about infertility and the bnumber of fertility clinics necessary in Australia

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    0lrgeu8txgo6i Comment by 0lrgeu8txgo6i on October 17, 2018 at 6:51pm

    I have discovered that ringing the Prime Ministers office etc and using an atrocious african accent to ridicule their policies mercilessly works much better than my usual accent lol, they are terrified of being called racist and don't know how to react. I just rang to ask if its ok to be whilte (the gov recently voted its not ok, yeah really) As a whitey i asked if its ok and what to tell my kids, she said they were supposed to vote aginst the bill lol, i said so its not OK then, NPC does not compute....hang up!

    0lrgeu8txgo6i Comment by 0lrgeu8txgo6i on October 17, 2018 at 4:56pm

     “Incapable of independent thought. Wants everything done for them. (Quests) Constantly needing coddling (escort quests).” 

    Comment by Boris on October 17, 2018 at 11:09am

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