Last week, The New York Times published a piece about an insular 4chan meme that had started to bleed over into political Twitter. At the time, NPC — an acronym for the gaming term “non ...

but the NPC meme specifically originated as a way for right-wingers to dunk on liberals. The NPC meme is characterized by a cartoon gray man’s expressionless face, usually espousing some ...

Visually, the NPC meme relies on a rudimentary image of a grey man, with simple, Microsoft Paint-esque features. Sometimes he appears alone, or in herds of identical grey men. Sometimes ...

A website called Imgflip, which is used to create customized memes and GIFs, built a meme generator that harnesses machine learning to create new captions at the click of your mouse for 48 of the ...

Titled, wryly, This Meme Does Not Exist, the tool is very simple: Select from one of dozens of popular memes and let the generator do the rest. Pick Dave Chappelle’s Tyrone Biggums’ Y’all ...

Imgur launched its own image macro service a few years back; Meme Generator enables individuals to choose from existing templates and lets more industrious Imgurians upload their own background ...

Twitter has suspended more than 1,500 spoof accounts featuring grey, expressionless avatars known as “NPC s”. Each one takes a character known as “NPC Wojak” for their profile picture ...