NPC is a weekly podcast about the games we take with us and the handhelds we use to play them. Every other Tuesday, Federico Viticci, John Voorhees, and Brendon Bigley cover the latest portable gaming ...

That nonsensical stream of words, often accompanied by robotic body movements, is part of TikToker PinkyDoll's usual performance as a kind of flesh-and-blood, non-playable character, or NPC.

The term NPC, or non-playable character, blew up on TikTok last summer as streamers went live on the app and acted like robots with canned responses to stimuli. But NPCs, and NPC memes ...

PinkyDoll is at the vanguard of the ‘NPC’ trend that has captured the attention of TikTok users, in which content creators mimic the repetitive actions of a non-playable character (NPC ...

A strange TikTok trend, where users livestream themselves acting like an “NPC”—or an automated “non-player character” with pre-written dialogue—complete with nonsensical phrases like ...

A new TikTok trend has creators acting like non-playable, video game characters — or NPCs. NPC streams can be lucrative, as viewers gift creators to control their actions. The trend is ...

On TikTok, life really is a simulation. Look no further than the NPC trend going viral on TikTok Live. TikTok creators have been taking to the app's Live feature to mimic NPCs or "non-playable ...

A few years back, the online right became enamored of a new epithet for liberals NPC short for non-player character. Non-playable non-player character. But you don’t know about this. Do I get to ...

Humans acting like video game characters for money. That pretty much sums up NPC streaming, the latest TikTok craze that has some cringing and others joining in on the fun. For hours upon hours ...