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 ...

Let us explain. Sinon, known to her 463K followers on TikTok as Pinkydoll, specializes in NPC streams. In the gaming community, an NPC is a non-playable character, i.e. a character with a set of ...

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 ...

Her videos are part of a unique genre: She pretends to be an “NPC,” or a non-player character, which is a term coined for background characters in video games that cannot be manipulated by a ...

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 ...

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.

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 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 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 ...

You need to invite an NPC to live in a village in Fortnite Lego as part of the questline to get the free Trailblazer Tai skin and other cosmetics. It's good to know how to do this for your ...