The NPC meme is characterized by a cartoon gray man’s expressionless face, usually espousing some political view. For example, one NPC meme shows the NPC character reacting to a Trump supporter ...

Is there more to the NPC meme? Sort of. There is NPC Wojak — a crudely drawn, gray cartoon avatar with a pointy nose and a blank face. NPC Wojak is a variation of Wojak, an old cartoon (also kno ...

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 ...

You might have seen the memes — featureless gray faces, sometimes surrounded by liberal icons. Elon Musk loved posting them. Like any good insult, the NPC meme served a dual purpose. It ...

It’s called the NPC meme and it goes like this: Out there in the world, there are literal NPCs—the term for non-playable characters in video games—who have no internality whatsoever.

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 ...