@Burger King Leonidas  
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The Gang Get Radicalized by Memes, Livestream the Experience

because orange man bad

@Reykan  
I was going to say yeah. The same people who are claiming that this targets them are the ones who were first to dehumanize others.

Two things kill me about this meme. First, the idea of the philosophical zombie is over 30 years old at this point, but NPC is just the latest and easiest way to describe it to the modern masses. Yet its being dismissed as a simple troll that was “created” on 4chan. Second, the same people who are complaining about being “dehumanized” by this meme are one, declaring they think it relates to them, thus declaring they think they are part of the mindless group(which I find hilarious), and two, they are the people who dismissed those who disagree with them as “Russian bots/trolls”

@Background Pony #3E9E
 
@Burger King Leonidas
 
@spikls
 
In the fifties they were called “Squares,” in the seventies through nineties they were called “Sheeple” or “Conformists,” in the early aughts they were called “Normies.” All were used to describe people who had mainstream interests or tastes and showed no interest in anything else. So to me, any claim that this NPC meme is some kind of new or dangerous and nefarious thing is ridiculous. Do some funny and insightful people use it? Yes. Do some really stupid and obnoxious people also use it? Also yes. That’s just the internet for you.

I think it can be pretty universal. It’s true that… let’s call it weirdness… comes mainly from one side lately but whatever’s the reason for it (we can always count celebrity worship/night show culture among its factors) it can happen to anyone.  
It’s a nice meme, flexible, there’s some thought put into some of them though it wouldn’t be where it is today without the backlash.  
Reminds me of a certain cartoon.

@spikls
 
That’s because sadly, the left has become so evangelized with right think that they feel like they don’t have to debate their views with anyone and can instead, treat them in any manner they see fit because they have the right politics and their adversaries don’t. Look at Maxine “We need to get together and harass people no matter where they go” Waters, Dianne “If Kavanaugh is confirmed in the supreme court, there will be more mass shootings.” Fienstien, and Hillary “When the Democrats take back control, that’s when civility can start again” Clinton.
 
They’re prime examples of the left feeling so righteous in their cause that they will advocate for angry mobs against their opponents, threaten mass violence if they don’t get their way, and then blame everyone else for the mass divide.

@Burger King Leonidas  
On a side note, IMO it’s disconcerting to hear about this antagonistic meme when the same group that espoused this quackery on political homogeneity accuses their left-wing of also sewing divisiveness and destructive chaos!
 
That is to say, it seems the ultimate conclusion for political debating in the 21st century is whoever has the wittier insult ad hominem…

@Burger King Leonidas  
Oh

@Background Pony #8C32  
You’re mocking people who think rigidly and act in predictable manners. Just like a video game NPC. Though like @Background Pony #3E9E said it’s become pretty apt and synonymous with the thoughts and actions of the political left.

@Background Pony #3E9E  
I dont see the humour value

@Background Pony #8C32  
Started as another variation of the “stop liking what I don’t like” meme now it’s kind of a satire on people who hold specific political beliefs or react in predictable and often aggressive ways etc. It’s pretty universal now and everybody knows people like that especially on websites that by design discourage from using well-structured arguments or insight.

@Background Pony #8C32  
Something something vidyagames r just like real life or something

Whats so funny about this npc meme, I dont get it.