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-playable ...

A meme campaign designed to troll liberals as “nonplayable characters” — a term borrowed from video game lingo — prompted Twitter to suspend roughly 1,500 accounts for engaging in “coordinated ...

Twitter has banned more than 1,500 spoof accounts featuring NPCs - grey, expressionless avatars who tweet bland, politically correct messages intended to mimic and provoke liberal pronouncements. What ...

A meme that started on 4chan and recently spread through political social networking and meme-warring reveals the extent to which we now conflate a person's political views with their value as a human ...

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In general, calling someone an “NPC” is a way to tell a person that they lack original thinking skills, or more simply, that their opinion doesn't matter to you—but the term didn't start out that way.

Everyday there are new slangs that are used online, and in real life. However, there is one slang that has gained popularity especially in the gaming world. You might have also seen it somewhere, ...