I'm so far behind the crowd I didn't even know "NPC" was a meme much less what it meant.
So if you're even farther behind me in the realm of what's cool, here's the meaning, found at What is an NPC? The liberal-bashing meme sweeping social media ahead of the US midterms. The literal meaning of the acronym is "Non Playable Character." More:
“NPC” stands for “Non-playable character”, a phrase taken from video games referring to any figure a gamer encounters while roaming a digital landscape that they cannot control themselves.
Rather than the hero of the game, these are often supporting characters who offer a quest or recite dialogue to further the plot. Unthinking automatons, they have no minds of their own.
The slang - “born in the fever swamps of 4chan and Reddit message boards”, as Kevin Roose of The New York Times puts it - has been adopted by right-wing social media users, many backers of President Donald Trump, as a means of attacking conformist liberal voters ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
And there you have it. Feel cooler now?
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4:00 PM 10/22/2018
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