From time to time, and especially if you’re a fan of science fiction, you may have had the thought that nobody around you is actually real. That sentiment has taken root in anti-progressive parts of ...

Essentially, the joke is that anyone who is anti-Trump isn’t practicing free thought—they're simply parroting what CNN tells them to think. Visually, the NPC meme relies on a rudimentary image of a ...

Last week, a trolling campaign organized by right-wing internet users spilled over onto Twitter. The campaign, which was born in the fever swamps of 4chan and Reddit message boards, involved creating ...

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 ...

If you follow online debates between the right and left in the US, you may have noticed the NPC meme appearing on accounts and meme's across social networks. NPC, that means the non-player character, ...