Don't Be Such an NPC
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Happy Bye Kristi Noem Week!
In our last podcast episode, senior Business Insider correspondent Katie Notopoulos took us to school. We’ve covered the looksmaxxing phenomenon on HTBLO before, but Katie dropped some fresh jargon and ideas that we wanted to make sure we unpacked.
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NPC (non-playable character) simply put it’s all the side characters in a video game that aren’t controlled by humans. They are moving the game forward by adding bits of dialogue or action. Below is a video explaining how TikTokers are making big cash acting like NPCs on TikTok live. They are dressing up, doing random repetitive motions and many times speaking in digital gibberish. This somehow translates into viewers wanting to send them money. Click below for a deep dive into this odd trend.
Deanna Here: Very randomly, I realized the host of the video above, Brett Cooper, was in the ParamountTV reboot of Heathers with me! She played Brianna “Trailer” Parker brilliantly. Google tells me she’s now a conservative YouTuber known for hosting The Brett Cooper Show. Her take on why Paramount TV pulled Heathers is spot on.
If you want to catch me playing the one and only Ms Fleming, you can buy Season 1 of Heathers on Prime. Or if you have Apple TV, it looks like you can watch it there for free! #plug
NPC as Slang - building on our knowledge of what an NPC is, let’s take it one level deeper and unpack the slang insult —
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