A strange TikTok trend, where users livestream themselves acting like an “NPC”—or an automated “non-player character” with pre-written dialogue—complete with nonsensical phrases like ...

Robots are dancing ... "At this point I'm convinced she's a real NPC," joked another user. The dancers however couldn't be happier with the online hesitations. "That's kind of the best comment ...

The term NPC, or non-playable character, blew up on TikTok last summer as streamers went live on the app and acted like robots with canned responses to stimuli. But NPCs, and NPC memes ...

Her robotic tone imitates something called an NPC, or non-playable character, in video games. It’s the latest evolution of virtual tipping on the internet, and it sits at the intersection of ...

a virtual voice and lip syncing for an NPC named Buck. But as you can see in the video above, Buck sounds like a stilted robot with a slight country accent. If he's supposed to have some sort of ...