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"The one constant the internet offers us is a continual rotation of trends.
Months ago, the trend was people exhibiting “main character energy”. People
were imagining themselves as main characters in their own life show: they were
the ones who knew everyone’s name in the coffee shop, they were having the
whirlwind romance, they were only accepting the best.
Now, the trends have moved on, and people are NPCs.
Non-playable characters, or NPCs, are taking TikTok by storm. NPCs originate in
video games. They are the background characters, the ones with repetitive
movements and sayings, and no storylines. The main, playable, character can
interact with them but only in limited ways. They are tools in someone else’s
story.
People pretending to be NPCs on TikTok are not new. Creator @loczniki, Nicki
Loczek, has been acting like a video game character on her TikTok page for two
years. Her videos regularly get millions of views."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
