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 ...

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 ...

A meme campaign designed to troll liberals as “nonplayable characters” — a term borrowed from video game lingo — prompted Twitter to suspend roughly 1,500 accounts for engaging in “coordinated ...

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 ...

A meme that started on 4chan and recently spread through political social networking and meme-warring reveals the extent to which we now conflate a person's political views with their value as a human ...

In late 2018, just weeks before the U.S. midterm election, a term any gamer would recognize began to bubble up into political conversation. NPC (short for non-player character) became the alt-right ...

If you've seen a funny Elder Scrolls clip on YouTube or elsewhere on the internet in the past few years, it was probably from Bacon_, whose wry editing and lack of commentary allow his videos of the ...