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This is a bit unrelated to HN, but in the terms of "memeculture." What you've discovered and described is called "NPC" by meme culture. https://en.wikipedia.o
by rootsudo 6y ago
This is a bit unrelated to HN, but in the terms of "memeculture."
What you've discovered and described is called "NPC" by meme culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPC_(meme) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPC_(meme)
- RealityVoid 6y agoI find meme culture just as, if not worse than news in some ways. It convinces people that something that has enough truthiness and is funny enough is true.
- war1025 6y agoCan you elaborate on this? I am unsure if you are saying not watching the news makes him an NPC, or if the people who just parrot the news are the NPCs. I am leaning toward the latter, but based on your wording and the wording of the parent post, that's not what I initially expected.
- rootsudo 6y agoThe later, the parroting of facts and the inability to go into deep detail besides being told information tidbits and repeating them is what makes the NPC so chilling in todays world. Especially when a few people get that high level of norieity and trust.
- mumbisChungo 6y agoIt's kind of weird that this is attributed to 'memeculture', given that I can recall people referring to others (in a denigrating fashion) as NPCs back in the 90s, before 'meme' was part of our lexicon.
- Kye 6y agoThe article is Start-Class. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Internet/Assessment#Quality_scale https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Internet... >> "A very basic description of the topic. Can be well-written, but may also have significant content issues." That means someone wrote it up on a whim and no one's come to address prior art in a way that suits the standards of Wikipedia.