This can be compared to the Wojak meme on which NPC is based, which has 787,000 page views, 6 videos, 332 images and 47 comments as of December 31, 2019. On the website of the meme community Know Your Meme, the NPC meme has 858,000 page views, 33 videos, 597 images and 749 comments as of December 31, 2019. Īlthough the NPC meme was created 6 years after the Wojak meme, the NPC meme rapidly gained attention in comparison with the Wojak meme. The number of searches for the search term "NPC Wojak" remained relatively constant during 2019, though at a level significantly lower than its peak from early October through mid November 2018. President Donald Trump on February 2019 before it was removed for copyright infringement. The winning entry, by a Twitter user named "Carpe Donktum", was later retweeted by then- U.S. In November, InfoWars held a competition promoting creation of NPC memes. In October 2018, a large number of Twitter accounts were created which presented themselves as NPCs, and more than 1,500 such accounts were subsequently banned by Twitter. A large number of animated videos based on the NPC meme were uploaded to YouTube in the second half of October 2018, and Google searches for the term "NPC Wojak" peaked around the same time. ĭuring the weeks leading up to the 2018 midterm elections in the United States, the NPC meme gained remarkable attention, with relatively high media coverage, publication of new NPC memes online, and several noticeable events. Unlike the NPC meme, the Wojak meme (also known as Feels Guy ) appeared first on the image hosting website vichan and has mainly been used for expression of feelings, most often melancholy or regret. The design of the NPC meme character is based on Wojak ( Polish: Wojak, lit.'warrior, soldier', ), a meme created in Microsoft Paint in 2010. Anonymous, "Are you an NPC?", 4chan (July 7, 2016)
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