A French-Canadian TikTok creator PinkyDoll has brought the niche world of NPC streaming into sharp focus. NPC streamers are real people who make money by imitating a video game character as though ...
A strange trend has emerged on TikTok: creators are acting as video game characters over live streams. The popularity of these live streams could have implications for TikTok's live stream shopping ...
Playful roboticism is having a moment on TikTok. As you've no doubt seen (or perhaps directly paid for) in recent months, NPC streaming has taken over the platform, thus facilitating the purported ...
TikTok creators are embracing a peculiar new live genre in which they stream themselves acting like non-player video game characters. Viewers of such streams become the puppeteers of real-life NPCs, ...
TikTok creators are embracing a peculiar new live genre in which they stream themselves acting like non-player video game characters. Viewers of such streams become the puppeteers of real-life NPCs, ...
In video game parlance, NPCs, or nonplayable characters, are side characters a player cannot control. They are preprogrammed, usually with looping scripted dialogue and robotic movements. NPC ...
A woman spasmodically jolts before a camera, spouting random phrases. "Ice cream so good," "Ice cream so good," "balloon," "gang gang," "gang gang," "gang gang." Once, twice, a thousand times, as many ...