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 ...

The term NPC, or non-playable character, blew up on TikTok last summer as streamers went live on the app and acted like robots with canned responses to stimuli. But NPCs, and NPC memes, have been ...

Every time a woman monetizes the absurd, she’s accused of making fetish content. It’s a symptom of the anti-sex moral panic sweeping pop culture — and this time, it’s coming for TikTok’s NPC creators.

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 ...

Over the past couple of weeks, the phrase has been used to explain away anyone advocating a leftist or liberal point of view. Essentially, the joke is that anyone who is anti-Trump isn’t practicing ...

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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, ...

Over more than four decades, the man who built the world’s premier amateur bodybuilding federation subverted the group’s nonprofit mission by establishing a parallel for-profit company that took over ...

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, ...