The NPC meme
You might remember it as NPC Wojak, Are you an NPC?
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2018·The platform era
A grey blank face used to accuse other people of not really thinking.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- NPC Wojak
- Spread in
- 2018
- Began as
- A social-media post
- Format
- Meme
- Origin
- Not an upload originally
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
A 4chan post of 7 July 2016 asked are you an NPC, borrowing the video-game term for a character with scripted lines. Drawn as a featureless grey Wojak, it became a standard way to dismiss people as unthinking, and by the 2018 American midterms it had moved from image boards to news coverage; Twitter removed over 1,500 accounts using it that October.
Why it is here: copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later
This first circulated as a social-media post, not as a video upload.
Where it came fromWhat we know
There is no original upload to identify: this did not begin as one. There is no copy of it here either — what it was, when it appeared and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first publication of this Moment, because the first publication was not an upload. This first circulated as a social-media post, not as a video upload.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
What this was built on, each one a record of its own.
- A variant of WojakMeme · 2010
The NPC is a Wojak drawn grey and expressionless, one of the named variants the original face was redrawn into in 2018.