NPC Wojak Crowd

About

NPC Wojak Crowd, sometimes called NPC News or NPC Groupthink, is an exploitable Wojak image featuring an army of grey NPC Wojaks and a speech or word bubble over the group's heads. The format is also sometimes object labeled with things like the logos for various news outlets edited onto the characters to symbolize widescale media biases, among other groupthink beliefs. The NPC Wojak format was popularized in late 2018, giving rise to the template for a large gathering of NPCs in October 2018, which spread over the following years.

Origin

The earliest known upload of a meme featuring an army of NPC Wojaks was uploaded to 4chan's /pol/ board on October 7th, 2018 (seen below).^[1] The caption accompanying the meme read, "The beauty of this meme is that it only strikes a nerve if it applies to you."

Shortly after, the earliest known example of a meme featuring an army of Wojaks sharing a single speech bubble was then uploaded to 4chan's /pol/ board on October 12th, 2018 (seen below).^[2] The meme was reposted to the /r/bitcoin subreddit on October 21st, 2018.^[5]

Spread

The NPC army meme made sporadic appearances on the internet amidst the overall NPC news cycle in late 2018, as seen in a Twitter post from October 22nd, 2018 (seen below, left),^[3] and an Imgur post from October 25th, 2018 (seen below, right).^[4]

On January 12th, 2021, a 4chan user posted a version of the NPC Crowd Wojak with the logos of various news and media outlets edited onto them to /pol/ (seen below, left).^[6] The collective speech bubble read, "This is extremely dangerous to our democracy." On January 27th, Twitter^[7] user @ArtofNBG then posted a version of the meme, gathering over 45,000 likes in two years (seen below, right).

Various Examples

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