NPC (Non-Playable Character) memes emerged in 2016 on 4Chan. In video games, an NPC is a character that the player interacts with, but cannot play as. NPCs often have limited vocabularies, and exist for the main character to interact with and forward their story. Calling someone an NPCs is an insult used to dehumanize people by representing them as unimportant, irrelevant, and unoriginal. In hate speech, this intentionally dehumanizes the target. In far-right online spaces, NPCs are used to depict people who embrace progressive political beliefs or those uninitiated into online culture.