I think that would be easier because you can tune out. And just day dream, but with this you need razor focus to watch what donations are coming in and keep your npc vibe.
@@Cheesepuff8 It would be actually pretty amazing if she somehow make an internet horror lore of like, her conciseness rotting and she's turning into an NPC, but her mind occasionally returns and screams for help. I imagine if she does that when the trend is about to end, she could maybe prolong the effects of the trend because it's somewhat interesting?
She spawned so many copycats on the live feeds that her stream become a golden standard of proper NPC livestream. She became the Lebron of NPC livestreams.
The fact people find enjoyment watching these, through degeneracy or otherwise, is extremely depressing. These people are going to grow up and be able to vote, drive and in generally interact with other people.
I know the film Idiocracy gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but can you imagine how hard you would've been laughed out of the writer's room if you suggested this NPC stream thing for that film?
One has more dignity the other doesn't. Like if being a prostitute for money is better than being a prostitute because you enjoy it and have kink then make that money as well.
Charlie is so salty and tight over this it's hilarious. The poor man child is upset that people making more brainy rot content then his can actually succeed, that's got to hurt his ego. Well time for him to piggy back off this trend and milk it for a multiple videos while trash talking it like the hypocritical parasite he is 😂. Stay getting called out Moist.
I saw a clip of Pinky breaking character and scolding her kid, it was so weird. We got a brief glimpse of humanity, only for her to go right back to NPC mode like nothing happened. I wonder what it’s like for her child, watching their mom do this 💀
She is living proof that social media is dehumanizing to society. Artificial intelligence isn't rapidly evolving past us; we're rapidly devolving past IT.
This "trend" has actually been around on tiktok for awhile. It's just been popular in Japan/China and it was slightly different. Typically different gifts would be garner a certain movement & sometimes they'd just do said movements on their own while people gifted and sent messages. They'd also dress up in cosplay (I'd usually see neko's, princess peach, etc.) and at times they wouldn't speak. This is just a revised trend of that that's taken off in the US. Doesn't make it any less strange in my opinion.
@@tentinquarantino876bro this has got to be the worse people / old as clowns i seen react to this trend Its funny most youtubers that ik like the trend and hear you clowns are saying bs like this
I'm turning 40 this year, I've worked in construction all my life. Charlie has and will always be my source of insight as to what the kids are up to these days. Keep it real Charlie.
What I don't understand is how the people doing this and the people paying for it don't absolutely hate what they've become. If I was ever on either side of that trend I'd without exaggeration be so disgusted with myself it wouldn't matter how much I made because no amount of retail therapy could ever make me like myself again. How they don't just lay in bed every night in perpetual shame and unable to sleep because of their actions is beyond me.
I just don’t understand it period. Like, is it supposed to be funny, is supposed to be entertaining, and how the fuck did someone come up with this idea in the first place
I feel like the developers of our game just got tired of giving every single person a unique personality and decided to start throwing in literal NPC's
At times I wonder if we are in a "giant ant farm" and some invisible and powerful force secretly adds weird people to see how normal people acts towards them.
It's as if the devs turned their backs on us, and some from the several billion characters indeed devolved into an NPC, given the opportunity of self-improvement and ultimately failing miserably in the process.
You know when I first saw one of those streams the immediate gut reaction I had was an utter chill down my spine. Because I think I realized like you said the factory reset it was demanding.
I appreciate how this channel is always delivering news I havent heard before or up to date on current events. This trend needed to be called out for what it is, tragic.
At this point I no longer see TikTok users as people, I legitimately look at them like specimens. Just the way they think and act is so fascinating I can’t help but watch them.
On the one hand we have AI shows having deep thoughts and existential crises, on the other humans acting like NPC's. What a great time for entertainment...
AI is not yet at a point where it can have any thought at all, it's just very good at mimicing it. Some humans on the other hand are not capable of even that.
This feels like a situation in which when we were younger, older people would always say that they were worried what the youth were watching. But in this case, I’m genuinely concerned for anyone who is gifting this person money
“Hey Charlie! Ms. Pinky is having an episode again.. yeah she saw someone with a cowboy hat eating ice cream pass by the window and started doing this repetitive cowboy thing.. oh now a kid just passed with a balloon.. yeah she’s making popping sounds.. And please tell management that we shouldn’t grow roses near her windows.”
it is the fetish of control or love of a good looking person reacting to you, specifically. i could see the appeal some people have here... imagine typing an emoji or something and Charlie doing something in response to the thing you typed or sent. it's the acknowledgement and the odd control of making them do a thing. AI won't cut it, this needs to be a real person. pretty girls will always be the best suited for it.
@@Legnica148 It's like spending money on gatcha games. I don't generally understand the appeal and it does the world a disservice overall, but the people doing it are paying for a service and generally won't derive the same enjoyment from donating to charity.
@@Legnica148 I guess my point is that as long as no-one is harmed, people have a right to spend their own money on things that bring them happiness. Sometimes that thing is charity. Sometimes that thing is emojis.
It reminds me of that psychological experiment with the people who were given some sort of control over others as the emotes are "making" them do the actions.
I don’t know if doing those streams would be worse or just watching them. Both sound completely insufferable. But I’m almost impressed by these streamers for having the ability to do this for hours straight. Like i would literally rather stare at a blank wall for hours than do this.
She's really good at it. It's really, really strange, but she is good at it. Probably the nicest thing I can say about it. Seems like OF models are just finding more and more creative ways to get eyes on their SFW content so they can convert people to subscribing to their OF
@@Darkphoenix8888 Informative how though? He gave an opinion piece and showcased patient zero. "Here's the brain rot" "This person started the brain rot" "This brain rot is unbelievable, but kudos". Sound's like more irrelevant brain rot too me.
You have done something to the algorithm sir. Now after watching this video a fee days ago, the only lives that come up on my feed are these npc things. Its crazy, what people would do for money.
Same here man and yes it is a much better lifestyle, nowadays its considered weird by other others if you are disconnected from all this, but its all garbage, better off working
The fact people are actually watching and sending money to these people is beyond me. these are adults sending money to other adults acting like an NPC
My 11 year old nephew stays with me for a week every summer playing video games, watching shows and eating junk food together as a time-honored family tradition. I'm 42 so we do a lot of generational media crossover. He's always like "Aunt Heazie, look at this" and it's TikTok videos of repetitive humor just like these NPC videos. He screams with delight. There is something about the repetition that's hypnotic for him. It also exposes me to the huge market out there of media for children (a lot of strange humor). I wonder how many viewers of this NPC trend are children...
as someone who was on deviantart for 10+ years, thus a certified fetish scientist, i can confirm it's a fetish. it's even weirder when you learn that pinkydoll has been lying about her age and saying she's a teenager when she's in her mid-20s.
She has a kid, I was on her livestream yesterday and she yelled at her child, the child was also falling down a lot and even crying, and what does his pos mom do? “uhHH YOU GOT ME FEELING LIKE A COWGIRL LEMME RIDE IT TUHUUU” like a fucking idiot
How is it a fetish though? Is it the idea that the object is f*ckable and not mentally all there? Is it a Cortana thing? Also lying about your age is nothing close to being new. At least she isn't underaged.
Nothing makes me happier than the fact I never picked up TikTok and never will. Almost as sad that NPC is losing it's meaning as a Non-Playable Character
Speaking from the future here: The Chinese version, Douyin, had these NPC livestreams for quite a while now. Nowadays, you start seeing people going into more niche setups of these streams. A couple examples I've seen: 1. Multiple dancers - 4-5 different gifts, and a girl/guy/whoever does a dance based on the gift 2. Training NPC - You throw a gift, the guy does 10 push-ups. You throw a different gift, he carries a water tank for 1 minute. You throw a third one, he does 10 squats So if TikTok will continue in the same trend, it will likely evolve rather than disappear completely
I had never seen or heard about this trend before watching this video. In moments like this I know that my decision to not participate in social media at all was a right one
"My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment." - Susan Greenfield, Oxford University neuroscientist
I mean you can head to your nearest casino and see the same with fully grown adults and old people spending their money on the same thing with slot machines
When the most effort an average person does is press flashing lights at subway, and do repetitive labor, sounds like people are just job training early.
I'm surprised no one has done a "human pretends to be an NPC" streams where they intentionality do the emotes wrong or get annoyed and start arguing with chat for 5+ hours
@@tobiwonkanogy2975its always been that way wym. People find a trend, hop on it, it goes away and cycles a new one. Horse and buggy was preferred over the cringe automobile.
If only the Renaissance thinkers could see us now, they'd be positively beaming with pride at this monumental step forward in cultural enrichment. Truly the height of human achievement.
@@sunfish9341lmao culture. Whats culture but a distraction that at the end of the day were shit throwing apes. Ffs people in the rennasaince fucking thought the planets revolved around earth. Why the fuck do we need their opinions for
I deleted all social media 4 years ago and I've just been more and more disappointed with my generation ever since. It's wild that this type of thing could ever bring in so many viewers for more than 10 minutes....
And the worst part of this, is that she isn’t even the patient zero of this. There was a Japanese catgirl who did this before this whole thing blew up in the US.
Even her friend aka Ohio final boss also has been doing this before. He does a rpg fantasy npc when he’s not doing his walk livestreams but pinky is getting all the credit as the “founder”
@@bennybananas6574oh they'll continue forever. they're like bacteria. they appeal to such a base niche that any extermination effort would be hopeless.
wouldn't be surprised if she hit us with a "Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy."
I can already sense the transition of these "NPCs" to Onlyfans once it inevitably dies out. This trend is just even more evidence on how social media is frying the brain of society slowly.
For sure. Right now its fairly simple and in the mainstream and will die out quickly. But where it will most definitely thrive is combined with only fans content. A lot of degenerates out there will go absolutely ballistic with a nude npc girl
To be fair, I feel like an NPC at any job I've had - clock in, suddenly inhuman This is just an extreme, work-from-home experience that makes way more money
I see that the actions we do at our jobs are NPC like, but the big difference is that in our minds, we see this, and during that NPC jobs we can still imagine things
Bring back the trends that meant something, like the ice bucket challenge was primarily to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. And it worked
The whole TikTok NPC thing makes me think I’ve fallen into the back rooms and said back rooms is doing it’s best to mimic human behavior but horribly failing time and time again
These NPC streams feel like an AI trying to be human but failing horribly at trying to be convincing. I'm always thankful that I never downloaded TikTok!
I think the real explanation is much more simple. Livestreaming has cultivated a weird culture of direct contact with the object of your parasocial obsession: the streamer. People absolutely get a big serotonin rush from seeing a streamer answer their question live, or thank them for a donation. Being noticed by someone you consider a celebrity is a huge deal for a lot of people. What NPC streams do is they skip the gaming, and just provide that high with instant and constant reactions to fan donations. The audience obsessed with streaming "celebs" get the sense of recognition and control that they crave, the ability to influence the attention of someone they think is more significant. And the streamer gets money. It's an addiction. People want to be recognized. This gives them that hit a million times an hour.
I'm so conflicted because this shit has me worried for the future... impressed by the dedication... concerned for the mental health of these people, and confused as to where the fuck the money is coming from to keep this shit going
It unnerves me how much I find it depressing. I can’t tap in even a little to why the fuck people like this and on top of that will waste their money on it.
I've condemned TikTok from the start for a reason. Just another braindead social media cesspool. It genuinely scares me that so much of what the newest generation's media is just the same content recycled over and over again by different content creators. It scares me even more that the content can have such little... body and soul. My niece is 7 years old, and she used to watch Aphmau. I've seen what the internet has done to Aphmau as a character. Then I saw "Minecraft pregnant mermaid mod babies" from her channel in my 7 year old niece's recommended list, and immediately I flashed back to the Elsa and Spiderman garbage that was rampant years ago. (It's crazy to think the same group of people who swarmed around Elsa and Spiderman crud make up 90% of TikTok's population) I've since gotten her to put down Aphmau as a channel, and I've given her some good replacements. I showed her DanTDM and CaptainSparklez. I've given her good content that won't rot her brain. If I ever see TikTok, Twitter, or Insta on any of her future smart devices, I'm going to talk her out of using them, and give her a healthier alternative. If I can't keep her safe from this garbage I will have failed on so many levels.
Развлечения
Her doing that for 5 hours straight is like the TikTok equivalence to the street performers that stand still for hours on end to act like a statue
bruh 5 hours is crazy
Except they're getting 5k+ a stream
I think that would be easier because you can tune out. And just day dream, but with this you need razor focus to watch what donations are coming in and keep your npc vibe.
Imagine during a stream she just starts repeating “help me” for like an hour and then goes back to normal
@@Cheesepuff8 It would be actually pretty amazing if she somehow make an internet horror lore of like, her conciseness rotting and she's turning into an NPC, but her mind occasionally returns and screams for help. I imagine if she does that when the trend is about to end, she could maybe prolong the effects of the trend because it's somewhat interesting?
She’s the embodiment of what our parents would say if we sat too close to the TV or played games for too long
She's not it's the viewers
yes, but daddy would say: Follow the money ! Follow it !
@@Susnation532????
@@wannabegangsta its a bot
@x2chubzz383 thank you... it's just I was confused why he would be anywhere near moist
>2015: Impressed with NPCs that act like humans
>2023: Impressed with humans that act like NPCs
I think most of the human race has devolved instead of evolved. Maybe only the logical ones will evolve.
It's evolving, just backwards
The world rotated 180 degrees in less than 10 years. Yikes.
no one is impressed. we are disappointed
Underrated comment.
Ive been paralyzed in a wheelchair for 6 years, and this gave me the courage to stand up and throw myself out a window.
Old ass joke, come up with something more original 😊
IM SORRY FOR LAUGHINGOH NOOOOOOOOO
Don't you dare. Get the courage to make an NPC video. You would probably make bank. Perfect job for someone sitting in a chair all day. 👍
Lmfao
It’s a miracle! 🥲
She spawned so many copycats on the live feeds that her stream become a golden standard of proper NPC livestream. She became the Lebron of NPC livestreams.
💀
𝕀 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 ᴀ ʜɪʟᴀʀɪᴏᴜs ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ ᴏғ ᴀ ᴡᴏᴍᴀɴ ᴄʀʏɪɴɢ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ʜᴇʀ ᴅᴏɢ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ᴘᴜᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ɪ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ вєттєя ¢σитєит 😁
Poison ivy can be so itchy
the Jordan. not Lebron lmao
Anyone seen than movie Idiocracy? It's happening yall!
Watching these TikTok NPC livestreams is the equivalent of listening to a Bop It toy.
Bop It: Now more cringy than ever!
It's 100% a fetish thing.
Not even Orwell could have predicted how dark the future would really be
Duuuude, you just gave me a nostalgic memory! Bop It was the shiz back in the 90’s!
@@bspoken3973everything is a fetish it 200% is
Honestly it’s really nice of Charlie to explain these trends, because I never touch TikTok
Same, haven't used it once
preachin the choir on here brother
I bet Charlie could make millions if he starts to do npc streaming. 😂
He makes millions for talking about them
no bc i was literally thinking the same thing
I like your pfp.
@@IAmGodHimself777 Thanks, i made it. :)
Imagine doing Jesus roleplaying
As someone with a 13 month old, the description of the audience laughing at peek-a-boo is actually so eerily accurate
You can't say 1 year old?
Protect him from this shit 🙏
@@sheepishlymemes6434 Kids change fast that young. It makes sense to measure it in months.
@@thee-sportspantheon330 one year and a month?
@@SteFFz99 396 days
This being a control fetish is actually way less depressing than it being legitimate entertainment for kids, which is in itself, depressing
Tik tok creating an ultra pipeline for kids to coomer brain rot
As a fetish it weird as in a bad way I think these are fine by guy who want to control women but cant unlike the older day so they go to tik tok
The fact people find enjoyment watching these, through degeneracy or otherwise, is extremely depressing. These people are going to grow up and be able to vote, drive and in generally interact with other people.
@@spilledcoffee383 who said that most of them won't be chronically online basement inhabitants?
@@USSAnimeNCC-I had a stroke reading this
I know the film Idiocracy gets thrown around a lot nowadays, but can you imagine how hard you would've been laughed out of the writer's room if you suggested this NPC stream thing for that film?
I'm scared for the future
At this point Idiocracy is basically a comedy movie that turned into a documentary over the timespan of a few years ☠️☠️
I like money
I really think we are going to be WORSE than idiocracy.
Ow my balls!
The fact that doing one of these npc livestreams pays more than a 9-5 job at mcdonalds
One has more dignity the other doesn't. Like if being a prostitute for money is better than being a prostitute because you enjoy it and have kink then make that money as well.
i hate living in a world where "npc fetish" is a collocation that makes sense
Rule 34 holds strong even for things that aren’t NSFW - if it exists, it’s someone’s fetish
Charlie is so salty and tight over this it's hilarious. The poor man child is upset that people making more brainy rot content then his can actually succeed, that's got to hurt his ego. Well time for him to piggy back off this trend and milk it for a multiple videos while trash talking it like the hypocritical parasite he is 😂. Stay getting called out Moist.
I had to look up collocation and once I did I completely agree😊
Porn addiction and kink overexposure have been disastrous to the internet
@@lordofligmakaczynski pilled
I saw a clip of Pinky breaking character and scolding her kid, it was so weird. We got a brief glimpse of humanity, only for her to go right back to NPC mode like nothing happened. I wonder what it’s like for her child, watching their mom do this 💀
Poor kid. Hopefully the money she's making will at least go to the college fund.
Damn she’s 19 with a kid
@@Iebaxos no wonder she is failing at life by doing this npc nonsense
Probably better than her not being there and working a job with awful hours to make money 😃
@@Iebaxosshe 27
She is living proof that social media is dehumanizing to society. Artificial intelligence isn't rapidly evolving past us; we're rapidly devolving past IT.
Wah wah wah cry about it (icecream hum spicy i feel like a cowgirl)
Since it's based on npcs wouldn't that mean video games desensitized society.
@@cintaminbunny brain blast
im ngl, i think you need to go outside and talk to more people
@@ratscallionzzz typical ass-eating npc bot response
This "trend" has actually been around on tiktok for awhile. It's just been popular in Japan/China and it was slightly different. Typically different gifts would be garner a certain movement & sometimes they'd just do said movements on their own while people gifted and sent messages. They'd also dress up in cosplay (I'd usually see neko's, princess peach, etc.) and at times they wouldn't speak. This is just a revised trend of that that's taken off in the US. Doesn't make it any less strange in my opinion.
Damn so like mukbangs. It was a lot less weird in South Korea and now the West got ahold of it and made it as strange as possible
Bad tiktok trend in the US: 😂
Bad tiktok trend in Japan: 😮
I do appreciate Charlie showing us short clips of TikTok trends so we know what is going on without getting permanent brain damage.
respect to him for sacrificing his own brain cells to watch them himself
And even those short clips made me want to scream in agony while ripping the skin off my face...💀
@@tentinquarantino876just like funkytown
@@tentinquarantino876bro this has got to be the worse people / old as clowns i seen react to this trend
Its funny most youtubers that ik like the trend and hear you clowns are saying bs like this
It’s fucking radioactive
I'm turning 40 this year, I've worked in construction all my life. Charlie has and will always be my source of insight as to what the kids are up to these days. Keep it real Charlie.
The kids are in fact, probably not OK.
Tred lightly this shi doesn’t speak for all of us
@@valinp1007 I feel like your comment deserves more attention than this. I have teenage kids, and they aren't in to this shit.
Man, age ain't got shit to do with it lol I turned 25 today and I'm fucking lost with this, but I refuse to use tik tok though
@@SilverWolfGaming0527don’t get it. It’s addicting once you start using it. I deleted the app 3 times and redownloaded it.
I used to think that there was never a reason to bully someone... now not so much.
What I don't understand is how the people doing this and the people paying for it don't absolutely hate what they've become. If I was ever on either side of that trend I'd without exaggeration be so disgusted with myself it wouldn't matter how much I made because no amount of retail therapy could ever make me like myself again.
How they don't just lay in bed every night in perpetual shame and unable to sleep because of their actions is beyond me.
I just don’t understand it period. Like, is it supposed to be funny, is supposed to be entertaining, and how the fuck did someone come up with this idea in the first place
I feel like the developers of our game just got tired of giving every single person a unique personality and decided to start throwing in literal NPC's
More like players found a glitch, if you act like an npc you get money, same for acting like an npc at your job
At times I wonder if we are in a "giant ant farm" and some invisible and powerful force secretly adds weird people to see how normal people acts towards them.
It's as if the devs turned their backs on us, and some from the several billion characters indeed devolved into an NPC, given the opportunity of self-improvement and ultimately failing miserably in the process.
don't know what to say about this
We already have conservatives
she’s giving us NPC energy when the rest of the world is trying to live on main character energy
🥵🥵🤤🍑😍😍🤯
Fire fire meow
@@RawA1r 👏
Someone somewhere said that the black chick with white hair is a adult film actor 🤦♂️
Everybody has a favorite NPC. It was right in front of us, really.
I’m most impressed that she didn’t lose her voice from doing that for 5 hours.
Or her and everyone else's minds.
Much love and respect to you and your channel Charlie.
She’s qualified to be an AT&T customer support tech.
😂😂
nah man, with this amount of intellect shes more fitted for HR
I read this as AT-AT like the shit from star wars
She probably made enough money off that trend to never have to work again lol
I will forever be impressed by seeing people make money in the most weirdly creative ways.
Ong man love ur shit btw
yooo the man himself commented
Yo how’s it going Ali?
oh its you lol
it's only getting weirder
You know when I first saw one of those streams the immediate gut reaction I had was an utter chill down my spine. Because I think I realized like you said the factory reset it was demanding.
As a 23 year old, I have never had tik tok, and am more glad every day that I don’t
Charlie's timing when I'm bored is immaculately incredible.
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Yeah bro I was about to do something productive but this is better
real
So everyday?
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I want to see a dad do an NPC livestream with dad related emotes (“I’m proud of you” ,”You’re doing great champ”, *insert dad joke etc).
I can't even say "Be the change you want to see" because it'll just be encouraging this ridiculous trend
They’re leaving money on the table rn
Where do I donate, take my money 💳💥💳💥💳💥
bro dont give them idea for this shit💀
Are you winning son?
I appreciate how this channel is always delivering news I havent heard before or up to date on current events. This trend needed to be called out for what it is, tragic.
At this point I no longer see TikTok users as people, I legitimately look at them like specimens. Just the way they think and act is so fascinating I can’t help but watch them.
On the one hand we have AI shows having deep thoughts and existential crises, on the other humans acting like NPC's. What a great time for entertainment...
This is why I side with the robots
Those are just words but yeah
In the future, Entertainment will be randomly generated!
@@zergling6802 maybe
AI is not yet at a point where it can have any thought at all, it's just very good at mimicing it. Some humans on the other hand are not capable of even that.
This feels like a situation in which when we were younger, older people would always say that they were worried what the youth were watching. But in this case, I’m genuinely concerned for anyone who is gifting this person money
They're like a Fable NPC
@@WilliamLucas-hy8mx Don't insult Fable.
The people giving her money are 100% older than 30
@@cooliostarstache5474 I'm older than 30 and watching this is physically painful for me. I can't do it and I don't get it at ALL.
Most of the profile pics i saw of people donating were old white men, the entire situation is so damn weird
Charlie’s timing when I get bored is absolutely incredible
Thank you I was hoping you made this
My favourite part is the idle animation between the lines.
That's some real commitment to the NPC life right there.
@NirvanaFace up
"@Susnation532"
@Susnation532 @Susnation532 more like Sucksnation532, I’M COMPLETELY ENTIRELY BETTER
I weirdly love it and hate it at the same time
@Susnation532 you are succesfully the most ignored bot in RUclips, Congrats !
I wonder if when she gets old and eventually develops dementia, she ends up having compulsory reactions to seeing things like ice cream and balloons.
Tf made you think this
“Hey Charlie! Ms. Pinky is having an episode again.. yeah she saw someone with a cowboy hat eating ice cream pass by the window and started doing this repetitive cowboy thing.. oh now a kid just passed with a balloon.. yeah she’s making popping sounds.. And please tell management that we shouldn’t grow roses near her windows.”
This would be the funnyest shit ever like just see your grandma with dementia start saying "yes strong woman" over and over again
Wow wow make me feel like a cowboy!
@@smilesfordays💀
Finally saw one of those NPC people and it was like watching a gif for way too long how people do this and how others pay for it is beyond me
I’m and AI designer responsible for NPC characters and this just isn’t alright man this is sick.
Because they are taking your job?
we've reached a point where AI is becoming more human while humans are becoming more robotic
This is a sad truth.
Dark age of technology.
LiTeRalLy 1984
Interesting thought 🤔
Unironically?
This trend could easily be synthesized as an AI driven program and might stay around forever in an automated form
man its kinda like those talking tom games
I genuinely don't understand what the entertainment value of this is.
it is the fetish of control or love of a good looking person reacting to you, specifically. i could see the appeal some people have here... imagine typing an emoji or something and Charlie doing something in response to the thing you typed or sent. it's the acknowledgement and the odd control of making them do a thing. AI won't cut it, this needs to be a real person. pretty girls will always be the best suited for it.
That’s actually really smart, you could create a beautiful woman of each ethnicity and have them run 24/7 making money
you gave me a good idea.
If the money donated to these streams was put towards actually viable charitable projects just imagine how much better life could be.
Yes if only everyone spent all of their money on charity and not on themselves.
@@catatoblob8598 how the fuck paying for an emoji here is using money for yourself?
by definition it is for sure, but OP's point is very important
@@Legnica148 It's like spending money on gatcha games. I don't generally understand the appeal and it does the world a disservice overall, but the people doing it are paying for a service and generally won't derive the same enjoyment from donating to charity.
@@Legnica148 I guess my point is that as long as no-one is harmed, people have a right to spend their own money on things that bring them happiness. Sometimes that thing is charity. Sometimes that thing is emojis.
It reminds me of that psychological experiment with the people who were given some sort of control over others as the emotes are "making" them do the actions.
Stanford prison experiment.
If you want to torture a human you should lock them in a room full of NPC livestreams looping forever
Sound like an idea for an episode of black mirror, oh, wait…
I don’t know if doing those streams would be worse or just watching them. Both sound completely insufferable. But I’m almost impressed by these streamers for having the ability to do this for hours straight. Like i would literally rather stare at a blank wall for hours than do this.
That would turn the said human into an actual NPC
Isn't that the end of crash twinsanity
Guantanamo: please continue 🤔
The real npcs are the ones paying the streamers to say shit like “meow” and “I love you”
no.... both are... plain and simple... both are just as fucked up
I love the most replayed time stamp in this vid. Tells me all I need to know about what people are after with this shit.
She's really good at it. It's really, really strange, but she is good at it. Probably the nicest thing I can say about it. Seems like OF models are just finding more and more creative ways to get eyes on their SFW content so they can convert people to subscribing to their OF
Good in reference to what?
The likes of you are the reason this exists.
5:16 put this in the "charlie breaking character" compilation
Hahaha, ohohoho,ahahaha, ehehehehe
@@crazygamingyt7245Goblin moment
Charlie should start his own npc stream. That roses impersonation was spot on, in fact it exceded in quality
he was slowly becoming scooby doo
i agree
You think Charlie's content on here is that much more creative then what these tik tok clowns are doing?
@@Bfkcjscbsnjcat least its informative tik tok is just brain rot
@@Darkphoenix8888 Informative how though? He gave an opinion piece and showcased patient zero.
"Here's the brain rot"
"This person started the brain rot"
"This brain rot is unbelievable, but kudos".
Sound's like more irrelevant brain rot too me.
You have done something to the algorithm sir. Now after watching this video a fee days ago, the only lives that come up on my feed are these npc things. Its crazy, what people would do for money.
Honestly I like how long it’s been going on, it reminds me how when things got big back then they’d stay for a while
God, I'm so happy I work like 55 hours a week and have never heard of this trend. Being disconnected from this weird stuff is a blessing.
You and me both brother
Keep grinding & working, man. I'm looking forward to work outside of phone
Same here man and yes it is a much better lifestyle, nowadays its considered weird by other others if you are disconnected from all this, but its all garbage, better off working
You did not have to mention you work that much trust me nobody cares
@@baedo2159average npc stream enjoyer…
The fact people are actually watching and sending money to these people is beyond me. these are adults sending money to other adults acting like an NPC
And she probably makes more in 5 hours than most people do in a year.
@@MO_DiskBots have an income?
Yeah I think the real problem is audience here. I would be so embarassed if I got caught paying money for this
Y’all care too much about what others do with their time and money 😂 homegirl found bank and is taking advantage of it.
@@Artofizanagithat wasnt the point the point is that people are beyond brain dead
Charlies peekaboo impression is ON POINT!:D Had me cackling so loud!
I love you man. the Peekaboo example is ON POINT..
My 11 year old nephew stays with me for a week every summer playing video games, watching shows and eating junk food together as a time-honored family tradition. I'm 42 so we do a lot of generational media crossover. He's always like "Aunt Heazie, look at this" and it's TikTok videos of repetitive humor just like these NPC videos. He screams with delight. There is something about the repetition that's hypnotic for him. It also exposes me to the huge market out there of media for children (a lot of strange humor). I wonder how many viewers of this NPC trend are children...
Most of them lol
I would say a 50/50 of children and very creepy adults
every single one
Literally all of them, I think the honest to god solution is children shouldn't be allowed on the internet until they're like 18
Your nephew has seen things he shouldnt see until hes an adult and his parents are to blame
Imagine a room of these people acting like NPC's. It'd be like a horror movie.
I swear dude that's nightmare fuel right there.
just constant “roses” “girl you got me feelin like a cow girl yaaah” damn horrifying
I am not even trying to be funny, thats horrifying. I think you just unlocked a phobia for me lol I wonder if that has a name
That 5 secs of that clip just felt like utter mind rot
I don’t have tik tok and this is the second video I have seen about this stuff, I just still can’t wrap my mind around it
as someone who was on deviantart for 10+ years, thus a certified fetish scientist, i can confirm it's a fetish. it's even weirder when you learn that pinkydoll has been lying about her age and saying she's a teenager when she's in her mid-20s.
This age thing is so strange...
its really not lmfao males have been doing this on tiktok too
She has a kid, I was on her livestream yesterday and she yelled at her child, the child was also falling down a lot and even crying, and what does his pos mom do? “uhHH YOU GOT ME FEELING LIKE A COWGIRL LEMME RIDE IT TUHUUU” like a fucking idiot
@@sovietnationalism3182 Girls and gays also have fetishes lol
How is it a fetish though? Is it the idea that the object is f*ckable and not mentally all there? Is it a Cortana thing? Also lying about your age is nothing close to being new. At least she isn't underaged.
The fact the trend is still going. 😂 NPC Miles Morales is my fav tbh
Nothing makes me happier than the fact I never picked up TikTok and never will. Almost as sad that NPC is losing it's meaning as a Non-Playable Character
4:36 sounds like Scooby Doo saying roses
ACTUALLY THOUGH
fr
Man I can't wait to be an NPC when I'm older. Life goals. Surprised there isn't a hypnotoad twitch channel yet
You should do it!
bet
bro you know what? that's a good ideia do make some money off this kind of stuff
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!
Thx for the idea ill be milionaire soon
This is my actual only source of news I’m on no other social media charles here is my golden goose
This needs to be patched in the next update.
Paved over ngl
𝕀 𝕞𝕒𝕕𝕖 ᴀ ʜɪʟᴀʀɪᴏᴜs ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ ᴏғ ᴀ ᴡᴏᴍᴀɴ ᴄʀʏɪɴɢ ᴏᴠᴇʀ ʜᴇʀ ᴅᴏɢ ʙᴇɪɴɢ ᴘᴜᴛ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ʙᴇᴄᴀᴜsᴇ ɪ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ вєттєя ¢σитєит 😁,. ,.,.,.,.
And these bots in here also needs patching
Yeah it's called ban TikTok
Lmao
Speaking from the future here: The Chinese version, Douyin, had these NPC livestreams for quite a while now. Nowadays, you start seeing people going into more niche setups of these streams. A couple examples I've seen:
1. Multiple dancers - 4-5 different gifts, and a girl/guy/whoever does a dance based on the gift
2. Training NPC - You throw a gift, the guy does 10 push-ups. You throw a different gift, he carries a water tank for 1 minute. You throw a third one, he does 10 squats
So if TikTok will continue in the same trend, it will likely evolve rather than disappear completely
Social media has been chasing Chinese trends for years and years. You’re right to predict a similar trajectory
this just seems like a good way to get paid to do exercise xD
@@bod9001a you're onto something here
@@bod9001a unless you get paid the same gift over and over and eventually you break your arms from holding the water tank for an hour straight
Thanks I hate it
Dude just discovered your music The Gentle Men the other day. Please make more metal core! Your stuff goes so hard while also making me laugh. 10/10
I had never seen or heard about this trend before watching this video.
In moments like this I know that my decision to not participate in social media at all was a right one
I was actually managing to live with my life without knowing anything about this, until now. Thanks, Charlie.
This. Would rather just go on not know this exists.
Yeah same here. My life is literally worse now that I know this exists..
same, I am infuriated and my day is ruined
@@__________.....”my disappointment is … immeasurable. and my day is ruined.”
Her sassing her child in fluent Canadian French was a massive plot twist for me in this whole thing 😅
@Susnation532 your dad left you
@Susnation532your parents didn’t show up to your own birth
@@jaundiceskinnedmixedguyt's more like the accent than the words. French and Canadian French don't sound the exact same.
@BBoy4040 so american-mexican?
@@JTvTKno that's a genre of cuisine
The amount of money I'd pay for Charlie to do a NPC stream
5:16 those little things make me love Charlie’s content for a literally decade lol
"My fear is that these technologies are infantilising the brain into the state of small children who are attracted by buzzing noises and bright lights, who have a small attention span and who live for the moment." - Susan Greenfield, Oxford University neuroscientist
I mean you can head to your nearest casino and see the same with fully grown adults and old people spending their money on the same thing with slot machines
@@milehighgamblerdud thats actually so fucking correct. Wow. Thats fucked
@@milehighgambler yea the tech industry has been behind the gambling industry for years in that regard
Could just as easy describe adults 🤷♀️
When the most effort an average person does is press flashing lights at subway, and do repetitive labor, sounds like people are just job training early.
I'm surprised no one has done a "human pretends to be an NPC" streams where they intentionality do the emotes wrong or get annoyed and start arguing with chat for 5+ hours
that's as its dying down and someone needs an edge . goldrushes every 6 months or weeks . worlds gone crazy
@@tobiwonkanogy2975its always been that way wym. People find a trend, hop on it, it goes away and cycles a new one.
Horse and buggy was preferred over the cringe automobile.
nope, haven't seen it. Thanks for the heads up!
When you did the "roses," it already had far more diversity in acting range by even the third one
If only the Renaissance thinkers could see us now, they'd be positively beaming with pride at this monumental step forward in cultural enrichment. Truly the height of human achievement.
shakespeare would’ve taken one look at the state of entertainment today and killed himself
@@sunfish9341lmao culture. Whats culture but a distraction that at the end of the day were shit throwing apes. Ffs people in the rennasaince fucking thought the planets revolved around earth. Why the fuck do we need their opinions for
@@sunfish9341 Shakespeare wrote lots of tripe before he hit it big, it's not like things were perfect back then either
@@Susnation532Says no one
This is why Leonardo Da Vinci went back to his home planet
For everyone who is genuinely enjoying these npc streams, don't forget to water your plants with *Brawndo, **_it's what plants crave!_*
But does it have electrolytes though?
Idiocracy is a prophecy at this point
That's a documentary not a movie lol.
This reference is too old for the target demographic 😂
@@JustSnowglowfart jokes are too intelligent for the target demographic...
I deleted all social media 4 years ago and I've just been more and more disappointed with my generation ever since. It's wild that this type of thing could ever bring in so many viewers for more than 10 minutes....
black mirror: write that down, write that down!
I think Charlie is oblivious to the fact that it isn't just children, but middle aged creeps with a control fetish.
Yeah
"Charlie" cringe
@@toshiro-kanomost people call him that in the comments lmao
@@toshiro-kanohuh?
@@toshiro-kanopeople throw the word cringe around too much istg
And the worst part of this, is that she isn’t even the patient zero of this. There was a Japanese catgirl who did this before this whole thing blew up in the US.
is that the girl who frequently was on the same lives as the "ohio final boss" guy in 2022? or have the catgirls multiplied
@@realdavestrider I am unsure, but knowing catgirls they have probably multiplied
Even her friend aka Ohio final boss also has been doing this before. He does a rpg fantasy npc when he’s not doing his walk livestreams but pinky is getting all the credit as the “founder”
@@realdavestrideryes it’s her
@@bennybananas6574oh they'll continue forever. they're like bacteria. they appeal to such a base niche that any extermination effort would be hopeless.
This hurts my soul in a deeper level
This is the entertainment equivalent of a nickel in a plastic bottle
wouldn't be surprised if she hit us with a "Crazy? I was crazy once. They locked me in a room. A rubber room. A rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy."
crazy? i was crazy once
@@emeraldwarrior588 They locked me in a room. a rubber room.
A rubber room with rats. And rats make me crazy.
A rubber room with rats and rats make me crazy
Crazy? I was crazy once,
I can already sense the transition of these "NPCs" to Onlyfans once it inevitably dies out. This trend is just even more evidence on how social media is frying the brain of society slowly.
she already has an OF lol its on her IG
@@kitty-yg1bg lmfao so pathetically sad.
For sure. Right now its fairly simple and in the mainstream and will die out quickly. But where it will most definitely thrive is combined with only fans content. A lot of degenerates out there will go absolutely ballistic with a nude npc girl
"All signs lead back to only fans" how online trend creators survive in the afterlife of a dead trend.
Nothing slowly about it. It feels like we are on the fast track to Idiocracy
There are some gems in this trend, like the guy who acts like a skyrim blacksmith, and actually makes stuff during his streams
its happens in other countries too, one of them got so large in sweden they got on the news 😭😭😭😭
We can’t just skip past the part where you said you thought you got bit by a bat and later found out it was a dream. That story deserves a video lol
He did do a video about it, it was him talking about his germaphobia
Yeah he did a video on it talking about how he’s always been a hypochondriac
That wasn’t a dream, have you noticed how Charlie always ends his streams with “it’s morbin time!” Coincidence I think not
@@RaphDeGrateI'm also Jerma phobic
Yeah after he said that i left a like 😂
To be fair, I feel like an NPC at any job I've had - clock in, suddenly inhuman
This is just an extreme, work-from-home experience that makes way more money
Right? It's art imitating life at this point.
Yeah expecially in something like fast food were you have a script you need to repeat every car.
I'd say it's an exploit on human stupidity. We could make fun of it all we want, but man does it roll in the dough for the streamer.
Dude the fact you feel like NPC tells you are not one them. NPC don’t have self aware thoughts
I see that the actions we do at our jobs are NPC like, but the big difference is that in our minds, we see this, and during that NPC jobs we can still imagine things
Bring back the trends that meant something, like the ice bucket challenge was primarily to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. And it worked
I was just thinking about how much this has been happening
The whole TikTok NPC thing makes me think I’ve fallen into the back rooms and said back rooms is doing it’s best to mimic human behavior but horribly failing time and time again
These NPC streams feel like an AI trying to be human but failing horribly at trying to be convincing. I'm always thankful that I never downloaded TikTok!
Tiktok is better than youtube shorts lololol
@@sillybilly1101 I have an extension that stops anything from being displayed as shorts because it's freaking stupid.
I'm actually wondering if this is something bots think is popular, so it gets in people's feeds, so bots think it's popular...
Tiktok is for tards
@@puppergump4117 good for you!
Charlie just went full Scooby doo with the 'Roses' impression
This is the modern day selling your own bath water.
I think the real explanation is much more simple. Livestreaming has cultivated a weird culture of direct contact with the object of your parasocial obsession: the streamer. People absolutely get a big serotonin rush from seeing a streamer answer their question live, or thank them for a donation. Being noticed by someone you consider a celebrity is a huge deal for a lot of people. What NPC streams do is they skip the gaming, and just provide that high with instant and constant reactions to fan donations. The audience obsessed with streaming "celebs" get the sense of recognition and control that they crave, the ability to influence the attention of someone they think is more significant. And the streamer gets money. It's an addiction. People want to be recognized. This gives them that hit a million times an hour.
This actually makes A LOT of since. I mean, why do you think Pokimaine got popular.
This sounds like a very good argument to why this is going on
This is spot on.
@@bigbosses4686 sense*
@@skrimper 😔i’ve failed you, Mr English teacher. I’ve failed you.
I'm so conflicted because this shit has me worried for the future... impressed by the dedication... concerned for the mental health of these people, and confused as to where the fuck the money is coming from to keep this shit going
It unnerves me how much I find it depressing. I can’t tap in even a little to why the fuck people like this and on top of that will waste their money on it.
Exactly bro I feel like this is concerning wtf is wrong with people??
Most people don't realize how many males there are in the world who get little positive interaction with the opposite sex and have.. strange fetishes.
@@AtheismF7Wvirginity in men has risen to 30% (over 18 obviously)
I've condemned TikTok from the start for a reason. Just another braindead social media cesspool.
It genuinely scares me that so much of what the newest generation's media is just the same content recycled over and over again by different content creators. It scares me even more that the content can have such little... body and soul.
My niece is 7 years old, and she used to watch Aphmau. I've seen what the internet has done to Aphmau as a character. Then I saw "Minecraft pregnant mermaid mod babies" from her channel in my 7 year old niece's recommended list, and immediately I flashed back to the Elsa and Spiderman garbage that was rampant years ago. (It's crazy to think the same group of people who swarmed around Elsa and Spiderman crud make up 90% of TikTok's population)
I've since gotten her to put down Aphmau as a channel, and I've given her some good replacements. I showed her DanTDM and CaptainSparklez. I've given her good content that won't rot her brain. If I ever see TikTok, Twitter, or Insta on any of her future smart devices, I'm going to talk her out of using them, and give her a healthier alternative. If I can't keep her safe from this garbage I will have failed on so many levels.