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NPC Streams! So Good! Mmm, So Good!

FromEndless Thread


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NPC Streams! So Good! Mmm, So Good!

FromEndless Thread

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Length:
34 minutes
Released:
Dec 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Earlier this year, TikTok livestreamers began mimicking lifeless "nonplayable characters," or NPCs, by repeating motions and phrases like in a video game. Then, people started paying them to keep doing it.

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Credits: This episode was produced by Ben Brock Johnson and Dean Russell. Mixing and sound design by Paul Vaitkus. Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson are the co-hosts.

(Photo: TikTok/@ishowspeed/@natuecoco/@cherrycrushtv)
Released:
Dec 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (20)

The front page of the Internet--also known as Reddit--is making noise. Hosts Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson dig into the site's vast and curious ecosystem of online communities, collaborating with Reddit's 330 million users and over 140 thousand communities to find all kinds of jaw-dropping narratives. A collaboration between WBUR and Reddit.