Listen Up TikTok NPCs: You're Ruining it For Every Other Creator

[@GlassSpiider]

Tiktok live NPCs are like the first labor pains of the cyberpunk dystopia slouching towards us

[@idaslapter5987]

'member when the spinning wheel would scream during the pandemic episodes? lol

[@americanexistentialist4756]

They complain about the airport & airplanes like the way the three fates take turns speaking in greek plays or the god of war game.

[@itsjeninMass]

🤣🤣🤣

[@GreenLanternCorps2814]

Just say it's something you saw in God of War, dude.

[@itsjeninMass]

Just when we thought TikTok couldn't get any dumber.

[@jasonpotts6490]

Love The Rant Wheel! More please!!!

[@mightyone3737]

NPC can also mean 'Non-Player Character' in some RPGs where there are 'joinables'. I used to game, I swear!

[@missbecky1988]

The npc thing is uncanny valley to me and I loathe it

[@daisyblooms4813]

Especially that girl in pink (I think?) she does a really good Yoshi sound though.

[@aneru9396]

Thanks Capitalism, it's all about cracking code for dat mooooolah B)

[@gauravvikalp]

I guess we are forgetting that the NPC trend is a trend, and it’ll pass.

[@tammystockley-loughlin7680]

The 'glory, hallelujah ' gave me some feels. Syill not Tiktok ing. Positive vibes from New Hampshire, remember to be kind to each other and yourself during these trying times.

[@clobeziel]

I appreciate Lovett's rant but for me my complaint is more about dehumanization than power imbalances, and the conversion of an ostensibly creative platform(TikTok) to something soulless. I feel like this also ties into ChatGPT which can create new, "creative" stories by analyzing patterns in archives of written material, even though ChatGPT is basically a calculator. So ChatGPT, a calculator, is more creative than many of us. Either way, there's something philosophically creepy going on, and I want to go back to the times when these questions were more abstract and distant, so you could ignore them.

[@jackula123]

It’s NPCs without an apostrophe

[@eliafuimaono]

Ppl said "prostitution is the oldest profession". False, but thanks for that 🎉

[@aliceanneacts6164]

So is there a way for a middle-aged woman to get in on this???

[@aick]

Lovett describing literally everything humans have ever done: One person did something then a bunch of people copied them. It's hardly new, it's called fashion.

[@masakazuishiguro8525]

So everything humans have ever done is fashion ? We humans are realy worthless.

[@aick]

@@masakazuishiguro8525 We're just great apes, no better and no worse than any other animal except we've outcompeted everything else and now we've been hell bent on our own destruction ever since. It's the ugy side of being an imperfect social animal. Look at social insects, they have rigid roles and castes and all that, you need that in order to benefit the group, otherwise individuals will compete within their own species and damage the good of the whole.

[@XtalMath]

Stoked to see Nimesh!

[@aick]

I'm trans at home and in the closet while traveling. Sad state of affairs, but I'd rather be upset and dysphoric than thrown in jail or assaulted. And I got plenty of trans pals who can't pull off the closet anymore, I know I'm privileged.

[@Katie-hh9eu]

That sucks, I'm really sorry you can't be your authentic self while out in public. It makes no sense to me that people are so upset about how a person chooses to express themselves. I hope one day you will be able to feel safe to be yourself.

[@aick]

@@Katie-hh9eu Me too! Thanks. ♥

[@KaritKtana]

... Might as well enjoy your rigatoni! ❤

[@julesk1567]

gawds, muna rambling is booooooriiiiing. 🙄

[@thejigmire1453]

this is what happens when you let women talk for too long.