I find meme culture just as, if not worse than news in some ways.

It convinces people that something that has enough truthiness and is funny enough is true.

Can you elaborate on this?

I am unsure if you are saying not watching the news makes him an NPC, or if the people who just parrot the news are the NPCs.

I am leaning toward the latter, but based on your wording and the wording of the parent post, that's not what I initially expected.

The later, the parroting of facts and the inability to go into deep detail besides being told information tidbits and repeating them is what makes the NPC so chilling in todays world. Especially when a few people get that high level of norieity and trust.

It's kind of weird that this is attributed to 'memeculture', given that I can recall people referring to others (in a denigrating fashion) as NPCs back in the 90s, before 'meme' was part of our lexicon.

The article is Start-Class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Internet...

>> "A very basic description of the topic. Can be well-written, but may also have significant content issues."

That means someone wrote it up on a whim and no one's come to address prior art in a way that suits the standards of Wikipedia.