Pinkydoll, née Fedha Sinon, gained fame on TikTok for acting like a video game character Christopher Polk/Penske Media/Getty Pinkydoll has mesmerized millions of viewers with her unique TikTok videos ...

A new TikTok trend has creators acting like non-playable, video game characters — or NPCs. NPC streams can be lucrative, as viewers gift creators to control their actions. The trend is exemplified by ...

On TikTok, life really is a simulation. Look no further than the NPC trend going viral on TikTok Live. TikTok creators have been taking to the app's Live feature to mimic NPCs or "non-playable ...

Viral TikToker Pinkydoll has taken over the internet. The live streamer has mesmerized audiences with her "NPC" live streams and even caught the attention of celebrities like Keke Palmer and Timbaland ...

TikTok creators are embracing a peculiar new live genre in which they stream themselves acting like non-player video game characters. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ...

A woman spasmodically jolts before a camera, spouting random phrases. "Ice cream so good," "Ice cream so good," "balloon," "gang gang," "gang gang," "gang gang." Once, twice, a thousand times, as many ...

A strange TikTok trend, where users livestream themselves acting like an “NPC”—or an automated “non-player character” with pre-written dialogue—complete with nonsensical phrases like “ice cream so ...

Every time a woman monetizes the absurd, she’s accused of making fetish content. It’s a symptom of the anti-sex moral panic sweeping pop culture — and this time, it’s coming for TikTok’s NPC creators.

At midnight in Japan, dressed in her signature cat ears and matching wig, the content creator known as Natuecoco set up her camera and began livestreaming. For the next an hour and a half, she ...

It started out with a combination of words that seems a little baffling: "Mmm ice cream so good, mmm ice cream so good, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes," Pinkydoll, a content creator, said during a ...