gaming
NPC
Meaning
- A person who seems to run on a script, with no inner thoughts.
- Anyone standing in the background of a video.
“He does the same three machines at the gym every day. Total NPC.”
Where it came from
From video games, where a non-player character is run by the game instead of a person. Applied to people from 2018, when a grey, blank-faced NPC meme spread online.