Merida · 7 answers · 1y
If you're on Tik Tok, I bet you have seen those NPC lives because they seem so trendy now...what are your thoughts about them? Is this what people who developed the new technologies, internet and social media had in mind when they started it all. Is this meant to be human evolution? Please, let me know.
It would be unfair to judge human evolution by the most objectionable outliers. (As for whether there really is any human/cultural progress overall, I have no idea.)
I think they're just popular because they're hypnotizing or mind-bending or something. For example, here's an excerpt from Forbes: '“Feeling my brain reconfigure after I watch this for the 30th time,” one user tweeted with a video of popular NPC streamer Cherry Crush.'
As for the people who perform it, I think it's all about the $$$. One person was ingenious enough to discover/invent a goldmine in the realm of psychosocial allure, and dozens of other people followed. Pinkydoll, for example, makes $7000 a day doing it. (Don't know offhand if she was the inventor of it.)
Other than that, what Arthur said.
