Item
I Support the Current Thing
Title (Dublin Core)
I Support the Current Thing
Description (Dublin Core)
This is an Instagram post by waking.the.dead. This is an NPC meme of people claiming they have a healthy distrust of authority, while supporting things imposed by authority. The NPC meme is a meme that gained popularity in the late 2010s and has had continued popularity in the 2020s. NPC stands for "Non Playable Character", which is a term used in gaming for pre-programed characters that have a set script for when the players interact with them. This has expanded to apply to people, with it being used as a slight towards any and all political sides, and portraying the side they don't agree with as having no original thoughts of their own.
The context of the NPC meme with the "I have AIDS" thing at the bottom is a reference to the claim that some of the COVID vaccines actually weaken immune systems and sometimes give people AIDS. The mask with the Ukraine flag refers to the current war between Russia and Ukraine, and support of Ukraine in some circles has been seeing as "following the herd because the media/government said to." The top part of "I have healthy distrust of authority" is meant to be ironic, as the NPC has fallen for all the current narratives without question.
The context of the NPC meme with the "I have AIDS" thing at the bottom is a reference to the claim that some of the COVID vaccines actually weaken immune systems and sometimes give people AIDS. The mask with the Ukraine flag refers to the current war between Russia and Ukraine, and support of Ukraine in some circles has been seeing as "following the herd because the media/government said to." The top part of "I have healthy distrust of authority" is meant to be ironic, as the NPC has fallen for all the current narratives without question.
Date (Dublin Core)
March 2, 2022
Creator (Dublin Core)
waking.the.dead
Event Identifier (Dublin Core)
HST580
Partner (Dublin Core)
Arizona State University
Type (Dublin Core)
Instagram post
Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)
English
Social Media (including Memes)
English
Humor
English
Pandemic Skeptics
Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)
Irony
Instagram
non playable character
sheeple
distrust
skeptic
Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)
NPC
humor
meme
AIDS
Ukraine
conspiracy theory
vaccine skepticism
authority
NPC meme
Linked Data (Dublin Core)
Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
04/12/2022
Date Modified (Dublin Core)
04/16/2022
08/02/2022
Item sets
This item was submitted on April 12, 2022 by [anonymous user] using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: http://mail.covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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