{"id":10903,"date":"2023-07-25T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/ice-cream-so-good-how-are-tiktok-creators-making-money-from-bizarre-gestures-and-phrases-on-a-loop\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T15:38:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T13:38:59","slug":"ice-cream-so-good-how-are-tiktok-creators-making-money-from-bizarre-gestures-and-phrases-on-a-loop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/ice-cream-so-good-how-are-tiktok-creators-making-money-from-bizarre-gestures-and-phrases-on-a-loop\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ice cream so good\u2019: How are TikTok creators making money from bizarre gestures and phrases on a loop?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new trend is seeing some creators impersonating NPCs, or video game characters that aren\u2019t controlled by players<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rafqa, I tend not to overthink TikTok trends too much. Really I\u2019m just scrolling to watch food videos. But I saw a video of a girl acting like a video game character in a loop, and the absurdity got me curious. What on earth are TikTok users doing?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not surprised this one sucked you in. So, creators are streaming to their followers on the app in real time, pretending to be NPCs \u2013 that is non-player video game characters \u2013 and their followers are controlling what they say and do, and paying for the privilege.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2023\/jul\/26\/npc-tiktok-trend-ice-cream-so-good-gang-what-is-explained-pinky-doll\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b67096f96957e14651f6606c62f7878eedf3f05f\/0_392_1991_1193\/master\/1991.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=96c86083f8a0b95ed3a1de9208e81eac\" title=\"\u2018Ice cream so good\u2019: How are TikTok creators making money from bizarre gestures and phrases on a loop?\" \/>A new trend is seeing some creators impersonating NPCs, or video game characters that aren\u2019t controlled by players<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nRafqa, I tend not to overthink TikTok trends too much. Really I\u2019m just scrolling to watch food videos. But I saw a video of a girl acting like a video game character in a loop, and the absurdity got me curious. What on earth are TikTok users doing?<br \/>\nI\u2019m not surprised this one sucked you in. So, creators are streaming to their followers on the app in real time, pretending to be NPCs \u2013 that is non-player video game characters \u2013 and their followers are controlling what they say and do, and paying for the privilege. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new trend is seeing some creators impersonating NPCs, or video game characters that aren\u2019t controlled by players Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Rafqa, I tend not to overthink TikTok trends too much. Really I\u2019m just scrolling to watch food videos. But I saw a video of a girl acting like a video &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/25\/ice-cream-so-good-how-are-tiktok-creators-making-money-from-bizarre-gestures-and-phrases-on-a-loop\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Ice cream so good\u2019: How are TikTok creators making money from bizarre gestures and phrases on a loop?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}