Creators can earn “tips” from viewers, who are able to buy virtual coins to spend on cartoon gifts that can be converted into real money. Gifts activate specific phrases or actions — performed with the same automated-sounding tones and motions every time.
Pinkydoll via TikTokTikTok creators are embracing a peculiar new live genre in which they stream themselves acting like non-player video game characters.
The streaming genre got widespread attention when creator Pinkydoll went viral for one of her repeated phrases,"ice cream so good," which she says every time viewers gift her virtual ice cream cones. Pinkydoll, whose 553,000earned her own entryJunxi Chen, a full-time Minecraft streamer who goes by NathanLIVE online, decided to try it out himself after he began seeing NPC streams on his For You page about a week ago.
To add to the experience of interacting with a video game NPC, Satoyu727 occasionally restarts an action before he completes the animation, which often happens when a player re-clicks on a character before it’s done speaking. Even as observers poke fun at them, the seemingly endless flow of gifts such NPC streamers have pocketed has inspired many creators to hop on the trend while it’s still hot. To many, the earning potential is worth the internet hate that comes with being “cringe.”
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