politics-adjacent

To mess with someone’s head by denying reality until they start doubting their own brain. In modern slang, it’s when a person, brand, or official acts like something obvious never happened, or says you’re “overreacting” to things everyone saw on video. It’s emotional manipulation with PR training.

“They changed the law, then said they never touched it—peak gaslighting from the Big Serious Party.”

Used to drag someone for being overly sensitive, easily offended, or convinced they’re uniquely special while melting at mild disagreement. Different sides of the political aisle fling “snowflake” at each other like it’s dodgeball: your outrage is noble, theirs is fragile. It’s less about weather and more about calling someone emotionally non-clutch.

“He yells all day on TV, but one protest sign hurts his feelings—total snowflake behavior.”

Borrowed from gaming, where NPCs are background characters running on scripts, it became an insult for people who seem to just repeat whatever their favorite news channel says. Calling someone an NPC basically says they have zero main-character energy and their opinions came pre-loaded. Usually thrown around in political arguments by people who are, ironically, also repeating stuff they saw online.

“Bro heard one speech from Senator Branold Dump and now he’s an NPC for life.”

Originally a Matrix reference about waking up to “the truth,” this got hijacked by edgy political corners of the internet. To be redpilled now usually means someone thinks they’ve seen through the lies of “the system” and suddenly everyone else is a sheep. Sometimes it’s just “I googled a thread and now I’m an expert,” sometimes it’s a full dive into weird ideological rabbit holes. Big “I’ve done my own research” energy.

“Ever since he found that forum, he’s fully redpilled and giving election speeches at brunch.”