The Girl Who Started The Viral NPC Fetish TikTok Trend Says She's Making $7,000 A Day
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SOURCE: If you watch a livestream video hosted by the TikTok creator PinkyDoll, it won’t be long before you hear her say, “Ice cream so good.”
She will say those words again and again, her tongue hanging out as she noisily pretends to lick a cone.
Every time she utters the catchphrase, she is getting paid. This is her job.
PinkyDoll, whose real name is Fedha Sinon, became a social media celebrity this month thanks to the eccentric livestreams in which she mimics video game characters.
In a typical performance, Ms. Sinon, who is 27 and lives in Montreal, stares into the camera lens while delivering a set of canned phrases. As she streams, viewers send her digital gifts in the form of cartoon items like roses, dinosaurs and ice cream cones. Each item translates to a cash payment for Ms. Sinon. The gifts float onto the screen and Ms. Sinon reacts to each one with the same cartoonish mannerisms.
Ms. Sinon is what is known online as an NPC streamer. NPC stands for “non-player character,” a video game character that comes preprogrammed and typically cannot be manipulated by the person at the controls. As such, an NPC’s phrases and movements are often formulaic and repetitive. Ms. Sinon brings these rather mechanical characters to life.
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Ms. Sinon said she made between $2,000 and $3,000 per stream. Across all her social media accounts, which include Instagram and OnlyFans, she puts that number at $7,000 per day.
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Unless you live under a rock, you've probably heard of this dumb NPC fetish TikTok trend that has been going insanely viral for about a week now. Keegs wrote a good blog about it here, or if you're a visual learner, just feast your eyes upon whatever this is:
Or the weirdest one yet..
I defend a lot of the stuff I see on the Internet. I think a lot of the hate is overdrawn or is just old men yelling at clouds about social media. The good part about it is that anyone and everyone can make content, good or bad, and make a (debatably) honest living all with the power of their cell phone. With that being said, we have to end this trend. I don't know how much longer I can take all this stuff. I've played a lot of video games in my day, and there's nothing about this that simulates a Grand Theft Auto character. Now I have "ice cream so good gang gang" cemented into my brain. I'm sitting at the NYC office blogging this and in the hour that has passed, at least 3 people have walked by and had conversations about Pinkydoll (the creator of the trend), ice cream, or "NPC TikToks". It's everywhere.
There has to be some sort of list we place the people on who are giving $7,000 every hour to these people. Does all this come from jealousy that I didn't do it first? Perhaps, because my barometer of ways to make money isn't opposed to doing something like this for a couple hours a week.
In case there's no mathematicians here, let me input it into my robotic brain. This Pinkydoll creator is making $7,000 a day doing this stuff. Let's assume she makes half of that for every single day of the year. That means she'll make $1.27 million a year just doing whatever we witnessed above. Oh. Maybe that ice cream is so good.
Welcome to 2023.