NPCs are not soulless automatons

NPCs are egregore-controlled humans, they still have an independent mind but their mind is enslaved and used as a tool for expressing the egregore mind, like a two-way radio channel.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore
Its possible to disrupt the link to egregore by subversive thought insertion(aka memes), allowing the original mind to assert its will and independent thought. The egregore can't focus on multiple mental challenges simultaneously and the "radio channel" has limited capacity.
NPCs can be reformed to PCs.

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NPC memes literally make NPCs' programming malfunction. I've never seen anything like it, the butthurt and confusion is off the charts.

Okay, this has some truth. I remember when I was younger, I told my friend about an idea that maybe everyone besides me was an illusion (middle school solipsism), and he got extremely mad. More mad than you would predict. Not like, "Hey you're a fucking retard," but angry like he caught me fucking his mother. For some reason this exchange still lingers in my memory. I don't get it--if you have consciousness, then someone telling you that you're an NPC shouldn't bother you because it'd be as false as some idiot saying, "The sky is green."

Spooky.

That said I'm against the NPC meme because it's dehumanizing and unethical. Every genocide in history was precipitated by memes that dehumanized its targets. This is just the modern version of that.