Meme / Style prompt
NPC (Grey Wojak Uniform)
The NPC register depicts the subject as visually indistinguishable from a crowd of identical grey figures. Strips individuality so completely that the caption only needs to identify which scripted line the figure is "running."
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The prompt
Re-render this image in the visual register of the NPC Wojak meme template circa 2018 onward. Convert the subject to a featureless head-and-shoulders rendering: skin and clothing both rendered in a flat uniform medium-grey tone, no color variation anywhere. Facial features reduced to absolute minimum: a single thin straight horizontal line for the mouth showing no expression, two small dot eyes with no pupils, a simple straight nose line, no eyebrows. Hair simplified to a flat grey silhouette with no detail. The subject is rendered in a deliberately interchangeable register, as if any other person could be substituted into the same silhouette and the image would read identically. Background plain flat off-white, no texture, no gradient. Line work clean medium-weight black outline, slight imageboard hand-drawn wobble. Reserve a flat empty band of approximately 15 percent at top and 15 percent at bottom for later caption application by the user, completely empty of any text, glyph, letter, numeral, or character in any script or language. Optionally include one or two additional identical grey NPC figures partially visible at the edges of frame suggesting a crowd, all rendered in the same uniform manner. Mood: blank, interchangeable, deliberately unindividuated. No watermarks, no logos, no on-canvas text. Preserve the subject and pose of the source image translated into this NPC register, change only the medium and the rendering.
What it is doing
The NPC template revokes the subject's claim to individual standing by rendering them visually identical to a generic crowd. Once the viewer accepts the visual sameness, any statement the caption attributes to the figure reads as scripted rather than chosen, which strips the speaker of agency and the statement of authority. Bernays-grade dehumanization-by-uniformity, executed entirely through rendering choices.
Ways to change it
Pick any of these in the gallery and the choice is added to the prompt you copy.
- Grey tone: mid-grey classic vs pale silver vs dark slate
- Crowd indication: single NPC alone vs crowd of two or three at edges vs crowd filling background
- Mouth line: single flat horizontal line, no expression (signature) vs short line clearly curved downward into a faint frown vs short line clearly curved upward into a faint smile (rare upbeat NPC variant)
- Eye style: two small solid black dot eyes, no pupils (signature) vs hollow white circle eyes with thin black outline, no pupils vs two short flat horizontal dashes, eyes half-lidded and vacant vs wide blank white ovals with tiny black pinpoint centers, staring
- Caption zone: top-bottom bands vs bottom band only vs speech bubble at top right
Style lineage
Learn the visual culture this draws from: Know Your Meme.
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