Normies Are Actually Really Weird

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]Have you ever seen normies do things and wondered why are they all copying each other? This is something that I like to call the NPC feedback loop. This is where normies kind of malfunction a bit.

[00:00:12]It's kind of like this very strange feedback loop that occurs. And a prime example of this is something that I saw on Tik Tok and it's basically, you know, one of those like stupid like, you know, zingy social media quips people say to go viral. It was one of those. It was like, you know, I I think it was like, "Oh, you don't want to study? Well, get used to your kids reading the prices from the menu at a restaurant." Like something like that, right?

[00:00:37]>> Want to study? No, that's fine. Just imagine your kids having to look at menu prices before ordering a restaurant.

[00:00:41]>> You don't want to study? Oh, well, that's fine. Just imagine your kids having to look at the menu prices every single time they order.

[00:00:45]>> You don't want to study? That's fine.

[00:00:46]Just imagine your kids having to look at many prices in restaurant order. Well, hopefully studying today. Honey, that's fine. Just imagine your kids looking at the many prices for ordering a restaurant. So, you don't want to study?

[00:00:51]That's fine. You can just imagine looking at the person before they order.

[00:00:53]That's fine. You want to study? Fine.

[00:00:56]Just imagine your kids.

[00:00:58]You know, you may be thinking, AW, why are you telling us this? Like, okay, yeah, some normie said something stupid on Tik Tok. Whoopde-doo. The reason why this is remarkable is that, you know, they started a weird chain reaction where because I I think like the the patient zero, the person who made this Tik Tok that went viral, uh, they were like cutting fruit while they were recording this for some reason. I I don't know why that's a thing that normies like. They're kind of like people having hot takes while they're like doing something like drinking coffee or putting on makeup. I don't know why. I I can't explain why they like that, but they do. One of them was like cutting fruit and like because of this, someone else copied this Tik Tok, which then led to someone else copying this Tik Tok to go viral themselves. So, it was this very strange feedback loop where all these people were inexplicably cutting fruit while recording this stupid Tik Tok.

[00:01:55]And like the funniest thing is right, if you were to ask any of these people, why are you cutting food while doing this, they couldn't tell you that they couldn't articulate why they're doing this, right? But they're just doing it because they saw someone else do it and they're copying someone else who copied someone else who copied someone else and so on and so forth, right? This is the NPC feedback loop and it's so [ __ ] bizarre to me. There's many reasons why I'm very disenfranchised from normies.

[00:02:24]And this is one of the reasons, right?

[00:02:26]I've never just done something because someone else did it, right? Like I I had to like think it through and like, hm, does this make sense? Okay. Yeah, I think that's a good idea. You know, I'll weigh out the pros and cons. Okay, yeah, I'll do that. Like that's how my that's how my mind works. But for a lot of normies, what they do is they they play it safe, right? So they just kind of scan their environment. They look at like, okay, what what are people around me doing? What seems to be popular? What seems to be, you know, socially acceptable? Okay, let's just copy that, right? It's it's there's like an extra layer of of thinking, right? You know, 2 + 2 equals 4. Not because some stupid [ __ ] is texting me. 2 + 2 equals 4. Not because it makes intuitive sense, but because they were told it equals four. Do you get what I'm saying? Right?

[00:03:17]Like, do do you see the difference there? There's so many examples of this weird NPC feedback loop that is sometimes actually [ __ ] deadly. I'm going to put a bit of a downer on this, but there was in South Korea, there was this ferry disaster, which I think like 304 people died, mostly high school students.

[00:03:38]I know, a bit of a downer, right? The way it played out, the the ferry was sinking, right? And for some god knows why, but like someone on like a megaphone, you know, like the loudspeaker in in this ferry basically told everyone to hunker down in their rooms and stay put and keep calm.

[00:03:57]And you know what happened?

[00:03:59]People did that. And they [ __ ] died because of it. They [ __ ] died. They they drowned to death because they didn't listen to their own intuition and they went along with what other people around them are doing and what some vague authority on a on a loudspeaker said. You know, it makes no [ __ ] sense. Like what do you mean? Like if if a ferry is sinking, you stay put in the room like below, you know, below the the the [ __ ] deck. Why? That doesn't make any [ __ ] sense. Like if I was there, I'd say, "Fuck you guys. I'm going up to the the top deck. At least I have, you know, a bit of a better chance of surviving." Okay, why the [ __ ] would I stay below deck as a ship is sinking? It makes no [ __ ] sense, right? It's it it's it's ridiculous, right? I don't care if someone thinks I'm weird for panicking.

[00:04:52][ __ ] you. But that's the correct attitude to have, right? But not if you're in this weird NPC feedback loop.

[00:04:58]It's one of the many reasons I just don't get along with normies because they can never really like it. They they can never really explain why they're doing what they're doing or why they believe what they believe. It's just copying someone else, copying someone else, copying someone else. It's so [ __ ] boring. And h it's it's it's nonsense. It's [ __ ] nonsense. Another thing is how the the copying someone else copying someone else copying someone else response to looks maxing is that looks maxing is so bad. Oh, it's so insecure, blah, blah, blah. You've heard all that [ __ ] before, right? But, you know, you think about it for like a [ __ ] second. It makes no sense. Most people have had uh, you know, orthodontic work done when they're like children. Like, they wore braces, aligners, or whatever. So, they've already look smacked, right? Cuz like naturally, they would have [ __ ] up jacked teeth that look like absolute [ __ ] [ __ ] By definition, the orthodontic work that has been done is artificially improving their looks. But they never think about it like that, right? Like, you know, if someone isn't happy with the big [ __ ] yam in the middle of their face and wants to get like a, you know, a nice looking nose, oh, that's horrible. That's horribly insecure. Them getting, you know, orthodontic work done to have a decent looking jaw and teeth, oh, that that doesn't count, you know, mysteriously for some inexplicable reason, right? And the reason is it's the NPC feedback loop. It's within the Overton window to do orthodontic work when you're a child, but it's not within the Overton window to do a rhinoplasty.

[00:06:32]It's just it's the same [ __ ] thing in principle. And nobody can really articulate what the real fundamental difference between these two things are.

[00:06:40]It's just people are programmed by copying the other person, copying the other person in the NPC feedback loop to treat these two things as completely different. So, it's one of the many reasons I I don't really like interacting and socializing with most people. It's just there's no logic to it. Like everything is just like reflexive thinking. Most people are incredibly obsessed with whatever's in the Overton window. They they have this tiny little box of things they're allowed to say and things they're allowed to do and think and it's just they can't leave it. They can't [ __ ] leave it. And it and because of that, they're [ __ ] volatile, right? Like for me, I think I'm very [ __ ] rational. And like when I interact with, you know, most normies, they just seem incredibly emotional, incredibly volatile. There's no real rules or order to anything they do, right? Everything's just reactionary and just ah it I don't know. I just get bugged by normies. The more I interact with most people, the more I'm like, "Ah, god. I I wish I was back home playing [ __ ] League of Legends.