Montreal’s Pinkydoll Seizes Unusual TikTok Trend for Profit – Breaking:

A Montreal woman is gaining exposure — and making money — by performing unusual fan-requested actions live on TikTok. She will say: “Yes, yes, yes!” And then, in rapid succession, she slurps and then yells, “Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!”

This seemingly erratic behavior can continue for 90 minutes at a time. Here’s a sample:

It all ties back to a virtual trend called NPC streaming, where real people try to act like video game characters called NPCs. (non-player characters) — background characters that perform the same actions over and over again as the game unfolds. Pinkydoll says that she is making a lot of money by acting in these strange scenes.

Confused? You’re not alone.

Here’s her introduction to who Pinkydoll is, how she makes money acting as a video game character, and what the trend is saying about internet culture.

Who is Pinkydoll?

Pinkydoll’s real name is Fedha Sinon. She is 27 years old and lives in Montreal. On TikTok, her account is called pinkydollreal; he has more than 750,000 followers. She is also a creator of adult content.

Sinon broadcasts her TikTok videos live in an apartment, often with the kitchen in the background.

What exactly does he do on TikTok?

Sinon is one of the many TikTokers who have jumped on the NPC streaming trend. During live streams, fans send him virtual gifts: little heart-like stickers to which he responds with a particular action that an NPC might do in a loop within a game. The stickers are signals for her to perform certain actions. The public is, in effect, the one that controls the show.

But it’s live, and it can be unpredictable. Sinon sometimes breaks character to punish an offscreen kid for spitting on the dog.

Why Pinkydoll attracts attention?

Sinon’s account drew a lot of attention after someone posted recordings of her live performances out of context on Twitter. Since then he has appeared in the New York Times and Rolling Stoneamong other major media.

It also quickly took on a role in popular culture. One of his signature catchphrases, “Ice cream so good. Mmm, ice cream so good,” is featured in a popular Joe Biden meme holding an ice cream cone and posing with a woman.

Music producer Timbaland has also featured Sinon in some of his own Tik Tok Videos, giving him a push. Elon Musk also participated in the act.

But Sinon is by no means the only TikToker to take advantage of the trend. Other content creators on TikTok, many of whom are also present on the adult site OnlyFans, are also making meaningless streams in response to fan prompts. There is a sexual undertone in some of them.

“I would say it just plays more into this idea of ​​oversexualized women being peripherally involved in gaming cultures,” Rachel Kowert, a research psychologist who specializes in gaming communities, he told The Daily Beast. “They’re NPCs, not main characters, and he’s definitely playing into that.”

How do NPC streamers like Pinkydoll make money?

Popular culture moves so fast online that it’s hard to keep up with the many memes and trends on each platform. But in this case, some serious trading appears to be taking place.

Every time a viewer buys one of the stickers as a gift for a live streamer like Sinon, the artist earns some money. Some giveaways cost viewers pennies, while others are worth hundreds of dollars. Goading her into saying her signature ice cream phrase costs less than two cents.

He says it all started on a whim.

“I was just being cute,” Sinon told the New York Times. “I remember someone being like, ‘Oh my gosh, you look like an NPC.’ And then they start sending me crazy money.”

And that could be just the beginning. In a recent TikTokannounced that he is on his way to Hollywood.

“Where are you? If you’re here, come out,” he tells the camera. “Wooo! We’re about to get it, baby.”