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Govern Me Harder Daddy

Title (Dublin Core)

Govern Me Harder Daddy

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Description (Dublin Core)

This is an Instagram post by jakewienhold. The picture posted by this user shows an NPC accepting all the COVID restrictions. The NPC is the grey character. The NPC itself is a meme that got popular in the late 2010s and has continued to have popularity into the 2020s. NPC stands for "Non Playable Character." The term has its origins in gaming where characters that have a pre-written script and can't go beyond that are an "NPC." This term has gone beyond gaming and has been used to refer to people of any political stripe as an NPC as an insult. It insinuates that people who would follow herd mentality for any cause have no thoughts of their own, like an NPC in a video game.

The context of this picture shows an NPC having multiple vaccines injected in, while wearing a mask and a ball gag. The vaccines are referring to the COVID vaccines that some places have asked for people to go beyond two and get boosters. To critics of this, they see this as a ploy by big government and pharmacy to gain more money at the expense of the health of the people, as it is a common belief among the critics to claim that the vaccines are not safe. The mask has been a common trend during the pandemic, and is commonly used by critics to show that people following the rules imposed are being submissive towards the government. The ball gag is an extra thing that was added to show submissiveness and has some sexual connotations. The barcode on the forehead is a mark of being branded by the government and being tracked by said government. As with the things explained of this image, majority of the criticisms of the pandemic are based on the government response to it. For how much it limited some people's ability to make money or get things done that they needed to do, a lot of that anger is toward those governments limiting those freedoms.
"GOVERN ME HARDER DADDY"

Date (Dublin Core)

January 29, 2022

Creator (Dublin Core)

jakewienhold

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST580

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

Instagram post

Publisher (Dublin Core)

Instagram

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Pandemic Skeptics

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

pandemic skeptic
anti-vaccine
anti-democrat
covidiots
vaccines
sexual connotation
non-playable character

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

NPC
NPC meme
conspiracy theory
meme
vaccine
mask
government
government trust
criticism

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

HST 580 Professional Experience/Archives course

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

04/12/2022

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

04/16/2022
08/02/2022

Date Created (Dublin Core)

01/29/2022

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