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Cherry Crush and Pinkydoll live-stream as non-playable characters to an audience who pays them to do what they want.
NPC stands for “non-playable characters”: the background extras in video games who repeat a limited series of movements or phrases. TikTokers such as Cherry Crush adopt their mannerisms – such as slowly bobbing up and down – and live-stream to an audience who pays them to say or do what they want. Viewers purchase virtual tokens which pop up on the performers’ screens as cartoon graphics – an ice-cream or a rose, say – prompting certain reactions.
to control a creator, and we see control become a byword for feeling intimate”. While their content isn’t overtly sexual, many performers, including Cherry Crush and Pinkydoll, are also popular on OnlyFans. Finding the right restaurant for a group of family or friends can be fraught: he’s doing keto, she’s a pollotarian , neither eats fructose and their kid’s coeliac.is an app that matches diners living with allergies or requiring special diets to restaurants offering meals that are safe for them to eat. Dietitians screen menus: more than 250,000 dishes across 10,000 venues nationally have been added to the database.
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