Pinkydoll, real name Fedha Sinon, gained fame on TikTok for acting like a video game character and now she says, people are copying her without giving credit.
As a content creator, Pinkydoll has amassed a following of over 1.2 million on TikTok.
Her videos fall into a unique category: she portrays herself as an “NPC” or non-player character, a term originating from video games to describe background characters that are not controlled by players.
NPCs typically exhibit predictable and formulaic behavior, mirroring the style of Sinon’s engaging videos and live streams.
Pinky took a short break from her usual content to call out people on social media.
she said:
Im sick of people going viral copy my style and dont give me credits about it. First they use all AI slang in video games, I say nothing about it… but whatever.
She then went on to call out a woman who is specifically copying her.
watch:
We arent sure who Pinky Doll is pointing the finger at, but like with anything if one person has success doing something other people are going to try it.
When she was asked about her content by the NYT in 2023 she said:
“I was just being cute,” “I remember someone saying, ‘Oh my God, you look like an NPC.’ And then they start sending me, like, crazy money.”
Some have accused her of making ‘fetish content’ and to that she said:
“I was just looking for something new I could do on TikTok, and there are even rules on the platform about how sexual you can be,” she told Insider in a personal essay. “But honestly, if people want to consider it fetish content, that’s fine by me. They’re only saying that because I have a great body and I look great, so people consider it a fetish. I’m getting paid either way.”
Who was Pinky Doll before NPC
According to PEOPLE the content creator may be big in the U.S., but she is originally from Montreal, Canada, and lives there currently. Her first language is French.
She used to be a stripper and a business owner
Before she joined the TikTok world, Sinon worked as a stripper and ran her own cleaning service business, per The New York Times.
However, as she told The Daily Beast, she used to have a company that “flopped,” so she joined TikTok hoping to make more money to support herself and her son.
While Sinon became an overnight sensation on TikTok, she also posts on OnlyFans, where users can pay to subscribe to her content.
On TikTok, Sinon is known for embodying the characteristics of an NPC. She often repeats certain phrases — especially, “Ice cream, so good” — and performs on live streams, where she will react to viewers’ requests.
After starting her TikTok at the beginning of 2023, she noticed that her viewers would comment that she looked like an NPC. Though she originally didn’t know the term, the viral influencer started watching others play video games like Grand Theft Auto, where she observed what the NPCs were doing, she told The New York Times.
“I was like, ‘I’m going to try to do it like them,’ ” she said. However, she added that she was still “not really sure” what an NPC was.
She explained that her content started to take off when she hosting live streams, during which users could send her “gifts” by reacting with emoticons like an ice cream cone or dinosaur. Each gift resulted in a payment.
Some of her famous catchphrases have even come from her live reactions, she told The Daily Beast.
“I was doing a live and somebody sent me a beautiful gift, a real big gift. And I was like, ‘Yes yes yes!’ ” she said. “And then I was saying that and people continued to send gifts. So I was like, ‘OK, there’s a reaction to my stuff now.’ ”
How she makes her money
Although she has regularly collaborated with brands like FashionNova, Sinon has claimed that her live streams are where most of her revenue comes from.
She told The New York Times that she makes between $2,000 and $3,000 per stream. She estimated she earned around $7,000 daily between her social media accounts.
Sinon spends around six hours a day filming live streams and goes live around two to three times a day.
“It’s like a full-time job,” she told Insider. “I don’t get tired while doing it because I see the views going up, and all the gifts I’m getting make me energetic. I get lost playing as my NPC.”
She also told The Daily Beast that she hopes to go into real estate and buy a house.
