State of Larp

A monthly look at the phrases Google and YouTube put in front of you the moment you type larp, filed under themes.

Newest issue: November 2026, gathered on November 15, 2026

Autocomplete observations, not search volume

1,814 distinct suggestions orbit the word larp across Google and YouTube. We filed them under 11 themes, from crypto wallets to anime, games, sports and the role-play hobby itself. What you read below is what the engines propose, never how many people typed it.

The short version

Meaning, slang and translations comes first. That theme alone holds 242 distinct suggestions, or 13.3% of the 1,814 that make up the index.
The two engines do not agree. The theme meaning, slang and translations fills 21.4% of what Google proposes but only 3.2% of YouTube's list, while creators and streamers runs the other way: 7.5% on YouTube, 0.5% on Google.
Office talk stays marginal: the work theme gathers 8 suggestions in all, and the role-play hobby itself gathers 157.
A big remainder fits nowhere. 551 suggestions, 30.4% of the index, match none of our themes, and many of them are single-letter completions. Read that remainder as a theme in its own right.
This issue sets the baseline. Changes from month to month start appearing with the next edition, when a second dated collection exists to be set against this one.

Distinct suggestions per theme on Google and YouTube, November 2026 issue. Get the embed code.

How each source spreads its suggestions across the themes, November 2026 issue. Get the embed code.

How far to trust the counts

Each figure tallies distinct autocomplete suggestions, one tally per source. They were gathered on November 15, 2026 from Google and YouTube, in US English. We began with 21 seed phrases and typed each one plain, then followed by every letter of the alphabet in turn. In the end 1,010 Google suggestions and 804 YouTube suggestions contained the word larp, and those are the ones counted. The methodology section spells out the whole recipe and its limits.

A suggestion is not a search. When an engine proposes a phrase, all you learn is that the phrase sits in its list for that beginning of text. Nothing says how often anybody typed it, and a phrase typed rarely can still be offered. Set themes against each other, or one month against the next, and keep search counts out of the comparison.

Our seed phrases deliberately lean toward wallets, apps and crypto. A theme's share therefore describes this collection, not larp conversation in general.

What sits inside each theme

Long tail (no clear theme). Sample phrases: larp zero, larp restaurant, larp food.
Work and LinkedIn. Sample phrases: larping your job.
Sports fandom. Sample phrases: larper basketball, larper soccer, larper football.
Flex, rich and wealth talk. Sample phrases: larp until you make it, larp rich, larping rich.
Creators and streamers. Video makers and streamers, who are deliberately not named here.
Anime and fandom. Sample phrases: larping anime, larp anime.
Crypto and wallets. Sample phrases: larp crypto portfolio, larp in crypto meaning, larp crypto wallet app, larp crypto meaning.
Apps, tools and downloads. Sample phrases: larp website, larp tools, larp app for android, larp app.
Live-action role-play (the hobby). Sample phrases: larp events near me, larping festival, larp armor, larp rules, larping foam swords.
Games and game communities. Sample phrases: larp smp application, larper gaming meaning, larp games list, larped game.
Memes, music and media. Sample phrases: larping comedy movie, larping movie, larp song, larp meme.
Meaning, slang and translations. Sample phrases: larper vs poser, larping etymology, larping definition gen z, larper meaning.

Past issues

November 2026, the newest issue, gathered on November 15, 2026

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