State of Larp dataset
Every figure behind the charts, in files you can download, plus a plain account of how the list was gathered.
Newest collection:
Autocomplete observations, not search volume
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Rows in the CSV are keyed by edition, then by kind (theme, word or form), then by item. Each row carries the Google, YouTube and combined counts, its share of the index and, once an earlier edition exists, how many suggestions are new. The reminder that these are autocomplete observations, not search volume, is written into every single row.
The newest edition on one table
| Theme | On Google | On YouTube | Combined | Part of the index |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meaning, slang and translations | 216 | 26 | 242 | 13.3% |
| Memes, music and media | 123 | 111 | 234 | 12.9% |
| Games and game communities | 87 | 94 | 181 | 10.0% |
| Live-action role-play (the hobby) | 111 | 46 | 157 | 8.7% |
| Apps, tools and downloads | 105 | 15 | 120 | 6.6% |
| Crypto and wallets | 104 | 16 | 120 | 6.6% |
| Anime and fandom | 34 | 47 | 81 | 4.5% |
| Creators and streamers | 5 | 60 | 65 | 3.6% |
| Flex, rich and wealth talk | 19 | 12 | 31 | 1.7% |
| Sports fandom | 4 | 20 | 24 | 1.3% |
| Work and LinkedIn | 7 | 1 | 8 | 0.4% |
| Long tail (no clear theme) | 195 | 356 | 551 | 30.4% |
| Whole index | 1,010 | 804 | 1,814 | 100% |
Methodology
The unit we count
One distinct autocomplete suggestion returned by a search box is one unit, tallied once per source. If Google and YouTube both offer the same phrase, it adds one to each column, so the two columns stand apart and the combined figure is their sum. None of it measures searches, visits or people.
The collection run
On November 15, 2026 a script sent 1,134 requests to the public suggest endpoints of Google and YouTube, in US English, starting from 21 seed phrases. Every seed went in plain and then with each letter from a through z appended, which gives 27 variants for each seed on each source. The script waits at least a quarter of a second between requests. Before any filtering, the raw collection held 1,459 Google and 989 YouTube suggestions.
What the index keeps
A suggestion is admitted when it contains larp or one of its forms: larping, larper, larped, or a longer word built on larp. That leaves 1,010 from Google and 804 from YouTube. Another 628 suggestions came back without the word and stay outside the index. A further 6 were dropped because they include a social handle or touch on fraud, receipts, hacking and similar topics; they are neither published nor counted.
How a suggestion gets its theme
Every suggestion lands in exactly one theme. A fixed list of keywords is checked in a fixed order, and the first theme whose keywords match takes it. Anything that matches no theme goes to the long tail. The rules sit in the public tools/build_state_of_larp.py script of this site. Keyword rules are a judgment call rather than a measurement, so another reader might place a phrase in a neighboring theme.
Where this can mislead you
- It is not search volume. Autocomplete reveals what an engine offers, not how frequently anyone types it.
- Seeds steer the outcome. Among the 11 seeds that include larp, 6 lean toward wallets, apps, banks or crypto. The remaining 10 seeds are wallet-simulator and fake-app phrases with no larp in them, so what they return never enters the index. Theme shares describe this collection, not larp talk at large.
- One country, one language. The run is in US English. Suggestions in other languages still show up when the engine proposes them, and they are counted.
- Lists drift. Run the same seed on another day and other phrases can come back, so small gaps between two editions are noise.
- The collection only grows. From the second edition on, suggestions are added and never taken out. The change figure therefore counts phrases seen for the first time since the last edition, and says nothing about phrases that vanished.
- Keywords. A word enters the ranking once at least 10 suggestions contain it. Filler words, brand names and personal names are skipped.
What you will not find
Nothing about our own operations is here: no business figures, no visitor or account data, no prices. What visitors type into their own search boxes is absent too. We do not republish the raw phrase list. A snapshot keeps short fingerprints of phrases, just enough to compare one month with the next.
All issues
- November 2026, the newest issue, gathered on November 15, 2026
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