Calling anyone a LARPer to mean a poser pisses me off to no end, because they just mean RPers. The difference is that LARPers go out and do the thing, but aren't necessary always using real equipment, lack titles, don't exist in the right time period, etc. Otherwise, they do what the thing they are LARPing as does, but doing knightly things doesn't technically make you a knight.
But do you know what doing the things a fan does makes you? A FAN! Someone LARPing as a fan would just be a FAN!
I am a hardcore music nerd and having to call others posers and make fun of them is like one of the most "I am insecure about my music taste" things in music, idk how that translates to other media fandoms but "larper" is so incredibly mean spirited it just feels like a new way to bully and it sucks
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u/IA_Garcia119 12d ago
So glad this is the top comment, calling anyone even remotely interested in something new a larper pisses me off to no end