State of Larp data
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Latest collection:
Autocomplete observations, not search volume
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License: CC BY 4.0. You may share and adapt the data, including commercially, as long as you credit "Source: My Larp Wallet" with a link to mylarpwallet.com/state-of-larp.
The CSV has one row per edition, kind (theme, word or form) and key, with Google, YouTube and total counts, the share of the index, and the number of new suggestions since the previous edition when there is one. Every row repeats the note that these are autocomplete observations, not search volume.
Latest edition at a glance
| Theme | YouTube | Total | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Memes, music and media | 129 | 124 | 253 | 13.4% |
| Meaning, slang and translations | 216 | 27 | 243 | 12.9% |
| Live-action role-play (the hobby) | 107 | 119 | 226 | 12.0% |
| Games and game communities | 101 | 96 | 197 | 10.4% |
| Crypto and wallets | 108 | 19 | 127 | 6.7% |
| Apps, tools and downloads | 107 | 13 | 120 | 6.4% |
| Anime and fandom | 33 | 50 | 83 | 4.4% |
| Creators and streamers | 8 | 67 | 75 | 4.0% |
| Flex, rich and wealth talk | 21 | 7 | 28 | 1.5% |
| Sports fandom | 6 | 21 | 27 | 1.4% |
| Work and LinkedIn | 9 | 1 | 10 | 0.5% |
| Long tail (no clear theme) | 181 | 317 | 498 | 26.4% |
| All themes | 1,026 | 861 | 1,887 | 100% |
Methodology
What is counted
The unit is a distinct autocomplete suggestion returned by a search box, counted once per source. A phrase offered by both Google and YouTube counts once in each, so the Google and YouTube columns are separate and the total adds them. Nothing here is a number of searches, visits or people.
How it was collected
On October 31, 2026, a script sent 1,134 requests to the public suggest endpoints of Google and YouTube, in US English, from 21 seed phrases. Each seed was typed bare and with each letter from a to z added, which makes 27 variants per seed and per source. The pause between requests is a quarter of a second or more. The unfiltered collection held 1,513 Google and 1,031 YouTube suggestions.
What is kept
A suggestion enters the index when it contains the word larp or a form of it (larping, larper, larped, or a longer word built on larp). That leaves 1,026 Google and 861 YouTube suggestions. 652 suggestions without the word were collected along the way and are not part of the index. 5 were set aside because they carry a social handle or touch fraud, receipts, hacking or similar topics, and are not published or counted.
How themes are assigned
Each suggestion goes to one theme, by a fixed list of keywords applied in a fixed order: the first theme whose keywords appear wins. A suggestion that matches no theme lands in the long tail. The rules are public in the tools/build_state_of_larp.py script of this site, and a keyword rule is a judgment, not a measurement: a phrase can sit in a neighboring theme in another reading.
Limits
- Not search volume. Autocomplete shows what the engine proposes, not how often it is typed.
- The seeds shape the result. Of the 11 seed phrases that contain larp, 7 point to wallets, apps, banks or crypto. The other 10 seeds are wallet-simulator and fake-app phrases without the word larp, so their suggestions stay out of the index. Theme shares describe this collection, not all larp talk.
- One country, one language. US English only. Suggestions in other languages appear when the engine offers them, and are counted.
- Suggestions change over time. The same seed can return other phrases on another day, so small differences between editions are noise.
- From the second edition on, the collection grows. Suggestions are added and never removed, so the change figure is the number of suggestions first seen since the previous edition, not a count of disappeared ones.
- Words. The word ranking counts a word when at least 10 suggestions contain it, and leaves out generic filler words, brand names and person names.
What is not here
Nothing about our own business is in this dataset: no business figures, no visitor or account data and no prices. Visitors' own searches are not in it either. The raw phrase list is not republished: the snapshot keeps short fingerprints of phrases, enough to compare one month with the next.
Editions
- November 2026 (latest, collected October 31, 2026)
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