What forms can online LARPing take?
Online LARPing is broader than one platform or format. It can happen through a fictional social account, a collaborative story, an alternate-reality project, a simulated dashboard or a sequence of staged messages.
- Character and world-building accounts
- Fictional brands or business scenarios
- Interactive screen props for videos
- Community role-play and story events
Is online LARPing always dishonest?
No. Fiction, satire and role-play are not automatically deceptive. The important question is whether the audience is meant to understand that the identity, result or interface is fictional.
Problems begin when a fictional scene is used as real proof, impersonates a real person or institution, or is designed to make someone act on false information.
Why are interfaces part of online LARPing?
Modern identities are expressed through screens: profiles, wallets, analytics, messages and stores. A believable interface can therefore become part of the setting in the same way a costume or physical prop supports traditional role-play.
Interactive interfaces are especially useful because the creator can change values and move through a scene instead of relying on one edited screenshot.
Online role-play, in plain terms
Online LARPing is performance through digital surfaces. Used openly, it can support storytelling and content; used as undisclosed proof, it crosses into deception.