How to identify a larper

Tourist is another term that has entered common parlance with negative connotations. But where as larper tends to apply specifically to people who deliberately pretend to be bigger fans than they are with some agenda, tourist casts a much wider net and can apply to the casual fan too.

Someone who hops on a bandwagon and engages with something only while it's fashionable with little practical knowledge of it, before moving on to the next thing, would be a tourist. They may have no ill will, but they can be very damaging to a franchise if its creators start trying to appeal to them to try and chase the temporary popularity rather than serving their core fans.

The original definition is "Live Action Roleplayer," but the meaning most often used now is someone who's roleplaying as or pretending to be a fan of something they don't actually care about much. Or, explained in less words; a fake fan of something.

I know both meanings, tho same