An L meta is a dominant strategy that somehow produces losses — an approach that becomes widely adopted precisely because it looks optimal on paper, but consistently fails in real application. The cruelest version: everyone runs the L meta in good faith because all the theory-crafters endorsed it, and it takes months of collective in-game embarrassment for the community to admit the emperor has no clothes. In social contexts an L meta is any widely-followed playbook that reliably backfires — the advice that seems standard but somehow keeps blowing up in people's faces.
Running 'just be yourself' as a serious strategy in that kind of environment is peak L meta and everyone eventually figures it out.
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