The act of verifying whether a claim, theory, or narrative detail is consistent with the established facts of a fictional universe, fandom, or ongoing real-world saga. A lore check can be a genuine fact-verification exercise — 'wait, does that actually happen in canon?' — or an ironic call-out when someone makes a claim that contradicts what everyone knows to be true about a situation. In internet culture it's also applied to real-life drama: if someone's story doesn't match the established timeline, it's time for a lore check.
Hold on, lore check — didn't he say last month that he'd never worked with them before?
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Viral internet speak — memes, ratios, main-character moments, and the algospeak of every platform from Twitter to Reddit to TikTok comment sections.
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