lore mode
The mental state of being fully locked into absorbing, analysing, or discussing the lore of a fictional universe or ongoing real-world saga.
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The mental state of being fully locked into absorbing, analysing, or discussing the lore of a fictional universe or ongoing real-world saga. When someone is in lore mode they're not casually engaging — they're cross-referencing timelines, questioning narrative inconsistencies, and building theories with the intensity of an investigative journalist. The term applies equally to gaming sessions where someone ignores the main quest to read every item description, and to fan spaces where a thread has spiralled from a simple question into a full cosmology debate at 2am.
Don't talk to him until the credits roll — he just started a new playthrough and he's in full lore mode.
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- lol mode68%
Lol mode is the mental state where nothing is being taken seriously and every response gets filtered through irreverent humour. When someone's in lol mode, they're not being dismissive — they've just mentally clocked out of gravity and are running entirely on jokes, memes, and chaotic energy. Group chats go into lol mode late at night when nothing productive is happening; a person slips into lol mode when they're too tired or too done to engage earnestly. It's playful self-awareness dressed up as a setting you can toggle.
- lurker mode68%
A deliberate state of online existence where you consume content without producing any. Going lurker mode means logging in with zero intention of posting, commenting, or reacting — just pure, passive absorption of the feed. People activate lurker mode during drama they don't want to touch, when they need a social media detox, or simply because they enjoy observing human chaos from a safe distance. It's the internet equivalent of standing at the back of the party, drink in hand, watching everything unfold.
- l mode64%
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- anorak mode63%
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