LARPwashing 

LARPwashing is the practice of misrepresenting historical movements or figures by projecting radical political ideologies onto them, usually done by individuals who advocate for such ideologies without engaging in meaningful action. It can be seen as the opposite of whitewashing. Where a whitewasher might elide the less savory aspects of a figure like Nelson Mandela, a LARPwasher will try to amplify them in order to make the figure seem more edgy and radical.

A larpwasher might, for example, insist that Apartheid in South Africa was ended solely through force of arms, ignoring that the ANC quickly abandoned terrorism in favor of compromise and reconciliation with the National Party. But the most common variety of LARPwashing involves insisting that the civil rights movement in the United States was largely militant, rather than nonviolent.

Bro, shut up. MLK was not a militant Maoist, you need to stop LARPwashing.

LARPwashing by chrismamo1 November 6, 2023

lorewashing 

Lorewashing is when a movie or a tv show corporation decide to do a new take on a established book or video game lore because they decide that the story is of little importance to them and that they can modify masterpieces at their will.

They qualify it of "new", "unique" and "attractive".

Outside of the exception of some movies, most of the lorewashing victims are thrown in oblivion of the public memories. They usually come with a ton of CGI, bad jokes, akward moments and are frozen in the modern time instead if being legacy work.

Famous examples: Eragon, DnD, Wheel of Time, Narnia, Disney erasement of the Star Wars extended universe .

I hate lorewashing.

Why using the name of an author book serie to lorewash it after?

lorewashing by Don't tell me how to think February 14, 2022