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Lore-dumping (n.) is unloading a pile of personal backstory on someone all at once, framed as one's 'lore.'
Lore-dumping (n.) is handing a first date the complete appendices.
Lore-dumping (n.) is telling the barista what you were saving for your therapist.
Lore-dumping (n.) is your quiet coworker revealing a secret ex-husband at the coffee machine.
Lore-dumping (n.) is mistaking a captive audience for a fandom.
Lore-dumping (n.) is answering 'how are you' with the director's cut.
The slang borrows from fandom, where 'lore' means the accumulated background knowledge needed to follow a book series or video game.
'Lore' as slang for someone's dramatic backstory made Oxford University Press's 2024 Word of the Year shortlist; 'brain rot' won.
A favored variant is 'dad lore': fathers casually dropping wild anecdotes that stun their children.
Lore-dumping (n.) is too much information, now with world-building.