Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoWoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywherewww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square48linkfedilinkarrow-up1284arrow-down19cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1275arrow-down1external-linkWoW's Leeroy Jenkins, one of the internet's oldest memes, turns 20 years old—and after looking back on what we wrote in 2005, I feel like we've failed Leeroys everywherewww.pcgamer.comAgent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square48linkfedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-squaremolten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down4·9 days agoWish leeroy wasn’t staged man. Biggest disappointment.
minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·6 days agoThe internet: manufacturing ‘spontaneity’ for laughs and karma for the past 30years.
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 days agoWe’ll always have the memories from before we knew.
minus-squaremostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 days agoYeah, often learning anything more than the meme itself is that way, if only because you often find out about the rather sad route many of those early viral meme people went down.
Wish leeroy wasn’t staged man. Biggest disappointment.
The internet: manufacturing ‘spontaneity’ for laughs and karma for the past 30years.
We’ll always have the memories from before we knew.
Yeah, often learning anything more than the meme itself is that way, if only because you often find out about the rather sad route many of those early viral meme people went down.