Agent Karyo@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 months 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-square46fedilinkarrow-up1274arrow-down18cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1266arrow-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 · 8 months agomessage-square46fedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-squaremolten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down4·8 months agoWish leeroy wasn’t staged man. Biggest disappointment.
minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoThe internet: manufacturing ‘spontaneity’ for laughs and karma for the past 30years.
minus-squaremostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months 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.
minus-squaregrrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·8 months agoWe’ll always have the memories from before we knew.
Wish leeroy wasn’t staged man. Biggest disappointment.
The internet: manufacturing ‘spontaneity’ for laughs and karma for the past 30years.
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.
We’ll always have the memories from before we knew.