Agent Karyo to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 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-square45fedilinkarrow-up1278arrow-down10cross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
arrow-up1278arrow-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 to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 days agomessage-square45fedilinkcross-posted to: pcgaming@lemmy.ca
minus-square@molten@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish17•11 days agoWish leeroy wasn’t staged man. Biggest disappointment.
minus-square@mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish5•11 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.
minus-square@grrgyle@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglish4•11 days agoWe’ll always have the memories from before we knew.
minus-square@JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•8 days agoThe internet: manufacturing ‘spontaneity’ for laughs and karma for the past 30years.
Wish leeroy wasn’t staged man. Biggest disappointment.
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.
The internet: manufacturing ‘spontaneity’ for laughs and karma for the past 30years.