Comment on WoW'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 everywhere

molten@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  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.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We’ll always have the memories from before we knew.

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• JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The internet: manufacturing ‘spontaneity’ for laughs and karma for the past 30years.

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