internet’s oldest memes
2005
Dancing baby would like a word
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
Submitted 13 hours ago by Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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Denjin@lemmings.world 10 hours ago
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 hours ago
Yeah, dancing baby was 1996, 9 years before 2005, which is an eternity in internet years. Leeroy is one of the internet’s older memes, sure, but way too new to qualify as one of the oldest.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
Chewbacca would like a word.
LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Chewbacca are my balls.
Visstix@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yeah that’s maybe youtube’s oldest meme (probably not), not the internet.
robolemmy@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Dancing baby was way before youtube existed
FooBarrington@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
One of. Not the oldest meme, one of the oldest.
dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
A couple years ago my non-gamer girlfriend came home from work and asked if I had ever seen the Leroy Jenkins video since I used to play WoW. I was like, “yes, yes I know about that video.” She thought it was hilarious even though she had no idea what it meant.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
There’s an app called Active911 used by first responders like EMS and firemen to receive dispatch pages in lieu of a physical digital pager, and as far back as I can remember one of the selectable alert tones alongside various beep patterns, horns, and klaxons, was a recording of Leeroy Jenkins’ famous yell lmao
roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
My wife love it too even though she didn’t play MMOs, but she had a basic understanding from hearing me talk about them.
She couldn’t get enough of the DKP minus video from around the same time, although I did have to explain DKP because none of my groups used it.
Flemmy@lemm.ee 8 hours ago
yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
Ya rly!
Metostopholes@midwest.social 5 hours ago
NO WAI!
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
They just don’t make memes like they used to, and none of us can just run in without fearing the wrath of strangers. The folks who take games too seriously won.
Maybe not everywhere, but multiplayer games for sure have more serious elements to them than I ever thought.
In a way, this is what I wanted back in the 90s when so few people understood the potential of video games as a serious art form.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 11 hours ago
Man, reading that old 2005 PC Gamer article really brings me back to older, better and happier times of gaming journalism too. It even mentions the bundled DVD with demos, mods and goodies you’d get each month. Those really were the days.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Sure but… I’m subscribed to Humble Monthly. So instead of getting a CD with a magazine containing a bunch of demos, I get a bunch of keys for full games. A lot of them pretty neat indies.
For gaming news… Well, on Lemmy there’s this guy.
bagelberger@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Not a guy
madjo@feddit.nl 10 hours ago
Wait, what? Ask A Ninja uploaded a new video?!
It’s been - what? - 14 years since the last one…
Is the internet coming back alive again? Is nature healing?
pezhore@infosec.pub 7 hours ago
Homestar Runner released a video too!
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
Ask a ninja is back! He’s been uploading at least once a week for a couple weeks now.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I get what you meant but a couple means 2, so someone uploading once a week for a couple of weeks means he uploaded 2 videos, which could just be coincidence, not a pattern.
molten@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Wish leeroy wasn’t staged man. Biggest disappointment.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 7 hours ago
We’ll always have the memories from before we knew.
mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 5 hours 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.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
hahahha oh man, I’ve never seen that. that’s really funny.
Akasazh@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
MLX@lemm.ee 10 hours ago
He’s done a couple new ones, exact same format and theme song and everything. It was surreal having that pop up in front of me.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Still one of my favorite memes of all time.
Bahnd@lemmy.world 46 minutes ago
I feel like Leeroy Jenkins is the millenials “Jeronimo”, I 100% shout it in its place and I can assure you some shouted it while jumping out of an airplane and their instuctor or officer had no clue what they were talking about, and that will always make me chuckle.