• Leeroy Jenkins | The Man Behind The Meme [InternetHistorian]
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New video by InternetHistorian, Leeroy Jenkins. [media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvXRcwcIJh4[/media]
This channel is gold
I was hoping he would explain what ever the fuck happened with the original channel [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nOHCt0K.png[/IMG]
Never knew the original video was staged. Watching it again now it's painfully obvious, their acting is terrible. It's a shame that it went viral in a time before they could effectively capitalize it
Wow This is heartbreaking
[QUOTE=SenhorCreeper;52323567]I was hoping he would explain what ever the fuck happened with the original channel [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nOHCt0K.png[/IMG][/QUOTE] Whoever the original owner was, must have sold the channel. Idk that's the only logical explanation I could think of.
That video + the South Park episode were the entire 2 reasons me & my brother were convinced to start playing. And even though I only play it for 1 to 2 months a year, I have consistently always come back to WoW every expansion.
When it said [sp]he died[/sp] I was like holy shit..
[QUOTE=FeartheMango;52323612]Never knew the original video was staged. Watching it again now it's painfully obvious, their acting is terrible. It's a shame that it went viral in a time before they could effectively capitalize it[/QUOTE] It probably wouldn't have been able to go viral much later than when it did. WoW players realized that it was staged almost immediately, as that jargon at the beginning of the video made even less sense to them than it did to us (because it was all made up nonsense that had nothing to do with the game). But it took over a year for this information to reach the masses, as it was harder to reach a wide audience and the idea of a staged meme was still kind of foreign to most people. If it happened in 2007 it would've been busted in weeks, and in 2008 it would've taken mere days.
I've modeled my entire gaming life off of Leeroy. My friends hate playing MMO with me :v:
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