Leeroy Jenkins
You might remember it as Leroy Jenkins, World of Warcraft Leeroy raid
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2005·Early YouTube·funny
The first gaming clip to escape gaming entirely; the name is still a general-purpose verb.
Keep watchingStill to come
What this wasThe story
It first appeared in 2005, during early YouTube. A surviving copy is on YouTube.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · a moment that changed what the internet did next · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later · the upload that made its maker known
Originally published on warcraftmovies.com. This is the copy ViralWorld can show you. Whether it is the first is not established.
- SourceOriginal no longer exists
- MediaPlayable from the source
Where it came fromWhat we know
The original upload no longer exists. It has been identified, and the copy shown here was published by somebody else after the original was taken down.
The original was identified by research and is no longer online. What is shown here is a surviving copy somebody else published, which is why this record makes no claim to be the first upload.
Created by Ben Schulz. Established by research, not by who posted the copy shown here.
- Where
- Known on YouTube.
