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

Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨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.

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• grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Chewbacca would like a word.

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  • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Chewbacca are my balls.

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    • grrgyle@slrpnk.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You get it

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• Visstix@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah that’s maybe youtube’s oldest meme (probably not), not the internet.

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  • robolemmy@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Dancing baby was way before youtube existed

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    • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There was a lady lawyer show on TV called ally mcbeal and she was like crazy or something and used to hallucinate the dancing baby. I don’t remember it that well as it was an old people show and I was a kid but yeah way before youtube

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      • Denjin@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Dancing baby was everywhere, truly the first Internet driven viral phenomenon. And yes, it did feature in Ally McBeal which was a huge TV show mid-late 90s which goes to illustrate how truly viral the dancing baby meme was at a time where Internet usage was still limited to only a minority of people with access to desktop computers.

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    • Visstix@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I meant leroy, not the baby.

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      • robolemmy@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    One of. Not the oldest meme, one of the oldest.

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