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

• robolemmy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Dancing baby was way before youtube existed

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  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I meant leroy, not the baby.

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    • robolemmy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh, sorry. Context is not my strong suit

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• FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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