Leeroy Jenkins, One Of The First Viral Videos And A Huge Moment For WoW, Just Turned 20

World of Warcraft just turned 20 last year, and now one of its most viral moments, Leeroy Jenkins, has too.The video, originally uploaded to the WoW forums but gaining more traction on May 11, 2005 when it was uploaded to Warcraftmovies.com, shows a guild of WoW players in voice chat looking to conquer the Rookery room in the game's Upper Black Rock Spire raid. After going over an elaborate battle plan with a "32.33, repeating of course, percentage of survival," one AFK player, a paladin named Leeroy Jenkins, bolts up and shouts "Time's up, let's do this! Leeeeroyyyy Jenkinsssss!" He runs into the adjacent room and aggroes every dragonkin in sight. Chaos ensues and internet history is made. Leeroy Jenkins instantly became an internet icon and helped cement WoW in the public consciousness, his name becoming a call to arms for anyone who was about to do something with gusto without thinking about the consequences. The video has been watched tens of millions of times in the last two decades and became a viral sensation at a time when the modern internet as we know it was still in its infancy (YouTube, for example, was just a few months old at the time of the original video). An HD reupload of the video posted to YouTube in 2014 has racked up 26 million views alone.Continue Reading at GameSpot

May 13, 2025 - 17:40

Leeroy Jenkins, One Of The First Viral Videos And A Huge Moment For WoW, Just Turned 20

World of Warcraft just turned 20 last year, and now one of its most viral moments, Leeroy Jenkins, has too.

The video, originally uploaded to the WoW forums but gaining more traction on May 11, 2005 when it was uploaded to Warcraftmovies.com, shows a guild of WoW players in voice chat looking to conquer the Rookery room in the game's Upper Black Rock Spire raid. After going over an elaborate battle plan with a "32.33, repeating of course, percentage of survival," one AFK player, a paladin named Leeroy Jenkins, bolts up and shouts "Time's up, let's do this! Leeeeroyyyy Jenkinsssss!" He runs into the adjacent room and aggroes every dragonkin in sight. Chaos ensues and internet history is made.

Leeroy Jenkins instantly became an internet icon and helped cement WoW in the public consciousness, his name becoming a call to arms for anyone who was about to do something with gusto without thinking about the consequences. The video has been watched tens of millions of times in the last two decades and became a viral sensation at a time when the modern internet as we know it was still in its infancy (YouTube, for example, was just a few months old at the time of the original video). An HD reupload of the video posted to YouTube in 2014 has racked up 26 million views alone.Continue Reading at GameSpot