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Leeroy Jenkins - A Case Study In Ironic Detachment

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Sam Gray
Dec 16, 2025
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May 11, 2005 is a day that will live in internet infamy as it was the day a video entitled “Leeroy!!” was uploaded to WarcraftMovies.com. This video showed the World of Warcraft guild “Pals for Life” preparing for a raid in the Blackrock Spire dungeon. There, one of the players charged recklessly into a cluster of dragon whelps shouting his name: “Leeee…

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I was once Zerathuun, Krythonic Commander and Second-in-Command to Lord Therenox. Now, I am Skyrend. And Earth is my domain.
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