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Did he ever become popular outside of WoW in other mmorpgs?

Did you hear about him playing EQ FFXI, GW or another mmo too?

Did anyone actually know the guy?

I don't know why but that name sounds really familiar.

Never knew the guy but seen the made up video,dont think some mmo players will let us forget him either.

This is akin to asking if people have heard of Rick Astley outside of YouTube.

I met him once at a Blizzcon. He certainly was nothing like the image I'd conjured up.

He was really popular in Guild wars....where for a month it became all the rage to join Mission groups and wipe the mission by aggroing all the mobs in a big room at a time ~.~

Originally posted by Suvroc

I don't know why but that name sounds really familiar.

Leeroy Jenkins, sometimes mis-spelled Leroy Jenkins and often elongated with numerous additional letters, is an Internet phenomenon named for a character created by player Ben Schultz in Blizzard Entertainment's popular MMORPG, World of Warcraft. The character has become popular thanks to a machinima video of the game that circulated around the Internet. The phenomenon has since spread beyond the boundaries of the gaming community into other online and mainstream media.

The Internet phenomenon started with the release of a video clip online to the World of Warcraft forums. The video was released by the World of Warcraft Alliance player guild "Pals for Life" on the Laughing Skull PvP realm. It features a group of players discussing a detailed battle strategy while one of their number, Leeroy, is away from his computer. Their plan is ruined when Leeroy returns and, ignorant of the strategy, immediately charges headlong into battle shouting his own name as a battle cry. His companions rush to stop him, and his subsequent actions ruin the meticulous plan and the encounter ends in failure for the group. His response to the other players' reactions, "at least I have chicken", was also much parodied.

The August 2005 issue of PC Gamer UK featured an article on the video, titled "The Ballad of Leeroy Jenkins." According to the article, the video was designed as a negative commentary on the kind of "nerd-guilds" that meticulously and statistically plan out raids with all the seriousness of actual military tactics. Leeroy is in fact the hero of the piece, acting against the geekiness of his guild.[1]
 

He used to play Shadowbane back in 03'. He was in the guild who "hacked" the server and put entire towns underwater, spawned high level unique mobs in newbie towns watching them kill everything. spawned enemy guards in other faction towns and watched as a huge NPC war took place, etc Then he moved onto WoW at some point.

I did not find it originally, nor do I find it now, at all funny.

It was a moment that I realized that it might be me who is out-of-touch with gaming. 

A fake video, a burnt-out college student, in World of Warcraft, training his raid-party.  Funny? Stupid.  Stupid funny? Not at all.

probably just a clever marketing stun