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Know Your Meme (KYM) is a website and video series which uses wiki software to document various Internet memes and other online phenomena, such as viral videos, image macros, catchphrases, Internet celebrities and more. It also investigates new and changing memes through research, as it commercializes on the culture. Originally produced by Rocketboom, the website was acquired in March 2011 by Cheezburger Network, which, in 2016, was acquired by Literally Media.^[2][3] Know Your Meme includes sections for confirmed, submitted, deadpooled (rejected or incompletely documented), researching, and popular memes.

Website[edit]

The Know Your Meme project started in September 2007 as a recurring segment inside of the Rocketboom video series and a wiki destination site to support the documentation of Internet memes. Created by Kenyatta Cheese, Elspeth Rountree, Jamie Wilkinson and Andrew Baron,^[4] 'meme experts' in white lab coats used a scientific laboratory metaphor for analyzing and deconstructing the top memes of the day; anyone with an account could use the website to explore and contribute to meme research. At the end of 2008, after more than a year of growth, Rocketboom released an expanded database with Jamie Wilkinson as the lead developer.^[5] As of January 2017, the database contained more than 2,700 entries of 'confirmed' memes.^[6]

The administrators have a say on what gets confirmed and what gets 'Deadpooled' or rejected.^[7] Some of the meme entries are graphic and Not Safe For Work (NSFW).^[8] NSFW entries have warnings placed along the top of the entry and ads are usually disabled. These warnings may differ from consequences, such as bans. Know Your Meme also has a forum section, blog, and shop. Dr. Sean Rintel, who wrote The Automated Identity blog, described Know Your Meme as 'lucrative, self-supporting research that blends the humorous and the serious.'^[9] As of March 2019, the site is maintained by seven editorial staff members (Don Caldwell, Adam Downer, Matt Schimkowitz, Briana Milman, Sophie Dickinson and Philipp Kachalin) and one developer (Mike Schwab) in conjunction with a group of dedicated moderators. Former staff researchers include Chris Menning, Amanda Brennan, Molly Horan and Ari Spool.^[10]

The Know Your Meme website and web series were acquired in March 2011 by Cheezburger Network for an undisclosed seven-figure amount.^[11]

Episodes[edit]

Episodes of the Know Your Meme show average a few minutes in length each. In a given episode, the KYM staff describe memes and the history behind them. New episodes appear in irregular intervals of time. Breaking meme episodes started in 2010. Separated in seasons, the videos describe the meme using handy images.

Season 2007[edit]

Season 2008[edit]

Season 2009[edit]

Season 2010[edit]

Season 2011[edit]

Beginning with the 2011 season, the cast of the episodes changed from the original cast (Jamie Dubs, Yatta, Elspethjane, Patrick Davison and Mike Rugnetta) to Forest Gibson and Kristina Horner.

Season 2012[edit]

Kristina Horner left the show in early 2012 and starting with the Ermahgerd episode in August 2012, the cast of Internet scientists expanded to Forest Gibson, Sarah Hiraki, Alison Luhrs and Rob Whitehead.

Season 2017[edit]

In 2017, a new season that was renamed 'Know Your Meme 101' began airing. Many episodes star two hosts being two of these four: Brian Colbert Kennedy, Katie Molinaro, Eric Bellows, and Jon Allen. All episodes narrated by Tucker Maloney, written by William Applegate Jr. The pilot up to episode 7 edited by Lindsay Penn, while episode 8 gave the edit credit to Connel Post Production.

Special episodes[edit]

Reception[edit]

• In August 2009, TIME magazine selected Know Your Meme as among the 50 Best Websites of 2009.^[12]
• In November 2009, New York Times Lens Blog listed 'Know Your Meme Autotune Episode' as a must-see video.^[13]
• In November 2009, Wired.com mentioned Know Your Meme in an article about Autotune.^[14]
• In December 2009, The Winnipeg Free Press called Know Your Meme the best website of 2009.^[15]
• In December 2009, NPR interviewed Kenyatta Cheese of Know Your Meme on the subject of Internet memes.^[16]
• In December 2009, MSNBC cited Know Your Meme on the subject of Balloon Boy and called the article 'meticulously recorded'.^[17]
• In January 2010, The Wall Street Journal cited Know Your Meme when discussing the trend of the Bra Color Status Updates on Facebook.^[18]
• In April 2010, Know Your Meme won a Streamy Award in 2010 for Best Guest Star in a Web Series.
• In May 2012, Know Your Meme won the People's Voice Webby Award in Blog-Cultural category.^[19]
• In June 2014, Know Your Meme was inducted into the Web Archiving Program of American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.^[20]
• In May 2016, the website was cited as a source for explaining the concept of 'dank memes' in regards to the political campaigning in the Australian federal election during a discussion on the ABC television programme Insiders.^[21][22]
• In June 2018, Know Your Meme was used as a source for metadata in a large-scale academic study of memes across various social networks.^[23]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'knowyourmeme.com Site Overview'. Alexa Internet. Retrieved April 23, 2019.
2. ^'Literally Media Buys Cheezburger To Reach Millennials'. www.mediapost.com. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
3. ^'Cheezburger's new owner is Israeli digital-media company'. The Seattle Times. April 21, 2016. Retrieved June 13, 2019.
4. ^'Credits'. Know Your Meme.
5. ^'The History of Know Your Meme'. Dembot. December 6, 2012. Archived from the original on October 20, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
6. ^'Confirmed Entries'. Know Your Meme. Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
7. ^'Deadpooled Entries'. Know Your Meme. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
8. ^'NSFW'. Know Your Meme. June 17, 2012. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
9. ^Rintel, Sean (September 24, 2011). 'Know Your Meme « Sean Rintel'. Seanrintel.com. Archived from the original on October 22, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
10. ^'About'. Know Your Meme. Retrieved August 11, 2015.
11. ^Hustvedt, Marc. ''Know Your Meme' Acquired By Cheezburger in Seven-Figure Deal'. Tubefilter News. Archived from the original on September 17, 2012. Retrieved March 28, 2011.
12. ^Fisher, Adam (August 24, 2009). 'Know Your Meme - 50 Best Websites 2009'. TIME. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
13. ^Olsen, Erik; Bracken, Kassie (November 13, 2009). 'Must See: Pakistan's Anti-Yankee Rock'. The New York Times.
14. ^Thill, Scott (November 16, 2009). 'Will Auto-Tune Die? Ask Know Your Meme and 'Weird Al' – Underwire – Wired.com'. Wired.
15. ^Augustine, Anthony (December 13, 2009). 'Site Seeing'. Winnipeg Free Press.
16. ^'Internet Memes Spread Viral Amusement'. NPR. December 26, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
17. ^''Ima let you finish' — top Net memes of '09 - Technology & science - Tech and gadgets - Technotica | NBC News'. NBC News. December 30, 2009. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
18. ^Valentino-DeVries, Jennifer (January 11, 2010). 'The Mystery of the Facebook Bra-Color Meme'. The Wall Street Journal.
19. ^Paul, Sonia (May 1, 2012). '16th Annual Webby Award Winners: The Complete List'. Mashable.
20. ^'Getting serious about collecting and preserving digital culture | Folklife Today'. blogs.loc.gov. June 5, 2014. Retrieved October 20, 2016.
21. ^'WATCH: 'Insiders' Had To Explain 'Dank Memes' To Boomers, RIP The Internet'. Pedestrian.tv. May 22, 2016. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
22. ^Atkins, Denis (May 22, 2016). 'Cool kids bring dank memes into the election campaign but only for a nanosecond'. The Courier Mail. Retrieved February 13, 2018.
23. ^Sonnad, Nikhil. 'Finally, a scientific list of the most popular memes on the internet'. Quartz. Retrieved June 5, 2018.

Further reading[edit]

• Tiffany, Kaitlyn (March 6, 2018). 'The story of the internet, as told by Know Your Meme'. The Verge. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
• Nelson, Ryan (March 31, 2018). 'How to become a millionaire writing about memes: KnowYourMeme.com Case Study'. Retrieved March 31, 2018.

External links[edit]

• Official website

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Leeroy Jenkins is a character name for a player character created by Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment's MMORPGWorld of Warcraft. The character became popular in 2005 from his role in a viral video of game footage where, having been absent during his group's discussion of a meticulous plan, Leeroy returns and ruins it by charging straight into combat shouting his own name. The character became an Internet meme.

Video[edit]

The original video was released by a World of Warcraftplayer guild to video-sharing site Warcraftmovies on May 11, 2005.^[1] The video features a group of players discussing a detailed battle plan for their next encounter while Leeroy is away from his computer, preparing a plate of chicken. This plan is intended to help Leeroy obtain a piece of armor from the boss monsters, but is ruined when Leeroy himself returns and, ignorant of the strategy, immediately rushes headlong into battle shouting his own name in a stylized battle cry. His companions rush to help, but Leeroy's actions ruin the detailed plan and all the members of the group are killed. (The plan was deeply flawed even before Leeroy ruined it, containing several critical misunderstandings of the then-current game mechanics.)^{[2][better source needed]}

The Internet meme started with the release of the video clip called A Rough Go^[3] to the World of Warcraft game forum in a thread titled 'UBRS (vid) Rookery Overpowered! blue plz.', which presented the video in a serious context.^[4] The thread requested that other players provide help with strategy and that Blizzard reduce the difficulty of the encounter. The video spread as an Internet meme, and Leeroy's response to the other players' chastisements, 'at least I have chicken',^[3] was also much mimicked.

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When in April 2008 he was asked about his actions in the video by National Public Radio, Ben Schulz said the players 'were drinking 40s and just yelling at each other.'^[5] As time went on, some began suggesting that the video may have been staged. Schulz had refused to confirm or deny whether the video was staged.^[3] Later, in December 2017, Schulz, along with Ben 'Anfrony' Vinson, the cameraman of the video, released what he described as a first take/dry run of the video.^[6] Regarding the video, Vinson stated, 'We didn’t think anyone would believe it was real, we thought it was so obviously satire.'^[7]

Merchandise[edit]

The character's popularity resulted in his inclusion in the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game released on October 25, 2006, with art by Mike Krahulik.^[8]

A 'Leeroy Jenkins' Legendary card was later released in Blizzard's online card game Hearthstone, as part of the game's base ('Classic') set, and using the same art as that of the WoW TCG.^[9]

Upper Deck Entertainment released a World of Warcraft Miniatures game in late 2008, which included a Leeroy Jenkins figurine.^[10] As a reference to Leeroy's famous claim, the figure is seen holding a chicken leg in his left hand.^[11]

Reaction[edit]

The May 2005 issue of PC Gamer UK featured an article on the video, titled 'The Ballad of Leeroy Jenkins'. The article took the position that the video was designed as a negative commentary on the kind of 'nerd-guilds' whose members fastidiously plan raids with all the seriousness of actual military tacticians. They added that they felt Leeroy is the hero acting against the geekiness of his guild.^[12]

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Blizzard eventually paid tribute to Leeroy within World of Warcraft itself creating the achievement 'Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy!', which awards the title of 'Jenkins' to players who kill 50 of the rookery whelps from the video within 15 seconds.^[13] Also, in the new expansion Warlords of Draenor, Leeroy returns as a non-player character and will join the player's garrison if they help him find the Devout Shoulders he was seeking in the video.^[14] Blizzard also added a 'Leeroy Jenkins' card to their popular online card game Hearthstone. When entering the battlefield, Leeroy gives his famous battle cry. While attacking, he says 'Time’s up, let's do this!' And when he dies, he says, 'At least I have chicken.' In addition, the adventure mode 'Blackrock Mountain' added a new game board themed on the mountain. In the bottom right section, there is a pink tabard with a white heart lying on the ground, a reference to the guild Leeroy was in, <PALS FOR LIFE>.^[15]

Leeroy Jenkins went mainstream when he was mentioned as part of a clue on the November 16, 2005, episode of the game show Jeopardy! as part of their college week tournament, though no contestant rang in.^[16] The meme spread further in 2009 when the Armed Forces Journal published an article titled 'Let's Do This!: Leeroy Jenkins and the American Way of Advising'. The article, by Capt. Robert M Chamberlain links Jenkins to the American approach to advising the indigenous armed forces in Iraq.^[17]

Other appearances[edit]

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• In the episode 'Little Bad Voodoo Brother' of My Name Is Earl, Randy charges out to 'fight thirty people at once' while shouting 'Leeroy Jenkins!'^[18]
• In several episodes of Heroes Reborn, Miko and Ren shout out 'Leeroy Jenkins!' as going into battle.^[19]
• In the episode 'Last Night Gus' of Psych, protagonist Shawn affirms one Leeroy Jenkins to be their new prime suspect by yelling the name.^[20]
• In the episode 'Veteran Guy' of Family Guy, Peter Griffin makes a plan to subdue some terrorists on a boat; however, Cleveland opts for a Leeroy Jenkins strategy and shouts 'Leeroy Jenkins!' while rushing their foes, resulting in an extended clip that parodies the Jenkins video.^[21]
• In the book Armada by Ernest Cline, the protagonist Zack Lightman is accused of being a Leeroy Jenkins by his friends in video game space dogfights. Later in the book he shouts 'Leeroy Jenkins' while committing a headlong assault referencing the same character from the Blizzard universe.^[22]
• In the episode 'Chapter 5: Do Your Job' of Barry, Taylor ignores Barry's plans and jumps into a room of henchmen while yelling 'Leeroy Jenkins!'^[23]
• The United States Air Force Pararescue (PJs) use this sound bite to notify them of an upcoming medevac mission on the show Inside Combat Rescue.^[24]
• In the episode 'Murtaugh' of How I Met Your Mother, Barney yells 'Alright chums, let's do this. Barney Stinson!' (mimicking the Leeroy war cry) after shaking on the gentleman's agreement with Ted.
• In the video game Borderlands 2 as a random encounter 'Loot Midget' that emerges from certain loot sources.
• In the episode 'Hackerville' of Z Nation, one of the hackers drone has a decal 'Leeroy Jenkins' in it and rushes into a wall exploding before the rest of the team.
• In the book Arena by Logan Jacobs, the protagonist shouts 'Leeerooy Jeenkkinss' while jumping into a bloody arena battle.
• In the video game Dark Souls by From Software, a white summon NPC may be found in the catacombs named Paladin Leeroy, likely a reference to Jenkins himself.
• In the season 5 episode 'Back From the Future, Part 2' of Supergirl, Brainy charges into battle to act as a distraction while shouting 'Leeroy Jenkins!'
• In the season 4 episode 'Red Cell + Quantum + Cold + Committed' of MacGyver, Russ Taylor performs what he calls 'the Leeroy Jenkins' plan, charging toward the main entrance of Cheyenne Mountain while shouting 'Leeroy Jenkins!' to create a diversion for MacGyver to find another way in.^[25]
• In another season 4 episode, 'Soccer + Desi + Merchant + Titan' of MacGyver, Russ Taylor and Bozer find four bodyguards outside the soccer stadium luxury box of criminal mastermind Titan, when they hoped for only two. Russ says 'If we're going to down, we're going to go down fighting.' Bozer replies 'Hey, take it easy Leeroy Jenkins, lets be strategic about this.'

References[edit]

1. ^Warcraftmovies user 'Leeroy' (May 11, 2005). 'Leeroy!!'. Retrieved May 11, 2017.
2. ^Scott Conrad VanderWoude. 'About the group from the Leeroy Jenkins video - Toogam'. Retrieved October 15, 2015.
3. ^ ^abcJoel Warner (March 8, 2007). 'The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins'.
4. ^Abduhl (May 10, 2005). 'WoW BlueTracker: UBRS (vid) Rookery Overpowered! blue please'. Retrieved September 18, 2009.
5. ^'My ROFLCon Weekend: Breakfast with Tron Guy'. The Bryant Park Project. National Public Radio.
6. ^Anf Pal (December 22, 2017), Leeroy Jenkins First Take/Dry Run (NEW), retrieved December 26, 2017
7. ^Schreier, Jason (December 25, 2017). 'The Makers Of 'Leeroy Jenkins' Didn't Think Anyone Would Believe It Was Real'. Kotaku. Retrieved December 26, 2017.
8. ^'Leeroy Jenkins'. p. WoW TCG Browser. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
9. ^'Leeroy Jenkins'. p. HearthStone Wiki. Retrieved February 6, 2018.
10. ^'World of Warcraft Minis Checklist (Alliance specs & attributes)'. January 27, 2009. Archived from the original on January 5, 2009. Retrieved March 8, 2010.
11. ^'Leeroy Jenkins'. p. World of Warcraft Miniatures Game Checklist. Archived from the original on January 9, 2014. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
12. ^Pearson, Craig (August 2005). 'The Ballad of Leeroy Jenkins'. PC Gamer UK.
13. ^Amanda Miller (October 14, 2008). 'Five easy achievements you can snag right now'. WoWInsider. Retrieved October 16, 2008.
14. ^'Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy...?'. Wowhead.
15. ^Clark, Tim (November 12, 2014). 'Time's up for Leeroy Jenkins as Blizzard finally nerf him and Starving Buzzard'. PC Gamer. Retrieved June 9, 2016.
16. ^Jeopardy! November 16, 2005. Jeopary! round: Computer gaming category - 1000$. J! Archive. Retrieved September 26, 2016.
17. ^Chamberlain, Robert (June 19, 2009). 'Let's Do This! Leeroy Jenkins and the American way of advising'. Retrieved June 19, 2009.(registration required)
18. ^'WoW Archivist: The legacy of Leeroy Jenkins'. Engadget. AOL.
19. ^'Review: 'Heroes Reborn' Feels Like NBC Drunk-Dialing an Old Ex'. ScreenCrush.
20. ^'Leeroy Jenkins, Yes That Leeroy Jenkins Gets a Prime Time Name Check'. Kotaku.
21. ^Hayner, Chris (April 2, 2018). 'Family Guy Goes Full World Of Warcraft With Leeroy Jenkins Scene'. GameSpot. Retrieved April 2, 2018.
22. ^'Armada Quotes by Ernest Cline(page may vary as liked)'. www.goodreads.com. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
23. ^Bramesco, Charles (April 22, 2018). 'Barry Recap: Shakespeare's Whiff'. Vulture. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
24. ^'Inside Combat Rescue with Leeroy Jenkins'. Archived from the original on July 23, 2017.
25. ^'MacGyver (S04E02) 'Red Cell + Quantum + Cold + Committed''. tvserieshub.tv. Retrieved February 18, 2020.

External links[edit]

• Leeroy Jenkins on YouTube