WOW: Leeroy Jenkins happened 10 years ago

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10 years ago (10th May 2005) a video was posted to the World of Warcraft forum as evidence of a raid being too hard. No one could have imagined the effect it would have.
"UBRS (vid) ROOKERY OVERPOWERED! blue please," the cached post was titled. UBRS is the acronym for the Upper Blackrock Spire raid, and the Rookery is an area of it. Blue refers to the poster wanting an official Blizzard (blue) response.
"This was [guild] PALS FOR LIFE's 7th attempt at getting past the Rookery in UBRS," it went on. "Please feel free to give us constructive criticism on our tactics and how you beat this room..."
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