It’s not too surprising that one of the biggest hits at ROFLCon, the Harvard University conference on Internet celebrity, was Colorado native Ben Schulz. After all, Schulz is the player behind that unlikely and slightly unhinged World of Warcraft superstar, Leeroy Jenkins. A Wired magazine article on the April conference remarked on how the crowd went nuts when Schulz introduced himself to attendees with a characteristic holler, “I’m Leeeeeroy Jenkins!”
Until that moment, noted the article, “nobody knew what Jenkins’ creator, Ben Schultz (sic) looked like.”
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