millenial here. I know everyone here is millenial too, larping as gen z but whatever.

it was funny not mainly because of its content. but the context. like a private joke between you and a friend in class or church - where you're not supposed to laugh. it makes it funnier.

WoW and online gaming in general at the time was not a public thing. It was an intense private secret. an escape from public life (which was miles better than it is now) - but a social escape / taboo that no one should find out about. makes it funnier. just like PurePwnage.

you had to be there, basically

one of my greatest life regrets is not going to work for piranha bytes. imagine working in a comfy small german town with a small german team making small german games. life moved slow - we made the same game 20 times. we lived we laughed we loved. we created. we didnt copy the trends of the time - we knew what we liked and we made it.