The VC vs DM thing definitely varied by server. I had people whispering me telling me I was a stupid noob for trying to get into a DM group
when I was only level 20 when I rerolled on a server that used VC.
The World of Warcraft Official Strategy Guide literally has a glossary entry for “VC” (Van Cleef ) as the boss of Deadmines with an example usage of “LFG VC”
page 9… here: https:// archive DOT org/details/World_of_Warcraft_World_of_Warcraft_BradyGames_Official_Strategy_Guide/page/n9
Note that there is no entry for Dire Maul or “DM” because that dungeon had not been released into the game when the guide was printed.
So there’s that rebuttal to your point. Do with it what you will.
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That’s a good one! I had a similar thing with “hehe”
I was interpreting it as a low-key laugh, like “heh heh” until my friend said that, no it was a more girlish “hee hee”
Still have no idea which was right, hehe.
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Ppl said VC, because it was a long quest chain leading to him. That’s how Alliance remembered it. That, and it was a means not to get it confused with Dire Maul. Everyone said VC so this wouldn’t happen. You didn’t want to be LFM for hours in IF, find someone, and find out he’s 40ish thinking it’s Dire Maul. Let’s leave it there.
LFG Doan, LFG Tortheldrin, LFG Thaurissan, LFG GCD - Grand Crusader Dathroan.
No, we call instances by their names not by the end bosses. Y’all cray.
LFG DM, DME, DMW, DMN, UBRS, LBRS, YMH - Your mom’s house.
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My first Arena team name
Come Honor Face…
This just enhances my resolve to avoid speaking in slang , it was stupid then and it’s stupid now.
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When alliance raided xroads or ran over to WC did they Barrens chat? Just curious.
VC as far as I can tell is an Eu thing. I never heard it until I started playing with EU players on Pservers. It is the easiest thing. What crazy person doesn’t specify which wing of Dire Maul they are running? DM = Deadmines, DM(cardinal direction) is Dire Maul. Also, a quick shift click on the players name answers it for you if you still can’t figure it out.
Good grief … I’ve never heard “hee hee” (and hope I never do). If I think anyone is going to read my typing it that way, I will never type it again. >_<
EDIT: 
And then I remember way back the first time I saw “meme” thinking it was pronounced “me me”, like someone desperate for attention. Still fits, but at least I learned it was pronounced more like seem.
I used/saw it on my 2 NA servers.
I’ve posted this theory before but:
Likely people who were first encountering the content in beta/early live had gotten used to posting the name of a kill quest objective in their LFG message. Example: LFG Hogger. Then someone gets a quest to kill Van Cleef, not even realizing or caring what the name of the dungeon is. Then that standard sticks as the agreed upon abbreviation of the dungeon for a particular community, even though once people get more used to advertising for dungeons, not quests, it doesn’t make sense anymore.
I’ll just leave this here. If someone else has previously mentioned it, my apologies.
Odd thing is i never found it funny. None of my guild mates did either.
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Well it has always been pretty obvious that it was staged - but funny or not, the words “Leroy Jenkins” were part of the vanilla lingo.
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thats cause youre a stick in the mud 
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I think the Leroy video was one my first exposures to wow back before I even had any interest in playing. My coworkers got me to watch the video.
God, I did and still do. I wasn’t a WoW player at the time it first appeared, but it reminded me of the corporate world that I had fairly recently left (within the past five or so years). Great stuff.
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It was fake.
Jenkins was made to do it for entertainment sake.
Later, there was this whole drama over him being kicked out of the guild. That was fake too.
Lol.
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Yeah, I know. I just didn’t get it.
Did anyone bring up e-peen yet? Maybe not vanilla specific but i honestly never heard of that phrase until level 60 and I thought it was too funny.
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