Warlizard Gaming Forum

About

Warlizard Gaming Forum is a fictitious online community frequently referenced by trolls on Reddit, more specifically, in replying to any post or comment submitted by Redditor Warlizard on the site. A typical iteration of the joke begins with Warlizard submitting a reply in the comment section of a post, to which another Redditor would chime in by asking the user “are you from the Warlizard Gaming Forum?”

Origin

On August 11th, 2009, the Warlizard Reddit account was created.^[7] On May 28th, 2010, Warlizard participated in an “ask me anything” (AMA) thread on the /r/IAmA^[8] subreddit, garnering 630 votes (86% upvoted) and upwards of 840 comments prior to being archived. On the following day, he created the /r/warlizard^[9] subreddit. In March 2011, the book The Warlizard Chronicles: Adventures with Vodka, Women & War by Warlizard was released on Amazon.^[6] On April 25th, Redditor makesyougooglethings asked Warlizard if he was “from the Warlizard Gaming Forum” in the comments for a post on the /r/politics^[1] subreddit (shown below).

Spread

On August 12th, 2011, Redditor lupin96 confessed to Warlizard in a comment on /r/gaming^[3] that he spent the past three months asking if he was “from the Warlizard Forums” using various novelty accounts. That day, Warlizard submitted the confession to the /r/bestof^[4] subreddit, where it gathered upwards of 1,000 votes (89% upvoted) and 250 comments prior to being archived.

On March 13th, 2012, YouTuber Official Black Dynamite uploaded a video titled “Reddit AMA– Warlizard,” in which several women discuss their careers while laying in bed next to a black mannequin (shown below). On December 2nd, 2013, On March 14th, 2014, the Warlizard Gaming Forum^[5] website was launched.