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. On May 28th, 2010, Warlizard participated in an "ask me anything" (AMA) thread on the /r/IAmA subreddit, garnering 630 votes (86% upvoted) and upwards of 840 comments prior to being archived. On the following day, he created the /r/warlizard subreddit. In March 2011, the book The Warlizard Chronicles: Adventures with Vodka, Women & War by Warlizard was released on Amazon. 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 subreddit (shown below).





Spread

On August 12th, 2011, Redditor lupin96 confessed to Warlizard in a comment on /r/gaming 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 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 website was launched.





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