Invented by a Blizzard moderator on the Warcraft III forum. There is
always much whining going on on those official forums, much sucking up to moderators and an awful lot of 'BLUE!!! PLZ REPLY!!!1one' (Blue = color of moderator posts), so when a
mod posts something, you can bet there'll be thousands of
people jumping on it, if only to spam 'BLUE FIX GARGZ PLZZZZ' or 'first reply woooot!' after it in the vain hope that the
mod will read it and react.
So when one invented this new buzzword, it was grabbed and squeezed out and spread
like a virus across all of the Blizzard forums and from there over the internet.
The word is derived from a
unit in Warcraft III, the gyrocopter (flying machine). Your immediate response when someone masses gyros (to be funny, ruin the game, mess around or
whatever) is to rofl for ten straight minutes until the copters of doom and destruction have pinpricked
1 of your 20 farms to death with their uber godly bombs.
Now mostly used in Blizzard circles as a leeter version of rofl.
'...and this
guy said I could reduce lag by up to 100% by hitting
alt-F4. I did and the game closed on me. This is griefing, admins plz
ban'
'ROFLCOPTER!!!!!!!!!!'
