Ian Bates,[1] better known as "The Red Shirt Guy", is the fan who asked a question about the dwarven leadership during the Lore panel at BlizzCon 2010. A video of his question subsequently went viral. He has since appeared at most subsequent BlizzCons.

Red Shirt Guy (also "Red Shirt Kid") refers to a player at BlizzCon 2010 who, during the Lore & Quests Q&A session, correctly pointed out an issue in the story of the game.

Oct 27, 2010 · During the session a red-shirted teenage boy managed to stump Blizzard designer Alex Afrasiabi and loremaster Chris Metzen with a rather obscure question concerning a seemingly minor character in the WoW universe.

Ian Bates, better known as "The Red Shirt Guy", is the fan who asked a question about the dwarven leadership during the Lore panel at BlizzCon 2010. A video of his question subsequently went viral.

Jan 4, 2017 · The video of the guy asking an obscure World of Warcraft lore question was originally uploaded to YouTube in October 2010, but it appears to have been removed. The whole saga is explained fairly well in the Know Your Meme article: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/red-shirt-guy

The Wildhammer Fact Checker is an in-game reference to the notorious Red Shirt Guy, known for pointing out a lore discrepancy at BlizzCon 2010 during a Lore Q&A panel.

Hi everyone, I'm Ian Bates, aka The Red Shirt Guy from BlizzCon 2010 and onward. I did an AMA here roughly one year ago and I'm excited to do so again, so Ask Me Anything!

Red Shirt Guy (also "Red Shirt Kid") refers to a player at BlizzCon 2010 who, during the Lore & Quests Q&A session, correctly pointed out an issue in the story of the game.

Oct 15, 2014 · My question was that in “The Shattering,” one of the many novels based on the game World of WarCraft, a character named Falstad Wildhammer had been slated to become an important lead character in the game.

Nov 9, 2010 · Immortalized in-game as the Wildhammer Fact Checker after confronting a panel of Blizzard designers about a discrepancy in WoW's fiction, we interview The Red Shirt Guy.