Herp Derp - A browser extension to protect you from stupidity on YouTube

http://www.tannr.com/herp-derp-youtube-comments/

by jemeshsu • 14 years ago

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sgentle• 14 years ago

Reminds me a bit of FeynTube, which replaces YouTube comments with Richard Feynman quotes: https://github.com/CodeFarmer/feyntube

TurplePurtle• 14 years ago

Made an updated version of that script here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125021

schwede• 14 years ago

I think it might be cooler if it actually figured out which comments should be replaced with herp derp.

marknutter• 14 years ago

My funny youtube comments story:

I taught myself how to whistle loudly with two fingers a few years back and in the process annoyed my friends for a few days. When I finally learned how I posted a quick video on youtube to send to my friends and rub it in their faces. The thing is, I had also intended on posting a how-to video, but I accidentally put the title "How to Two-Finger Whistle" on the short clip for my friends. I forgot about it and then the comments started rolling in..

The video now has over 100,000 views, is one of the highest ranking how to links on google for learning to whistle loudly, and I get about one comment a week filled with the kind of hate and vitriol only youtube users can generate, and it always makes my day when they come in. Read through the comments, it's a riot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdToC3H1xsY

cleverjake• 14 years ago

A slightly more mature alternative - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcfhbkjlcdfcalpimj...

Auto hides all youtube comments, behind a togglable button.

jakeonthemove• 14 years ago

Ah, Youtube comments - their IQ sometimes (most of the time?) reaches negative IQ levels. I've learned to avoid scrolling down to read them.

I also found out that you can use AdBlock plus to block elements on a page - useful for removing news blocks, Facebook feeds, and other distracting stuff from websites you frequently read...

Mavyrk• 14 years ago

I adblock YouTube comments, personally. I suppose this is a cute modification of that same idea, but I'd rather not have to get another extension when ones I have already suit that purpose.

egypturnash• 14 years ago

My boyfriend likes to brows 4chan and similar sites looking for images. He loathes the comments. So a while back I wrote a user.css to resize all the comment text to about 3px. You could still tell how much people were talking, and possibly make mouth-flappy motions with your hand while making noises like Beaker, then giggle.

This makes me happy in much the same way.

Herp Derp - A browser extension to protect you from stupidity on YouTube

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