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

27 points by jemeshsu 15y ago

marknutter 15y 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdToC3H1xsY
cleverjake 15y ago
A slightly more mature alternative - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcfhbkjlcdfcalpimjcpmgacnopdfjcf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcfhbkjlcdfcalpimj... Auto hides all youtube comments, behind a togglable button.
sgentle 15y ago
Reminds me a bit of FeynTube, which replaces YouTube comments with Richard Feynman quotes: https://github.com/CodeFarmer/feyntube https://github.com/CodeFarmer/feyntube
- TurplePurtle 15y ago
  Made an updated version of that script here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125021 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125021
schwede 15y ago
I think it might be cooler if it actually figured out which comments should be replaced with herp derp.
jakeonthemove 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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.

27 points by jemeshsu 15y 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 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdToC3H1xsY

cleverjake 15y ago

A slightly more mature alternative - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcfhbkjlcdfcalpimjcpmgacnopdfjcf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcfhbkjlcdfcalpimj... Auto hides all youtube comments, behind a togglable button.

sgentle 15y ago

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

TurplePurtle 15y ago
Made an updated version of that script here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125021 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/125021

schwede 15y ago

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

jakeonthemove 15y 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 15y 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 15y 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.