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

My funny youtube comments story:<p>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..<p>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:<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdToC3H1xsY" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdToC3H1xsY</a>

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

A slightly more mature alternative - <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcfhbkjlcdfcalpimjcpmgacnopdfjcf" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fcfhbkjlcdfcalpimj...</a><p>Auto hides all youtube comments, behind a togglable button.

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.<p>This makes me happy in much the same way.

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

Reminds me a bit of FeynTube, which replaces YouTube comments with Richard Feynman quotes: <a href="https://github.com/CodeFarmer/feyntube" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/CodeFarmer/feyntube</a>

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.