Big A** Message and The Herp Derp YouTube plugin

YouTube commenters are to the Internet what drunken young suburbanites are to downtown Toronto on a Saturday night; obnoxious, plentiful, and, for the most part, face palm-inducingly stupid.

In my experience, at least 90 per cent of the comments on any video – no matter how dope said video – are pointless, mean, completely incoherent or, you know, “FIRST.”

Some might say they’re downright freaking derpy… or develop a browser extension to that effect.

Meet my hero of the day: Tanner Stokes, creator of the Herp Derp YouTube comment converter plugin!

Released this month for Chrome, Safari and Opera (it’s been available for Firefox since January of this year), Stokes’ plugin turns all of the comments on any given YouTube page into a series of herps, derps and herp derps.

It is inspired.

You can reveal the actual comments underneath by clicking on them, if you’re into that, but Tanner recommends that you don’t.

Personally, I always look at the top two comments since they’re often pretty eye-opening and almost universally hilarious – whether intentionally or not.

In other news, I found this website called “BIG A** MESSAGE” the other day and I’ve been having some fun with it. It’s pretty dang simple, but there’s something ultra-lulzy about sending random creepy giant flashing messages to your friends in the middle of the night, you know?