What generally merits a derp face, however, is an everyday act of absent-mindedness or clumsiness, like spilling ketchup on one’s shirt. On the internet, people may post an image of a derp face in reaction to doing something they feel is stupid or commenting on something they deem so. In the world of Rage Comics, this derp face can be considered a subset of what are called rage faces or meme faces.īy 2012–13, the derp face was familiar enough in mainstream internet culture that it-along with behavior judged to be clumsy, foolish, annoying, or willfully ignorant-was being described as derpy or to derp. A scientific journal even published an article featuring derpy in its title in 2016. Since at least 2011, internet users called such an unintelligent expression the derp face , both in reference to the Rage Comics character and for expressions perceived as such elsewhere in life or the web. In fact, the characters themselves are now called derps, including one named Herp Derp/ Harp Darp, depicted as unintelligent and with a blank, open-mouthed face. Following South Park, derp became a common nonsense word, similar to blah blah blah, in the internet cartoons of Rage Comics, used when characters are acting stupid or absurd. Derp’s signature line and silly-looking face apparently influenced the term and meme derp face in internet culture.
With crossed eyes and a slack jaw, he mumbles the word derp in response. Derp hits himself in the head with a hammer. Parker and Stone brought their interjection to South Park in a 2009 episode, “The Succubus,” when the character Chef has a substitute for his school-cafeteria job: an annoying Mr. In one scene, the duo gets caught raiding a woman’s underwear-and sex toy-drawer, leading one to exclaim “Derp!”
Its origin is credited to the raunchy 1998 comedy BASEketball, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Derp begins as an interjection conveying one’s own stupidity or embarrassment, not unlike doh.
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