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MEMES DICTIONARY
DERP FACE
or derpface [durp feys]
March 20, 2018
WHAT DOES DERP FACE MEAN?
A derp face is a blank, cross-eyed, slack-jawed facial expression used to
characterize real people or fictional characters as stupid.
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WHERE DOES DERP FACE COME FROM?
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Derp begins as an interjection conveying one’s own stupidity or embarrassment,
not unlike doh. Its origin is credited to the raunchy 1998 comedy
BASEketball, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. In one
scene, the duo gets caught raiding a woman’s underwear—and sex toy—drawer,
leading one to exclaim “Derp!”
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. Derp. At one point, Mr. Derp hits himself
in the head with a hammer. With crossed eyes and a slack jaw, he mumbles the
word derp in response.
Mr. Derp’s signature line and silly-looking face apparently influenced the term
and meme derp face in internet culture. 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. 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.
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 the world of Rage Comics,
this derp face can be considered a subset of what are called rage faces or meme
faces.
By 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.
EXAMPLES OF DERP FACE
Here Is The Ultimate Eli Manning Derp Face
Dom Cosentino, Deadspin (title), October, 2013
>RT My favourite pics of him are either ugly derpface or laughing his heart out.
X3
@BakaLolli, March, 2018
I'm not going to lie the guy on the Resident Evil cover looks like he has a derp
face going on lol
@replicantpinky, March, 2018
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WHO USES DERP FACE?
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. What
generally merits a derp face, however, is an everyday act of absent-mindedness
or clumsiness, like spilling ketchup on one’s shirt.
Herp Derp’s derp face image is widely used in memes to a similar effect,
sometimes illustrated or edited onto images of other people or fictional
characters. Since the derp face meme has become widespread online, some internet
users will type derp face for the same purpose—and others may even use the
phrase in speech, imitating the derp face in their expression.
The derp face can also be used to troll people online, posting it repeatedly as
a way to be obnoxious. In some instances, derp and derp face are used to make
fun of people (or images) if they consider them dumb-looking or ugly. More
offensively, it is sometimes used to mock people with physical or development
disabilities, issued along the lines of the slur retard.
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touches upon the key aspects of the meaning and usage of derp face that will
help our users expand their word mastery.
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