The Wacky World of Flags
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Flags are pretty neat. I think they're neat. You probably do too. Let's go on a journey just talking about random topics involving flags. There really is no structure to any of this, just a bunch of unrelated topics that I think are interesting.
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If this video does well I might do more of these. Any wacky questions or topics you want me to cover? Let me know
Make your own nation anthem/flag lmao for fictional places
What about National Crests, Cody? They’re very interesting.
Hi
Honestly I'd love to see you react to the subreddit r/VexillologyCirclejerk
Independence/separatist movements, both the mainstream ones and the wacky ones.
Fun fact: there was a flag proposal for Canada, and it was literally just a white flag with the word "Canada" on it
When I make my own country I'm going to do the same thing, but in Comic Sans. Also he should've discussed what the flag would be for the Republic of Dave in Fallout 3
It really gives you the No Frills No Name Brand aesthetic.
Unacceptable. Too controversial.
If they'd thrown a bit of clipart on there as well that could have been a right cracker of a flag.
The actual story behind that flag proposal is interesting. It was proposed by Louise Parent, a fringe candidate for the Montreal’s 1962 mayoral position. She sent it to the Globe and Mail as a troll. She only got a few votes in the election.
I know that “capture the flag is the oldest gamemode in human history” is probably a joke, but it’s definitely just straight up wrong. 1v1 is definitely the oldest, followed by battle royale, and then team deathmatch. Capture the flag is like, #4 at the earliest.
Survival games are older
@@swagster700 actually walking simulators came first
PvE is way older
What about plunder?
Team Deathmatch is definitely older than Battle Royale, at least for humans. We are pack animals. Hell, the first 1vs1 probably turned into the first Team Deathmatch when the two guys friends showed up.
Fun fact: the NZ flag was made before the Australian flag. Australia copied us and now we are the ones who have to change :(
both flags should change
No
G’day
@@tbgamin9593yes
The auzzi flag should just be displayed upside down at all times.
Can't believe Wales and Bhutan and our dragons were left out
I love both of those countries and have been (Bhutan) or lived (Wales) to/in them
As a Welsh our flag is underrated 🏴
Welsh flag is badass as fuck
@@DJ_Moosterunfortunate they didn't put the dragon on the union jack
@@DJ_Mooster big up gareth bale
I'm not from New Zealand but the lack of an official Lazer Kiwi flag makes me weep everyday. Such a missed opportunity.
LazerKiwi sounds like a Aoteroan Lazerpig
@@ArcturusOTE in alternate timeline where Lazerpig is instead a New Zealander
I swear if was ever pm of New Zealand (not even a citizen) the first thing I’d do is add the laser kiwi with Union Jack just to flip off everyone
I really wanted that one to win man
Personally, I think the US should have adopted the style of the Confederacy national flag.
Only on the white house's dumpsters though, because the confederate national flags are about as inbred as the south itself.
As a Brit, I'm a huge fan of Hawaii's flag. Especially because I think it's hilarious that they can get away with being an US state while also sporting a British watermark lol.
Same.
The reason for it too is hilarious. The Royal Navy was nearby when they were a Kingdom and traded with them.
The best part is that if it was in a fiction, it'd be called out for beinig unrealistic
Britain: Chraming Tea Music stops
@@loading9110 Well actually the flag is just the British and American flags mashed together. It has the American design but with the union jack where the stars would be.
The Danish flag being said to have dropped from the sky while also being the oldest flag in history goes surprisingly hard.
Yeah, before the white cross, on blood-red background, became the Danish flag - We usually used the royal King's standard as flag.
Though there are exemptions, such as the Raven Banner, that was used by several Viking Kings, including Knut the Great during the time of the Northsea Empire.
This was of course meant to be Hugin or Munin, one of the two ravens that sat on the shoulders of the old Raven-God ... also known as Odin / Woden, king of the Aesir Gods.
One thing interesting about the union jack that a lot of people forget is that it's a combination of three flags, everyone knows St George's Cross for England and St Andrews Cross for Scotland, but people always forget about the red and white St Patrick's Cross for Ireland.
And made of coal & sheeps wool to represent wales
Also, most people forget it's called a union flag rather than a jack which is only used when flown on a royal navy ship.
@@ChrisLloyd21 Actually jack is fine regardless of where it's being flown.
And Wales is forgotten
Well, the red and white from St Patrick doesn't really figure in as much... It was already red white and blue before that.
I like how jimmy is perpetually raising his flag
Just like Game of Thrones?
@@warlordofbritannia yes Jimmy, just like your game of thrones
Now you got me thinking of Gundam Iron Blooded Orphans' 1st opening blaring in my head. Thank you
@@warlordofbritannia Rule Britannia over the waves
>there is no south jimistan
Sorta like Macedonia?
We still need a flag for alternate history hub
Let's be honest we waited so long for this:
ruclips.net/video/mCfYi7634rU/видео.html
One comment and 18 likes? Let me change that
I feel like it would be an ohio flag but the whole thing would be covered up by his cartoon face
You are right! What ideas do we all have for it? I would say the AlternateHistoryHub Logo should be on it... maybe the top left corner but I'm open to other ideas.
@@Chkprofilename you had to hit us with the air fryer
I like the idea of mars’ flag just being the Japanese one.
One fun fact: when the US adds a state, old flags are still considered valid. If you have a 48-star flag that's in good repair, you can fly it, and it's a perfectly cromulent American flag.
Does that mean we don't get to nuke 10 states at random?
@@Gabryal77 And that sound you now hear? It's the ultra-right and ultra-left political supporters who were looking forward to getting rid of a state or two of their opponent's. 😏
@@davegreenlaw5654I just want PA to annex Delaware and West Virginia. It’s our rightful territory.
I just like knowing that something in our world is still capable of being perfectly cromulent.
Flying any flag would truly embiggen any American’s heart 🫡❤
“A man who loses the king’s colours, loses the king’s friendship”
“Major Lennox answered with his life, as you should have done, if you had any sense of honor!”
@cyber you have no humor and is fatherless
@cyber shut up like actually
“I have friends at court, and a cousin at horse guards.”
@@coffeemakerNO "You have 2 choices. To hide in England, or to be a hero in Spain. I shall help you to be a hero."
The Chinese flag at 4:32 literally just says “work” in the middle and that’s the most dystopian thing I can think of.
I just assumed it was supposed to be a iron girder, which is equally on the nose.
which wouldn't be far off from the truth
"Work" by Rihanna could have been their national anthem. The things we lost.
in that context it would mean more like "worker" or "laborer"
It kinda fits..
And while Central American flags are based off the Federal Republic of Central America's flag, the Federal Republic of Central America's flag itself was inspired by Argentina's flag (then known as the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata). This is because of a French guy named Hipólito Bouchard who was serving under the Argentine Navy and raided the Spanish outposts located there during their war for Independence and the people would see that flag, so they took it as an inspiration. The man even raided and occupied the Spanish fort of Monterey, California for a few days. He was killed by one of his servants in 1837 in Peru
When you were talking about Central Asian countries/Stans, I thought you were gonna mention the fact most of the Stan flags have a moon or a sun symbolized rather than the complex carpet (which only Turkmenistan's flag has).
I am your biggest fan can you come to Brazil
There was never a 49 star flag. We went from 48 to 50 because we only adopt a new flag on end 4th of July. Because Hawaii and Alaska were both added in an 8th month period, we went strait to 50. We’ve skipped a lot of numbers of stars on our flag because of this.
Yes there was, Alaska was admitted January 3rd 1959 and a new star is added to the flag July 4th of the admission year. Hawaii was admitted after this on August 21st so it’s Star was added July 4th of the next year, 1960. So for one year, a 49 star flag did exist
@@blobydude420productions4 I stand corrected. Thank you for the information.
@@tylerl2104 the coveted ‘polite RUclips comments exchange’
@@xxzzertt3187Truly a rare specimen
Fun fact: the 49-star flag not only existed, but it held the record for the most stars... until Hawaii decided to crash the party.
I tip my hat to you, gentlemen, for the exceedingly gracious exchange.
The Hawaiian flag is actually designed to imitate the British, Russians, and Americans. Essentially saying "we're important to all these powerful empires, you don't wanna mess with us."
Funny
batesian mimicry flag loll
Like those snakes that develop coloration similar to highly venomous ones. It doesn't always work for the snakes either.
Tbf we were the most stable Polynesian nation in history
Now Ukraines terrorists kill more piople in Russian sity Red Leeman. USA sponsered terrorists in Ukraine
10:50 That was actually what happened with the stripes. They were originally also meant to represent each state and they added a couple for two new states. But as the US started expanding, everyone realized that 20 something stripes would be a horrible idea. So they locked them at 13 and settled for adding stars to the canton, which had plenty of room.
13 stripes and 13 stars would have been redundant in my eyes. I like that the symbols on the US flag are practical and update as the nation updates.
@@Edax_Royeaux I agree. Two symbols for each state would be redundant.
Also, imagine if they didn't change the stripe policy and we had 50 stripes today. One of the few things the founding fathers had the foresight to stop.
I'm not going to look it up, but I think they stopped with 15 stripes.
@@questerperipatetic4861 That's what I heard too.
They got to 15 stripes and then decided to keep the stripes at 13 for the colonies and have a star for every state.
Although if we're talking about the US flag, of all the designs people have used, I really like the Serapis flag also known sometimes as the Franklin flag.
Two flags that also look similar that I wish were talked about: Cuba and Puerto Rico
The story behind these two is there were groups of pro-independence Cuban and Puerto Rican exiles living in NYC in the 1800s. The Cuban flag was designed by Narciso López and Miguel Teurbe Tolón over dinner there in 1849 (both of them died in Cuba in 1851 and 1857 respectively due to fighting with the Spanish). Red represents the bloodshed of the independence fighters (with the triangle representing liberty, equality, and fraternity), the blue stripes represent the three military departments Cuba used to be divided by, and the white represents the purity of the national movement. The star (representing freedom) and the colors red, white, and blue were originally inspired by the US flag, with the star being added to appeal to the US for statehood (of course, this didn't happen). So yeah, the Cuban flag is one of two flags of a current communist nation that has no communist symbolism (the other being Laos). Fidel kept it because the flag was already revolutionary enough (same for the anthem La Bayamesa)
Like the Cuban flag, the Puerto Rican flag was also designed in NYC by exiles and inspired by the Cuban flag, presented the design to the PR Revolutionary Committee in 1892. The red represents the bloodshed, the two white stripes represent victory and peace, blue represents the sky and the sea, and the star represents the island. The Puerto Ricans created another flag similar to the Dominican Republic's flag that was used during El Grito de Lares in 1868, but this one wasn't used again. So in summary, the US flag inspired the Cuban flag, which then inspired the Puerto Rican flag...inspiration-ception. To recognize NYC's important role in the independence of Cuba, Cuba gifted the city with an equestrian statue of José Martí designed by sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington that was cast in 1959 and dedicated in 1965, located in the southern end of Central Park
I swear you're like OwO's second coming with how you manage to be everywhere
Hey Cody just wanted to say as a Venezuelan that I really appreciate you used the 7 stars flag instead of the 8 stars one. A lot of venezuelans are against the 8 stars flag established in 2006 by Chávez.
The reason for this it's the same as your opinion on the 13 star flag of the USA, it's more symbolic. The seven stars represents the seven provinces that sign the declaration of independence, Guayana wasn't included because it was liberated a week before the declaration. Seven months later (ha!) Bolívar enacted a law in which he added the 8th star but 4 years later it was repealed before Venezuela became a part of gran Colombia. In 2006 Chávez decided to add the 8th star again and a lot of people opposed to this because the 7 star flag it's a symbol of our independence and freedom.
If we follow the "liberated provinces" logic then the flag should have 25 stars instead of seven and that would look horrible and complicated.
Let's not Mention Costa Rica & Thailand.
Love how one of the Martian flags is literally just the Japanese flag.
Should've put black background to symbolise space.
Still looks like Japanese flag though lol
Or Butan
It would be funny if for some freakish historical accident Japan ended up colonizing Mars alone and Mars' flag ends up just being Japan's flag.
@@Golmar_227 Space Japan
Japan takes ALL of Mars as a colony
I love flags. I just think they look so cool and I love learning what they mean. My Canadian flag was supposed to be blue on both sides, representing sea to shining sea.
Let's be honest we waited so long for this:
ruclips.net/video/mCfYi7634rU/видео.html
@@Chkprofilename I have not
@@Chkprofilename shut up
eh, Canadian Flag is fine, but I forever associate it with Neo-Liberalism. Canada should become genuinely Socialist and anti-China, and make a better flag to match that. Tired of thing place being "normal" we need something strong and independent from the UK.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Our flag is about as un-British as it could be already, it looks like Canada's pretending to be a republic. Red Ensign never would have been dropped if a popular vote was taken.
In regards to fictional flags, I love the flags of the Ace Combat series. Yuktobania, Ustio, and Osea are my favorites
I love Belka's colors
3:42 inspired by the Argentinian flag. Because our boy, pirate Bouchard, was helping people to fight against Spain in that area
I think also inspired the flag of Colorado for the same reason
“Capture the flag is probably the oldest gamemode” Cody I think you forgot about survival mode
Survival mode is a game type, so this applies to all earliest games
if you really wanna go back to the begining it's whatever Spore is
@@andreibaciu7518 We're stretching into genre then.
9:30 - I love how Cody says "We'll nuke 10 states at random" then proceeds to show 11 nukes going off.
And the flag lost twelve stars
The first 10 were at random. The 11th know what they did 😂
And for once, North Dakota wasn’t a nuked state.
Also, as a North Dakotan, I love when we get randomly made fun of for no reason.
You would think Montana, South Dakota, or Wyoming would get called out about as often, but no, it’s ND like 90% of the time.😂
I feel like california was the 11th
@@bobjohnson9201that's because there's nothing to make fun of Wyoming for... *ba dum tch*
Speaking of the World's Fair, another World's Fair has to do with the story of the New Mexican flag. So for the first fourteen years of statehood, NM didn't have a flag. When the San Diego World's Fair of 1915 came around, the then only three-year-old state needed an unofficial flag to represent itself. And the result was...horrendous to say the least. On a blue field, the US flag was on the upper left corner, New Mexico in big letters were in the middle and slanted, 47 on the upper right to represent it's the 47th state, and finally the state seal on the lower right corner with "The Sunshine State" wrapped around it. The late mayor of Santa Fe, Ralph E. Twitchell (who died ten years after the fair) designed it and well...let's just say flag design wasn't his strong suit when compared to politics
Thankfully, this led to the push for an actual flag starting in 1920. A contest was held and one of the best state flags in this country was chosen to be adopted in 1925. Talk about a complete facelift!
I can envision that flag. It is horrific, New Mexico's flag is way better.
stop following me xd
By far the most common issue in flag design is oversatured colors so so many flags would be dramatically improved by slightly desaturating some or all colors
14:40 Also love the fact that it, design wise, looks a lot like the flag of Greenland but with the white reversed and triangle instead of circle.
@beyond your imagination Who did?
@@TheAristocrat. its a bot. Just report it
Personally I think the diamond shape fits the polar aesthetic really well, especially since it looks like a compass needle and/or an iceberg
@@Eagle-od1im im pretty sure the design was made so its a compass pointing downwards
If i remember the flags name is "the true south" and south is usually down on maps so
love the "we'll nuke 10 states" then shows 11 mushroom clouds, some of which covering several states. Still great video as always, never thought I needed almost 20 mins of flag content until now!
Usually flags for fictional settings tend to be better then real flags. Maybe because the author can change the world so the flag has a better and meaningful design easily, or maybe because there are not stupid bureaucracy for their design and or creation.
I absolutely agree about the disappointment of NZ not changing our flag. It was the biggest waste of money in recent history.
I recently went to an international event (ISDE) where we were set up next to Australia, and at-least twice a day an Australian would wander into the New Zealand area or vice-versa because the flags look so damn similar and all the staff uniforms looked the same
If we joined forces as a unified ANZAC front, this year we could’ve taken down the Brit’s, or at least the Spanish or French!
I loved James Dignan’s 2002 proposal for the flag, it was quite elegant and it should have been one of the options
As for Australia, they should change to the Golden Wattle design, or the black-gold-green tricolor with a Southern Cross in the hoist. I also find those quite elegant
I voted to keep the current flag for a variety of reasons. Besides, why should we have to change? Australia already changed their anthem.
@@qienna6677 why does the anthem matter in this discussion of flags?
@@antlantis1234 They changed their anthem, would it be much of a stretch to change their flag too? They're discussing becoming a republic at the moment and a flag change would be appropriate if they did.
Every time I see the Netherlands flag I hear their national anthem in my head. Thanks History with Hilbert.
Me too, great reference
For an exciting country that legalised weed and once ate their PM the Netherlands sure has a dull anthem.
@@pajeirussaurio1405 Glad I am not the only one. Thanks bud!
They had the 1st red-white-and-blue flag? I thought theirs has orange on it, to commemorate their ruling family, the House of Orange. They have that color on all their Olympic team uniforms. I've even watched their King and Queen, Willem-Alexander and Maxima, attend a Speed-skating event to cheer on their team.
You mean this song 😉
Wilhelmus van Nassouwe ben ik van Duitsen bloed, den vaderland getrouwe blijf ik tot in den dood. Een prinse van Oranje ben ik, vrij onverveerd, den Koning van Hispanje heb ik altijd geëerd. Couplet 6 Mijn schild ende betrouwen zijt Gij, o God mijn Heer, op U zo wil ik bouwen, Verlaat mij nimmermeer
Brazil, also adds stars on its flag each time it adds more states. At least in the USA, it was decided to stop the practice of adding both new stars and stripes for each new state added. Now the flag only has stripes representing the original 13 colonies.
The flag shown at 9:38 is not the original flag of the US. What you show is the Cowpens Flag. A flag that was almost rarely used. The original flag was the Betsy Ross Flag, which lacked a center star and only had a 13-star circle.
I'd honestly say it's better than the Betsy Ross flag
The Dutch flag's colours were meant to be orange, white and blue but they had a problem with the dye changing colour in the sun. After repeated attempts to overcome that issue failed, they just gave up.
The funny thing is this is probably not an issue now adays with modern dyes, but the orange-white-blue flag was used by collaborators during ww2, so they'll probably stick with red forever now.
Orange-white-blue was also used as the apartheid era South African flag.
Does that have to do say to the Netherlands National Soccer Team wearing Orange for most of their history. Or was it based on something else?
@@tannerwilson4843 William of Orange (after a place in France then owned by his noble house) is the father of the Dutch Republic and its first leader late 16th century. The Dutch Republic was actually a mix of monarchy (without the name) and aristocracy. Prince (never king) William of Orange and his descendants would lead the army and the aristocratic parliament and lower city bodies ran the civil administration, including finances. Orange was always the color of those who strongly supported the monarchy. A large orange ribbon still is a common accessory to the Dutch flag. Its our centuries old national color that's really unique to us, unlike the red white blue. Nazis can't take that away from us. Even during WWII, orange was the color of silent resistance to German occupation and our Queen Wilhelmina and her husband Prince Bernhard were symbols of the resistance. He played an important role in organizing the Dutch resistance fighters.
@@migueltrujillo8929 directly because of the dutch one, because south africa used to be a dutch colony before the british nabbed it
Eventually, I will recreate the Magnum Opus of Sheldon Cooper, and revive the glorious tradition of Fun with Flags!
Let just hope you don't mess it up
@Queen let's you can't exsit
stoneworks has so many great flags you vould easily make a a series about it
@Queen thank you, the potatoes were tasty
damn its stoney
I think Utah watched Cody's series on flags because they are selecting a new state flag with the options being pretty good designs.
ay you should have at least put the robot dog under the Shahadah at 11:49
One of the strangest flags I've come across is the flag Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. It sure is something
one of the most based flags too
Its a very sad flag
@@someguywithbagels5907 indeed
The backstory goes hard as fuck, the leader of the Atoll responded to the US saying "everything in the hands of god" after they proposed to him to destroy his and his people's home, and let's face it, they really had no choice on the matter. What else could a small community realistically say to the United States? And so the flag is an enduring reminder of the homes that the US destroyed for the sake of testing nuclear warheads.
@Queen .
The Tibetan flag is one of the most beautiful flag I've ever seen. Everything about it is so pretty and captures the essence of its culture, land, and people. My college roommates and I found even a vintage one at an open aired market and hung it on our wall as a decoration. It made for a great conversation piece for visitors except for this one time I invited a Chinese date over... putting it lightly, she was not amused.
Though I think you have bad taste in flags, that Tibetan flag probably saved you from a Chinese spy. Good on you
About a tibetan flag?
Sounds like you might have dodged a bullet lol.
@@kingofcards9516 a CCP bullet
Specially Tibetan flag in man in the high castle, they just replace the sun shine background, is not the most unique but definitely creative
Democracy is non-negotiable. There was no loss. Authoritarians make bad dates- will sell out for Big Brother.
12:42 YES I was actually thinking of the NCR flag when the question was raised 😂
15:11 "it references the novels Red Mars, Green Mars and Blue Mars"
Nah man, that's referencing Martian Manhunter lmao
isn’t he green?
@@oladipupoolowabi9316 ...and his outfit is blue and red
I'd love it if you looked specifically at flags of niche pesudeo-nations like Rebels in Syria (Rojava, Interim, etc) or Puppet-States (Dontesk, Luhansk, WW2 Japanese Foreign Satellite States) and what they were meant to convey!
12:26 he said the line
The Aquila just goes so damn hard.
As you said, double headed eagles go hard, its a fact but the Aquila has some surprising symbolism to it. The two heads represent the two core planets of the Imperium, Terra and Mars. The reason why only the left eagle has an eye is hecause it represents Earth, from which the Emperor over"sees" the Imperium and its glory.
10:22 never before have i been so offended by something I 100% agree with
Imagine an alternate reality where the US decided to also add a stripe for each new state.
The US tried to, but realized it was a stupid idea.
@@realemperorkuzco source?
@@BrianGriffinW We literally did. The "Star Spangled Banner" had 15 stripes. Congress eventually realized that going to get pretty busy. There was also the question of when they went to 16, did the white stripe go on the top or the bottom.
Now Ukraines terrorists kill more piople in Russian sity Red Leeman. USA sponsered terrorists in Ukraine
"Bringing 40k into any conversation is pretty much cheating" Accurate
I love the Australian flag tbh...the union jack looks cool and we have the southern cross on it, a constellation only seen from the southern hemisphere. This is kinda central to Australian identity e.g. the motto of the University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university is something like 'the stars change, the mind remains the same' -- this idea of being in another hemisphere is also seen in the name Australia itself. It's derived from the Latin Terra Australis meaning 'land of the south.'
Once you factor all this in, it's easy to see why the flag is the way it is.
For the purple flags segment, if we are going based off of Nicaragua using purple on their coat of arms, El Salvador must also be included, as they are also using purple in their coat of arms.
as a michigander i’m sworn to hate ohio till the end of my days but you guys have a great flag (and i do in fact notice the overrepresentation of michigan in these videos and the fact you nuked us)
Didn't notice that Michigan "randomly" got nuked until you pointed it out lol
It's one of the few state flags that genuinely looks 'American' and works well as a flag. I get to go about and see it flown under the U.S flag itself in various places, and it doesn't look out of place at all.
So many of the others are ruined by the presence of the infamous blue backgrounds and intricate illustrations that have to be expensive to replicate. They seem like placeholders more than anything. Even most of the original 13 colonies have mediocre state flags, and they've had two and a half centuries to get those figured out.
@@Disciple_JK As a Tennesseean, I think ours comes in a close second in terms of feeling American. Just as the US uses 50 stars to signify how it divides itself, Tennessee has 3 stars to signify how it divides itself. There is a central governing body in Nashville, but the Tennessee River divides the state into 3, and each Grand Division has an influential major city.
I agree with that but also I have family in Ohio and my dad was born there so basically I’m limited to like Michigan more
As one of the citizens of my states hat, please get a better flag so you can properly compete.
This man showed a picture of Unicron while talking about a Mars flag, and now I'm dying of curiosity wondering what a flag design for him would look like.
Apparentelly it was just 40K' Mars
Unicron would find a flag... self-aggrandizing. And he really had no reason to oversell himself, given that his only weakness was essentially an act of divine intervention by Primus.
He'd probably go with solid black, though, to represent the infinite void that he intended to leave in his wake.
5:08 Looking at the flag just makes me think of Pepsi or Redbull...
7:25 that reason imo just sounds like it makes too much sense for it to be just a coincidence. It just had to be because of that.
11:49 I laughed until I cried at the armed robot dog flag
Yeah I got a chuckle out of that one too
14:00 The flag of Florence, Italy proudly sports purple and the color is basically the city's theme. This largely had to do with the lucrative textile and leather trade based in Medieval and Renaissance Florence
I’m working on my own alternative US and I design a flag for it. It combines the Serapis flag with the 20-star ‘Grand Star’ design. It looks like the Grand Star flag, but with the stripes of the Serapis. I think it makes it stand out when compared to the current and previous US flag. Not overly complicated, but not overly simple, as well
3:56 Actually the Kalamar union flag used a smilar nordic flag, although they dd recieve influence from the danish
My favourite thing about the Imperial Aquila from 40k is the fact that the head looking forward is blindfolded. The Imperium is blind to the future and consistently looking back at it's past.
...no one can see the future, everyone can see the past. I don't know enough about 40k to know if time travel is a thing there or not.
@@thewanderingmistnull2451 while we can't see the future wr can at least hope for change, try something else etc... the Imperium does not do that. It is trapped in an endless self destructive status quo while constantly wanting to replicate the glories. There is no progress only self destruction and a paralyzing fatal nostalgia
@@thatmeatguy8418 not to mention Progress in Tech is illegal and any deviation from the status quo is heresy to be supressed until it becomes a new status quo based on some massive social change.
I was under the impression that one head represented the Imperial Truth and the other represented the Cult of the Omnissiah. Symbolizing the union between human strength and Admech knowledge, forged by the God-Emperor.
“That flag is a symbol we attach our emotions to, but it isn't the emotion itself and it isn't the thing we really care about. Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.”
― Tom Wolfe,
Sounds like what happens to most symbols.
I'd love another video diving deeper into flags. Please and thank you
8:00
I'm with ye all the way on that! Pirate flags arrr the best flags, tis' a pirate's life for me!
I really like the Mars Congressional Republic flag from The Expanse. It's just complicated enough to say "this is the future, our flag wasn't designed when we had to dye/sew each flag by hand", but simple enough to be recreated with minimal geometric help. Even a completely free-handed child's drawing would be recognizable.
9:30 Ohioan nuking Michigan is the most Ohio thing ever
Return the Strip....
Return the Strip or suffer our curse....
Seems like a waste of a nuke, it's already a wasteland in most urban areas.
@@Clay3613 Yeah, they should work with us Hoosiers to invade Michigan instead, we can split it's land between our states.
Do a video about the attempts at a world flag, there are several. What is their purpose, will they work, do they cause conflict rather then harmony?
Hey I'm curious if you've considered looking into the Alternate history of the Video game Homefront. It was pretty big back in the day and they suprisingly got a few facts correct in the time line that was laid out
I think that the lack of purple is a self-perpetuating circle - since new flags usually try to take inspiration from past symbols and colours (which never featured any purple), they usually don’t incorporate purple in the design
Btw, how do you imagine making the city/province flag situation better - I’m really interested in the process of making a new flag up - where to draw symbolism from, how to incorporate it. There are a lot of flags to be improved in my opinion
He mentions it on the previous flag video, but Puerto Rico is a great start on your journey. Each one of the 78 municipalities has it's unique flag, and most of them look quite good.
I think purple being more common in Pride flags kinda backs this up. National flags don't have purple because of that self-perpetuating cycle, but Pride flags are newer than accessible purple dyes, and they didn't look to national flags for inspiration so their designers don't feel discouraged from using purple (in fact, now that there's a history of purple in Pride flags, their designers might include it when taking inspiration, like how the demisexual flag takes color notes from the asexual flag because demi is on the ace spectrum). Yes, there's more to it than the recent-ish availability and its inclusion in the original rainbow flag, but if the original designers had looked to national flags I think the results would've been very different, with way less purple, and the flags as a group would be much less recognizable.
15:21 this has been my wallpaper for 4 years
As an Ohioan as well I do like our flag, the design just makes it feel a little different then other places, which I like! :)
15:11 As soon as ya mentioned Mars' flag i thowt of this one; which i only know of cuz of Citation Needed.
Its def the most official of the unofficial Mars flags and feels very apropos; and everyone loves a tricolour.
In the beginning of this year, I never would have imagined myself getting excited over videos about Flags. And yet, Cody’s done it.
actually, since you mentioned my country new zealand there have been allot of alternate flag's proposed over the decades, my personal favorite was a tri color flag of Blue, White and Black going horizontal with a black 5-pointed star in the middle of the white band, shame it never went anywhere i thought it was a good design
Well lets face it mate, we've got to get that butchers apron off our flags.
I love your out of control fireplace!
Funny you mentioned purple because that is litterally the base color I was going to use for a sci-fi factions flag in the story I'm working on.
The other colors being black and silver.
I'd love to see more videos like this! It was a fun watch
I'm sad you didn't mention the Derafsh Kaviani. Flag was created over 2,000 years ago and still looks really good while following all the principles of flag design
whoa! that is an awesome flag!
The Wallachia thing is pretty tricky tho because Wallachia as a country stopped existing for around almost 164 years.
The Three Romanian Principalities are pretty hard to explain in such a short time, but the important thing is that they wanted to unite into Romania for a long long time then in 1859 Wallachia and Moldovia finally managed to unite into Romania (Transylvania finally managing to follow in their footsteps only in 1918). The eagle with a cross in its mouth is interesting because it got preserved and it's still (in some measure) on our national symbol.
I love the idea that the only flag with the royal color in it was the Spanish REPUBLIC
If you like the 40k and GoT flags, I'd recommend checking out the Battletech Faction banners. They kinda go back to almost heraldry type deals with their banners and they're all very interesting. And tend to have some kind of symbolism behind it.
And then you get the Clans.
They're a fun bunch.
Also, if he likes purple so much he will be pleased to learn of the Free Worlds League's purple eagle insignia.
@@GhostBear3067 Purple Parakeet go BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRT.
God I love those Austro-Hungarian Weirdos.
@@user-ew9sq5iw5w I like how most of the other factions do not bother attacking them because they have that covered all by themselves.
@@GhostBear3067 And because nothing unites the FWL like someone fucking with the FWL. There's a reason the most dangerous thing to a Marik is another Marik... and ComStar.
5:15 Maybe not in actuality, but the Laser Kiwi Flag is the official flag of New Zealand in our hearts
Never forget Laser Kiwi
Laser Kiwi forever
Is that shit real?, Like did a mad lad kiwi really just show up to the national flag choosing compitition with that?!😂😂
@@thetangaledbug7670 yes
2:48 the uk flag also has Ireland in it which at the time was similar to the Scottish flag but now that the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are separate and the republic isn’t part of uk people usually either forget about it or assume it is from NI
I think you may have had the 40k eagle backwards, the open eye is supposed to be on the right signifying that humanity only looks forward, and that the history of the past is forgotten; idk tho
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Ah yes the Mars flag.
Japan. But darker.
Gotta say Templin did nail the flag thing, the flags from the Ace Combat universe almost all follow the flag rules and are just, objectively believable.
0:05 Being from that country, he's not our leader anymore...
Ace Combat probably has the best fictional flags, Belka, Osea, Estovakia’s is a personal favorite mine.
The part of not losing the standard in war is serious. When the Medal of Honor was established during the Civil War a lot of them were awarded for either saving the Union flag or capturing the Confederate flag. It was the equivalent today of saving the radio and calling in an airstrike or capturing the enemy's radio.
Honestly when he did the North Jimistan joke at the end, I was expecting the punchline to be "No, it's complicated. Just like North Macedonia."
Always fun to hear Guilfoyle talk about flags
My favourite flag is the Aboriginal Australian flag. The setting/rising sun over the red dirt and the black representing the Aboriginal people just hits different.
I got on this comment after sliding a hersheys bar on my phone
7:01 I know that meme
The lore I heard about Hawaii's flag is a bit more interesting.
Great Britian and the USA were having 'issues' and with each other, but Hawaii didn't want to pick sides and potentially lose trade with (or get invaded by) the other side...
So they started using an intentionally confusing naval flag.
"It's the oldest continuous used flag in the world for 800 years"
Scotland: *Am I joke to you?*
it was kinda cool to here you talk about the easton flag cos i live 10 miles from easton
I did not expect to learn great history in this episode, but the dive into state flags was really interesting! It seems normal now, but it totally makes sense that post-Civil War US wanted to minimize independent identities and emphasize the Union.
Also never thought about having to update the national flag constantly - that’s hilarious.
I’ve never even stepped foot in Ohio, but I like your flag too. It’s impossible to confuse for someone else’s.
The Civil War hypothesis has some weight to it, considering how many people from Ohio fought in it.
Hey Cody, when are we getting "What if Japan had remained neutral in WW2?" or "What if Japan had been part of the Allies in WW2?"
It's very much needed and would be really nice to watch.
8:05 the Bahamas first flag was a pirate with some text in it