Why 'Keep Calm And Carry On' Is A Lie - Hilarious Helmet History
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' meme is a pretty dumb piece of propaganda compared to 'Be Charming and Stab Hitler In The Face,' it's also a lie.
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I had no idea that people even thought it was a war thing. Now that I know it wasn't a war thing I guess I'll just add it to my useless knowledge database.
it's Jonah! he watches the same videos I do!
Jason Jason Logan Logan.
Except this video kinda says that it actually is a genuine war thing, albeit one that was never actually used. That's way more authentic an origin than I assumed it had, which was that it was the cynical creation of a coked up marketing executive in the early 2000s.
I was going to comment the same thing. I think at one time I wondered about where it came from, but weirdly, I never thought to look it up. Now not only do I know where it came from, I also know where it didn't come from. Two learns with one stone.
Of course it's a 'war thing'. It was made in WW2 to be used in WW2. That's like saying the Maus supertank wasn't a war thing because it wasn't actually used in the war.
2:43 in england no one says diaper😂 its nappy over here don
Hitler invading Russia in 1939? Someone didn't do their homework...
I was thinking the same thing.
nathan mills yes, but not in 1939
The Peace Mouse I know that but I think cracked is just condensing the entire thing into 1939 and beyond
nathan mills they phrased it as if hitler invaded Russia and then France & lowlands
The Peace Mouse yahtzee
Did people not know the posters never saw use during the war? I admit I didn't know it was for a defeat, but I knew they never used it.
Is keep calm and carry on actually thought to have been a thing in WW2? I've never heard of that before.
Rebecca Hartopp me neither and I have a history degree from uni
I'm glad, I thought this was some huge secret the rest of the world was keeping from me, the actual history behind it is pretty cool.
Same here. I figured it was just a meme.
No your right, no-one in the UK anyway, was lead to believe this was ever used in WWII. But its hard to get new content when you work 100% from an office.
I also never thought this was a real WW2 poster. I always assumed it was a retro piece of tat dreamed up by a marketing person in the last few years.
"The British pounded some black tea." 😂👌🏻
so... it's now an appropriate time to spread this message
BMUSTDIE dark dude. dark
I desperately need that "BONES WANTED" poster.
One good google search will basically give you this:
"Although 2.45 million copies were printed, and although the Blitz did in fact take place, the poster was hardly ever publicly displayed and was little known until a copy was rediscovered in 2000 at Barter Books, a bookshop in Alnwick. It has since been re-issued by a number of private companies, and has been used as the decorative theme for a range of products"
or I can just ask my history professor...so saying it was a lie or even dark is pointless
Can't someone pick up Hilarious Helmet History? This is better than 99% of TV, including the History Channel!
Did you know George Orwell's real name was Eric Blair? Now you do.
The worst thing about this "Keep Calm" trend is the lengths lazy cash-ins have gone to stretch the reference to the point that they no longer make any sense at all.
It used to be you'd see "Keep Calm and Game on" or "Keep Calm and Party On" and then it stretched to "Keep Calm and Jump On," "Drive On," etc.
Lately, they've completely dropped the second half. I've seen "Keep Calm and Be You," "Keep Calm and Follow Jesus," "Keep Calm and Love Penguins" (all real shirts). I've seen posters advertising your team (?), gymnastics, web security, university, Batman, the Minions, and a bunch of other things that have nothing to do with anything.
Pretty soon the expression will be abstracted to a font, a single colour background and phrases so vague they won't even be interrelated. I fully expect to see a Keep-Calm style "Eat Pancakes and Avoid Open Manholes," t-shirt, because why not, anything with this font will sell now. Somebody will come in with a mall-wrapped package, their eye-brows raised, their eyes glinting like, "See, I know you love pancakes and not falling into open manholes, so I figured this is the gift for you! I got myself a 'Don't Worry Be Happy And I Like Batman' tee while I was in the store, so we totally match. Yes, that's a silhouette of Calvin peeing on a Ford, so what, it's part of the design, now let's go watch the Emoji Movie 2, this one has the Rock in it!"
There needs to be more trends.
Fascinating as always. I always enjoy learning what happy sounding thing has a much darker meaning.
"Life is short. Life is shit and soon it will be over." -Kids in the Hall
Winston Churchill werewolf hunter. This just popped into my head and I already want to see this.
Okay well glad we dodged that bullet. The story of how they figured out how to bring down zepplins is pretty cool too. They invented flame bullets. And exploding ones. To properly ignite the gas.
Second favourite cracked series.
'poo your pants' would be the correct British English rendering, not 'poop your diaper'.
You know, now that we know the subtext, it's actually MORE appropriate for some of the ways we've been using it.
Glad this is the timeline where Alex doesn't die.
I prefer Churchill's motto anyway. "Keep buggering on"
Dude, this just makes the poster cooler.
I'm honestly glad I watched this because I thought it was a Doctor Who thing. Not trying to offend anyone, (I'm a 40 year old American) haven't been to school since '95 so I learned something new. Thanks for the knowledge.
I thought everyone knew that, I'd never even heard of the misconception.
I need that mashup on a poster ASAP
I...frickin'.. LOVE this GUY.
Come back Cracked! Make more great videos!!!
goofy voice.
most definitely, guvna.
and by the by, thank you for elucididating upon the grim origins of said poster/meme.
i thought it was from The Walking Dead.
i loved you CRACKED dudes...been reading it since I was 11 yrs old. 33 yrs of age now, guv. peace.
i think the blue poster needs to be the more popular one given how things are going
I actually assumed it was a slogan from 1984 that was being used ironically.
Ah yes, context makes everything so much more interesting.
When i hear your voice i always think "schmidty the claaaaaaaaam"
I always found that poster to be pretty 'big brother'-y. Now I now why.
ironically, news that the "Keep Calm..." poster was used in World War II caused panic to spread like wildfire across the internet, and shortly thereafter, the earth's collective mind was blown, killing everyone aboard. "funny, i never thought it would end like this" said the earth before it died.
Orwell wasn't just anti-soviet he was against all forms of authoritarianism as an anarchist, or so he said until he sold out his comrades the British government with out a trip to room 101.
Everything I knew about this sign is
Exactly right. I did a report on it back in 2011
I actually didn't even know it was tied to WWII. Thought it was just a recent meme.
Well I live in London, and have seen a condonm with ' keep calm and carry on' message, but I had no idea it came from war propaganda.
I love these series
Well, they didn't have to use that because the battle of Britain changed everything. However, this is funny. Now I want to see those "Keep calm and carry on" condoms.
I have a badge that says 'Keep calm and drink tea'. I think stereotypes often have basis in reality.
In 1939 Time stap 3:12 Hitler had only attacked Poland. Germany and the USSR were allies. France and the UK were in the Phoney war.
Great video, very informative, I loved it, Good thing you didn't use that voice for the hole video.
Sooo...does Alex doesn't die anymore? Has he lost his superpower?
To be honest, I had no idea this came from the WWII time period and always thought it was a dumb thing on shirts and middle-aged white lady's facebook walls.
Keep calm and summon Shenron.
You need to revise this video due to serious historical inaccuracies:
Germany DIDN'T march into Russia in 1939, the extent shown in the video is from 1942. Also, America was already involved at that moment, it wasn't "years away from the war"
In 1939 invasion of Britain not only didn't look like Hitler's next move, it didn't seem as a possibility at all. Even after the fall of France, Hitler still didn't want war with Britain and actually tried to negotiate peace. Invasion of Britain seemed as a possibility only for a few months during summer of 1940. HOWEVER, "Keep calm and carry on" posters had already been recycled in April 1940, so no, they were not kept for "a total military disaster, like a successful German invasion", and they were not a call to the population to resist German occupation. They were actually supposed to be distributed in cases of massive air bombings to raise morale of the people.
This guy started as one of my least favorite hosts, now he is one of the best
0:28 SPITFIRE HURRICANE SPITFIRE HURRICANE
Wait did you think people didn't know that? That's literally the story behind keep calm and carry on designed in world war 2 and left in storage only found recently.
Like seriously for the last 17 years every person who's mentioned Keep Calm and Carry on has cited the bookstore story this isn't news. Do you know people claiming it's been around for years?
I will grant the rest of that I didn't know but just saying most people do know it spent decades in storage.
One more time no one thinks it's a war hero everyone thinks it was found in a bookstore. Who do you talk to that doesn't know that?
This is great though. However, I never knew of it as a WWII thing in the first place, I thought it was just a meme which popped up in the last decade or so.
Did people really not know this? When I saw how popular the poster had become online, I learned it's origins via Wikipedia. Wikipedia should not be so useful.
Dumb fact, 2+2=5 is actually based on a Soviet Russian poster. It was to show that Stalin's five year plan could be done quicker if the workers would stop being lazy.
I didn't even know this was a war propaganda thing so I can just sit back and like it.
So Keep CAlm is perfectly reevant in today's dystopia
I HATE seeing all these "keep calm" memes EVERYWHERE
The fact you need to reassure an audience that wouldn't know the difference between a "leftover food way" and a "serial killer way" is worrying.
I thought it was only a type of meme that people like to use everywhere
I'm never going to buy anything fruit of the loom again because I'm tired of this fucking softy commercial that plays on every single damn cracked video
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Great show, very informative. There is one issue though, in 1939 Hitler and the Nazis had not yet invaded the Soviet Union, only Poland, and in alliance with the Soviet Union. The Nazis didn't over run Western Europe until 1940. The invasion of the USSR began in 1941 after the major bombing of the UK had taken place. This is otherwise a great video, though you may want to update your map and timeline used. Or you could eliminate my comment...
Okay, so I did read 1984 but it was a long time ago and I found it dreadfully boring. That being said, isn't (2+2=5) meant as a statement that we are greater than the sum of our parts rather than meaning they forgot how to do basic math?
I honestly thought that that poster was from, like, 2008. Oops. My b.
I love this series. I even like the presenter. But please never let him do that attempt at an accent again.
Is this guy Jason Chaffetz lil brother. Look and sound just like him
That's a World War I flying helmet isn't it?
Throw your greenscreen a bit of blur-love so it's not crispier than your live action footage. Big Ben was super distracting.
It's not even 2012 anymore
Did Nazi that coming.
This bit of dry humor gave me a chuckle.
Anne Frankly these jokes are getting tired.
That's how they took Poland.
Were you proud when you typed that in?
Nater 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm fascinated by how much he pronounces the "L" in "calm".
How else do you say 'calm'?
L is always the most important letter.
I've never met anyone that didn't pronounce the "L" in "calm".
Cole Garland Do you say "cam"? lol
JaiFlame it's pronounced like it's spelled calm. C-a-l-m. But I get your point.
3:15 the war with USSR started on june 2nd 1941 not in '39!!!
dika_the_wise You expect Cracked to fact check? Lol
Comrade Tito komrade generale brate tito vrati nam se sad kad si nam najviše potreban.
Kinda slipped into Australian and New Zealand accent at the end there. XD
Most people in the UK know that this was, along with two other motivational posters, printed up, but never used, in the war. The recent craze for it was started when a bookshop owner found the poster folded up in a donation of books he had received, and put it up in his shop, simply because he liked it. Customers asked him about it, and he had copies made, which sold like hot cakes, even to the point of the Prime Minister owning one. Comic maestro Alan Moore knew about it before it became popular - it appears, with a different device, in the graphic novel 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.
I knew Australia was run by kangaroos!
I'm really tired of this ever soft commercial.
Some people think talking about talking about soft things makes you a softie. So if I'm going to talk to you about the Fruit of The Loom Eversoft T, I'm going to do it in the manliest way possible. With my then I forgot
Erik Harker I got the one with the holes in the parachute. That guy is a dick for cutting the other guys parachute and then not grabbing on to the other guy before he hit the ground.
"pounded some black tea"... as someone who's British, I'm not sure how to feel about this
Graphic design , the truest form of war survival
3:21 America didn't declare war on Germany, America declared war on Japan for Pearl Harbor then Germany declared war on the US a few days after that.
All he said was "America was years away from declaring war", he didn't say against which country.
Cheesycurve 54 no they declared war on Japan after pearl harbor and the declared war on Germany because Germany attacked poland not because they were working together
Cheesycurve 54 Italy and Germany declared war on America, America never declared war on Italy
Cheesycurve 54 no they specifically declared war on Japan
The very fact you folks are arguing about it evidences that there was no single objective cause and it was likely just an irrational and emotional response, as seems to always be the reason the USA goes to war, regardless of the justification after the fact.
I'm waiting for;
Keep calm and carry on my wayward son
I knew these posters just spontaneously appeared in the early 2000's!
why are you doing an australian accent?
That is not our accent.
why are you doing a new zealand accent?
Because Australians are just British once removed, the same as Americans (one less willing than the other of course).
betabenja ikr it’s so annoying
We don't sound like that
"You're allowed to like it..."
It's a shame we have to verbalize this nowadays...
to be honest 'keep calm and carry on' is awesome for condoms if u think about it😂
More like "keep calm and carry (at least) one" amirite?
"in this goofy voice..."
every British subscriber leaves en masse
Matt Johnston is every British subscribers that massive?
Too much fried food? 😉
Glaring mistake. Germany conquered eastern Europe and invaded the USSR AFTER France and BENELUX.
Nice profile picture. :)
This one isn't as surprising but maybe this is a problem with the site being american. I never thought it was used in WWII I always knew it was in storage. His end accent sounds more Australian than British.
I got a chuckle out of "We know war is scary just don't poop your diaper". I love this series, A+
when we will be able to buy the "become a resistance fighter because Hitler is having a wank in Buckingham palace" posters?
IT IS A GODDAMNED SHAME THAT THERE ARE ONLY 7 OF THESE VIDEOS! I DEMAND MORE!!! ... thank you. great videos. big fan. 😁
The English wouldn't say diaper. Diaper Is an American thing the English and Australians say nappy
When I first heard of the posters slogan, it made me very uncomfortable.
Never once did I picture walking down an English street a few dozen miles from the battlefield, seeing this on a buildings corner reassuring me that it would be okay to keep living life as normally as I could.
Never once did it feel like it had a sentiment of safety, of strength. Frankly, it scared the fuck out of me.
When I thought of the slogan, as I had not read a particular book at the time, what I envisioned was something that belonged on the streets of literally any city depicted in V for Vendetta, as some insane mask wearing lunatic went around working his balls (or her tits) off to crush the authoritarian overlords.
Now, however, my reference is a bit older, and although a bit more cliche, I've actually READ the book, and know the entirety of the horror depicted.
When I see this slogan as a poster, or shirt, or whatever, I can't even really think of it, at all. My mind floods with thoughts of metal cages being strapped to my head. Starving rats being released into the other side, slowly working their way towards my face, the only promise of respite being my panicking, screaming apologies and selling out everyone I know and love for anything they've ever done that bares even the slightest hint of treasonous thought or intent. I imagine my own children, hearing me mumble something anti-state in my sleep, and calling the authorities on me. Of my girlfriend, the only woman I'd loved in all the world being captured at the same time as me. Of our being taken to different medical facilities, of having our frontal lobes removed.
I think of her and I meeting afterwards, sitting at a past beloved park bench.
"I betrayed you." She would say. "I betrayed you." I would reply.
I see myself sitting in some depressing, shitty bar. The same one I attended years before my first actual thoughts of sedition began.
I'd pick up my dirty glass, drink down my poor quality somehow oily-tasting gin. I'd think but one thought, as I smile and stare at the wall.
"I love big brother."
Dear Cracked
If you attempt another English accent, we will declare war on you.
You have been warned.
Love and best wishes, England
Your british accent is, well...
A jolly bad show one might say...
And im english, so you can't disagree :)
I kid you not, when I saw the picture of the Ministry of Information I thought to myself, "well if that isn't Orwellian.".
I actually really like this series. Hope they make more.
I actually been to the bookstore in Northumberland that found the poster
You should go there if your British, it's a great place
The moment youtube is hit by the adpocalypse cracked begins to push quality content.
Or it's just me keeping calm and carrying on
"youtube is imposible to navigate with lubed up sex fingies"
You underestimate my power!
Pip pip and stop at 4pm for tea. MMMM tea.
People don't know this? I thought this was why it was cool....