The Universal S

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  • @LEMMiNO
    @LEMMiNO  3 года назад +1867

    [Credits, References, and More]
    www.lemmi.no/p/the-universal-s

    • @bradleymarsh8583
      @bradleymarsh8583 3 года назад +18

      What keyboard are you using in this video?

    • @zdean29
      @zdean29 3 года назад

      Whaaaaat

    • @entitydotexe6138
      @entitydotexe6138 3 года назад +7

      @@bradleymarsh8583 I believe it's a Cooler Master SK650

    • @matthewhopkins7042
      @matthewhopkins7042 3 года назад +4

      That is absolutely not the same thing and you know it, you just found the easy way out. Shame on you.

    • @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
      @aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa 3 года назад +2

      you kinda late bro

  • @Frizzable
    @Frizzable 5 лет назад +29606

    I got suspended when I drew it at school because they said it was a gang sign

    • @combine8269
      @combine8269 5 лет назад +202

      Frizzable Btfo

    • @PinkENBlue
      @PinkENBlue 5 лет назад +1302

      Lmao why didn't u tell them it originated in the 1890's in a book made by Willson

    • @guillerhonora717
      @guillerhonora717 5 лет назад +309

      probably It goes in many different meanings that people have a mixed reaction
      heck even I drew an S because in school term means a common sign made during classes
      I don't know I can't fathom the S, it's so satisfying to draw lmao

    • @MsKilates
      @MsKilates 5 лет назад +83

      Bro I relate but I got expelled when I was in elementary school lol

    • @caolanfeely4317
      @caolanfeely4317 5 лет назад +93

      Frizzable I got suspended at catholic school because it was blasphemy

  • @nakatadaddou
    @nakatadaddou 3 года назад +5135

    If I'm ever framed for a crime, I want this guy to be the lead lawyer.

    • @normalperson1130
      @normalperson1130 3 года назад +89

      ikr. deadass I want him as my lawyer

    • @parentheses4662
      @parentheses4662 3 года назад +52

      @@normalperson1130 you have been convicted for existing

    • @Playmylevel
      @Playmylevel 3 года назад +99

      Sure but it will take 3 years to prove innocent

    • @__nog642
      @__nog642 3 года назад +34

      Just wait a few years then he'll have your defense ready

    • @mister_salmon5693
      @mister_salmon5693 3 года назад +5

      I would want Saul Goodman but if he’s not available then lemmino will do.

  • @akyer8085
    @akyer8085 5 лет назад +6739

    This guy spent literally 5 years researching and uploading a single video about some symbol where no normal person even question its origin.
    Mad props to Lemmino

    • @Krystamyth
      @Krystamyth 5 лет назад +22

      You need to stop using that word, normal. You mean stupid.

    • @tobyfastjr
      @tobyfastjr 5 лет назад +139

      Krystal Myth ???

    • @Lucas-zd8hl
      @Lucas-zd8hl 5 лет назад +94

      @@Krystamyth???

    • @LisaBowers
      @LisaBowers 5 лет назад +33

      I remember drawing it in school throughout the 70's and 80's and _never once_ wondered about its origins. If anyone can make the backstory of a symbol fascinating, it's Lemmino!

    • @codekillerz5392
      @codekillerz5392 5 лет назад +36

      Krystal Myth
      Fuck off

  • @conradyork2178
    @conradyork2178 Год назад +340

    "But in my delusions of grandeur, i brushed it off as the failings of lesser men, and into the abyss I went." I had to stop the video and look up the long dead writer who I assumed you were quoting. But searches only return your video. Brilliant writing, truly.

    • @alexrandall8557
      @alexrandall8557 6 месяцев назад +29

      In his video "Bygone Visions of Cosmic Neighbours", referring to the fact that so many throughout history have searched for aliens only to turn up empty handed, he writes "Bygone visions of life asunder, long since quelled by newfound wonder".
      I was 100% certain this was a quote, but nope, it's an original line.

  • @mikaxms
    @mikaxms 5 лет назад +17239

    Doesn't upload for months, then: here's this symbol that I've been researching for 5 years...

    • @PlugSocketStudios
      @PlugSocketStudios 5 лет назад +60

      2 months...

    • @plexim1591
      @plexim1591 5 лет назад +558

      @@PlugSocketStudios 2 months is literally "months".

    • @jttekton
      @jttekton 5 лет назад +29

      @@plexim1591
      well apparently, you've been hibernating

    • @tamarazi
      @tamarazi 5 лет назад +333

      Its quality>quantity

    • @2Meows
      @2Meows 5 лет назад +9

      @@plexim1591 ö

  • @brandonjasongrosso5080
    @brandonjasongrosso5080 5 лет назад +7166

    Lemmino has the perfect amount of time between videos where you forget about him then you get the notification and remember this amazing channel exists. Makes my day every time.

    • @lucapeyrefitte6899
      @lucapeyrefitte6899 5 лет назад +1

      BRANDON JASON GROSSO you think he still makes music?

    • @kenedi987
      @kenedi987 5 лет назад +58

      I always binge watch for days after again and then forget about the channel, then the cycle repeats.

    • @lootosgaming
      @lootosgaming 5 лет назад +12

      TTD

    • @Crystal-58
      @Crystal-58 5 лет назад +5

      Oh my god same when i got this i was like "who the fuck is this?''

    • @jv2thedon
      @jv2thedon 5 лет назад +5

      And it makes my year every time

  • @GameBangStudios
    @GameBangStudios 5 лет назад +25733

    Like so he can see.... the symbol goes far back as 1533 where it can be seen in the painting “the ambassadors” by Hans Holbein the younger ... you can see the symbol if you zoom in to the table . The “S” appears sideways

    • @ryanl3407
      @ryanl3407 5 лет назад +3054

      I googled it, can confirm it is sideways on the table like OP said

    • @marunero3
      @marunero3 5 лет назад +1801

      so... cavemen probably figured it out first

    • @TheEnabledDisabled
      @TheEnabledDisabled 5 лет назад +2598

      Holy shit,
      HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
      that could explain why its in both europe an americas

    • @marunero3
      @marunero3 5 лет назад +591

      @@TheEnabledDisabled who knows.. maybe in the old times when people from africa were killing snakes they measured their length xd

    • @whitehatnetizen
      @whitehatnetizen 5 лет назад +1540

      And everything in that painting is very carefully and deliberately chosen to be in it. It must mean something to them and not just be a cool pattern.

  • @polterghost_
    @polterghost_ Год назад +467

    If you have a squared notebook and you are doodling during class, it just feels natural to make and combine lines in this way on those squares.

    • @DarGViD
      @DarGViD Год назад +48

      Yeah, I'm surprised people expect there to be a common origin. It probably appeared independently ever since people started using squared paper. It's like trying to look for a common origin of the circle

    • @jhaluska80
      @jhaluska80 Год назад +21

      I think independence is the most likely explanation. Bored kids and graph paper. Start with graph paper and try to draw a small rope or spiral with straight lines in the margin and everybody would come up with something similar.

    • @alexvokasd
      @alexvokasd 11 месяцев назад +12

      YES! Near the end of the video, I remembered that maybe that was the first time I draw the 'S' and the most simple solution that came to my mind that it was just the most simple way to be creative in a sqauared nootbook during boring math classes.
      Or we live in a simulation.

    • @lancepate
      @lancepate 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@alexvokasd S for simulation.

    • @fahimaahmed3188
      @fahimaahmed3188 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@lancepate🧐😅💯

  • @Metaphizzle
    @Metaphizzle 5 лет назад +2922

    When you started mapping out what countries the S symbol showed up in, I was half expecting the distribution would form another S shape.

    • @supasf
      @supasf 5 лет назад +65

      Lmao that's actually a good prediction, I personally didn't think of it, but it would've made sense lol.

    • @ProffesorNickCutter
      @ProffesorNickCutter 5 лет назад +25

      Me too, not for real though, I thought he would make a bit out of it haha

    • @beccag2758
      @beccag2758 5 лет назад +28

      I thought that too, if it had it would've scared the crap out of me😂

    • @lolmeme69_
      @lolmeme69_ 5 лет назад +26

      That would be hella creepy...

    • @magsapp4819
      @magsapp4819 5 лет назад +7

      really messed up how known this symbol is

  • @yakeru3356
    @yakeru3356 5 лет назад +12889

    my man actually spent a fuckton of time trying to find the origin of the universal s. proud of you

    • @CosmicErrata
      @CosmicErrata 5 лет назад +93

      Exactly! It's mind numbing just thinking about the process.

    • @aeriushox4675
      @aeriushox4675 5 лет назад +198

      He spent 5 years searching for it. 5 years

    • @SkeletorOmega2
      @SkeletorOmega2 5 лет назад +76

      Fucking legend

    • @ParasiteHater
      @ParasiteHater 5 лет назад +3

      many people have

    • @campkira
      @campkira 5 лет назад +4

      what a sad sad man...

  • @Silver-ik9nl
    @Silver-ik9nl 5 лет назад +41041

    Imagine we land on mars and we find the S on a rock

    • @doorstopper674
      @doorstopper674 5 лет назад +2213

      Imagine if the s is a secret message left by interdimensional gods to solve everything

    • @akih1738
      @akih1738 5 лет назад +1505

      maybe they drew it in middle school

    • @Lukas-hb5be
      @Lukas-hb5be 5 лет назад +715

      That would be a big bruh moment

    • @baxterthebush6512
      @baxterthebush6512 5 лет назад +127

      Silver369 it’s the illuminati how can people be so stupid

    • @hiphyro
      @hiphyro 4 года назад +106

      Silver369 aliens cool as hell

  • @dampierre99
    @dampierre99 Год назад +878

    What shocked me the most is that everyone learned this at a young age, nobody I know has ever learnt this at an older age

    • @hazenoki628
      @hazenoki628 Год назад +39

      I never learned about this as a kid, this video was the first time I became aware of this particular symbol. My guess is most people who don't recognise this just don't end up commenting or even watching a video like this. (I just became curious as to what could make an S "universal", the S itself just looking like some unknown logo to me.)

    • @gamersedge891
      @gamersedge891 Год назад +8

      I first learned about it in 5th grade, but I had been homeschooled up until that point. I had completely forgotten about it until last year, when one of my friends started drawing it in physics.

    • @Roddy556
      @Roddy556 Год назад +11

      ​@@hazenoki628very similar to survivor bias.

    • @wladynoszhighlights5989
      @wladynoszhighlights5989 11 месяцев назад +2

      First time I see this Symbol tbh

    • @Jermo7899
      @Jermo7899 10 месяцев назад +1

      I learned about this symbol in 4th or 5th grade

  • @beinerthchitivamachado9892
    @beinerthchitivamachado9892 5 лет назад +2867

    In a 1500’s painting called “the ambassador”, you can see a small “s” on the middle.
    Saw this on another comment, re-posting it in case it gets buried under other comments.

  • @cheekibreeki9739
    @cheekibreeki9739 4 года назад +5109

    Can we pay respect to this man who browsed the internet heavily just to find the origin of this "S"?

    • @rodencunanan2161
      @rodencunanan2161 4 года назад +37

      @@khoanguyen9961 in the video he stated that he was on this topic for years

    • @Sanjybob101
      @Sanjybob101 4 года назад +6

      that's the reason I clicked on this video lol

    • @nicholaspeppas945
      @nicholaspeppas945 4 года назад +2

      CHEEKI BREEKI hello boris very blyatiful

    • @hippios
      @hippios 4 года назад

      @@khoanguyen9961 tOoKeN

    • @khoanguyen9961
      @khoanguyen9961 4 года назад

      Sai Kiran idc

  • @littlebigcomrade
    @littlebigcomrade Год назад +4645

    The “Univeral S” is definitely one of the questions that should be on a test for aliens about humans.

    • @chrono9503
      @chrono9503 Год назад +7

      You have 1k likes and no replies

    • @BloodEventReal
      @BloodEventReal Год назад +4

      You have 1k likes and I am the second reply, months later

    • @marikuma88
      @marikuma88 Год назад +4

      Wee 3rd reply here for you to seeeeee

    • @Reynnan123
      @Reynnan123 Год назад +2

      You have 1k likes and 3 replies

    • @kiraishere69420
      @kiraishere69420 Год назад +1

      congrats

  • @thomcollins3612
    @thomcollins3612 11 месяцев назад +48

    I grew up in Hermosa Beach California in the late 60ies. That "S" I remember drawing as a skater/surfer in the DOG TOWN era. For me, it stood for just that. SKATER/SURFER in the SO CAL area. Skateboarding and surfing was a way of life. Although I did not skate with the DogTown crew, we did cross paths a number of times. That's where I got the symbol from.

  • @lucas182512
    @lucas182512 5 лет назад +2024

    Just watched a 20 minute video on the letter S.
    Mom would be so proud

    • @somejellykid
      @somejellykid 5 лет назад +5

      Lucas Olivieri brought to you by Sesame Street

    • @FreeThePorgs
      @FreeThePorgs 5 лет назад +6

      Mom: honey, let's talk...
      Lucas: ok, what's up????
      Mom: speaking of waiting 20 minutes, you were a accident, your dad and I had a extra 20 minutes and you were made, but we still love you!!!
      Lucas: ok....

    • @cr0w342
      @cr0w342 5 лет назад

      What is this, Sesame Street? What today's episode brought by the letter S?

    • @jefflol7345
      @jefflol7345 5 лет назад +1

      my name leg

    • @Jawz366
      @Jawz366 5 лет назад +1

      At least you didn’t spend 5 years researching it...

  • @sam-by3wh
    @sam-by3wh 5 лет назад +5286

    Imagine being the person who created this s and no one believed you when you said it.

    • @spyne.98
      @spyne.98 5 лет назад +184

      Samuel yeah it is sad being me

    • @purab9
      @purab9 5 лет назад +81

      I created this s

    • @DontreadPimpBoy
      @DontreadPimpBoy 5 лет назад +56

      My ancestor created the "S"...

    • @baxterthebush6512
      @baxterthebush6512 5 лет назад +23

      Sam look the Illuminati is who made it

    • @potatosmasher1072
      @potatosmasher1072 4 года назад +1

      Like that Key and Peele sketch “High on pot-enus”

  • @frankdrebin7949
    @frankdrebin7949 5 лет назад +660

    *LEMMiNO always answers the questions I never knew I wanted to ask*

    • @MikeIce4SG
      @MikeIce4SG 5 лет назад +2

      Agreed

    • @johnchukwudum673
      @johnchukwudum673 5 лет назад

      Word!

    • @campkira
      @campkira 5 лет назад

      that what made internet...

    • @Ferraday
      @Ferraday 5 лет назад

      Except I’ve always had the same question and I’d done a lot of the same research too

  • @positivelysimful1283
    @positivelysimful1283 Год назад +89

    Interesting. I remember seeing this a lot on graffiti back in the 70s in NYC and in my family we'd doodle it a lot because our last name starts with S. I used to make similar block letters to write out the rest of my name sometimes, making signs with my Crayolas on construction paper to hang around my room. I feel like since it even spread through countries that don't use the Latin alphabet, it was probably just a geometric symbol that's been around for ages.

  • @duongao1873
    @duongao1873 5 лет назад +1546

    LEMMiNo spent 5 years researching the origin of an S shape.
    Truly a mad man

    • @Triunity4
      @Triunity4 5 лет назад +3

      Dương Đào got you that 100th like. youre now a mad man too

    • @lucasiopp2197
      @lucasiopp2197 5 лет назад +2

      I'm sorry but it really bothers me. When you use true as an adverb you take out the E becoming "truly". Have a good day.

    • @duongao1873
      @duongao1873 5 лет назад

      @@lucasiopp2197 Thank you for your correction ! I'll fix it right away

    • @RyanK...111
      @RyanK...111 5 лет назад

      Alex Jones knows the real secret of the S

    • @clownymoosebean
      @clownymoosebean 5 лет назад +1

      Absolute Madlad.

  • @ClemensAlive
    @ClemensAlive 4 года назад +7254

    This guy knows how to research...

    • @TheArtis4n
      @TheArtis4n 4 года назад +188

      Its a rare skill

    • @gezbit
      @gezbit 4 года назад +4

      Yeah

    • @felixw19
      @felixw19 4 года назад +33

      Es ist immer wieder interessant, wenn man unten den Kommentaren von (englischsprachigen) Videos Kommentare von deutschen RUclipsrn findet, die man selbst abonniert hat

    • @ClemensAlive
      @ClemensAlive 4 года назад +15

      @@felixw19 Kann ich mir vorstellen :D
      Ich schaue sehr viel englische Videos

    • @aregulargamer4144
      @aregulargamer4144 4 года назад +134

      He uses the second google page

  • @througheverything
    @througheverything 5 лет назад +7984

    *The S stands for simulation and it’s the logo for the company who made the simulation that we live in*

  • @rosethunder3820
    @rosethunder3820 11 месяцев назад +25

    Seeing it as a chain made me think of one thing: tablet weaving. Tablet weaving is a very ancient way of weaving trim using cards (or tablets) with holes in each corner which the warp thread is passed through. The pattern is created by turning the cards as you weave. All those long strips of interlacing patterns likely have some anchor in tablet weaving, and the interlocking S is one of the simplest designs to make. I believe it’s even a twist neutral pattern (which basically just means you can repeat it over and over without getting a tangled mess).

    • @mateuszzimon8216
      @mateuszzimon8216 3 месяца назад

      Pattern's, it's evolution.....
      It's like kids yearn to mine, now mine-craft

  • @wakosoup3787
    @wakosoup3787 5 лет назад +1564

    At 5:05, I genuinely thought that the countries in red would allign to make an S symbol. The music made it so dramatic!

    • @pixboy4502
      @pixboy4502 5 лет назад +48

      Sunghyun Yoo that would belong to a Nigahiga video haha

    • @ecogreen123
      @ecogreen123 5 лет назад +13

      LMAO THAT WOULD MAKE IT SUCH A BIGGER DEAL THEN WE COULD TRIANGULATE AND FIND THE TRUEE ORIGIN OF THE S!!! but alas.. that was not the case XD OR IS IT!? yea probably not XD

    • @Ccv768
      @Ccv768 5 лет назад +9

      Ngl it was played like it was a nazi takeover

    • @navneeth3053
      @navneeth3053 5 лет назад +1

      Me too lol

    • @jondycz
      @jondycz 5 лет назад +6

      Im from Czech republic and I remember drawing this symbol in elementary school as well.

  • @watermelonsocks7275
    @watermelonsocks7275 5 лет назад +2818

    The symbol of my people
    What does it mean
    It means we're bored in math

    • @souvikmitra6161
      @souvikmitra6161 5 лет назад +25

      Why did I read math as meth?

    • @alzhanvoid
      @alzhanvoid 5 лет назад +42

      @@souvikmitra6161 I dont know. Why did you?

    • @souvikmitra6161
      @souvikmitra6161 5 лет назад +25

      @@alzhanvoid umm... well you see...it is very complicated subject matter... So I cannot explain the reasons as of now...

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 5 лет назад +2

      You forgot the question mark.

    • @Lol-zj1kl
      @Lol-zj1kl 5 лет назад +6

      @@souvikmitra6161 bruh

  • @dripdemon3401
    @dripdemon3401 4 года назад +5395

    Deadass this dude spent 5 years looking at the graffiti S

    • @prestobeats702
      @prestobeats702 4 года назад +264

      “You could make a religion out of this!”
      -bill wurtz

    • @dripdemon3401
      @dripdemon3401 4 года назад +58

      @@prestobeats702 praise the graffiti S

    • @DizzyMapping
      @DizzyMapping 3 года назад +38

      @@prestobeats702 all hail graffiti s

    • @josemanuelmurguia8970
      @josemanuelmurguia8970 3 года назад +24

      @@prestobeats702 WE ACTUALLY NEED A RELIGION AFTER THIS

    • @velocity8874
      @velocity8874 3 года назад +9

      May the S save us from evil, ALL HAIL S!

  • @rockjock3
    @rockjock3 Год назад +88

    This is the kind of mystery that the guys who collaborated on the SCP project would be right up their alley. A self-perpetuating idea/meme that germinates itself in others spontaneously and seemingly without rhyme or reason.

    • @PressXForXavier
      @PressXForXavier 8 месяцев назад +5

      Underrated comment of the year!!!

    • @sophiewooloo
      @sophiewooloo 6 месяцев назад +4

      i misread your comment at first and thought you were saying that those of SCP would be interested in Lemmino as an anomaly himself, which, honestly, i was not going to disagree with.

    • @kobe5952
      @kobe5952 6 месяцев назад +1

      It would probable be a Keter class, considering it is impossible to contain

    • @rockjock3
      @rockjock3 6 месяцев назад +1

      @kobe5952 but at the same time, pretty benign all things considered. At least nobody would have to call the antimemetics department.
      (Edit: I meant to say division)

  • @Vienna3080
    @Vienna3080 5 лет назад +1861

    This channel went from 2009 memes, to M rated Top 10s, and now finding Aliens and Symbols
    I'm glad to have been here since the beginning

    • @augustusschrader6693
      @augustusschrader6693 5 лет назад +15

      Vienna The Grill you claim to have been here since the beginning like everyone else aye? Well then why does your channel page say you joined in 2018? Just curious.

    • @happysh_t4202
      @happysh_t4202 5 лет назад +7

      Vienna The Grill shut the fuck up weeb

    • @happysh_t4202
      @happysh_t4202 5 лет назад +6

      Augustus Schrader exposed

    • @firstnamelastname442
      @firstnamelastname442 5 лет назад +51

      Or she might not have bothered to make a RUclips account for years, kinda like me

    • @sofar2218
      @sofar2218 5 лет назад +1

      truth

  • @poisonpotato1
    @poisonpotato1 4 года назад +5270

    Imagine dying, going to heaven and asking about the S, and God said I used to draw that in middle school

  • @Kenshin599
    @Kenshin599 4 года назад +3625

    The dude who came up with that S must be either crying or laughing his ass off that no one found out it's true origin

    • @Jay_ish
      @Jay_ish 3 года назад +402

      he’s probably dead by now

    • @jetstreamsam339
      @jetstreamsam339 3 года назад +51

      @@Jay_ish true

    • @Erra_Mortis
      @Erra_Mortis 3 года назад +39

      Are you saying that the creator of this could not be a girl? THATS SEXIST

    • @Jay_ish
      @Jay_ish 3 года назад +146

      @@Erra_Mortis you sure that‘s what sexism means? Maybe that guy _was_ male. They‘re over 100 years old now, who cares?

    • @rexy_4275
      @rexy_4275 3 года назад +52

      @@Erra_Mortis bruh

  • @faca994
    @faca994 9 месяцев назад +11

    The work you put in the investigation is incredible, congratulations. And the editing is excelent.

  • @elijahmedrano9217
    @elijahmedrano9217 5 лет назад +356

    “After five years of searching” reminds me of waiting for Lemmino videos

  • @danieldavies3092
    @danieldavies3092 5 лет назад +563

    You're such a genuinely incredible researcher. The amount of time and effort you invested into something so... strangely mundane and ordinary, just because you noticed an interesting phenomenon surrounding it, it's astounding. Keep up this incredible content!

    • @lorettabes4553
      @lorettabes4553 5 лет назад +5

      Ikr! I have mad respect for him

    • @BSIII
      @BSIII 5 лет назад +1

      Mindblowing stuff. I am floored

    • @timfrolov7891
      @timfrolov7891 5 лет назад +1

      I think it's called boredom ^^

    • @sharas3180
      @sharas3180 5 лет назад +6

      @@timfrolov7891 Its his job and not boredom. If you are bored you don't do a video project for 3 years

    • @dooverox
      @dooverox 5 лет назад +1

      It honestly is really impressive. Love this dudes channel.

  • @pedrodeeg3893
    @pedrodeeg3893 5 лет назад +1241

    yeah, i remember carving this on the foreheads of my enemies in the great space war of 4021-4

  • @alexhenderson6038
    @alexhenderson6038 Год назад +20

    If you google Celtic braid one of the images contains this pattern.
    Perhaps you already knew this, but worth a shot.
    A lot of the Celtic knots are simplistic, so I could see this as a potential for easy weaving

  • @sunnyd9921
    @sunnyd9921 4 года назад +4132

    This S may be the most successful meme ever.

    • @Alisha-yz6nd
      @Alisha-yz6nd 4 года назад +102

      OK was probably more successful

    • @sand5461
      @sand5461 4 года назад +30

      maybe the first meme

    • @waloba
      @waloba 4 года назад +15

      @@Alisha-yz6nd ok

    • @Catclub0402
      @Catclub0402 4 года назад +29

      Sator square: I was made in 79 BCE. Am I a joke to you?

    • @2verysnowyyy
      @2verysnowyyy 4 года назад +8

      It’s not a meme it’s a way of life

  • @boostmotions
    @boostmotions 5 лет назад +2215

    I was waiting for someone to make a video about this. Now im happy that this video comes from this amazing channel.

    • @wescador
      @wescador 5 лет назад +15

      austinmcconnell made a similar video a while back

    • @itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019
      @itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019 5 лет назад

      I'm really surprised how people don't know where it comes from. I thought everyone knew about Sparta and the 300, but I guess I was wrong.

    • @wirelessbluestone5983
      @wirelessbluestone5983 5 лет назад +3

      Pseudiom also made a pretty insightful video a while back

    • @boostmotions
      @boostmotions 5 лет назад

      Did he? I mean i remember watching something about it but it certainly wasn't an exhaustion of the topic like here. Maybe it was austin idk

    • @loldd4kusuma165
      @loldd4kusuma165 5 лет назад

      700 in not 1 hour

  • @kapaa2k
    @kapaa2k 5 лет назад +452

    Never heard a youtuber finish the video with "I'm so fcking done with this topic." Great video man!

  • @mandalorianmanic9525
    @mandalorianmanic9525 6 месяцев назад +13

    Once in a while, people ask that "if you could go back in time and do something, what would it be?" I now know that I would go back in time and etch the universal S on a rock wall just to mess with Lemmino a bit.

  • @TotallyRiffed
    @TotallyRiffed 5 лет назад +1305

    "I brushed it off as failed attempts of lesser men". The self awareness is humorous to say the least.

    • @pegasBaO23
      @pegasBaO23 5 лет назад +9

      To be fair he got further down the rabbithole than most

    • @AlfonsusAC
      @AlfonsusAC 5 лет назад +1

      i quite not understand what it really means

  • @forgiveness999
    @forgiveness999 4 года назад +3330

    I love how he took time to vandalise the Danish flag on the pixel board.

    • @user-nj9ll6em8k
      @user-nj9ll6em8k 4 года назад +19

      Uh

    • @frejo1931
      @frejo1931 4 года назад +187

      as a fellow swede I personally vandalised the norwegian flag, but i commend his effort

    • @forgiveness999
      @forgiveness999 4 года назад +11

      Frejo oh my god I didn’t realise

    • @Nafinafnaf
      @Nafinafnaf 4 года назад +2

      Lol

    • @KillDxze
      @KillDxze 4 года назад +16

      Is this dude a Swede?

  • @CrimsonFox36
    @CrimsonFox36 5 лет назад +2359

    You shouldn't be meddling in affairs you do not understand.
    You already know too much.
    We will be there shortly.

    • @metanumia
      @metanumia 5 лет назад +55

      Do not overstep your granted authorities, Red Fox! We will be there shortly....

    • @supasf
      @supasf 5 лет назад +37

      @@metanumia no, HQ has sent strict orders against anyone but me and my bravo bois to arrive there shortly. We will be there shortly...

    • @KingAgniKai
      @KingAgniKai 5 лет назад +33

      *We're on our way*

    • @godslayer9000
      @godslayer9000 5 лет назад +25

      *WE ARE HERE*

    • @hydrationboi8861
      @hydrationboi8861 5 лет назад +17

      @@godslayer9000 oh gott oh fuck

  • @objectjon9015
    @objectjon9015 Год назад +53

    I’m still getting flashbacks to my elementary school years, where you’d see this symbol on every other persons notebooks, binders, and backpacks, and someone actually took the time to try to show me how to draw it. That was a weird experience

    • @fahimaahmed3188
      @fahimaahmed3188 7 месяцев назад +1

      😳🤣💯

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 Месяц назад

      I remember a teacher showing me how to draw it all the way back then as well.

    • @scarletpachyderm
      @scarletpachyderm 21 день назад

      I don’t know how to feel about the fact that I learned about it like two years ago through a streamer who talked about drawing it as a kid and had never heard of it prior. Maybe I’m a weirdo

    • @kennarajora6532
      @kennarajora6532 21 день назад

      @@scarletpachyderm not really. Most people in the world probably never saw this symbol before but the one's who have are more vocal in places discussing it, which makes it seem like more people know what it is than actually do.

  • @garfieldhub
    @garfieldhub 5 лет назад +5031

    *Aliens show up on our planet*
    “Hey we know that symbol!”

    • @jordan_ojl
      @jordan_ojl 5 лет назад +303

      Quite literally "universal"

    • @dirrdevil
      @dirrdevil 5 лет назад +295

      They don't remember why they started drawing it either.

    • @galihprabasidi8498
      @galihprabasidi8498 5 лет назад +151

      @@dirrdevil And then the pursuit of finding the origin of this symbol continue to the other galaxy

    • @bigzed7908
      @bigzed7908 5 лет назад +67

      We must liberate Area 51!

    • @minh5044
      @minh5044 5 лет назад +61

      Lemmino: Ah shit here we go again

  • @JM-mr6lv
    @JM-mr6lv 5 лет назад +1250

    You enter a Paleolithic cave. You shine your lantern to the walls. You see a buffalo, a handprint, and then, written as clear as day: “sk8 or die” with both the s and the 8 written with the universal S.

  • @richardmoore609
    @richardmoore609 5 лет назад +551

    Never thought much about it though I'm pretty sure it's mandatory to draw it at least once before you can leave school.

    • @gregoryaldous2165
      @gregoryaldous2165 5 лет назад +14

      What's even better is that as mandatory as it might be, no one will ever get to the point where they are told they have to do it and haven't already done it.

    • @andreyleonel255
      @andreyleonel255 5 лет назад +1

      On my way

    • @teopazdrijan1008
      @teopazdrijan1008 5 лет назад +2

      @@gregoryaldous2165 Really? I have literally never heard about this symbol since like, maybe, 5 months ago and I have never drawn it and the clock is ticking, I have to draw it.

    • @DonkeyKickingMC
      @DonkeyKickingMC 5 лет назад +2

      Never drew it.

    • @despacitodaniel801
      @despacitodaniel801 5 лет назад

      Or life

  • @issacfryer3525
    @issacfryer3525 5 лет назад +1436

    Just think, some random guy was the first to ever do this now tradition

    • @iilwy
      @iilwy 5 лет назад +4

      tradition??

    • @dresdi
      @dresdi 5 лет назад +64

      @@iilwy yes it is a tradition to draw this

    • @dylannmattywo29
      @dylannmattywo29 5 лет назад +35

      krysppy at least one person in your elementary school drew this which started a wide spread of everyone else drawing it.

    • @bsku0765
      @bsku0765 5 лет назад +1

      I mean ofc, many things start like that. But like he wanted to see how close he can get to it

    • @fukcoffdood2515
      @fukcoffdood2515 5 лет назад

      @@dylannmattywo29 ive never seen star wars

  • @hamishdeshaun921
    @hamishdeshaun921 5 лет назад +2181

    I found this S carved into a vase when I was sacking Rome in 410 AD

    • @dairop3220
      @dairop3220 5 лет назад +130

      You are pretty old bro

    • @brockpeters1410
      @brockpeters1410 5 лет назад +90

      Duuuuuude were you the one with the weird looking axe?

    • @hamishdeshaun921
      @hamishdeshaun921 5 лет назад +95

      Brock Peters Yes actually. Sorry about murdering your wife by the way.

    • @brockpeters1410
      @brockpeters1410 5 лет назад +70

      @@hamishdeshaun921 you're confusing me for my friend, I was the one that broke down the statue in the middle of the square

    • @hamishdeshaun921
      @hamishdeshaun921 5 лет назад +58

      Brock Peters my bad, wrong person. I always hated that statue, so thanks anyway.

  • @EL-ISS
    @EL-ISS 5 лет назад +278

    It's insane that you've never disapointed us with the quality of your vids. Great work as always.

    • @loganc6501
      @loganc6501 5 лет назад +2

      Well, there's always next time! 😀

    • @Patrick-te3cr
      @Patrick-te3cr 5 лет назад +2

      yea i'd say this video was a bit of a step-down in quality. at least it can only go up from here in about half a years time.

    • @EL-ISS
      @EL-ISS 5 лет назад

      @@Patrick-te3cr I'll be dead of old age by the time he uploads his next vid 😂

  • @AJGoldbooks
    @AJGoldbooks Год назад +23

    Summer 23, my two sons and I see the ‘universal S’ drawn in the sand at Banff harbour, Scotland. Newly 62, it means nothing to me but both in their early 40’s, they discuss it. They know it, call it ‘The Pointy S.’ Hence we arrive home and watch your post. Stunning research, amazing determination on your part to find the origin!

  •  4 года назад +1384

    I used to draw that on my notebooks, and my mother would say "I did that too when I was young"
    She was born in 1949 in France.
    So it's definitely from before the graffiti things; maybe that old book is the answer. I don't think we'll ever know.

    • @spaghettigum
      @spaghettigum 4 года назад +42

      She was born in 1949 she did not go to school then... wait... did you say france? By any chance did your mom use to be in a cult?

    • @spaghettigum
      @spaghettigum 4 года назад +14

      Bruh

    • @flanbenflen9069
      @flanbenflen9069 4 года назад +64

      @@spaghettigum schools did exist in France in 1955 u know

    • @spaghettigum
      @spaghettigum 4 года назад +101

      @@flanbenflen9069 not what im talking about. In france in the 60s there was a cult heavily linked to the universal S

    • @flanbenflen9069
      @flanbenflen9069 4 года назад +8

      @@spaghettigum oh ok I see

  • @EldrakeOng
    @EldrakeOng 3 года назад +2004

    Now everytime this guy sees the Universal S he’s gonna get some PTSD

    • @ManojKxp
      @ManojKxp 3 года назад +3

      @Fy. A lmao

    • @b1iink249
      @b1iink249 3 года назад +29

      Post Traumatic S Disorder

    • @sideswipe147
      @sideswipe147 3 года назад

      Possably some truth to that. Well it's not a lie.

    • @C003
      @C003 3 года назад +1

      True

  • @insaneflame11
    @insaneflame11 5 лет назад +2024

    I swear every primary school thought they invented it

    • @lolyankovic6952
      @lolyankovic6952 5 лет назад +28

      InsaneFlame11 lol it's true

    • @pbgoof
      @pbgoof 5 лет назад +10

      For real 😂

    • @YupDasMe
      @YupDasMe 5 лет назад +50

      We just pretended to invent it

    • @atismoo168
      @atismoo168 5 лет назад +2

      My old primary schools logo 😂

    • @xkumanekox
      @xkumanekox 5 лет назад +1

      Ikr

  • @heathercurry898
    @heathercurry898 Год назад +20

    When I drew this in the 90’s, I associated it in my head with skaters. Loved drawing it!

    • @myleonisd
      @myleonisd 11 месяцев назад +2

      We used to call it "american S"..!

  • @MrWillemann007
    @MrWillemann007 3 года назад +6490

    I swear, if time travel is ever possible, I'm gonna go back to the stone age and teach early humans to draw The S in caves just for the lols

    • @redpencil1409
      @redpencil1409 3 года назад +143

      I thought you were gonna say when it was origanally founded and why it was made but nvm LOL

    • @heikkiaho6605
      @heikkiaho6605 3 года назад +249

      so thats how it all started

    • @cherryslide5475
      @cherryslide5475 3 года назад +281

      Holy shit, if time travel is possible thats mean your the founder of the universal S

    • @randomfur4202
      @randomfur4202 3 года назад +8

      Same here

    • @MadPrestonian
      @MadPrestonian 3 года назад +15

      if time travel could ever exist {which it cant} then we would have already seen it on cave walls from ancient times because guess what thats how TIME TRAVLE WORKS . there is a spot in space you can theoretically go back in time, its only one part of space and that certain part of space is the moment two black holes are in the middle of colliding

  • @thetaai8262
    @thetaai8262 4 года назад +2429

    If humanity ever establishes a stellar empire this should be our symbol

    • @ANWRocketMan
      @ANWRocketMan 4 года назад +51

      The OG meme.

    • @Red_Lanterns_Rage
      @Red_Lanterns_Rage 4 года назад +166

      why not??
      S representing Sol, our sun, makes perfect sense
      the Sol Empire with the pointy S as the logo, I like it lolz

    • @dylan_not_dillon
      @dylan_not_dillon 4 года назад +4

      True

    • @magosexploratoradeon6409
      @magosexploratoradeon6409 4 года назад +13

      @@Red_Lanterns_Rage that.... Makes a good name of an empire in a 4x game....

    • @HsHe-Yelads
      @HsHe-Yelads 4 года назад

      The S should be like this design

  • @amanul_2474
    @amanul_2474 5 лет назад +1034

    Illuminati: we WILL take over the world
    S: _TOO LATE_

    • @yinyang1217
      @yinyang1217 5 лет назад +5

    • @StarryxNight5
      @StarryxNight5 5 лет назад +8

      Maybe the s IS the Illuminati mind control device. I mean, you can make two triangles easily.

    • @wiratamadean5994
      @wiratamadean5994 5 лет назад +7

      maybe the Illuminati is responsible for the creation of this symbol lol

    • @Helium_Flash12
      @Helium_Flash12 5 лет назад

      Bro the RUclips play button it is mi d controlling kids

    • @TiberianFiend
      @TiberianFiend 5 лет назад +1

      Illuminati: the kosher boogeymen. Why can't anyone admit who's really trying to take over the world? They admit their affiliation openly.

  • @maartenstriepe6893
    @maartenstriepe6893 Год назад +5

    One of my favourite lemminos videos. So effortlessly funny written, love it

  • @softstar5375
    @softstar5375 5 лет назад +598

    Blown away by how dedicated you were to finding as many answers as you could. Subscribed.

    • @leangroundbeef2322
      @leangroundbeef2322 5 лет назад +1

      new sub here too

    • @geangu98
      @geangu98 5 лет назад +8

      @@leangroundbeef2322 y'all should check out his "cicada" video too and obv all the other after

    • @leangroundbeef2322
      @leangroundbeef2322 5 лет назад +1

      @@geangu98 which is your favourite video?

    • @geangu98
      @geangu98 5 лет назад +3

      @@leangroundbeef2322 definetly the cicada one, it's a long video but it time flies while watching it because it's so intriguing and his voice is obv helping with it, such a great mistery

    • @geangu98
      @geangu98 5 лет назад

      @@leangroundbeef2322 i think I watched that video at least 3 times hahah

  • @buddyboris8279
    @buddyboris8279 5 лет назад +762

    "What was your thesis on for your phd?"
    LEMMiNO: "The Universal S"

    • @Freddis
      @Freddis 5 лет назад +2

      OH MY GOD. He's freaking crazy! This symbol is just what you doodle in your notebook. I don't understand how he did not get it
      It does explain it's popularity, because most of the world uses notebooks with grid throughout 20-th century. Even when he animates the "S" symbol you can see the grid.
      Next video, let's discuss swastika, which is popular for the same reason and don't lie that you don't draw swastikas on squares when you're bored in school.

    • @nitsuki2229
      @nitsuki2229 5 лет назад +2

      @@Freddis that's it tho. It's just a doodle kids draw to look cool. But who started it? And when? How did it spread across the world? Back then, the internet is a rarity that even adults barely use. Yet, no one seems to have any explanation how it's originally created.

    • @Freddis
      @Freddis 5 лет назад +1

      ​@@nitsuki2229 I've meant that the square grid the reason for this doodle. It 'comes naturally after you draw 6 lines in 2 rows. With the same pattern you can also create a braid in a notebook. There's no origin because this symbol probably has been invented by thousands of people all over the world independently, like the wheel.

    • @nitsuki2229
      @nitsuki2229 5 лет назад

      @@Freddis He did say in the video that art could have been the origin, pottery and decoration stuffs. Most kids doodled it on notebook because it looks cool, but where did they first saw it? How did it become natural to them? Just like the swastika, kids also sees them as a cool symbol that they can doodle easily. But what they didn't know is that the swastika is originally a religious symbol (indian/hindu religion i think) but was made famous by the nazi. But then again, most kids probably didn't know that so just draw it anywhere because it's cool, just like the universal s

  • @pennypeddler
    @pennypeddler 5 лет назад +3703

    "I am so done with this topic
    ....but then, in 2021, someone made an interesting discovery."

    • @TheLoneRailrider
      @TheLoneRailrider 5 лет назад +1

      Jake From StateFarm annnnnd you would know this, how exactly?

    • @fowlish202
      @fowlish202 5 лет назад +123

      @@TheLoneRailrider He's making a joke about how many times lemmino was done with this topic but kept finding newer stuff about every few years...

    • @user-yp7ke4et7o
      @user-yp7ke4et7o 5 лет назад +46

      @@TheLoneRailrider r/woooosh

    • @tayu1416
      @tayu1416 5 лет назад +13

      r/woooosh

    • @sukiratgrewal
      @sukiratgrewal 5 лет назад

      You got 420 likee

  • @youtya
    @youtya 6 месяцев назад +5

    In Russia we have something similar, but not actually S. We were making "kosichka's" (braids) at school. It was same drawn but across all sheet, like actual braid

  • @wanpokke
    @wanpokke 5 лет назад +718

    Video ends with the concept of memes.
    Top10Memes have come full circle

    • @dogz7506
      @dogz7506 5 лет назад

      Huge 180

    • @NicitoStaAna
      @NicitoStaAna 5 лет назад +9

      Btw
      On the documentary video with the S graffiti on 13:48
      There's a Jojo in the picture.
      Jojos bizarre adventure started in the 70s
      So yes.
      This is now a jojo reference

  • @suzukisamurai1430
    @suzukisamurai1430 5 лет назад +535

    LEMMiNO's search history after this: ÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ

  • @iloveplasticbottles
    @iloveplasticbottles 2 года назад +6154

    The universal S is also in the ambassador painting, which was drawn in the 1500s.

    • @FateDarkess
      @FateDarkess 2 года назад +652

      Holy S, you're right

    • @Shiivex_
      @Shiivex_ 2 года назад +463

      holy fuck right in the midle table towel

    • @kooklife1052
      @kooklife1052 2 года назад +295

      It's almost the same S the centre lines are out.

    • @Anyting9OnTopGrrr
      @Anyting9OnTopGrrr 2 года назад +587

      Bro what the fuck, whats more surprising is how the hell u noticed that. I've never seen anyone point that out, that is actually bizarre

    • @elicarlson7682
      @elicarlson7682 2 года назад +72

      wtf

  • @ladywunderkind9390
    @ladywunderkind9390 7 месяцев назад +4

    i always forget how funny this video is, then i'll come back to it a while later and reminisce

  • @Subjectively
    @Subjectively 3 года назад +3605

    That’s a cool looking “S”

    • @iamalexwolf
      @iamalexwolf 3 года назад +25

      Mark might sue your ass!

    • @nipron3938
      @nipron3938 3 года назад +51

      THE UNIVERSAL S HAS A YOOTOBE ACCOUNT?!?!!?😱😱😱😱

    • @judestewman3400
      @judestewman3400 3 года назад +11

      Oh hi, nice to see that my interests are continuously connected in a frightfully large scope of the internet, and seeing that you too were either recommended this video by the algorithm or a fan I can conclude that I am in the matrix or the truman show.
      love your vids btw, keep it up, the moment your guy's youtube channel dies my childhood ends as well :)

    • @lucakoddsy3000
      @lucakoddsy3000 3 года назад +5

      Thats subjective lol

    • @candicejoesugoma8410
      @candicejoesugoma8410 3 года назад +4

      @@iamalexwolf pokemon gun next???

  • @ChiliSainz
    @ChiliSainz 4 года назад +2130

    “board of keys”
    “alphabet shovel”
    “dexterity trampoline”
    my dude just gave me some of the sickest name ideas for a band

    • @kornsuwin
      @kornsuwin 4 года назад +1

      yes

    • @alejandrososa2016
      @alejandrososa2016 4 года назад +55

      dexterity trampoline's new album really slaps

    • @joechen6096
      @joechen6096 4 года назад +16

      1st would be a piano/digital keyboard group
      2nd would be a rapper group who wield shovels
      3rd is a dance group with trampolines

    • @bigl6218
      @bigl6218 4 года назад

      Angelo C chemical toilet

    • @auntiecarol
      @auntiecarol 4 года назад

      /r/mechanicalkeyboards would love this

  • @soulfreaz
    @soulfreaz 5 лет назад +1191

    I drew that S all the time during the revolutionary war.

    • @BhudhaLovesBudlight
      @BhudhaLovesBudlight 5 лет назад +4

      which one?

    • @MickeyMouse-lx3nw
      @MickeyMouse-lx3nw 5 лет назад +54

      Tan B. The gamer one.

    • @PvtPopper
      @PvtPopper 5 лет назад +21

      @@MickeyMouse-lx3nw a truly great war

    • @CrewElite
      @CrewElite 5 лет назад +6

      Someone’s gonna get whooosed i feel it

    • @anonnymous1312
      @anonnymous1312 5 лет назад +2

      I remember the great king Gilgamesh insribing this sacred symbol upon the great gate of Uruk.

  • @ReverendTed
    @ReverendTed 11 месяцев назад +14

    I do have to wonder if the "Cool S" (as those in my circle called it in the late 80s) is simple enough to arise spontaneously. I'm pretty sure that I saw it drawn before I drew it myself, so it was certainly a "meme" in my case, but how many times and places might it have originated, independently of one another?

    • @ryclemo4942
      @ryclemo4942 5 месяцев назад

      Yeah the whole thing he said at the end about it being simple and practical also makes it perfect to just come about from doodling. And then over time people found a clever technique for it and then that probably spread as a "second wave"

  • @royland9157
    @royland9157 3 года назад +293

    I seriously love the thought that, this teacher over 100 years ago taught his students a neat trick thinking nothing of it... and over the years it grew and changed with the times and became one of the most famous symbols ever... awesome

    • @Mark_badas
      @Mark_badas 3 года назад +8

      It also appeared in an Painting from 1500.

    • @robosergTV
      @robosergTV 3 года назад +2

      @@Mark_badas source?

    • @Dokujas
      @Dokujas 3 года назад +6

      @@robosergTV hans Holbein the youngers painting called "the ambassadors"

    • @Tornado2D
      @Tornado2D 3 года назад +1

      The painting doesn't feature the three lines connected by four others so i don't know if it's the correct symbol, but perhaps it evolved from that symbol

    • @ausernameiguess7058
      @ausernameiguess7058 3 года назад

      is it supposed to be an s though? it looks to me like a link of a chain when it's on its side like that

  • @JMunny
    @JMunny 4 года назад +3543

    I love how this "S" associated with teenage rebellion/graffiti possibly originated from the victorian era.

    • @jonnypballin
      @jonnypballin 4 года назад +152

      DrTheKay 🧂🧂🧂

    • @quasicroissant
      @quasicroissant 4 года назад +125

      @DrTheKay Princeton university is in New Jersey...

    • @fletcherlitera9581
      @fletcherlitera9581 4 года назад +8

      Bruh
      i just like your username and pfp

    • @ChristopherKelley100
      @ChristopherKelley100 4 года назад +2

      What's old is new

    • @nahtatroll
      @nahtatroll 4 года назад +25

      @DrTheKay You can't even pronounce your own name right "Bri-ish" lmaoooo

  • @alvarodavid9566
    @alvarodavid9566 3 года назад +1648

    *5 years later*
    *Sees an universal S*
    "And I took it personally."

    • @hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-Mikel.Montalat
      @hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-Mikel.Montalat 3 года назад +5

      Good joke

    • @chrisblahblahh4468
      @chrisblahblahh4468 3 года назад

      ... MJ ?

    • @zinthos2059
      @zinthos2059 3 года назад +2

      DANG IT AGAIN I AM LATE😅😅
      Ok so let me unlock a forgotten memory, back in 2013 or some date like that, this symbol used to be a symbol which was used for tricks and such. The tourtials were so easy that it is too hard to forget too.
      This symbol was also used by the famous youtuber "Ryan higa" which was the most famous youtuber at that time. He made a short movie named "agents of the secret stuff" in his yt channel back in year 2010 which currently has around 36 million views, he specially used this symbol for the Sins gang. Check it out😁😁

    • @mikado_m
      @mikado_m 3 года назад

      1k

    • @walidfakhfakh3660
      @walidfakhfakh3660 3 года назад

      @@hhhhhhhhhhhhhhh-Mikel.Montalat dbbsvhvsh jf jfsfg hfgx hsfhgvtfghdghj chgjchgjchg

  • @haloman12378
    @haloman12378 18 дней назад +1

    It’s cool seeing how long this type of shape has been around. A similar S shape can be found in the painting the ambassadors as well which was made in 1533.

  • @Jungy_Mungerson
    @Jungy_Mungerson 4 года назад +4762

    the symbol goes as far back as 1533. Search for the painting _"The Ambassadors",_ by Holbein. The symbol is in the middle of the table cloth.

  • @powerpug964
    @powerpug964 5 лет назад +321

    In a 1500s painting called "the ambassador's" you can see a small "s" in the middle. Saw this on another comment, re-posting it incase it gets buried under the comments.
    Theres not that much resemblance but kind of

    • @seriousgameofficial
      @seriousgameofficial 5 лет назад +34

      I refuse to believe this is a coincidence and choose to believe that time travelers saw this video and are now fucking with us.

    • @abdurrahmanf.a.5624
      @abdurrahmanf.a.5624 5 лет назад +6

      @Quake holy you're right

    • @anonymousstout4759
      @anonymousstout4759 5 лет назад +7

      If only we know what does the painting about or what does the cloth represent, why putting that symbol right there?, is that house of nobility symbol? This shit is like rabbit hole

    • @bobbyboi8813
      @bobbyboi8813 5 лет назад +4

      Spread this

    • @JM-mb9hk
      @JM-mb9hk 5 лет назад +5

      Make this top comment

  • @l..l9912
    @l..l9912 5 лет назад +9831

    "dOn'T dRaW tHaT, tHaT iS Is A gAnG sIgHn" says every 3rd grade teacher ever

    • @IvanTorres-qq5uu
      @IvanTorres-qq5uu 5 лет назад +92

      Fr

    • @ivyswhatever2869
      @ivyswhatever2869 5 лет назад +262

      I was told that it was a symbol for the "south side," even by my friends who taught me about it

    • @manuelpenalva9278
      @manuelpenalva9278 5 лет назад +128

      It is actually. Here in Honduras resembles the S from MS-13. I welcome you to Google them

    • @vpr1
      @vpr1 5 лет назад +6

      ikr

    • @ShakeItLittleTina
      @ShakeItLittleTina 5 лет назад +258

      Fun fact:
      They never actually thought it was a gang sign, they just wanted you to stop drawing it and pay attention.
      Just like how having the light on while driving is “illegal.” It’s not illegal, just annoying.

  • @biscuitsalive
    @biscuitsalive Год назад +3

    Great vid.
    My dad has shown me examples of this S he drew in the late 50’s. (UK, West Country)
    He doesn’t know where he got the inspiration from. But it is exactly like your one (but with the both ends of S with horizontal, not diagonal. But with 6 parallel vertical lines the same etc.)
    He is an artist, (mainly oils/landscapes), and is well read on artists.
    So I’ve asked him to search through his huge library of art books.
    He even did a fair amount of sign painting in his early career.
    So he really is a good contender to have an obscure book/reference that may contain a more accurate origin.
    Certainly the S is not a child of the 60’s 70’s 80’s or 90’s. (Like it appears on first viewing)
    It really maybe much older and have Celtic origins possibly.

  • @JonLucy_downunder
    @JonLucy_downunder 5 лет назад +864

    Yo the editing on this video is clean af

    • @DrillSapphireTCC
      @DrillSapphireTCC 5 лет назад +23

      Best mystery channel ever.

    • @kaspersefir
      @kaspersefir 5 лет назад +4

      The CatZ Casting (Drill Sapphire) this is yes

    • @cicada8790
      @cicada8790 5 лет назад +2

      That’s lemmino for you

    • @tomodasho
      @tomodasho 5 лет назад +1

      You must be new around here if you thinks only this video has a clean editing.

    • @JonLucy_downunder
      @JonLucy_downunder 5 лет назад

      Darío Valles I know all of these videos have good quality editing, I just haven’t watched them in a while because this is the first video uploaded in months

  • @keitoucreations2727
    @keitoucreations2727 4 года назад +3638

    Actually the "S" has appeared in a painting made in 1533 called "The Ambassadors" made by Hans Holbein the Younger. Now this would be the earliest sighting of the "S".

    • @ellis7622
      @ellis7622 3 года назад +469

      holy shit i just checked and you’re actually right. impressive

    • @cycazen
      @cycazen 3 года назад +68

      Crazy 🤯

    • @zekion.
      @zekion. 3 года назад +217

      What the actual shit

    • @rohanjha4691
      @rohanjha4691 3 года назад +109

      @LEMMiNO !!!!!!

    • @edwardpotts4576
      @edwardpotts4576 3 года назад +176

      Right in the middle of the painting sideways!

  • @sample.text.
    @sample.text. 5 лет назад +1295

    Impressive research Lemmino. This is the closest i've seen anyone come to the actual origin of the S

    • @CroissantMoon
      @CroissantMoon 5 лет назад +8

      You can't possibly know how close he got because you don't know the origin, it's possible that non of his leads were even remotely close.

    • @sonz-ina
      @sonz-ina 5 лет назад +25

      B O I you talk like you know the actual origin of the S

    • @Michael-yu2yk
      @Michael-yu2yk 5 лет назад +5

      @@CroissantMoon he does know what the acutal origin of the "S" is, he's waiting for enough likes to reveal it

    • @MaddieBwah
      @MaddieBwah 5 лет назад +7

      I love how people are like "you have to know the actual origin to say that" like wtf if it's the oldest dated evidence ever presented to this him, it's the closest he's seen anyone come to the actual origin of the S. Like, I've never seen anything from anyone trying to find the origin, so if someone presented evidence to me that it existed the day before I started first grade, that would have been the closet I've seen anyone come to the actual origin of the S.

    • @4ndy123
      @4ndy123 5 лет назад +1

      Someone made the ‘s symbol’ others copied. Research done 🤙

  • @realmeemzo
    @realmeemzo Год назад +3

    this was such a cool video! love the music choice and editing style!!

  • @prettypointlessvideo
    @prettypointlessvideo 3 года назад +460

    Can I just take a moment to say... your production and animation quality is truly remarkable.

    • @Rw.M240
      @Rw.M240 3 года назад +2

      Ehh it’s decent nothing special

    • @obnoxiousknight1586
      @obnoxiousknight1586 3 года назад +22

      @@Rw.M240 Nah man, it's definitely top notch. He even goes as far as buying some old books for the sake of research.

    • @georgesracingcar7701
      @georgesracingcar7701 3 года назад

      I just really enjoy his voice
      Swedes are good voice actors

  • @commenturthegreat2915
    @commenturthegreat2915 3 года назад +2755

    You know, this really isn't that complicated of a symbol. I can definitely see this being reinvented many times throughout history.

    • @filipwolffs
      @filipwolffs 3 года назад +233

      Agreed. The question of where this symbol comes from seems fundamentally flawed because it's based on the assumption that there is a single point of origin, when it really looks like the kind of symbol people just periodically come up with.
      That said I always enjoy Lemmino's videos so I definitely don't mind him trying to research it.

    • @SloopYGO
      @SloopYGO 3 года назад +79

      yep, i agree with this. The graffiti origin seems to be the main one that ended up spreading out to america and then the world, but it was likely invented in some way multiple times

    • @sebastiansebastian5270
      @sebastiansebastian5270 3 года назад +17

      @@SloopYGO yeah and it's also fun to know where something first originated from

    • @robbson2390
      @robbson2390 3 года назад +48

      I think he's well aware. I think the point is rather finding the furthest back point where the symbol is definitively displayed - or perhaps how impossible it is to find the point of origin.

    • @francookie9353
      @francookie9353 3 года назад +21

      I thought that right at the beginning. In no way are school children around the globe united in their interest of what that "S" represents, apart from it being visually and graphically interesting and also a fun little exercise in geometry.

  • @Dammitimmad
    @Dammitimmad 5 лет назад +512

    Made over the span of a couple of years
    I think this is definitely one of LEMMiNO's best

    • @vohtnodnarb
      @vohtnodnarb 5 лет назад

      fortnite pfp btw.

    • @colinmcmahon6754
      @colinmcmahon6754 5 лет назад +2

      Cicada 3301 will still always be my favourite

    • @MCLooyverse
      @MCLooyverse 5 лет назад +2

      Cicada 3301 will always be my favorite, but yeah, this was good.

    • @jjo1257
      @jjo1257 5 лет назад

      @@colinmcmahon6754 absolutely universal truth
      ...you beat me to it

    • @TsTobacco
      @TsTobacco 5 лет назад

      fortnite bad.

  • @fufaev
    @fufaev Год назад +1

    This was actually the first video of yours that I found in my RUclips recommendations and I immediately recognized this symbol with a deep-deep nostalgia, saying to myself «oh, I used to draw this thing a lot when I was in school». These are the memories from early to mid 2000's, I'm from Russia and I have absolutely no idea where did I first see The Universal S. Feels like one day it just popped up in my head out of nowhere while I was doodling. Cool vid!

  • @mcmiilu308
    @mcmiilu308 5 лет назад +911

    Here in greenland we also drew those In school
    Greenland wasn't on your map
    You can put it there now

    • @Angut96
      @Angut96 5 лет назад +7

      Yeah he missed a large island😂

    • @eclectic2327
      @eclectic2327 5 лет назад +20

      No one cares about your shithole country

    • @WattoXtreme
      @WattoXtreme 5 лет назад +48

      Bust Nutyear what’s your problem? They didn’t do anything to you and how is it a shithole anyway? I haven’t heard anything bad about Greenland, but no country is perfect. Even if Greenland was a shithole is not Miilu’s fault. You are being a dick for no reason.
      Actually you are probably just a troll and I wasted my time but wtf.

    • @Angut96
      @Angut96 5 лет назад +31

      @@WattoXtreme Just ignore his shithole comment. We're not offended anyway

    • @hydratedgaming1673
      @hydratedgaming1673 5 лет назад +13

      WattoXtreme his username is bust nutyear if he isn’t a troll then nobody is

  • @happywolf6804
    @happywolf6804 5 лет назад +631

    I remember drawing this on my wall back in 7000BC

    • @the_12th_bro123
      @the_12th_bro123 5 лет назад +20

      Ha! And let me guess you think you invented it? Youngsters...

    • @mariafe7050
      @mariafe7050 5 лет назад +6

      I drew it in 1000000000 BC

    • @kanceroner5456
      @kanceroner5456 5 лет назад +4

      I drew it in my thoughts before anything existed.

    • @nolansosa647
      @nolansosa647 5 лет назад

      God's secret creation

    • @jamessmithers5206
      @jamessmithers5206 5 лет назад +1

      I remember drawing that, back when I created the universe.

  • @creathechiboi
    @creathechiboi 5 лет назад +557

    Someone should go to Antarctica and draw a small S in the snow.

    • @thomasagra856
      @thomasagra856 5 лет назад +18

      Better be made of giant pieces of stone or else it might just disappear....just like the origin os that damn S

    • @logan6034
      @logan6034 5 лет назад +5

      Small? Why not make it big enough to be seen from orbit?

    • @matthews4436
      @matthews4436 5 лет назад +19

      @Big Steve its not, you just need permission from the countries that signed the antarctic treaty's protocol on environment protection

    • @derpsterio2917
      @derpsterio2917 5 лет назад +1

      Bet

    • @jttekton
      @jttekton 5 лет назад +2

      Antartica
      An tart ica
      tart
      tarter sauce

  • @WTheW_gaming
    @WTheW_gaming 9 месяцев назад +1

    LEGEND. I'm grateful that someone did ridiculously exactly the right amount of research on this topic. Bravo.

  • @matanza942
    @matanza942 5 лет назад +1048

    In 5th grade if you could draw this without flaw you got instant access to the cool kids table at lunch.

    • @alextejeda4560
      @alextejeda4560 5 лет назад +3

      In California it was used as a gang symbol.. Meant you repped Southside... Shit was all over my town

    • @Macception
      @Macception 5 лет назад +4

      The cool kids at your school had low standards

    • @lcdream4213
      @lcdream4213 5 лет назад +1

      You and I are too old I'm the only one in my class who draws this
      Also 5th grade

    • @Wangdoodle444
      @Wangdoodle444 5 лет назад

      Wasem Zahr you both are not alone lol

    • @drag_611
      @drag_611 5 лет назад

      @@d0gfl3sh lol

  • @thetopol8534
    @thetopol8534 5 лет назад +560

    If we one day create interstellar human empire, I wish for universal S to be symbol of humanity.

  • @TylerLikesToYap
    @TylerLikesToYap 5 лет назад +785

    I drew this back in the 5th grade in art class and I got in trouble because the art teacher said it was a “gang sign” lmao

    • @TheBaegislash
      @TheBaegislash 5 лет назад +30

      That happened a lot to me too. I did go to school in the ghetto though, so nobody was really all that educated

    • @yinyang1217
      @yinyang1217 5 лет назад +21

      America 100

    • @z-beeblebrox
      @z-beeblebrox 5 лет назад +25

      haha my high school English teacher was convinced it was a gang sign too. We even went through the Stussy debunk in real time, because the kids who were caught drawing said it was just the Stussy S, but the teacher pointed to a kid actually wearing Stussy clothing and was like "Uh no it's not" lol
      That was a great mess actually, because we had an art teacher who was well versed in 90s graffiti, and she got into an argument with the English teacher over it, since no modern gangs at the time used it as a tag. ...Now I wonder if she knew about its usage in 60s graffiti

    • @karlcorrz
      @karlcorrz 5 лет назад +4

      @@z-beeblebrox the interesting part is, why do the teachers get mad over a stylish S? is there something compelling about it that irritates them? does the symbol resonate something else?

    • @gabrielcarmine69
      @gabrielcarmine69 5 лет назад +8

      @@karlcorrz It's something that people do a lot that people don't understand. Just a thing younger generations do that the teachers and older generations don't understand the origin or reasoning of. Keep in mind most of these people probably came from generations that believed in the Satanic Panic and probably believe, in some way, that children are susceptible to subliminal messages or at least peer pressure originating from media. Kind of like how people think kids who play violent video games are gonna shoot up the school. They'll fill in the blanks for a thing they don't like, even if it means making a scapegoat of things they barely understand. Sort of a sociological pareidolia.

  • @sarahrose5772
    @sarahrose5772 Год назад +3

    I don’t know how to compliment this video in a way that expresses how well it was made. The penguin joke was my favorite moment.

  • @varangianguard7102
    @varangianguard7102 2 года назад +2155

    11:06 I love how he is replacing the danish red flag with blue, a true Swede

    • @cryptic7844
      @cryptic7844 2 года назад +22

      I don’t get it can you explain it to me

    • @mohammedmahathir7536
      @mohammedmahathir7536 2 года назад +109

      @@cryptic7844 drawing the map of sweden

    • @Sam-od1ir
      @Sam-od1ir 2 года назад +29

      Pewdiepie would be proud

    • @_Falk_
      @_Falk_ 2 года назад +11

      I do not love this😂

    • @billblaski9523
      @billblaski9523 2 года назад +35

      Lol he always throwing shade at Denmark

  • @ladyViviaen
    @ladyViviaen 3 года назад +738

    guy from iran here, even tho our language's script is vastly different from latin-based languages we started to draw this when we began learning english

    • @rubenduran9910
      @rubenduran9910 3 года назад +2

      Why?

    • @gery8218
      @gery8218 3 года назад +42

      @@rubenduran9910 literally everyone did it

    • @rubenduran9910
      @rubenduran9910 3 года назад +22

      @@gery8218 I know I’m just fascinated how people with a different alphabet would even draw an s like why would the Chinese or Russians randomly be drawing letter from the English alphabet?

    • @BeautifullyBalanced-MAIN
      @BeautifullyBalanced-MAIN 3 года назад +22

      Because the S is that powerful.

    • @tarathevernid
      @tarathevernid 3 года назад +31

      @@rubenduran9910 I'm russian. I drew this S as a kid (mid-00s). This symbol is very convenient to draw in school notebooks which are lined into 5mm squares, you know, it just made sense to us.

  • @Gabriel2.0
    @Gabriel2.0 5 лет назад +3723

    please like so LEMMINO will see: the symbol firstly appears in the ancient Dacian culture (on the territory of current Romania). It's at least 2200 years old. It is a part of the Solar Cult and it's actually a spiral most commonly known as Carligul Ciobanului (The Shepard's Hook) and it represents the idea of bringing back something that was lost. You can google this: "cultul solar" in google images.
    You can still find it on embroideries on some clothes in Romania.

    • @arminkuburas1696
      @arminkuburas1696 5 лет назад +217

      Holy fucking shit. This symbol and similar seem to just pop out of the woodworks from so many countries!

    • @cbennetts2746
      @cbennetts2746 5 лет назад +90

      The modern version looks just like a bastardised version of this religious symbol wtf :O

    • @__rikaisuru
      @__rikaisuru 5 лет назад +20

      Holy shit

    • @Snardvark25
      @Snardvark25 5 лет назад +119

      Youmu Konpaku you showed them. Great use of your time. Keep it up!

    • @Snardvark25
      @Snardvark25 5 лет назад +2

      Bran Koenig he says in the comment what to google.

  • @Vincent-_-123
    @Vincent-_-123 Год назад +7

    Someone get this man a new life! He spent his trying to find the origin of the super S.