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
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
"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.
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.
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
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!
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.)
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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....
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
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
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.
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.
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 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)
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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.
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!
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
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
@@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.
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😁😁
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.
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
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
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.
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 :)
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.
i always forget how funny this video is, then i'll come back to it a while later and reminisce
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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.
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
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
@@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?
@@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.
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.
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!
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.
@@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.
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!
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.
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
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".
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.
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
@@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?
@@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.
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?
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"
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
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
Delightfully witty script about something we've all done at one time or another. Down the rabbit hole out of simple, raging curiosity. Unfortunately I seem to have missed the pointy S until now, but it won't be forgotten.
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What keyboard are you using in this video?
Whaaaaat
@@bradleymarsh8583 I believe it's a Cooler Master SK650
That is absolutely not the same thing and you know it, you just found the easy way out. Shame on you.
you kinda late bro
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
I googled it, can confirm it is sideways on the table like OP said
so... cavemen probably figured it out first
Holy shit,
HOLY FUCKING SHIT!
that could explain why its in both europe an americas
@@TheEnabledDisabled who knows.. maybe in the old times when people from africa were killing snakes they measured their length xd
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.
I got suspended when I drew it at school because they said it was a gang sign
Frizzable Btfo
Lmao why didn't u tell them it originated in the 1890's in a book made by Willson
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
Bro I relate but I got expelled when I was in elementary school lol
Frizzable I got suspended at catholic school because it was blasphemy
If I'm ever framed for a crime, I want this guy to be the lead lawyer.
ikr. deadass I want him as my lawyer
@@normalperson1130 you have been convicted for existing
Sure but it will take 3 years to prove innocent
Just wait a few years then he'll have your defense ready
I would want Saul Goodman but if he’s not available then lemmino will do.
"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.
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.
Doesn't upload for months, then: here's this symbol that I've been researching for 5 years...
2 months...
@@PlugSocketStudios 2 months is literally "months".
@@plexim1591
well apparently, you've been hibernating
Its quality>quantity
@@plexim1591 ö
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
You need to stop using that word, normal. You mean stupid.
Krystal Myth ???
@@Krystamyth???
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!
Krystal Myth
Fuck off
When you started mapping out what countries the S symbol showed up in, I was half expecting the distribution would form another S shape.
Lmao that's actually a good prediction, I personally didn't think of it, but it would've made sense lol.
Me too, not for real though, I thought he would make a bit out of it haha
I thought that too, if it had it would've scared the crap out of me😂
That would be hella creepy...
really messed up how known this symbol is
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
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.)
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.
@@hazenoki628very similar to survivor bias.
First time I see this Symbol tbh
I learned about this symbol in 4th or 5th grade
Imagine we land on mars and we find the S on a rock
Imagine if the s is a secret message left by interdimensional gods to solve everything
maybe they drew it in middle school
That would be a big bruh moment
Silver369 it’s the illuminati how can people be so stupid
Silver369 aliens cool as hell
my man actually spent a fuckton of time trying to find the origin of the universal s. proud of you
Exactly! It's mind numbing just thinking about the process.
He spent 5 years searching for it. 5 years
Fucking legend
many people have
what a sad sad man...
Imagine being the person who created this s and no one believed you when you said it.
Samuel yeah it is sad being me
I created this s
My ancestor created the "S"...
Sam look the Illuminati is who made it
Like that Key and Peele sketch “High on pot-enus”
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.
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
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.
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.
@@alexvokasd S for simulation.
@@lancepate🧐😅💯
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
he’s probably dead by now
@@Jay_ish true
Are you saying that the creator of this could not be a girl? THATS SEXIST
@@Erra_Mortis you sure that‘s what sexism means? Maybe that guy _was_ male. They‘re over 100 years old now, who cares?
@@Erra_Mortis bruh
The “Univeral S” is definitely one of the questions that should be on a test for aliens about humans.
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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.
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holy shit, it does resemble the universal S a lot
Wow its almost exactly the same O_o
Nicw
Woah
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.
Can we pay respect to this man who browsed the internet heavily just to find the origin of this "S"?
@@khoanguyen9961 in the video he stated that he was on this topic for years
that's the reason I clicked on this video lol
CHEEKI BREEKI hello boris very blyatiful
@@khoanguyen9961 tOoKeN
Sai Kiran idc
*Aliens show up on our planet*
“Hey we know that symbol!”
Quite literally "universal"
They don't remember why they started drawing it either.
@@dirrdevil And then the pursuit of finding the origin of this symbol continue to the other galaxy
We must liberate Area 51!
Lemmino: Ah shit here we go again
Deadass this dude spent 5 years looking at the graffiti S
“You could make a religion out of this!”
-bill wurtz
@@prestobeats702 praise the graffiti S
@@prestobeats702 all hail graffiti s
@@prestobeats702 WE ACTUALLY NEED A RELIGION AFTER THIS
May the S save us from evil, ALL HAIL S!
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).
Pattern's, it's evolution.....
It's like kids yearn to mine, now mine-craft
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.
BRANDON JASON GROSSO you think he still makes music?
I always binge watch for days after again and then forget about the channel, then the cycle repeats.
TTD
Oh my god same when i got this i was like "who the fuck is this?''
And it makes my year every time
*The S stands for simulation and it’s the logo for the company who made the simulation that we live in*
Lucas genius
And we are in the simulation
can you don't
Woah
fuck
LEMMiNo spent 5 years researching the origin of an S shape.
Truly a mad man
Dương Đào got you that 100th like. youre now a mad man too
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.
@@lucasiopp2197 Thank you for your correction ! I'll fix it right away
Alex Jones knows the real secret of the S
Absolute Madlad.
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.
wow
Just watched a 20 minute video on the letter S.
Mom would be so proud
Lucas Olivieri brought to you by Sesame Street
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....
What is this, Sesame Street? What today's episode brought by the letter S?
my name leg
At least you didn’t spend 5 years researching it...
At 5:05, I genuinely thought that the countries in red would allign to make an S symbol. The music made it so dramatic!
Sunghyun Yoo that would belong to a Nigahiga video haha
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
Ngl it was played like it was a nazi takeover
Me too lol
Im from Czech republic and I remember drawing this symbol in elementary school as well.
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
I thought you were gonna say when it was origanally founded and why it was made but nvm LOL
so thats how it all started
Holy shit, if time travel is possible thats mean your the founder of the universal S
Same here
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
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.
Imagine dying, going to heaven and asking about the S, and God said I used to draw that in middle school
That'd be Epic!
God and heaven is bs
@@nobodycares1249.
@@nobodycares1249.
@@nobodycares1249 .
I found this S carved into a vase when I was sacking Rome in 410 AD
You are pretty old bro
Duuuuuude were you the one with the weird looking axe?
Brock Peters Yes actually. Sorry about murdering your wife by the way.
@@hamishdeshaun921 you're confusing me for my friend, I was the one that broke down the statue in the middle of the square
Brock Peters my bad, wrong person. I always hated that statue, so thanks anyway.
The symbol of my people
What does it mean
It means we're bored in math
Why did I read math as meth?
@@souvikmitra6161 I dont know. Why did you?
@@alzhanvoid umm... well you see...it is very complicated subject matter... So I cannot explain the reasons as of now...
You forgot the question mark.
@@souvikmitra6161 bruh
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.
Underrated comment of the year!!!
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.
It would probable be a Keter class, considering it is impossible to contain
@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)
This S may be the most successful meme ever.
OK was probably more successful
maybe the first meme
@@Alisha-yz6nd ok
Sator square: I was made in 79 BCE. Am I a joke to you?
It’s not a meme it’s a way of life
This guy knows how to research...
Its a rare skill
Yeah
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@@felixw19 Kann ich mir vorstellen :D
Ich schaue sehr viel englische Videos
He uses the second google page
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
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.
Vienna The Grill shut the fuck up weeb
Augustus Schrader exposed
Or she might not have bothered to make a RUclips account for years, kinda like me
truth
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!
Illuminati: we WILL take over the world
S: _TOO LATE_
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Maybe the s IS the Illuminati mind control device. I mean, you can make two triangles easily.
maybe the Illuminati is responsible for the creation of this symbol lol
Bro the RUclips play button it is mi d controlling kids
Illuminati: the kosher boogeymen. Why can't anyone admit who's really trying to take over the world? They admit their affiliation openly.
I swear every primary school thought they invented it
InsaneFlame11 lol it's true
For real 😂
We just pretended to invent it
My old primary schools logo 😂
Ikr
If humanity ever establishes a stellar empire this should be our symbol
The OG meme.
why not??
S representing Sol, our sun, makes perfect sense
the Sol Empire with the pointy S as the logo, I like it lolz
True
@@Red_Lanterns_Rage that.... Makes a good name of an empire in a 4x game....
The S should be like this design
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
😳🤣💯
I remember a teacher showing me how to draw it all the way back then as well.
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
@@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.
yeah, i remember carving this on the foreheads of my enemies in the great space war of 4021-4
So it means *S* kull
Oh yeah I remember forming this out of pig bones in the year 91*2889^x
Just highlander tings
Llmao same dude!!!!
The good ol’days...
I love how he took time to vandalise the Danish flag on the pixel board.
Uh
as a fellow swede I personally vandalised the norwegian flag, but i commend his effort
Frejo oh my god I didn’t realise
Lol
Is this dude a Swede?
*5 years later*
*Sees an universal S*
"And I took it personally."
Good joke
... MJ ?
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😁😁
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The work you put in the investigation is incredible, congratulations. And the editing is excelent.
"dOn'T dRaW tHaT, tHaT iS Is A gAnG sIgHn" says every 3rd grade teacher ever
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I was told that it was a symbol for the "south side," even by my friends who taught me about it
It is actually. Here in Honduras resembles the S from MS-13. I welcome you to Google them
ikr
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.
You shouldn't be meddling in affairs you do not understand.
You already know too much.
We will be there shortly.
Do not overstep your granted authorities, Red Fox! We will be there shortly....
@@metanumia no, HQ has sent strict orders against anyone but me and my bravo bois to arrive there shortly. We will be there shortly...
*We're on our way*
*WE ARE HERE*
@@godslayer9000 oh gott oh fuck
"I brushed it off as failed attempts of lesser men". The self awareness is humorous to say the least.
To be fair he got further down the rabbithole than most
i quite not understand what it really means
"I am so done with this topic
....but then, in 2021, someone made an interesting discovery."
Jake From StateFarm annnnnd you would know this, how exactly?
@@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...
@@TheLoneRailrider r/woooosh
r/woooosh
You got 420 likee
*LEMMiNO always answers the questions I never knew I wanted to ask*
Agreed
Word!
that what made internet...
Except I’ve always had the same question and I’d done a lot of the same research too
Just think, some random guy was the first to ever do this now tradition
tradition??
@@iilwy yes it is a tradition to draw this
krysppy at least one person in your elementary school drew this which started a wide spread of everyone else drawing it.
I mean ofc, many things start like that. But like he wanted to see how close he can get to it
@@dylannmattywo29 ive never seen star wars
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
Never heard a youtuber finish the video with "I'm so fcking done with this topic." Great video man!
"What was your thesis on for your phd?"
LEMMiNO: "The Universal S"
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@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
Now everytime this guy sees the Universal S he’s gonna get some PTSD
@Fy. A lmao
Post Traumatic S Disorder
Possably some truth to that. Well it's not a lie.
True
When I drew this in the 90’s, I associated it in my head with skaters. Loved drawing it!
We used to call it "american S"..!
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.
You are in a twisty little maze of tunnels, all alike.
name2 my baby momma is a alien
I roll for perception.
It could be sks or die
so the writing said skate or die?
I drew that S all the time during the revolutionary war.
which one?
Tan B. The gamer one.
@@MickeyMouse-lx3nw a truly great war
Someone’s gonna get whooosed i feel it
I remember the great king Gilgamesh insribing this sacred symbol upon the great gate of Uruk.
That’s a cool looking “S”
Mark might sue your ass!
THE UNIVERSAL S HAS A YOOTOBE ACCOUNT?!?!!?😱😱😱😱
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 :)
Thats subjective lol
@@iamalexwolf pokemon gun next???
One of my favourite lemminos videos. So effortlessly funny written, love it
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.
_my god_
holy shit...
This is really turning into assassins Creed level shit
Holly shit, I thought you're joking
Man, its real
“After five years of searching” reminds me of waiting for Lemmino videos
She said nothing but the truth.
Any of y’all also had that one kid in school who claimed he came up with the symbol himself ? 😂
Yes. That would be me.
*I don't want to remember that.*
It's not really that hard to came up with it
Oh yes
I did came up with it
That kid was the son of the director at my school and he actually got his dad to believe him.
this was such a cool video! love the music choice and editing style!!
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.
Holy fucking shit. This symbol and similar seem to just pop out of the woodworks from so many countries!
The modern version looks just like a bastardised version of this religious symbol wtf :O
Holy shit
Youmu Konpaku you showed them. Great use of your time. Keep it up!
Bran Koenig he says in the comment what to google.
I love how this "S" associated with teenage rebellion/graffiti possibly originated from the victorian era.
DrTheKay 🧂🧂🧂
@DrTheKay Princeton university is in New Jersey...
Bruh
i just like your username and pfp
What's old is new
@DrTheKay You can't even pronounce your own name right "Bri-ish" lmaoooo
LEMMiNO's search history after this: ÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖÖ
оооооооооооoooo
Lol
nah he uses duckduckgo
his search history:
i always forget how funny this video is, then i'll come back to it a while later and reminisce
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.
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?
Bruh
@@spaghettigum schools did exist in France in 1955 u know
@@flanbenflen9069 not what im talking about. In france in the 60s there was a cult heavily linked to the universal S
@@spaghettigum oh ok I see
This was why Lemmino was gone for at least 2 months...
*an S*
He said he's also doing research for other video.
_the spicy s_
Video ends with the concept of memes.
Top10Memes have come full circle
Huge 180
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
Thank you for all of your hard work and research!
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
That happened a lot to me too. I did go to school in the ghetto though, so nobody was really all that educated
America 100
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
@@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?
@@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.
Impressive research Lemmino. This is the closest i've seen anyone come to the actual origin of the S
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.
B O I you talk like you know the actual origin of the S
@@CroissantMoon he does know what the acutal origin of the "S" is, he's waiting for enough likes to reveal it
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.
Someone made the ‘s symbol’ others copied. Research done 🤙
I was waiting for someone to make a video about this. Now im happy that this video comes from this amazing channel.
austinmcconnell made a similar video a while back
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.
Pseudiom also made a pretty insightful video a while back
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
700 in not 1 hour
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!
Never thought much about it though I'm pretty sure it's mandatory to draw it at least once before you can leave school.
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.
On my way
@@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.
Never drew it.
Or life
“board of keys”
“alphabet shovel”
“dexterity trampoline”
my dude just gave me some of the sickest name ideas for a band
yes
dexterity trampoline's new album really slaps
1st would be a piano/digital keyboard group
2nd would be a rapper group who wield shovels
3rd is a dance group with trampolines
Angelo C chemical toilet
/r/mechanicalkeyboards would love this
The universal S is also in the ambassador painting, which was drawn in the 1500s.
Holy S, you're right
holy fuck right in the midle table towel
It's almost the same S the centre lines are out.
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
wtf
LEGEND. I'm grateful that someone did ridiculously exactly the right amount of research on this topic. Bravo.
Someone should go to Antarctica and draw a small S in the snow.
Better be made of giant pieces of stone or else it might just disappear....just like the origin os that damn S
Small? Why not make it big enough to be seen from orbit?
@Big Steve its not, you just need permission from the countries that signed the antarctic treaty's protocol on environment protection
Bet
Antartica
An tart ica
tart
tarter sauce
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!
Ikr! I have mad respect for him
Mindblowing stuff. I am floored
I think it's called boredom ^^
@@timfrolov7891 Its his job and not boredom. If you are bored you don't do a video project for 3 years
It honestly is really impressive. Love this dudes channel.
If we one day create interstellar human empire, I wish for universal S to be symbol of humanity.
That is an awesome idea! I agree 100% with you
Maybe someone will go back in time and place it throughout history.
Like Bad Wolf.
TheIronAntelope If that we’re too happen it already did. Woah.
Damn...
S for Superiority. We will conquer the stars.
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.
In 5th grade if you could draw this without flaw you got instant access to the cool kids table at lunch.
In California it was used as a gang symbol.. Meant you repped Southside... Shit was all over my town
The cool kids at your school had low standards
You and I are too old I'm the only one in my class who draws this
Also 5th grade
Wasem Zahr you both are not alone lol
@@d0gfl3sh lol
Yo the editing on this video is clean af
Best mystery channel ever.
The CatZ Casting (Drill Sapphire) this is yes
That’s lemmino for you
You must be new around here if you thinks only this video has a clean editing.
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
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".
holy shit i just checked and you’re actually right. impressive
Crazy 🤯
What the actual shit
@LEMMiNO !!!!!!
Right in the middle of the painting sideways!
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.
The aliens from Area 51: “oh hey we know that symbol”
inb4 the area 51 aliens are the true origin of the symbol
still the aliens from Area 51: "It's a bird. It's plane. It's 2 MILLIONS PEOPLE RAIDING OUR BASE"
Lemmino after founding that they know: "I'm still f*cking done with this topic, thanks for the info tho"
Ayy lmao
Can y'all imagine if the S is just the symbol for their entire race
Or maybe it just means "Fuck you" in alien
Here in greenland we also drew those In school
Greenland wasn't on your map
You can put it there now
Yeah he missed a large island😂
No one cares about your shithole country
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.
@@WattoXtreme Just ignore his shithole comment. We're not offended anyway
WattoXtreme his username is bust nutyear if he isn’t a troll then nobody is
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
Why?
@@rubenduran9910 literally everyone did it
@@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?
Because the S is that powerful.
@@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.
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?
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"
Life is a simulation. And that's the logo of the company that runs it.
Bro.........
Wake up Neo
Shit...
Looks like they're going to get rid of you my man
Yes. They're called the Speedwagon Foundation. Hurry and spread the words my fellow people.
Evacuate RUclips
Engage all defenses and
Get this man a Netflix show
I'n sorry, we broke
holy fuck yes pls spamm netflix
This is the best comment in all of RUclips
But then we wont be able to watch it for free.
Riv I could literally pay for the Netflix subscription because of this and a few other shows
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
It also appeared in an Painting from 1500.
@@Mark_badas source?
@@robosergTV hans Holbein the youngers painting called "the ambassadors"
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
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
Man i LOVE this channel. Give this man an award
He worked his “S” off.
LMAO
Out.
nice
🤣
aaaaaaaaa mmmmmmmmm
11:06 I love how he is replacing the danish red flag with blue, a true Swede
I don’t get it can you explain it to me
@@cryptic7844 drawing the map of sweden
Pewdiepie would be proud
I do not love this😂
Lol he always throwing shade at Denmark
If you could perfectly draw this in fourth grade, everyone would call you a god.
Pretty much
Or in England there'd call u a legend
I could, that was the only time i didn't get bullied, and like yknow it eventually got me into art
This is true.
6:13
Delightfully witty script about something we've all done at one time or another. Down the rabbit hole out of simple, raging curiosity. Unfortunately I seem to have missed the pointy S until now, but it won't be forgotten.