The Universal S
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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
"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.
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!
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
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 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
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 .
"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.
I grew up in the most obscure of places, a very small town in East Malaysia. In the early 2000s, we barely had any access to the world, but everyone drew this symbol. I had never seen any of these possible sources (Suzuki symbol, bands' Ss, etc).
It truly is a universal symbol, somehow implanted in our brains for us to draw as soon as we know how to write with a pencil. 😂😂
After that I'm wondering if North Koreans also draw that
That's so fascinating, thanks for sharing. I guess the S is inevitable lol
I drew it in grade 4 simply because I saw another kid draw it and was like "That's cool, I can be cool too"
@@Borealis109Are you Canadian, by chance? You said grade 4 instead of 4th grade. I've only heard Canadians say their school grades that way. Just curious.
@@lsudx479 That's how we say it in SEA
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
*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
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)
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.
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
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.
The universal S is also in the ambassador painting, which was drawn in the 1500s.
wow yes !
I don't see it. Are you talking about the one with the sideways skull illusion?
LMAO NEVERMIND. It's sideways on the tablecloth, lol.
It's damn close! But not quite the same, good find either way
What is the Ambassador Painting?
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
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?
@@alzhanvoidsansado 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 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
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
😳🤣💯
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).
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”
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
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?
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
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
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
One of my friends taught me how to draw this. Every time I changed schools, I felt like it was my destiny to show it the other kids. That’s how my entire classes, if they didn’t know this symbol, learned how to draw this.
😳🤣💯
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"..!
"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
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
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!
The work you put in the investigation is incredible, congratulations. And the editing is excelent.
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
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
I keep coming to this video to rewatch from time to time and I gotta say the amount of research and digging is godly, top tier content .
Someone get this man a new life! He spent his trying to find the origin of the super S.
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?
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
One of my favourite lemminos videos. So effortlessly funny written, love it
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!
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.
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
14:48 that’s how I remember drawing it.. six straight lines with only two diagonal ones.. Early 80’s Longisland NY.
i always forget how funny this video is, then i'll come back to it a while later and reminisce
The “Univeral S” is definitely one of the questions that should be on a test for aliens about humans.
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You have 1k likes and I am the second reply, months later
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congrats
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!
this was such a cool video! love the music choice and editing style!!
Thank you for all of your hard work and research!
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...
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_
Coming back to this video, breakthroughs in the search for the origin of the Universal S has now placed it as far back as 500 B.C! It was used to represent worship to the Sun in ancient Greece. That means the Universal S is at least 2,500 years old.
WHAT holy crap
uh
source?
A version of it appears in a painting from the 1500s and I've engraved trophies from very early 1800s and they had the long pattern version and the 's' shape on its own as part of their decorations.
*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 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
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.
i love how so many of us have grown up taking part in an ancient and mysterious human tradition without knowing it
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...
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
I love this format of video that is based on your own process of research for videos! So interesting
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.
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.
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
Amazing video, you are one of the most hard working people I've seen in this platform. The amount of research and effort you put into these video's is astonishing.
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
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.
"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
The story of the S reminds me of the Swa stika. Trust me it makes sense. Before it became synonymous with the German empire in the late 1800s, this symbol was used across a number of cultures all over the world to represent the sun, fertility, hope, usually the sun. And I am serious about it being universal. You can find it etched onto Mayan Ruins and Japanese temples. Which makes sense, because its easy to draw. The Universal S probably is ubiquitous for that same reason. It's easy to draw.
I learned to draw it by watching my class mate draw it by looking over their shoulder. It was easy to learn. Then I showed a ton of other people how to draw it.
ive once heard somewhere that the ancient Romans used to draw the symbol too.
side note: when i saw kill roy i literally got chills because i drew it a few times not knowing where it came from thinking it was just something i made up. but now i kind of have a vivid memory seeing it on the internet before. this gave me chills because i never used to draw the S i did know of it and thought it was a symbol for some youtubers or esports team but i never drew it until someone did it in-front of me.
"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
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
I drew it back when i was younger, as did my older brother. I believe it's originally taken from the longer 3-line chain pattern, which at the age was the easiest way to draw something that felt like an illusion - the never ending, intertwining chain. Then you just sort of let your minder while drawing/experiment with it, and before long, you realise that if you angle to tops together you can create an easy to draw, symmetrical block 'S' ~ which was one of the hardest block letters to draw, especially in those younger years as a child.
Amazing!
None of the information in this video will in any way alter my actions or behaviour or mindset, but yet it was fascinating and entertaining to watch and your dedication is admirable 👏👏👏
cavemen:
"i created a wheel!"
"I made fire!"
.....
"Hey guys I made this cool S"
3rd guy is what led us to this day and age
Ug ug zug zug that ooga boonga S cool !
None of the other cavemen's frases had an S, but the S caveman did. So did he create the letter S?
Id believe that haha
The wheel was invented by the mesopotamians.
Imagine if the “S” was included in the golden record
I wish they had.
Truly a universal S
Is that a ghost squadron symbol?
Now the “Universal S” can really be an official *universal* name for an official *universal* S
It won't be the Universal S anymore. It would be the Interstellar S.
Man i LOVE this channel. Give this man an award
Props to you, sir, on the research (it's an artform and definitely is a lot of work). The rabbithole was worth going down. 😊I am looking forward to your other works. Thank you!✊️🖖
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
@@darthXreven that.... Makes a good name of an empire in a 4x game....
The S should be like this design
This guy knows how to research...
Its a rare skill
Yeah
Es ist immer wieder interessant, wenn man unten den Kommentaren von (englischsprachigen) Videos Kommentare von deutschen RUclipsrn findet, die man selbst abonniert hat
@@felixw19 Kann ich mir vorstellen :D
Ich schaue sehr viel englische Videos
He uses the second google page
I will add, even my mother and grandmother know these symbols, and the former grew up in the Soviet Union, while the latter never left a tiny Russian village. This thing is truly universal.
The passion poured into this video is evident
He worked his “S” off.
LMAO
Out.
nice
🤣
aaaaaaaaa mmmmmmmmm
maybe the real universal s were the friends we made along the way.
facts
facts
Maybe the real s was the s we s’ed along the s
fax
facts
This video got me interested in r/place in 2022 (this was before April Fools 2022), and my eventual involvement in the "rolace" alliance. Thank you for creating this video, I found the whole thing to be very interesting.
LEGEND. I'm grateful that someone did ridiculously exactly the right amount of research on this topic. Bravo.
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 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.
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.
I think the strangest part about this is that I don’t know where I learned it from, but I’ve made all the variations you described before without ever knowing they were pre-existing.
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
@@888records pokemon gun next???
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
7:39 Man, if only there were a letter in the alphabet that the palm tree could have been used in the word 'smile' that would work better than an 'L'.
The S thing was mindblowing enough but the part that really shook me was when you showed 'kilroy' towards the end of the vid. Suddenly I had a flashback: I must've been a fifth grader travelling in the USA when I saw that graffitied somewhere. I had no idea what it was or anything about it but I remember that I started drawing it in places, my table at school, the car window when it was wet etc. I guess there's something about these symbols or "memes" if you like that attracts people and 'The Universal S' and 'Kilroy' are some of many more symbols that do so, honestly I doubt that each source you found of the 'Universal S' (graffiti, Mechanical Graphics, Stussy) are related to one another, I believe that people end up stumbling onto it again and again which makes extra sense when you think about all the places where this 'S' was found: graffiti artists, Mechanical Graphics (1890) and Stussy all specialize in trying to create their own quirky fonts and after a lot of time spent doing so they all came upon this special 'S'. So to sum things up I believe each one of these... I'll call them memes can be researched independently and I believe each one has a different story to how it became so infectious, you could probably write books on these subjects but I'm gonna stop right here because I really ended up going off the rails with this comment.
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.
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.
I reckon its a perfect example of convergent thinking, hundreds of people with no relation or contact with each other came up with it on their own and taught it to their friends, who taught it to their friends until the whole world knew it and all said it came from somewhere else.
How did this video pop up on my feed, and why the hell did I watch the whole thing and subscribe?? Now I'm binging on LEMMiNO videos omg
Sooooooo the symbol banned by many, many schools may have been taught and invented by a teacher?
Seems about right.
Schools banned this symbol?
What schools banned this lmao
I think they were just banning grafitti in general
@@TeMaorislovePink You'd be surprised how paranoid some schools are; my middle school banned Marilyn Monroe shirts because a gang decided to wear them at the time. That was in LA, we aren't even in LA. Me, a 6th grade white girl, got dress coded for it
Tbh schools banning the Universal S would help spread it because who doesn't like doing something wrong? It's like telling someone not to lean on a wall cause the paint is still wet - at first they didn't care but now that they're told, they're curious if the paint really is indeed still wet.
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.
This video is exactly why I am binging your content 😂