False Flags (not that kind)

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Flags. They seem to be everywhere. At baseball games. Outside post offices. There are even flags on the damn moon. And some people, if the internet is to be believed, even dream flags.
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@thisexists Месяц назад

YO EPISODE THREE SEE I WAS SERIOUS WE'RE DOING THIS EVERY MONTH. next episode will have its live premiere on the 4th of july at 2pm ET (no one's busy that day right). if you're bored or not american, the chat is genuinely very sick and fun. come hang. in a month.

@AMPProf Месяц назад

EVERY THEORY ALL AT once.. How FLAG DREAM.. Wtf. aliens, gobments minty mints, psychotic Psychics, 1800ghost Finders. Umm you drank to much..

@ShardtheWolf Месяц назад

I remember watching This Exists my freshman year of college. Would have been ~2013ish. It's wild to see you come back

@Puggpu Месяц назад

I was in junior year of high school, now I'm 3 years out of grad school...

@thisexists Месяц назад

there has to be a german word for how nice it is to read these comments but old they make ME feel

@josxiko Месяц назад

I was in middleschool. I'm nearing my mid 20s now :')

@czechmeoutbabe1997 Месяц назад

I watched the hell out of This Exists when I was in Middle school. I'm finishing Med School now

@Todesnuss Месяц назад

@@thisexists Not in common usage the way Schadenfreude would be. Hard to rule out some author coined one at some point. Poetic compound words like "Waldeinsamkeit" are little more than literary flourishes so what is and isn't a word is up to you really.

@ichhassdievoll Месяц назад

This still exists ❤❤❤

@Todesnuss Месяц назад

I do love it when things exist. "This" especially.

@sinisterthoughts2896 Месяц назад

@@Todesnuss indeed.

@weepingwell Месяц назад

sweet my 7 years of bad luck must have ended today

@ugandanbrucelee4190 Месяц назад

Im so happy that you brought back this series. I binged it during the pandemic and have continued to rewatch over and over again. I loved the writing and dry humor of it. It’s like a warm hug from a revived cybernetic-ly enhanced dead grandma

@Palmtop_User Месяц назад

I literally had a dream of a sticker on a post that said "space jam lied to you" with michael jordan's face in the middle. The text and jordan were light blue/purple vaporwavey colors with a white background. Still no clue what it means

@sinisterthoughts2896 Месяц назад

It obviously means you subconsciously distrust space jam.

@randomtinypotatocried Месяц назад

Space Jam did lie. You can't go to the universe with Bugs Bunny 😞

@spark-e Месяц назад

I love the video but I'm not much of a fan of the AI generated garbage at the beginning and end.

@Sickcrazyneet Месяц назад

Same here. Hopefully it is just a one time thing

@wedge55 Месяц назад

One time is enough. I love this channel, but I am unsubscribing over this.

@tedioustotoro4885 Месяц назад

@@SickcrazyneetI suppose it makes sense for visualising the weird visuals of dreams. But, yeah, I hope it’s just a one time thing.

@st4nkbug Месяц назад

I’m really glad vexillology is getting talked about more. Minnesota recently got a new flag design that matches all the rules of Good Flag Bad Flag, AND looks great in any windy conditions. Also I’ve known about Kaye’s work for years but always felt like a nerd bringing up flag design as a conversation starter. Great work as always Sam! Been a fan since the SoundClown video.

@sinisterthoughts2896 Месяц назад

It's actually pretty fascinating, in a dry sort of way.

@MichaelEMJAYARE Месяц назад

Im a Minnesotan and love the new flag. Its generic but damn more memorable. Btw ThisExists nix that damn AI imagery.

@fimdomeio9447 Месяц назад

You just made me see Roman Mars for the first time, which I've been hearing for many many years.

@gearsfan6669 Месяц назад

holy shit, never expected this channel to update again, it was honestly how I learned my random real world facts

@DrTacoPHD665 Месяц назад

Dream interpretation is a great occupation to receive money for telling people nonsense.

@Reshiram1330 Месяц назад

Happy that this exists is back! Less happy that it seems like y’all are using generative AI in the visuals now. I really hope y’all move away from that in further episodes.

@moondogdoes4244 Месяц назад

So glad your back. This exists and Chronically online are two of my favorite things to exist

@semplicemorte Месяц назад

STILL my favorite YT channel, all these years later. Great to see this in my sub box :D

@nanardeurlambda Месяц назад

4:45 is it me or did that man dream up the country of middle Sudan?

@michaelavanessian8558 Месяц назад

Funnily enough, the one dream-related subreddit I knew about before this was one _without_ "somno" in its name: ThomasThePlankEngine, which catalogues surreal, original memes conjured up in dreams.

@k1gamer Месяц назад

I've always really loved this channel and have been really excited to see it return. But the use of ai imagery and video in this video really drew me out of the video to the point I had to stop it halfway. I always admired your ability to find weird art, interesting projects, and the niches of the internet that go unnoticed. Which is one of the reasons I think seeing you use something that so many weird niche artists are raising red flags about feels a little gross. This tech is based around large scale art theft and is boosted by corporate interests that view it as a way to avoid paying artists. In my mind its a growing trend that is gonna result in more and more homogeneous and sanitized art, which is the exact opposite of what I think of when I think of this exists. I still love your journalistic work and will keep an eye out for your vids and articles but Im just probably gonna tune out when I see ai used.

@thisexists Месяц назад

yoooooo going to respond to this here because there's already a few comments about it and i think you've very clearly laid out the concerns and i don't want to duck the critique. editing this video was extremely hard because there's NO GOOD VIZ. like, nothing at all. it's about dreams, and the notion of statehood, and reality, so once you get past the flags themselves it's... pretty boring. to be clear that is ONE HUNDRED PERCENT my fault for wanting to make this episode, it's not like anyone forces me to pick topics. we have a very great very small team putting this season together, and we are spending every cent we got from the government (shout out ontario creates) on that team, and SO, in my MIND, the usage of ai here was both fine and funny - there's no attempt at passing it off as anything other than the dystopian conjuring of an evil computer and i think it looks hilarious as a result, and we didn't save any money to do it. it's not replacing something we would have commissioned, and it makes me giggle uncomfortably. THAT SAID, here's what wasn't part of my thought process that you very reasonably pointed out - the tech itself is based on stealing from artists. you're right, i was wrong, and we won't use it in the future.

@k1gamer Месяц назад

@@thisexists Thank you for the thoughtful response. I can understand your reasoning and while i still personally do not enjoy the effect they had on the video, i am very happy to hear this will be a one of experience. I continue to love the work you and your team do and cant wait for whats next ❤️

@wavecast64 Месяц назад

Crazy to think that in the years between this exists episodes I've graduated high school, moved countries and pretty much completely changed as a person but seeing new videos got me just as excited as ever. Can't wait to see what else is on the way

@Flargenyargen Месяц назад

Your videos are great and always have been. They don't need the AI junk. Please stop.

@patchymoon Месяц назад

agreed

@thisexists Месяц назад

posted a very lengthy version of this elsewhere (look for the comment from @k1gamer) but the tl;dr is: thought it was funny, agree i biffed it, won't moving forward.

@geogineer Месяц назад

So fucking happy, man! These latest ones have been great! Huge fan, will buy merchandise, and mostly just want to say thank you.

@RJ4002 Месяц назад

I'm so happy you're back! I've been here since the beginning and have loved all your content ❤

@UrsaJeager Месяц назад

I was so uncomfortable at the dish exists until the "wake up before you eat this" lmao

@Glitch-Gremlin 18 дней назад

I'm SO Happy you're still doing this Show. i think it BELONGS online. its like, something that...just deserves to you know... Exist...

@darkcrescentrose Месяц назад

FINALLY idk how many times I’ve rewatched vids hoping for a new one

@sinisterthoughts2896 Месяц назад

He posted two previous episodes recently.

@aeonicbutterfly9662 Месяц назад

I had to pinch myself when I saw this chilling in my subscriptions page. No idea how I missed the other two, but man, it has been for-eh-ver. Welcome back, glad to see you, good luck with the new videos!

@TheAxio300 Месяц назад

I just want to say how happy I am that this channel is back, I started watching way back im not even sure how i came about the channel (probably from Rob Dyke) but it definitely shaped the man I am today. The Episode on Rock and Rule is probably one of the most influential videos on my media tastes and sent me down numerous rabbit holes. As a teen growing up in bumfuck northern ontario this channel felt like a home away from the normalcy and mundane of my small town. Thank you and everyone else involved with this channel.

@m.p.fitzgerald Месяц назад

I am so glad you are doing more of This Exists, it is what got me into RU-vid.

@MaxRioux321 Месяц назад

Loooooved this. So great to see you back.

@SillyPyscho Месяц назад

I’m so happy that This Exists is back! missed you guys.

@subjectshadow 8 дней назад

I'm genuinely so glad you're coming back.

@captainjakesparrow85 Месяц назад

Another amazing episode! Keep up the wonderful content, please!! I have been watching since the beginning of this channel and it is fantastic!

@torspedia Месяц назад

Well, this is a nice surprise, as I'm glad to see you've revived this channel... especially as it was my favourite 'weird' one. 🙂

@jesses4212 Месяц назад

man the editing and visuals in this are wild! Glad your popping back up in the sub box :)

@GreasyDaddy Месяц назад

So so so excited you’re back. And this video is excellent.

@Woziciel Месяц назад

Love to see you back :D

@GanjaCoyote Месяц назад

Bumping up the engagement so that more people will watch this stuff. Also well done dude you make me care about subjects that I have no business being interested in. Though to be fair I am interested in almost everything too. Having an open mind is so much better than the alternative.

@hatecouture Месяц назад

Sometimes I don't relate to the topics, but the delievery is always great, the avatars thing (sparkling up the usual zoom-call view) is awesome, and when the topic is interesting to me like this one - I enjoy it a lot!

@blpendragon4035 Месяц назад

I used to have dreams about flags years ago in strong detail so I was really interested to learn that there were other people who did also

@dafook7182 4 дня назад

Glad to see you back!

@UndeadKIRA Месяц назад

Hes baaaaaack

@Snowinmyears Месяц назад

i love that This Exists just reemerges every now and then, and everytime i'm like "YES! that's the shit!"

@wefyb2 Месяц назад

Many years ago I remembered this channel that I was subscribed to but I couldn't remember the name of. It had deep dives of all sorts of weird stuff and I loved it dearly. I couldn't find it. I had no idea what to search or how to find this channel. Then I got a notification 3 days ago.

@matt_c80 Месяц назад

Yeahhhhh love to see your new uploads.

@AlexHider Месяц назад

It’s so comforting to know you’re still uploading. A channel from a better era of 2013. However, I also would not like to see you proceed with AI fill-ins. They always look bad, date the video pretty severely and AI is essentially inherently unethical. Stock footage or you drawing on a napkin be more preferable.

@goregrindisthebestgenre 24 дня назад

I found this channel back when it probably only had like 2,000 subs. I have lots of nostalgia for watching it like every week back when I was a junior in high school and now I’m about to be 26. I still listen to Combat Noise due to discovering them from this channel.

@altohippiegabber Месяц назад

Anybody made a "Sheldon Cooper's Fun With Flags" reference joke yet?

@ceulgai2817 Месяц назад

Not sure how I feel about the use of GenAI here. And of course I saw that micronations episode.

@alexzoin Месяц назад

YO GOOD TO SEE YOU BACK!

@sinisterthoughts2896 Месяц назад

You definitely lived up to the legacy of finding something so far off the beaten path even a weirdo like me is surprised.

@renbelmont Месяц назад

YOOOOOOOO LETS GO MY FAVORITE YT SERIES

@SeanStrife Месяц назад

Holy crap, this channel's back! Great to have it back in my internet diet.

@IvanRSaldias Месяц назад

So This Exists actually exists now!!! We are very happy to have you back. Can't wait to see what you been cookin' for us to enjoy!

@Vernaux Месяц назад

r/thomastheplankengine has got to be my favorite somni-subreddit

@sailtothemoon777 Месяц назад

SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU BACK MR THIS EXISTS!! YOU GAVE ME MY NICHE MUSIC TASTE IN HIGH SCHOOL

@sirspookybones1118 Месяц назад

It's been 10 years since I first watched this channel. Crazy to think it's back just now.

@yamatoe57 Месяц назад

I can't believe it, YOU ARE BACK!

@double_07 Месяц назад

Still a banger of an episode. Damn I missed this videos.

@DavidLaMorte Месяц назад

Thanks for this Sam. This is very relatable to me as an American who had is previous president memed into office. I personally love flags and usually make my students design their own each year. Btw you video on micro nations still makes me think about the nature of our reality and identity.

@allenrose2213 Месяц назад

The surprising poignance on imagination from the flag guy really got me

@mannythebaka7522 Месяц назад

Sam really needs his own TV show.

@thisexists Месяц назад

lord knows we have tried

@dotintegral Месяц назад

Dish Exists made my day!

@teethgrinder83 Месяц назад

Can't wait for another vid!!!!!

@bythebeardofmatt 25 дней назад

I love that this video dropped the week before Flag Day

@jesses4212 Месяц назад

dam the dream analysis portion is my fav part so far xD

@Queen2A5 Месяц назад

holy fuck its been a minute. good to see you baack

@ashleydoran5896 Месяц назад

OMG YOU ARE BACK!!!!

@antonslayeranton6665 Месяц назад

ABSOLUTE BANGER so glad to see you back on your shit, keep it the fr*ck going son

@braydenwelffer8553 29 дней назад

sam, this is my favorite content

@SpookyTooth Месяц назад

I’ve made a lot of muppet related AI art and that little yellow muppet is always close by

@ThePortalGeek1337 Месяц назад

Cannot believe this show is coming back, it’s been so so long

@edmundolastra3279 Месяц назад

Sam (mentions video about micronations that "nobody watched") Le me: huh... I wonder if I missed that one... Sam: shows clip Le me: I remember this!

@thecalis Месяц назад

RU-vid failed to notify me about this, but here I am again.

@Viscount Месяц назад

I just want to comment that I watched your micro nation video and I loved it.

@Idkpleasejustletmechangeit 28 дней назад

19:48 I actually once founded a micronation. It's name was E and it was entirely located in a single room of a highschool. I held an independence vote. Didn't see the result, but I assumed that it was successful.

@augustopdrocha Месяц назад

This Exists is back and I can be happy again! ❤

@CodyDrew-rok Месяц назад

I cannot believe it, the return of This Exists, this is the greatest news of 2024. My friends are losing their minds over this. Thanks for everything Sam

@F19ish Месяц назад

I love, as always, your dedication to finding unusual experts and perspectives to interview. It makes these rabbit holes you go down feel so much broader and vibrant. I'll mirror what other have said about the AI pictures - it really detracts from the grounded, human feeling you bring to all of your shows.

@IronicCliche Месяц назад

This sounds like the plot to an eldrotch horror novel

@claytonandres1194 Месяц назад

"The cursed imagery of that heraldry unfolded me. I do not dare describe it in too much detail here, lest the reader themselves be driven mad..."

@uwulydia Месяц назад

great vid! i hope the AI generated stuff isn't a recurring thing tho

@gaylienz Месяц назад

fascinating stuff! thanks so much for sharing with us once again! my sociologist brain is happy. as my soc mentor likes to say, "we make this shit up".

@jeremygreen2883 Месяц назад

I DID indeed watch the episode on Micro nations. It was very insightful and enjoyable.

@JadeHager Месяц назад

There is now a 45% chance there will be math rock album called "Somnivexillology" some time soon

@pancakeforge Месяц назад

I still remember the black midi episode. Welcome back king

@idunno...someguy3252 Месяц назад

I really hope this is about r/vexillologycirclejerk, perhaps my favorite example of there being some VERY specific subreddits out there

@thisexists Месяц назад

it is... even more specific.

@idunno...someguy3252 Месяц назад

@@thisexists I'm on the edge of my seat, jittery with excitement.... either that or I need to lay off the coffee

@Xanabel13 Месяц назад

there's never a need for AI. it ruined what could have been an excellent and informative video, but I can't get past the AI garbage at the beginning.

@orlokoclock5353 Месяц назад

I second this. I was disappointed he used AI. Hes always done good work and the AI was needless and just clashes.

@lern2swim Месяц назад

Gonna also chime in against the ai crap

@blackphantoml4l2 Месяц назад

seconded. I was so excited to see ecists again then just instant distaste at the AI. It cant be hard to licence a video of a military march

@Vikezor Месяц назад

well this video is about "false flags", so ai-hallucinated flags kinda fit (and sonic in the car is funny)

@TrashHeapCustodian Месяц назад

+1, please do not put AI stuff in the vids, that'd actually make me unsubscribe despite being subbed before the Christopher Lee special

@arly803 Месяц назад

This notification made me gasp audibly. Welcome back bud. Love from Canada

@jamesmotiv8989 Месяц назад

He is also in Canada! Ontario based.

@arly803 Месяц назад

@@jamesmotiv8989 i forgot lol it has been a minute

@jamesmotiv8989 Месяц назад

@@arly803 totally been too long haha I just got excited and commented. Didn't mean to be the "uhm actually" guy 😅

@thisexists Месяц назад

domestic love! no shipping fees!

@joeyvicidomini9546 24 дня назад

6:27 yay one of my flags made it in

@timewave02012 Месяц назад

I'm fairly certain I watched the micronations episode back in the day. I definitely watched the black MIDI episode, and probably a bunch of others I can't recall anymore.

@cptsteele91 Месяц назад

Bro disappeared for 2 years then popped back up with a regular schedule like nothing happened wtf

@DrSpooglemon Месяц назад

Pocket sand! 💀

@622.by.sunrise8 Месяц назад

Damn, I forgot this exists

@idlerwheel Месяц назад

I left Holland to travel abroad on holiday to Hollandaise.

@ChrisLeeW00 Месяц назад

Cool how now that Ive seen this video, I now have a chance of dreaming about a flag

@mvnkycheez Месяц назад

I LOVE THIS EXISTS

@Notelu Месяц назад

Glad to see you back, but sad to see AI slop as the first thing when I click on the video

@jugernaut246 Месяц назад

I don't like AI either, but I also think its artistically defensible in this case. AI video in particular has this weird hallucinatory dreamlike vibe that is appropriate for the subject.

@macsnafu Месяц назад

I don't recall seeing any flags in my dreams--but maybe this video will trigger a dream flag for me. Also, how do you know people really dreamed these flags, or did they just make them up and pretend they dreamed them?

@malcolmmchale9881 Месяц назад

blast from the past gotdam

@Znatnhos Месяц назад

At the end of the day, we're all just trying to make sense of the nonsensical. Life has no intrinsic meaning, so we invent meaning for it and thus it is quite meaningful. And that's beautiful.