Personally, I think the US should have adopted the style of the Confederacy national flag. Only on the white house's dumpsters though, because the confederate national flags are about as inbred as the south itself.
As a Brit, I'm a huge fan of Hawaii's flag. Especially because I think it's hilarious that they can get away with being an US state while also sporting a British watermark lol.
@@loading9110 Well actually the flag is just the British and American flags mashed together. It has the American design but with the union jack where the stars would be.
I know that “capture the flag is the oldest gamemode in human history” is probably a joke, but it’s definitely just straight up wrong. 1v1 is definitely the oldest, followed by battle royale, and then team deathmatch. Capture the flag is like, #4 at the earliest.
Team Deathmatch is definitely older than Battle Royale, at least for humans. We are pack animals. Hell, the first 1vs1 probably turned into the first Team Deathmatch when the two guys friends showed up.
The Hawaiian flag is actually designed to imitate the British, Russians, and Americans. Essentially saying "we're important to all these powerful empires, you don't wanna mess with us."
One fun fact: when the US adds a state, old flags are still considered valid. If you have a 48-star flag that's in good repair, you can fly it, and it's a perfectly cromulent American flag.
@@Gabryal77 And that sound you now hear? It's the ultra-right and ultra-left political supporters who were looking forward to getting rid of a state or two of their opponent's. 😏
One thing interesting about the union jack that a lot of people forget is that it's a combination of three flags, everyone knows St George's Cross for England and St Andrews Cross for Scotland, but people always forget about the red and white St Patrick's Cross for Ireland.
And while Central American flags are based off the Federal Republic of Central America's flag, the Federal Republic of Central America's flag itself was inspired by Argentina's flag (then known as the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata). This is because of a French guy named Hipólito Bouchard who was serving under the Argentine Navy and raided the Spanish outposts located there during their war for Independence and the people would see that flag, so they took it as an inspiration. The man even raided and occupied the Spanish fort of Monterey, California for a few days. He was killed by one of his servants in 1837 in Peru When you were talking about Central Asian countries/Stans, I thought you were gonna mention the fact most of the Stan flags have a moon or a sun symbolized rather than the complex carpet (which only Turkmenistan's flag has).
I absolutely agree about the disappointment of NZ not changing our flag. It was the biggest waste of money in recent history. I recently went to an international event (ISDE) where we were set up next to Australia, and at-least twice a day an Australian would wander into the New Zealand area or vice-versa because the flags look so damn similar and all the staff uniforms looked the same
I loved James Dignan’s 2002 proposal for the flag, it was quite elegant and it should have been one of the options As for Australia, they should change to the Golden Wattle design, or the black-gold-green tricolor with a Southern Cross in the hoist. I also find those quite elegant
@@antlantis1234 They changed their anthem, would it be much of a stretch to change their flag too? They're discussing becoming a republic at the moment and a flag change would be appropriate if they did.
Hey Cody just wanted to say as a Venezuelan that I really appreciate you used the 7 stars flag instead of the 8 stars one. A lot of venezuelans are against the 8 stars flag established in 2006 by Chávez. The reason for this it's the same as your opinion on the 13 star flag of the USA, it's more symbolic. The seven stars represents the seven provinces that sign the declaration of independence, Guayana wasn't included because it was liberated a week before the declaration. Seven months later (ha!) Bolívar enacted a law in which he added the 8th star but 4 years later it was repealed before Venezuela became a part of gran Colombia. In 2006 Chávez decided to add the 8th star again and a lot of people opposed to this because the 7 star flag it's a symbol of our independence and freedom. If we follow the "liberated provinces" logic then the flag should have 25 stars instead of seven and that would look horrible and complicated.
The Tibetan flag is one of the most beautiful flag I've ever seen. Everything about it is so pretty and captures the essence of its culture, land, and people. My college roommates and I found even a vintage one at an open aired market and hung it on our wall as a decoration. It made for a great conversation piece for visitors except for this one time I invited a Chinese date over... putting it lightly, she was not amused.
The backstory goes hard as fuck, the leader of the Atoll responded to the US saying "everything in the hands of god" after they proposed to him to destroy his and his people's home, and let's face it, they really had no choice on the matter. What else could a small community realistically say to the United States? And so the flag is an enduring reminder of the homes that the US destroyed for the sake of testing nuclear warheads.
This man showed a picture of Unicron while talking about a Mars flag, and now I'm dying of curiosity wondering what a flag design for him would look like.
Unicron would find a flag... self-aggrandizing. And he really had no reason to oversell himself, given that his only weakness was essentially an act of divine intervention by Primus. He'd probably go with solid black, though, to represent the infinite void that he intended to leave in his wake.
@@UltimateNut We literally did. The "Star Spangled Banner" had 15 stripes. Congress eventually realized that going to get pretty busy. There was also the question of when they went to 16, did the white stripe go on the top or the bottom.
The Aquila just goes so damn hard. As you said, double headed eagles go hard, its a fact but the Aquila has some surprising symbolism to it. The two heads represent the two core planets of the Imperium, Terra and Mars. The reason why only the left eagle has an eye is hecause it represents Earth, from which the Emperor over"sees" the Imperium and its glory.
I really like the Mars Congressional Republic flag from The Expanse. It's just complicated enough to say "this is the future, our flag wasn't designed when we had to dye/sew each flag by hand", but simple enough to be recreated with minimal geometric help. Even a completely free-handed child's drawing would be recognizable.
Usually flags for fictional settings tend to be better then real flags. Maybe because the author can change the world so the flag has a better and meaningful design easily, or maybe because there are not stupid bureaucracy for their design and or creation.
By far the most common issue in flag design is oversatured colors so so many flags would be dramatically improved by slightly desaturating some or all colors
“That flag is a symbol we attach our emotions to, but it isn't the emotion itself and it isn't the thing we really care about. Sometimes we don't even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.” ― Tom Wolfe,
as a michigander i’m sworn to hate ohio till the end of my days but you guys have a great flag (and i do in fact notice the overrepresentation of michigan in these videos and the fact you nuked us)
It's one of the few state flags that genuinely looks 'American' and works well as a flag. I get to go about and see it flown under the U.S flag itself in various places, and it doesn't look out of place at all. So many of the others are ruined by the presence of the infamous blue backgrounds and intricate illustrations that have to be expensive to replicate. They seem like placeholders more than anything. Even most of the original 13 colonies have mediocre state flags, and they've had two and a half centuries to get those figured out.
@@Disciple_JK As a Tennesseean, I think ours comes in a close second in terms of feeling American. Just as the US uses 50 stars to signify how it divides itself, Tennessee has 3 stars to signify how it divides itself. There is a central governing body in Nashville, but the Tennessee River divides the state into 3, and each Grand Division has an influential major city.
Brazil, also adds stars on its flag each time it adds more states. At least in the USA, it was decided to stop the practice of adding both new stars and stripes for each new state added. Now the flag only has stripes representing the original 13 colonies.
I think that the lack of purple is a self-perpetuating circle - since new flags usually try to take inspiration from past symbols and colours (which never featured any purple), they usually don’t incorporate purple in the design Btw, how do you imagine making the city/province flag situation better - I’m really interested in the process of making a new flag up - where to draw symbolism from, how to incorporate it. There are a lot of flags to be improved in my opinion
He mentions it on the previous flag video, but Puerto Rico is a great start on your journey. Each one of the 78 municipalities has it's unique flag, and most of them look quite good.
I think purple being more common in Pride flags kinda backs this up. National flags don't have purple because of that self-perpetuating cycle, but Pride flags are newer than accessible purple dyes, and they didn't look to national flags for inspiration so their designers don't feel discouraged from using purple (in fact, now that there's a history of purple in Pride flags, their designers might include it when taking inspiration, like how the demisexual flag takes color notes from the asexual flag because demi is on the ace spectrum). Yes, there's more to it than the recent-ish availability and its inclusion in the original rainbow flag, but if the original designers had looked to national flags I think the results would've been very different, with way less purple, and the flags as a group would be much less recognizable.
The flag shown at 9:38 is not the original flag of the US. What you show is the Cowpens Flag. A flag that was almost rarely used. The original flag was the Betsy Ross Flag, which lacked a center star and only had a 13-star circle.
actually, since you mentioned my country new zealand there have been allot of alternate flag's proposed over the decades, my personal favorite was a tri color flag of Blue, White and Black going horizontal with a black 5-pointed star in the middle of the white band, shame it never went anywhere i thought it was a good design
I'm sad you didn't mention the Derafsh Kaviani. Flag was created over 2,000 years ago and still looks really good while following all the principles of flag design
The lore I heard about Hawaii's flag is a bit more interesting. Great Britian and the USA were having 'issues' and with each other, but Hawaii didn't want to pick sides and potentially lose trade with (or get invaded by) the other side... So they started using an intentionally confusing naval flag.
As an Ohioan and lover of purple, I approve of this video. Our state flag is pretty great, and there DEFINITELY needs to be more purple out there on flags.
Gotta say Templin did nail the flag thing, the flags from the Ace Combat universe almost all follow the flag rules and are just, objectively believable.
"MAJOR LENNOX ANSWERED WITH HIS LIFE, as YOU should have done if you had any sense of honour!! You lost the colours of the King of England! You disgraced us, sir! You shamed us, sir!!! YOU will answer!"
I love the Australian flag tbh...the union jack looks cool and we have the southern cross on it, a constellation only seen from the southern hemisphere. This is kinda central to Australian identity e.g. the motto of the University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university is something like 'the stars change, the mind remains the same' -- this idea of being in another hemisphere is also seen in the name Australia itself. It's derived from the Latin Terra Australis meaning 'land of the south.' Once you factor all this in, it's easy to see why the flag is the way it is.
Fun fact: Not only are most of the flags of Central America similar to that of the Federal Republic of Central America, but that flag is pretty much a copy of the Argentine flag. That’s because of the French-Argentine captain Hipólito Bouchard, whose ship was crucial in defeating the realist forces in Central America.
If I remember correctly the lion in the modern Spanish flag is legally supposed to be purple, since a purple lion was the symbol of one of the old Spanish kingdoms, but then whoever chose the exact colors went with a shade that isn’t exactly purple and pissed off all the heralds. It’s a shame, the world could use more purple flags.
For the purple flags segment, if we are going based off of Nicaragua using purple on their coat of arms, El Salvador must also be included, as they are also using purple in their coat of arms.
For purple flags i believe a few native american tribes use purple. I know the flag of the Iroquois Confederacy is purple and white, and also just a sweet design in general.
11:00 Aaaaa I live in Easton, Pennsylvania!! We have a lot of pride in our flag and it’s awesome to see it get mentioned! We were one of the three cities to have the Declaration of Independence read aloud to the public for the first time so we celebrate our roots a little after July 4th and call it Heritage Day (the day is July 8th but celebrations happen on the weekend)! The flag is displayed alongside the American flag across the city throughout the year but especially on that day and there’s even a very old Easton flag in the local library that is from the revolutionary period I believe! If anyone visits we have the Crayola Factory and also The Creamery which is a very good ice cream shop!
10:42 For a while they updated the amount of stripes, too. It was just around after Kentucky was added I think that they realized it would look bad. I guess stars in comparison aren't as bad
I like the Cascadian flag, I wish Washington or Oregon would at least adopt its blue white and green tricolor. 💙 🤍 💚 Props to Lesotho for good taste in color at least.
The Cascadia flag is pretty cool. Got a soft spot for Douglas Fir. Technically, Washington has adopted green and blue. The field of the current flag is an emerald green (the only US state flag to do so) and the state seal in the center has a blue backdrop. I just wish the subject was something a little more relevant than the state's namesake. No disrespect, but he wasn't even alive when US citizens started settling the area. Plus having the seal unedited complete with text looks kind of tacky like a cut and paste, though since the yellow is supposed to represent the east side it'd be fair to include it somewhere as well.
A recent bit of flag related trivia. Honduras just this year finally implemented a flag color change that had been officially ruled way back in 1967, changing the flag color from navy blue to Turquoise blue. It is the first turquoise country flag in history, and arguably the longest time between flag official proclamation and practical implementation in modern history. You should look it up, it's quite cool. I personally like the new color, it is quite serene and does look more like the Caribbean waters as intended.
New Zealand had been flying their flag for decades before the Australians stole their design, but what would you expect given the history? Could convicts really ever be expected to be able to design a flag of their own?
I love these types of your videos don't get me wrong I love you already history video these video are just such a refresher imo they are fun to watch and do think that are fun to make as well and they do cover fun topic like anthems or flags can't wait for more
I’m working on my own alternative US and I design a flag for it. It combines the Serapis flag with the 20-star ‘Grand Star’ design. It looks like the Grand Star flag, but with the stripes of the Serapis. I think it makes it stand out when compared to the current and previous US flag. Not overly complicated, but not overly simple, as well
Hey Cody, when are we getting "What if Japan had remained neutral in WW2?" or "What if Japan had been part of the Allies in WW2?" It's very much needed and would be really nice to watch.
fun fact: the norvegian flag had the blue stripe in the middle beacuse the child of one of the founders of the country just drew on the flag and the dad thought it looked good.
3:41 Costa Rica (🇨🇷) and Guatemala (🇬🇹) flags also take inspiration from the former Federal Republic of Central America, Costa Rica added a red stripe in the middle but the blue stripes still remain and Guatemala just made it a vertical triband instead of horizontal, lastly the flag of Honduras is wrong since they changed the color of their flag recently to a more lighter tone of blue closer to the original Federal Republic of Central America.
Fun fact: The Danish flag legend involves the Estonians. Basically, according to the legend, the Danish were losing to the Estonians in the battle of Lyndanisse, but then their flag dropped out of the sky, motivating them and helping them win the battle. Also, yes I'm that guy who likes to slide their country into everything and anything.
Fun fact about the central american falgs: when Argentina get their independence, a french named Bouchard went to Argentina, became a citizen of the new republic and then he sail with his new ship "La Argentina" to central America, with a corsair license that allowed him to plunder and loot spaniards ships and colonies, and when he get there those colonies were in their independence war, Bouchard helped them a lot using the argentine flag on his ship, so many nations adopted a similar flag as thanks for the flag that helped them to get their independence, the united provinces of central america was a federal union to fight the imperialist expansion of the mexican empire, and adopted a similar flag for the great amount of flag like that in all central america, later after the fall of the empire they became independent from this union despite some tried to maintain it, but the flag colours are from the argentinian flag, not the central american union
I think you may have had the 40k eagle backwards, the open eye is supposed to be on the right signifying that humanity only looks forward, and that the history of the past is forgotten; idk tho
I really like how you brought up the Cowpens flag in this video as the best variant of the Stars and Stripes. The Fallout series capitalized on it and, at least in my opinion, proves that the star pattern is significantly more interesting than the modern-day stacked 50-star variant
I would like to dispute 1:12 of this video, you say capture the flag might very well be the oldest game mode. Free for all deathmatch was absolutely the first mode we ever invented, what are you t a l k i n g about
Super wacky fun times. I've always liked the older versions of flags, like the old Austrian one. They just looked different and cool. (Also I hate how you pronounced Wallachia. Then again, I shouldn't be too surprised since you called consoles councils.)
2:05 the flag on the person is indeed the Dutch flag, but the flag they’re holding is the Luxemburgisch flag. They are very similar, but the blue on Luxemburg’s flag is slightly lighter.
3:42 Yesn't We actually formed the Major Republic of Central America between the three. This happened during the late 1800's, after the Federal Republic's separation, which united Costa Rica and Guatemala as well. The colors for the Federal Republic were inspired by Argentinas' flag due to all the help liberal authorities received from the them to form the union, but after dissolving, us hondurans formed the Major Republic, which had a similar flag but with five golden stars, a coat of arms similar to that of Nicaragua, and dark blue stripes. After the Major Republic's separation, those three countries remained with dark blue stripes, while Guatemala used turquoise ones (until recently, Honduras changed the dark blue for turquoise as well, as it is written in the constitution)
2:48 the uk flag also has Ireland in it which at the time was similar to the Scottish flag but now that the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are separate and the republic isn’t part of uk people usually either forget about it or assume it is from NI
6:51 I remember one time we had to design fictional country flags in elementary school. I asked if I could make my flag a different shape. I have no idea if I just thought it'd be cool or if I was somehow aware of Ohio's or Nepal's flag, but either way I'm with you in spirit, Ohio.
Turkmenistan is actually the only nation in Central Asia to use that complicated rug pattern because it both represents the tradition of rug weaving in the country, and the five distinct designs (or guls) in the pattern represent the five major Turkmen tribes. So it’s actually quite distinct to Turkmenistan and its flag.
