This is not the Star-spangled Banner 

It's a banner, and it's got a spangled star pattern. Star-spangled banner lol

British opinion detected...rejected

Imagine being British

I personally do not call the US flag the Star Spangled Banner. My was a D-day survivor who was later injured in France and placed in a POW hospital and camp. He was missing for 9 days. Years later, after getting back to the Allied side he was shipped home. He married, had 4 children, and never talked about the war again. On the 50th anniversary of D-day our youngest daughter asked if she could call him and talk about WWII. I told her yes so she did and he told her everything. He was deployed in either the 2nd or 3rd wave. He and his fellow soldiers walked to shore on the debris and bodies of soldiers who had drowned due to the weight of their packs and that they had disembarked too far out. My dad lived to see the D-day Memorial built outside Bedford, VA. In the area where he was born and raised. My dad was VERY patriotic and taught us to be also.

Same flag, different design. Big deal.

God, imagine 50 stripes on the flag

Wrong. That was the original, they are all the Star Spangled Banner.

And whats crazier is that The Star Spangled banner is not was key even named the poem. its called "defense of fort mchenry"

According to the US Flag code which is advisory Federal Law. All past versions of the flag of the United States are given the same treatment and respect as the current version.

Yeah, there’s another name for it: Old Glory.

Why are we letting a British dude tell us what our flag is?

While the US flag looks different today, note that our flag since the beginning of the republic automatically changes each time a new state is added.

It’s still the star spangled banner

Bro has never heard of a disambiguation

The American flag has changed over the years to accommodate additional states. They are all called "The Star Spangeled Banner."

Me: oh, what countries' flag could it be based on?

No, the name has been co-opted to mean any US flag now.

In another song Francis Scott wrote in 1805 called When the warrior returns he calls the flag The Star Spangled Flag

So the US flag isn’t the US flag, good reasoning

We need to talk about the bit in the anthem that no one sings.