Why are Purple Flags So Rare? (Short Animated Documentary) 

Yep that was me in a nutshell

The Centauri Republic has the color purple on their flag but they are actually a constitutional monarchy.

Me between the moment of my birth and right now: Never cared about this. Me right now: *Intensely interested*

Nowi also wondering why pink flag so rare, why black flag so rare, and why grey......

@@nelsonk1341 black is super common on flags..

babushka dollars

@@Taima WHAT THE FUCK LMAOO

@@vintage-radio lol, I'm glad you enjoyed that

Spanish Republicans: lmao

@@Taima lmao yes

Same

Agreed

Ah yes, me too

Same

Underrated comment xD

I never picked up on that lmao

What is? I didn't get it

They mixed red and blue together ​@@lpedr0l

@@lpedr0l The results were mixed, just like the paints

Hehe, “mixed”

*Nailed It*

In the shape of Nepal...

I was hoping he'd also say "and some are the same, like Chad and Romania"

@MLG Joe HOW DARE YOU!

@MLG Joe I think their flag is unique, not shi-

Charlie _ nailed it

some are also Libya where they have it just plain green and nothing else. Or well it was before the revolution anyway.

That part broke me! XD

Loved that bit!

Then there is Ohio's flag.

SuperML nice

You got the joke! Well done.

I can't do it it's 666 likes .......I need to keep........... the......... balance

actually there is no purple color (as light wave length) it is mix of red and blue, check wiki ;)

@@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372 thats.. because its not a primary colour

@yabghus Bro what? He literally explained how purple is associated with royalty and wealth what are you on about

@yabghus your profile picture is purple :)

@yabghus yea but you can change it.

yabghus : purple is a unisex colour. Kings wore it as a symbol of wealth, men wear it nowadays. No colour is a females or a boys. How old are you?

Thanks

yagbos purple I don’t recall ever being used to represent imperialism... just royalty and the papacy.

@yagbos purple is ugly he said, jeez

@yagbos purple is beautiful

yagbos purple is nice

@yagbos Purple is beautiful

Liam thommpson its true tho

They surrendered like that just once, and all the glory from Charlamagne to Napoleon was wiped.

@@ravenz1644 French army probably has more victories then the rest of the continental forces

@Master Yoda Well of course, since the UK only goes in once others have done the hard part of the job

@@samarkand1585 right I'm sure when they fight India, Zulu, Malaya and others with the help of European Union back in the empire days

Yeah basically lol

*filipino laughs in ube*

Next time new country is formed they should pick purple as one of their colors to be unique.

just mix red and blue dye LOOOOL

@@condor2279 it didn’t really look that great when that was done, so the cheap alternative was wine lol

The 1980’s thank him.

That was the funniest/ best quote of this vid 😂

Atleast it's creative :D

as a lithuanian i agree

Well the colours mentioned in the video were red white and blue. Lithuania has Red. So does that mean you need at least 2 of them? In that case...🇩🇪 O boy!

our fax machine is broken. Email servers are down too

Everyone agreed that Purple sucked so the Republic must go down

@@conejitorosada2326 of course, no civil war happened... it was all a flag colour issue, for sure

@@dargtagnan3696 even today there are republican people who use the flag ...

@@zenyattakawai3076 is the coolest one fr

@@chnkg1775 Is was a communist and authoritarian regime ...

Which is why wearing purple was the ultimate flex

it came from rare snails

Significantly more. It was about three times the price of gold. Nowadays, however, it’s more than *55* times the price of gold, at about 3.1 _million_ US dollars per kilogram.

And yesterday I bought 1.5 square meters of purple fabric. I should go back in time a couple of centuries and resell it. Plus inflation I'd not just be rich, I might be even richer than bezzos

How much dye was required for each item of clothing?

Fucking hell.....

teacher was right to blame him, a simply white flag isn't lovely colored... (and yes ik it's a joke)

@@emanuelneagu14 its also a surrender flag. No wonder why france surrendered

@@YourAveragePersonLol right

nice try, MILITARY!

Even more funny when we know that a lot of royalists were supporting petain x)

The white flag was hated by the French resistance fighters. Both of them.

Nazi Germany: "Oh god sorry guys, we didn't realise." *Starts shooting again*

@@nemeczek67 😆😂🤣

@@nemeczek67 french resistance :D funny kid

I thought it was going to be like that because of purple being royal

An so... W A R

Magma Fang I mean it signified royalty because of how expensive it was to produce

The only way to obtain purple was to go diving to the bottom of the Mediterranean sea to collect Muricidae snail shells. Once collected, you had to smash the shells. Then you had to add wood ash and water, slowly heat it up over about a month and let it ferment, in the dark. Over a thousand snail shells were required to dye just a single robe or cloak. So, good luck accomplishing this in less than a year. Not to mention the trouble if something went wrong.

"...yo!"... Why do I find this so annoying?

The Centauri Republic has the color purple on their flag but they are actually a constitutional monarchy.

Yep, that was a good one.

Youd think he would have wanted to keep the colour purple since he was very catholic and though a dictador he was still a monarchist. And youd have thought the spanis republic would NOT have used purple for the reasons above... Spain had it the wrong way around lol

@@Whydoyoureadme Why would I think that if I'm from Spain? I literally kow the history of Spain pretty well and know the reasons why Franco didn't wanted to keep with the color purple.

Purple flag part of Republic Spain came because of "Comuneros" flag.

I don’t know

idk man, I think it was a good meme too :/

Imagine the enemy were like “Oh, they want to come Say that they surrender face to face, very french.”

because its like your like count

If you got a very good joke, like this one, don't think that others don't say the meme you wanna say anymore, just say it, only superficial people will cringe at it, those who don't exist without fashion and never wanna look back, over good memories...

Well the colours mentioned in the video were red white and blue. Lithuania has Red. So does that mean you need at least 2 of them? In this case...🇩🇪 O boy.

Lithuania used to be blue and red durning medieval era thank Russia for the change.

@@MonsieurWeevil 😁😁😁😂😂😂👍

@@MonsieurWeevil 🇮🇪 😂

@@RooneyAldo Well...

"Sorry my friend that's copyrighted."

@@YataTheFifteenth Imagine trying to surrender to a country in a war and that country copyright strike you

@@user-zn8xu8dg5z Napoleon: "sweet free money"

@@YataTheFifteenth lol

After one surrender France makes in WW2, people start to mock the damn country despite actually knowing it's full history.

so petty lmao

Pues no lo sabía, muy interesante 👍

If they can change cable colors for such stupid reasons, that explains why it is so hard to get standardized cable colors nowadays

Wait, why don't you have DIN-colour-coded cables like the rest of Europe?

@@piporgames Yo tampoco, y con lo de Franco FrancoFrancoFrancoFrancoFranco... Por qué digo Franco o.o Que buenos momentos cuando seguía de moda, ahora nos reímos con un pan cayéndose :(

He named his first son Dylon.

*James Bissonette

@@mitchellreece3711 James Bizzanette?

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@@potatoesandducks958 James byzantine

Lol

Are you mean actual French flag since 1814 before the July Revolution in 1830? And modern French flag based on Bourbon white stripe and flag of Paris (blue and red stripes) since the end of 18th century.

The french royal coat of arms either was blue or white with lys flowers depending on the dynasty. I think the flag was entirely white only a for a few years after the revolution

The real royal flag had golden fleur de lis on it

Not gonna like the comment just to keep it at 777 likes xD

@@oui3255 I liked it for you

He is going to have a trip to your place with a colorfull cats of friends a romantic interest and end up imagining the world more complexly

*_WE’RE THE EXCEPTION!_* _(cues Mongoltage)_

Like the Second Spanish Republic?

@@Darkfawfulx yes

Are you exited for la resistance for computer game "hearts of iron 4?"

@M Sadly most succesors of Great Empires were morons. Alexander the Great [Diodochi],Ghengis Khan and many others.

@@mojewjewjew4420 do i need to remind you alexander the great conquered the known world of his time

@@ErebusAbaddonAzrael What does it has to do? His successors still were shit and divided his empire.

If you die, you might as well die with the best flag in the world

But they didn't have a purple flag. The Komnenian flag was a black, double-headed eagle on a yellow background and the Palaiologan was a yellow Cross with four Bs (or firestarters, depending on who you ask) on a red background. Before that there was no "official" flag, but various standards (usually blue or red) employing Crosses and Chi Rhos.

@@nikolaosboukouvalas449 did...........did they copy the HRE!?!?!? *IS VISIBLE HORROR*

I mean, Eastern Rome did last longer than Republican & Imperial Rome (combined).

King Edward "Longshanks" I, Hammer of the Scots, Lord of Wales and King of England Weak ass Meme Most Byzantine flags were red and never purple

Yep, including kids aged 63.

@@Steeyuv Definitely hahaha . tbh you are never too old to learn . But what i meant was this is great for kids especially if they are struggling when it comes to history in School . This channel makes it a bit easier to understand .

*queue Super Mario 64 - Slide* The American Revolutionary War WWI WWII (Okay so i cant think of any others)

@@sci_pain3409 France has won the most wars

@@sci_pain3409 Napoleon in the majority of his wars. Hundred Years War and a whole lot more

@@sci_pain3409 I would like to disagree with you there. A LOT.

@@Awfulfeature Statistically they are one of the most successful military nations on the planet. The surrender nonsense was an American invetion, which is utterly ignorany of France's very, very impressive military history.

And we migth break in to two communities making Leon the only ones using purple

@@Pablo_Abajos Well, I think the province of Valladolid uses a purple flag also. Not an autonomy but a recognised entity nonetheless.

@@eukarya_ y Palencia también

@That Toast Palencia es una provincia tu que hablas

La bandera co-official de cantabria y repito CÓ-OFICIAL, el gobierno de Cantabria la admite es un fondo completamente de un color morado tirando a magenta.

I agree 🤙🏾

Wow yeah

Woo Yeaa

Our flag is already amazing...it’s got a dragon on it 😂😂

@@troygrindley3793 but it needs more targaryen and less, my pet dragon...

If this thread EVER does a Lego model set of these aritocrats, soldiers, Kings, and papacy figures along with more soldiers, I'M BUYING.

I learned you are useless!

Why not use color from lavender? Europe has so many of that flower.

@@kohndoe9440 Maybe it's difficukt to make a color with this flower

@@kohndoe9440 No good. Lavender dyes to a soft grey, or at its strongest a greyish-pink.

@@wppb50 Makes sense, lavender color eyeshadow can look more grey or pink and rarely looks purple unless paired with another purple.

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They were just setting themselves up for that joke, hundreds of years in advance.

Yeah, that was after the Brits had left them holding the hot baguette by running back to their island after the first few shots were fired. Over 90% of Brit casualties in mainland Europe in 1940 were inflicted on them while they were fleeing (with French and Belgian soldiers guarding the rear). To hide this (and the murder of 1500 French sailors by the Brits), the Brits invented the myth of the cowardly French.

Gosh the people that can't handle memes about France ashame our country more that surrendering did.

@@Cl0ckcl0ck Holy crap... someone needs to open a history book. The British retreated from mainland Europe after the British Expeditionary Force and much of the French Army was encircled and cut off from the rest of France. The BEF was comprised of only a few hundred thousand soldiers and operated more or less exclusively in the far north of France and Belgium, while the rest of the line was manned by roughly 3 million French troops. The reason why much of British casualties during the Battle of France happened while they were retreating is because they were encircled, cut off, and more or less forced to retreat after the Germans broke through French lines manned by French soldiers, before the BEF conducted any major offensive operations on front. The French botched the defence of their own country. The French High Command had spent the last 2 decades sniffing their own farts and getting high off their victory in WW1. They put way too much faith into their defences and had barely innovated in both technology and tactics since 1918. They also ignored aerial reconnaissance reports of German forces moving through the Ardennes, falsely believing the terrain to be impenetrable. With all that in mind, why should the entire BEF go down fighting in France, leaving the UK wide open for invasion, when the French themselves had failed to defend their own country through sheer incompetence? It was honestly the LEAST the French could do to allow the British to evacuate back to England, giving them the opportunity to defend their own country. The "murder" of 1500 French sailors is a massive oversimplified fallacy. When the French surrendered to the Germans, one of the terms of peace was that the French Fleet would remain docked in North Africa but would apparently be left alone by the Germans. History has since revealed that the Germans had no intention of leaving a perfectly good fleet of warships out of their war effort, since when Vichy France was invaded by the Germans and Italians just 2 years later, they desperately attempted to seize what remained of the French Fleet in Toulon, before it was scuttled by the French sailors as they held off the German forces. The British had the good sense to realise that the French Fleet wasn't going to be left alone in 1940, since after all, the Germans had broken pretty much every agreement they had made prior to this, and thus the British presented an ultimatum to Vichy France to hand over the fleet or have it destroyed. The bombing of the French Fleet was not murder, the naval forces of a enemy puppet nation is a justifiable target in war. And finally, the British did not 'invent' the 'myth of the cowardly French', and they certainly didn't do it in an attempt to hide any of their actions during WW2. The aforementioned actions are not hidden history, nor has there been any attempt to cover them up. The tongue-in-cheek joke surrounding the French being cowards in WW2 is just something that's naturally come about, Britain and France are two very similar nations after all, and one of them surrendered and the other did not. Also, the idea is far from being exclusively pushed by the British. Plenty of people from all over the world, including the French themselves, joke about France's overall poor performance in WW2.

@CL0ckCL0ck your grandparents were cowards who hid in the woods during the war, eagerly awaiting the British to come and tell them we’d rescued your pitiful nation.

Meh.

Fuk i finally get it

There's a special stripe in heraldry that denotes bastardy.

That’s got to be one of the only good jokes I’ve heard about this white flag

@@ufhb6649 Indeed! To add extra insult to the other white-flag jokes, I have not found any evidence that the French ever flew the royal/surrender flag during World War II, as a national flag or a surrender flag! It would make sense that France did not announce their 1940 surrender with a white flag, since other famous surrenders of the same war did not use white flags (Germany, May 1945; or Japan, August 1945). Either way, I have always found the 1814 French flag to have that major a design mistake: it looks like the Bourbons forgot the white flag meant surrender for _literally_ the rest of Europe!

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions Well,since the radio and phone exist,the white flag is quite useless

Yeavlol

exactly me 😂

"Now that you mention it..."

Everyone felt this.

There flag is literally darkened austria

they have white

@@presiyanpeev2218 a white stripe? So does all of Europe except Spain, Portugal, etc

@@tsar389 It's not like a fat white stripe like Austria's. It's a thin one. Plus our flag is Carmine red. Much darker red than Austria's.

*laughs in Ukraine*

shoulda made it purple

The time when the French flag was completely white was during the Bourbon Restoration in the early 1800s. Before the revolution the flag had some yellow on it.

That makes sense! The Castilian Commoner (Comunera) flag always stroke me for having the exact same colour of the Republican flag, despite being centuries older

I confirm that

I am personally very interested in Spain's history, especially in the Spanish civil war era, and to me this is an absolutely sensational fact. no joke

"Y aquel que la encontrara y la sacara de la piedra, sería el elegido para convertirse en rey de Inglaterra." Y luego ya se le iba la república por los poros a los republicanos ante la opción de convertirse en reyes. [Referencia a excalibur, y a este intento de leyenda para legitimar la traición]

JustThatGuy 37 are you from nepal?

Being a Nepali🇳🇵, we feel proud of our flag then we watch flag videos on RU-vid, we feel confused af 🙈

Seth Gwyn the exception being the mongols, that was a running gag in Crash Course History

Aggressive Tubesock Pretty sure John Green is gay lmao.

@Aggressive Tubesock Thank you for your input, feel free to walk off a bridge.

@@MemeMaster-bg4mf you're joking right?

@Aggressive Tubesock Why being an ass when you could be silent?

@@_blank-_ and orange

@@_blank-_ I think brown is used in Swaziland's flag.

orange has a bit of national flags. Orange is also a "newer" color for Europeans as it was just considered a shade or red in the past.

Maybe some colors just don't look good on flags, and I know this is very subjective. I just can't imagine a serious flag with a pink stripe.

@@oLii96x Ireland and the Ivory Coast immediately spring to my mind. There likely are more.

We Spaniards also think it's a shame, although for different reasons. But really, the tri-color flag (the purple one) is badass.

@@azaria_phd From my point of view the Republican flag is very beautiful, only one is better from my point of view, the one with the Burgundy cross.

@@condedooku9750 the burgundy cross is awesome. Shame it would never be adopted tho, for obvious reasons.

@@azaria_phd I totally agree.

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@Ricardo VS No, he killed himself at the 30th of April. The 20th right before this is his birthday. And I guess only the fanatics kept fighting the last week. My grandpa was stationed in Italy at the end of the war and he deserted even before Hitler killed himself. He then found out through an Italian who told him while he was already on his way back home.

@@Ursusarctosberingianus it is quite intresting, a battle 2 or 3 days before the wars end and saw the Wermacht fight alongside the americans against the SS

And one of the most humiliating defeats ever suffered by a Polish army (since it was largely their engagement). What an absolutely disastrous way to end a war that already cost your nation pretty much everything and which you come out of just as much occupied as the former Axis countries are. It's no wonder almost nobody in Poland ever brings up Bautzen.

@Ricardo VS A lot. There are a lot of German last holdouts in the Europe that did not surrender on May 2 1945 and keep fighting until it was liquidated by Soviets and Allies.

true the ulster banner is an unofficial one

But then, Northern Ireland has never been a sovereign state - Only part of Ireland or UK. Even when it was part of Ireland, Ireland was in the UK.

@@dcarbs2979 Yeah but now it is a country lol.

@@rejuno1991 Indeed. A constituent country of the Sovereign State of UK (GB & NI)

It does,it's the cross on the union jack i

In English we have a red-purple-brown colour (like the one seen at 1:30) called maroon which may be related etymologically.

@@vincentlevarrick6557 Interesting! It turns out there is a much similar word to that in Spanish, and that is marrón, which means brown. But I just looked at the colour maroon you said, and they are kind of similar.

Y lila!

I've never thought about the etymology of morado, but presumably it's from mora. People who need lots of colour words (paint manufacturers, fashion designers, etc.) will certainly consider blackberry and mulberry to be colours, so if you really need to distinguish morado from púrpura that would be the way to do it. But certainly they're not commonly used as colour names, so I'm not disagreeing with you.

As an American I was actually taught (back when I was in elementary school in the early 2000s) that "morado" was the Spanish word for "purple," so to at least some English speakers, "morado" does now have an English equivalent.

Ditto. Purple isn’t even a legitimate color.

@@ImBakesirl Purple is just blue with commie influence

That sucks Imagine not being able to see colors

YOU ARE EVERYWHERE. YOU'RE JUST LIKE 'GUY WITH A MUSTACHE', 'JUSTIN Y', AND 'GUY WITHOUT A MUSTACHE'. WHY?!

@@DaveMiller6042 everybody has the same question........

@@DaveMiller6042 he goes around funny education videos.

Avery the Cuban-American I’ve only seen you in a few videos

not really it looked like FC Barcelona flag

Francoist spain flag is cooler , it has an eagle with all the spaniards shields.

@@_blank-_ ¿so?

You mean the Red Cross of Burgundy?

I like the current Spanish flag more than the republican one. I appreciate the symmetry (which most other European flags lack). If Spain got rid of the monarchy and changed its flag (which I doubt), I'd actually prefer a Purple-Yellow-Purple flag over a Red-Yellow-Purple one, for the symmetry alone.

Sri lanka too (If we don't count bordeaux as red?)

@@chervynlapince5268 Sri Lanka has red

There's only 2 Jamaica and Mauritania

@@rajsinghania1090 Mauritania has red on their flag.

The Qatari maroon looks more like purple to me, but I'll grant that it's technically red.

Question. What is your opinion on south Korea's flag oh glorious leader

It does look nice. Not the Red×Yellow combination literally every communist country used in the cold war for their coat of arms or flags. Something more creative.

So much like the American flag...

Kim Jong-un how are you in every single comment section

@Hoàng Nguyên LoL😂

I Think My Dog Is a Cat that sounds a bit rude haha

Not to mention the urine....

I am from spain and I totally disagree

El morado en nuestra bandera no representa nada y para muchos es de mal gusto, nuestra bandera está bien como esta, es llamativa y para muchos de las más bonitas en el mundo, los colores representan a la perfección las españa unida, las riquezas de nuestro imperio y la sangre derramada por defender el reino. Viva la España unida 🇪🇸

Y la sangre derramada por defender a nuestro reino...🤮

@@melisso9426 España es un reino, si no te gusta, te vas, por lo menos harías algo bien para España

@@Esparcia84 qué imperio? xd

amazing

@@_blank-_ no , it' s awful

@Biracial Boy *I KNOW*

@Biracial Boy puple with yellow is fucking weird.

@@oldcow__plays3987 you don't know me

@Biracial Boy ¿why?

Not funny, Franco's traitorous soldiers raped and murdered the people of my town

@@flameclow1219 yeah, mine too, but I can still see how the comment is funny.

@@asd-pf4gy Yes sorry, I'm spanish

@@flameclow1219 I am also spanish I fun at the joke because the past is the past

@@JaimeRodriguez-dp4oq Me encargo de sacar muertos en las Cuencas mineras y de recoger testimonios de gente que aún vive, si quieres un día te vienes conmigo y ves lo gracioso que es y lo que inició el fascismo en este país.

Now I do

Tacticaldifficulties imagine them bringing there flag to the battle field and all there enemy’s thinking there surrounding

It would be a great plan to lure the enemy into thinking you have given up

A dude called Viriato resisted Roman conquest some 2000 years ago and the red strips represent his victories over Romans. Also he is considered some remote ancestor in Portugal because his home town is in today Portugal and Zamora borders north east Portugal.

@@primitiveplanet8202 I know, the red stripes are because Viriato was said to tear a piece of the Roman centurions' cape which happened to be red and put it in his spear, and the green stripe was given to the city by Ferdinand the Catholic. Viriato is believed to never lose a battle and he was only defeated when the Romans convinced some of his friends to kill him but when the tried to claim their prize the Romans said to them "Rome does not pay traitors". Hahaha, I know a bit of the history of the city.

Ironic that the flag of the 2nd Spanish Republic had purple in it then lol

Unless your in Saudi Arabia where unfortunately the monarchy is still relevant there. North Korea also pretty much has a monarchy at this point as well,

BlackSolaris I think that’s because they were catholic

Brandon Lyon Yeah that’s true.

I'm not from Estonia, but from nearby Lithuania- just a few hundred km to the south. Our the sky in winter, when it is not dark (which it is, almost all the time in winter), is usually grey. Like right now :) But Estonian flag does look nice!

@@NeblogaiLT I visited Lithuania a few years ago in the winter. Lovely country.

Can't we be a constitutional monarchy? I don't mind being wheeled out for the occasional ceremony or state visit but world domination sounds like a massive hassle.

This makes no sense whatsoever.🫤

still lost the war lmao

Mexico's flag has pink in it.

Espirito Santo, a state in Brazil, has a pink strip. Also its coat of arms is similar to Brazil's but using blue and pink instead of green and yellow, which makes it look like a color-blind version.

@@theshlauf I never noticed that

@@danivall-llosera9207 pretty interesting

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