Why 'Keep Calm And Carry On' Is A Lie - Hilarious Helmet History

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The 'Keep Calm and Carry On' meme is a pretty dumb piece of propaganda compared to 'Be Charming and Stab Hitler In The Face,' it's also a lie.
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@DarkLordoftheMeme 7 лет назад

Hitler invading Russia in 1939? Someone didn't do their homework...

@coreymicallef365 7 лет назад

I was thinking the same thing.

@thepeacemouse5316 6 лет назад

nathan mills yes, but not in 1939

@purplevertig0 6 лет назад

The Peace Mouse I know that but I think cracked is just condensing the entire thing into 1939 and beyond

@thepeacemouse5316 6 лет назад

nathan mills they phrased it as if hitler invaded Russia and then France & lowlands

@purplevertig0 6 лет назад

The Peace Mouse yahtzee

@jonah64 7 лет назад

I had no idea that people even thought it was a war thing. Now that I know it wasn't a war thing I guess I'll just add it to my useless knowledge database.

@jasonlogan4262 7 лет назад

it's Jonah! he watches the same videos I do!

@jonah64 7 лет назад

Jason Jason Logan Logan.

@ErwinPommel 7 лет назад

Except this video kinda says that it actually is a genuine war thing, albeit one that was never actually used. That's way more authentic an origin than I assumed it had, which was that it was the cynical creation of a coked up marketing executive in the early 2000s.

@mockturtlesuppe 7 лет назад

I was going to comment the same thing. I think at one time I wondered about where it came from, but weirdly, I never thought to look it up. Now not only do I know where it came from, I also know where it didn't come from. Two learns with one stone.

@DOSRetroGamer 7 лет назад

Of course it's a 'war thing'. It was made in WW2 to be used in WW2. That's like saying the Maus supertank wasn't a war thing because it wasn't actually used in the war.

@hairypoppins5413 7 лет назад

2:43 in england no one says diaper😂 its nappy over here don

@Strawberry92fs 7 лет назад

Did people not know the posters never saw use during the war? I admit I didn't know it was for a defeat, but I knew they never used it.

@turtlezinthesky 7 лет назад

I'm fascinated by how much he pronounces the "L" in "calm".

@VerdaTal 7 лет назад

How else do you say 'calm'?

@lminshall 7 лет назад

L is always the most important letter.

@maarek71 7 лет назад

I've never met anyone that didn't pronounce the "L" in "calm".

@TheRonster9319 7 лет назад

Cole Garland Do you say "cam"? lol

@TheRonster9319 7 лет назад

JaiFlame it's pronounced like it's spelled calm. C-a-l-m. But I get your point.

@rebeccahartopp5122 7 лет назад

Is keep calm and carry on actually thought to have been a thing in WW2? I've never heard of that before.

@michaelturner5050 7 лет назад

Rebecca Hartopp me neither and I have a history degree from uni

@rebeccahartopp5122 7 лет назад

I'm glad, I thought this was some huge secret the rest of the world was keeping from me, the actual history behind it is pretty cool.

@jincyquones 7 лет назад

Same here. I figured it was just a meme.

@PlayThenSay 7 лет назад

No your right, no-one in the UK anyway, was lead to believe this was ever used in WWII. But its hard to get new content when you work 100% from an office.

@ErwinPommel 7 лет назад

I also never thought this was a real WW2 poster. I always assumed it was a retro piece of tat dreamed up by a marketing person in the last few years.

@brianartillery 7 лет назад

Most people in the UK know that this was, along with two other motivational posters, printed up, but never used, in the war. The recent craze for it was started when a bookshop owner found the poster folded up in a donation of books he had received, and put it up in his shop, simply because he liked it. Customers asked him about it, and he had copies made, which sold like hot cakes, even to the point of the Prime Minister owning one. Comic maestro Alan Moore knew about it before it became popular - it appears, with a different device, in the graphic novel 'The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen'.

@nswiese 7 лет назад

Did Nazi that coming.

@Blastercadre 7 лет назад

This bit of dry humor gave me a chuckle.

@IsiahGames 7 лет назад

Anne Frankly these jokes are getting tired.

@yourhandlehere1 7 лет назад

That's how they took Poland.

@raz1791 7 лет назад

Were you proud when you typed that in?

@elizabethdavies5387 7 лет назад

Nater 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@maddog.monkey 6 лет назад

I got a chuckle out of "We know war is scary just don't poop your diaper". I love this series, A+

@TheRichmaster24 7 лет назад

"pounded some black tea"... as someone who's British, I'm not sure how to feel about this

@drugtito22 7 лет назад

3:15 the war with USSR started on june 2nd 1941 not in '39!!!

@dodson43 7 лет назад

dika_the_wise You expect Cracked to fact check? Lol

@seieki1581 6 лет назад

Comrade Tito komrade generale brate tito vrati nam se sad kad si nam najviše potreban.

@treyolathecrayola2433 7 лет назад

Graphic design , the truest form of war survival

@BMUSTDIE 7 лет назад

so... it's now an appropriate time to spread this message

@confusedwolf7157 7 лет назад

BMUSTDIE dark dude. dark

@philrobichaud3063 7 лет назад

I knew these posters just spontaneously appeared in the early 2000's!

@mattjohnston2 7 лет назад

"in this goofy voice..." every British subscriber leaves en masse

@Zett76 5 лет назад

Matt Johnston is every British subscribers that massive? Too much fried food? 😉

@michaelturner5050 7 лет назад

3:21 America didn't declare war on Germany, America declared war on Japan for Pearl Harbor then Germany declared war on the US a few days after that.

@AGJM233 7 лет назад

All he said was "America was years away from declaring war", he didn't say against which country.

@ethanwilburn4311 7 лет назад

Cheesycurve 54 no they declared war on Japan after pearl harbor and the declared war on Germany because Germany attacked poland not because they were working together

@ethanwilburn4311 7 лет назад

Cheesycurve 54 Italy and Germany declared war on America, America never declared war on Italy

@ethanwilburn4311 7 лет назад

Cheesycurve 54 no they specifically declared war on Japan

@kevinbooth- 7 лет назад

The very fact you folks are arguing about it evidences that there was no single objective cause and it was likely just an irrational and emotional response, as seems to always be the reason the USA goes to war, regardless of the justification after the fact.

@think-of-england 7 лет назад

"The British pounded some black tea." 😂👌🏻

@miramineko5208 7 лет назад

I'm waiting for; Keep calm and carry on my wayward son

@raz1791 7 лет назад

Kinda slipped into Australian and New Zealand accent at the end there. XD

@mizzpearlgearl 6 лет назад

IT IS A GODDAMNED SHAME THAT THERE ARE ONLY 7 OF THESE VIDEOS! I DEMAND MORE!!! ... thank you. great videos. big fan. 😁

@Zforce911 7 лет назад

"You're allowed to like it..." It's a shame we have to verbalize this nowadays...

@TheRonster9319 7 лет назад

I knew Australia was run by kangaroos!

@legoinsomniac 7 лет назад

I actually really like this series. Hope they make more.

@XmarkedSpot 7 лет назад

The moment youtube is hit by the adpocalypse cracked begins to push quality content.

@XmarkedSpot 7 лет назад

Or it's just me keeping calm and carrying on

@kentroklus 6 лет назад

These are great! More please!!!

@acledfloyd 7 лет назад

I'm really tired of this ever soft commercial.

@personalaccount186 7 лет назад

Some people think talking about talking about soft things makes you a softie. So if I'm going to talk to you about the Fruit of The Loom Eversoft T, I'm going to do it in the manliest way possible. With my then I forgot

@ProletariatPrince 7 лет назад

Erik Harker I got the one with the holes in the parachute. That guy is a dick for cutting the other guys parachute and then not grabbing on to the other guy before he hit the ground.

@obrkenobi1170 7 лет назад

Glaring mistake. Germany conquered eastern Europe and invaded the USSR AFTER France and BENELUX.

@Celrador 6 лет назад

Nice profile picture. :)

@verasq 7 лет назад

I desperately need that "BONES WANTED" poster.

@andreperez8961 5 лет назад

Can't someone pick up Hilarious Helmet History? This is better than 99% of TV, including the History Channel!

@eboooo 7 лет назад

shouts to lord kitchner not the greatest guy though but you brought some of my old memories back with this one Schmidt.

@fayrayprincess7677 7 лет назад

I like this series. Keep it up.

@HUOGoofballs 7 лет назад

5:52 "Random dinguses like Crumpet Boy..." Heheheh

@kelseycoca 7 лет назад

This was very interesting/scary/funny . Great job! Pip pip, cheerio and other British stereotypes

@alanthomas8372 2 года назад

Diaper is actually English - English. Diaper means diamond shaped you see them in brick wall in the home counties. These diamonds were made for babies before Terry towelling nappies were invented some American words are relics of what we used back in the day like sidewalk and The Fall.

@faequeentitania 7 лет назад

Oh hey, the one Alex was telling us about at the Kurt Vonneguys live episode! Most excellent, Alex! I feel like I knew in the back of my brain that "Keep calm and carry on" was never used during war, but the reason it was created was not something I was aware of. O_O Wow, scary stuff.

@betabenja 7 лет назад

why are you doing an australian accent?

@Sacorian 7 лет назад

That is not our accent.

@betabenja 7 лет назад

why are you doing a new zealand accent?

@jameshill2450 7 лет назад

Because Australians are just British once removed, the same as Americans (one less willing than the other of course).

@azdobrosavljevic4024 6 лет назад

betabenja ikr it’s so annoying

@erinclarke2606 5 лет назад

We don't sound like that

@lostinbago 7 лет назад

Doug Adams must have had a psychic link with his motto, 'don't panic" , repeated throughout 'Hitchhikers Guide'.

@notthemoon 7 лет назад

when we will be able to buy the "become a resistance fighter because Hitler is having a wank in Buckingham palace" posters?

@jokidd4005 5 лет назад

Good one Cracked

@tiffanysears5437 7 лет назад

Every time I'm getting bored with Cracked I fall in love with another series. Loving Helmet History

@PseudoEmpathy 2 года назад

Ok that history is way cooler than I thought it was.

@mogillis4120 7 лет назад

Fascinating as always. I always enjoy learning what happy sounding thing has a much darker meaning. "Life is short. Life is shit and soon it will be over." -Kids in the Hall

@SpaceGhost97 6 лет назад

One good google search will basically give you this: "Although 2.45 million copies were printed, and although the Blitz did in fact take place, the poster was hardly ever publicly displayed and was little known until a copy was rediscovered in 2000 at Barter Books, a bookshop in Alnwick. It has since been re-issued by a number of private companies, and has been used as the decorative theme for a range of products" or I can just ask my history professor...so saying it was a lie or even dark is pointless

@Xomsabre 6 лет назад

Can we get a re-record of this video in that "goofy" voice at the end? I loved it.....please?

@roryboyle7612 5 лет назад

“Become a resistance fighter because Hitler’s having a wank in Buckingham Palace” had me dying

@cranberry7601 6 лет назад

*is watching video * puts down tea on coaster *looks at coaster *coaster says keep calm and drink tea

@Mauricioantoniofranc 7 лет назад

In "Just My Type" Simon Garfield Attributes the design to Edward Johnston, the designer of that typeface (that people keep getting wrong by the way whenever they make new versions) which is also used in the London Underground Logo

@alexislynndubois 7 лет назад

holy traps Batman I had no idea this meme had so much history behind it! anyway love your show you did a very nice job and I hope you have a great day!!

@paulaunger3061 7 лет назад

This is brilliant! 👍👍👍👍👍

@tuckertoden 7 лет назад

Fascinating. Thanks for this.

@DrumApe 7 лет назад

Thanks for clarifying this, I didn't know

@thatnerdbird6051 7 лет назад

I kid you not, when I saw the picture of the Ministry of Information I thought to myself, "well if that isn't Orwellian.".

@portsyde3466 7 лет назад

I never knew the origin of the logo. I just remember it popping one day and thinking, why would I want that shirt. Sometimes I wondered why it existed, but then I stopped wondering because I didn't care.

@mr.honeycomb 7 лет назад

A scream becomes a yawn. I'll shut up, and carry on.

@ordinarytree4678 7 лет назад

Mr. HoneyComb Metric?

@locomotivefaox 6 лет назад

Hitler: chucks some planes at us that imminently bounce off Hitler: SURRENDER, THIS IS YOUR ONLY CHANCE!!!! I’M WARNING YOU!

@alannacarlson6715 7 лет назад

Did you know George Orwell's real name was Eric Blair? Now you do.

@muerpa 7 лет назад

I love this history bit

@rossdonnelly7988 7 лет назад

Second favourite cracked series.

@lyricbot8513 7 лет назад

You know we know this? anyone who buys a piece of "keep calm" merchandise and takes the time to read the small booklet with it will see that they say "The keep calm and carry on posters were discovered in a box in the basement of a bookstore. The Posters were initially designed as 'IN THE EVENT OF INVASION', KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON".

@Slashenaar 7 лет назад

"Crumpet boy" made me giggle like Nick Offerman

@balynevil 7 лет назад

I like it even more now.... love the link to the InfoMini

@richarddimbo3157 5 лет назад

Congrats on your Jeopardy win!!

@redrounin1440 6 лет назад

no one thought this. thanks for clearing up that misconception that no one had.

@batmann6755 7 лет назад

"youtube is imposible to navigate with lubed up sex fingies" You underestimate my power!

@mathewperryfan 7 лет назад

I love these series

@gwenmaddison4885 7 лет назад

"Slippery sex fingies" is my new favourite phrase.

@l.a.raustadt518 6 лет назад

Pip pip and stop at 4pm for tea. MMMM tea.

@mksabourinable 7 лет назад

THANK YOU FOR ACTUALLY INCLUDING CANADA WHEN TALKING ABOUT WWII. Even if it was just implied more or less. So much stuff just ignores "The British Commonwealth" and our contributions to history.

@blackhawkdown231 6 лет назад

favorite segments xD

@zoningouterspace 6 лет назад

I love this guy. Why aren't there more HHH vids??? WHYYYYYYYY??????

@fabs1887 6 лет назад

to be honest 'keep calm and carry on' is awesome for condoms if u think about it😂

@Styner09 4 года назад

More like "keep calm and carry (at least) one" amirite?

@Sctn2labor 7 лет назад

Halloween movies? You forgot Ernest Scared Stupid!! :D

@songofthieves 7 лет назад

Yo, this dystopian alternate timeline shit is WAY better than the fake history behind it. If it weren't mired in copyright bullshit I might actually consider buying a poster now. I can probably just make a glossy print of my own.

@JTVze 7 лет назад

"slippery sex fingies" well now i've got to go behind the bush

@liamwebster3862 6 лет назад

I actually been to the bookstore in Northumberland that found the poster You should go there if your British, it's a great place

@BasedGarlicMan 7 лет назад

Dude, this just makes the poster cooler.

@jdorffer 7 лет назад

Great video, very informative, I loved it, Good thing you didn't use that voice for the hole video.

@joeschmoe605 6 лет назад

“Slippery sex fingies” best quote ever

@psquared04 7 лет назад

I didn't even know the heavily abridged history of that meme. I just knew it was obnoxiously popular.

@Lolalogo 7 лет назад

I need that mashup on a poster ASAP

@chronicallymeee 7 лет назад

This one isn't as surprising but maybe this is a problem with the site being american. I never thought it was used in WWII I always knew it was in storage. His end accent sounds more Australian than British.

@Double_T_G 6 лет назад

Actually I first saw keep calm and carry on in one of those tourist oriented corner stores (like and airport store but no in an airport) in London and it was written on a condom wrapper. I remember having no idea what it meant. This was years ago when I went for a visit. I'm from America and somehow managed to completely miss the post on social media for even a few months or so after returning from London.

@jasonbuff8629 5 лет назад

I was wondering where that phrase came from. A few years back I’d see a lot of people wearing keep calm shirts but the words would always be changed instead of carry on, it would say something else

@imaginaryobserver 6 лет назад

Glad this is the timeline where Alex doesn't die.

@johnshoemaker5532 5 лет назад

Come back Cracked! Make more great videos!!!

@Sluppie 6 лет назад

If you keep calm you'll never be a super saiyan.

@MattCaliber 6 лет назад

Winston Churchill werewolf hunter. This just popped into my head and I already want to see this.

@beths5141 7 лет назад

Fun fact- the rare bookstore that found this is also the town that has a castle that was used as Hogwarts in the first Harry Potter movie.

@normalmighty 7 лет назад

I honestly thought those keep calm posters were from spme companies ad campaign and it just went super viral

@chuckp3986 7 лет назад

appreciate the history lesson. wasn't a fan aesthetically and didn't know the story.

@FushigiYuugiTime 6 лет назад

I died at “slippery sex fingies” 😂

@thewigglytruth 7 лет назад

I honestly had no idea that this had a history in the first place. Thought it was just another meme that became a little too big in the mid 2000's.

@awreckingball 7 лет назад

'poo your pants' would be the correct British English rendering, not 'poop your diaper'.

@kathrynmiller4240 6 лет назад

'Britain's people and cathedrals survived' I see the broad point but 32000 civilians were killed and 87000 maimed in the Blitz alone, and so many buildings were destroyed that there are still signs of it today. The entire city of Coventry (inc its cathedral!) was levelled to the ground.

@citrussarcodactylis526 7 лет назад

I actually knew this, and I'm proud of myself. Usually I have no idea about any of this stuff.

@christopherbarber5283 7 лет назад

minnesota cop. musta got lost on the way to the lake. clearly you're from the midwest, AND I LIKE THAT.

@MrArtoxs 7 лет назад

"your allowed to like keep calm and carry on" thanks cracked for the premission.

@4rtie 7 лет назад

Wasn't there a poster with "Keep Calm and Carry on" and much more on it?

@Emerl18 5 лет назад

I always wondered what Tracer in Overwatch was referencing in her "Keep calm and Tracer on" voice line. Now I know whoever decided to put that in was uninformed.

@reallyWyrd 7 лет назад

This makes me feel better about myself. Because I always felt like the "Keep Calm" memes were kind of bland and came out of no where. So now I know I was more or less correct.

@charliebarker7727 7 лет назад

the picture used for the ministry of information is actually the university of london. but I guess you got it because it was used for the ministry of truth in the film adaption of 1984