A Look at Uniforms, Camouflages and Styles Based Around Internet Memes

[@Wodanazz]

HOLY SHIT MY ARMA MOD MADE IT INTO A VIDEO LMAO I hope you discover my other 'camos' lmao

[@arepasxo]

Can someone provide time stamp?

[@lxon808]

@@arepasxo 24:52

[@UCPDeltaDesertNightCamo2026]

Dork

[@SniperFallen06]

Peak Arma moment

[@meta_cross1099]

Panty camo go brrrrrr

[@Tadicuslegion78]

Don't forget the traditional Elbonian camo pattern

[@Tunkkis]

Rubbing some mud on it?

[@Tadicuslegion78]

@@Tunkkis Lots of mud

[@deewillis2170]

Tier one Elbonian operators use IanPat, but what do the normal frontline Elbonians use, I wonder?

[@Tadicuslegion78]

@ mud

[@ZSC001]

@@deewillis2170blaze Orange is what I heard

[@capndave9152]

Ian McCollum has worn the IanPat in shooting competitions

[@jeff7.629]

I believe he wore it at Finnish Brutality.

[@capndave9152]

@@jeff7.629 he wore it at Lynx Brutality 2024 in Slovenia

[@MattyB7]

Brent0331 too

[@jeff7.629]

@capndave9152 thanks. I knew he wore it recently at one of the brutality meets.

[@Scott079]

I have the full set of Ian Pat

[@skitsafrantic3162]

I’m looking forward to an April Fools sequel that covers ahegao camouflage, especially how well it works as a snow camo

[@IvanIvanoff-d4p]

Unironically does, i covered my mags in ahegao stickers and my friends thought they were snow camoed till they looked close

[@jukebox_heroperson3994]

Someone needs to make a winter masking suit with it. I think I am going to get a top bottom and use my hat I have now if we do get snow. Also, someone should make shimapan helmet covers.

[@Tunkkis]

@@jukebox_heroperson3994 A KLMK-style oversuit.

[@RavenRedwood]

🌺 The only clothes I wore in middle school (mid-00s) were M81 trousers and hawaiian shirts. I liked the juxtaposition of muted earth colors with bright floral patterns. There's even a photo of me at my friend's graduation where he's wearing a suit and I'm wearing this ridiculous combo. I thought it made me very unique lol.

[@asdasd-ty9se]

Ngl, would be a decent fit if I could get either at a decent price now adays

[@rubenskiii]

What a fit!

[@lefishe8303]

@@asdasd-ty9se m81 BDU pants are literally $12 at surplus stores

[@jarink1]

Woodland pants and black rock group t-shirts for me.

[@WingMaster562]

Very boogaloo coded, I love it

[@onehopeofthedoomed]

With regards to track suits, I think the connection to the collapse of Yugoslavia bears more discussion. In many ways this was the west's first real exposure to that type of gopnik culture as well as its association with military endeavours (NATO intervention). Various militia members wearing assorted civilian clothing like track suits mixed with JNA and imported western uniforms very much now invokes certain images and associations.

[@sqike001ton]

also the soviets and adidas sneakers in Afghanistan it was a part of that whole Gopnik look most of the Yugoslavia the guys were wearing boots also in popular gaming culture Killa for Escape From Tarkov is the link to younger internet memes

[@IceNinja2007]

Synthwave and Vaporwave were styles from fictional universes. The real world never really looked like that. Most of the world during the early to mid '80's still looked like the mid-late '70's because no bothered to update anything until the late '80's and even then the '90's were arriving, so we associate the pinks and teals more with the early '90's rather than the '80's.

[@Mob720]

Love the deep dive into what is essentially the history and transcendence of pop culture. Never thought I would get that out of a camouflage channel! Ianpat supremacy!

[@socialmarauder]

THANK YOU SO MUCH for including the oft neglected Breakin’ 2 lore angle

[@owllymannstein7113]

There is one reason to pair a Hawaiian shirt with tactical gear, its super comfortable in hot weather.

[@chrisblack6258]

I'm here for UCP meme

[@nicksweeney5176]

Please. Don't disrespect America's finest camouflage scheme. Show some respect, where respect is due. Please.

[@ReverendMeat51]

@@nicksweeney5176 America's finest camouflage scheme is desert MarPat. RIP :(

[@nicksweeney5176]

@ReverendMeat51 That's not proven! That's not science! That's opinion; and a deadly wrong opinion, too. R.I.P., MarPat Desert!!☠️ Army A.C.U., for the Big Win!!🏆

[@SvWarfield]

@@nicksweeney5176 They will backtrack as soon as the Space Force is using it on the Moon.

[@nicksweeney5176]

@@SvWarfield 🤣 😂 🤣

[@Nagtloper431]

IanPat is hilarious. My first encounter was in a general XCom 2 Camo mod, where it was hidden among real patterns, so I was quite gobsmacked when I saw it. And someone who thinks up something like IanPat will definetely not say no when a clothing company asks him if they can put it on a garment for real.

[@aliendeathpunch7044]

Wearing Hawaiian as a uniform is the norm in some south pacific armed and police forces who are not taking part in ceremonial duties or parades during their national holidays like independence day (of their respective country), easter and Christmas day.

[@gwydionrusso3206]

11:50 originally Boogaloo was a series of kind of dark meme/jokes about just how bad some kind of second Civil War would be, and then it kind of went semi mainstream and got ruined by a bunch of not great people.

[@scottwatrous]

Yeah, it was kinda wild to see how it evolved over the years.

[@CrystalcastleL7]

Can’t believe they left out the Marriott carpet camouflage

[@orangekayak78]

I didn't expect to see such a deep dive into design from a camouflage channel. Very interesting. And wow your level of research is out of this world.

[@capndave9152]

When I was an officer in the US Army in the mid 1980’s, officers who had been stationed in Korea had the white shirts they wore with their dress blues tailored so the collars, cuffs and the placket down the front were white but the rest of the shirt was a Hawaiian print. As long as you had your jacket on no one knew you were wearing a Hawaiian shirt.

[@nicksweeney5176]

3:21 Not a prefix. That's a suffix.

[@DSlyde]

This was an absolute trip, touching on everything from political movements to musical genres and the mad lad actually managed to present it all well and (tmk) correctly and provide clear context for it all. The content is always excellent but that you managed to keep the quality top notch with such an esoteric field of coverage is seriously impressive. 10/10.

[@AmbuBadger]

Aloha from Hawaii! Big mahalo for calling rhem aloha shirts-- only glowies cruising our 2A forums call them "Hawaiian shirts."

[@wockyslush3038]

Mentioning IANPAT but not ahecam/ahegocam is wild.

[@dualityofmorons]

I can’t believe this video for meme camo was made….and I can’t turn it off! Very well done!!

[@Zach_Bloomquist]

This was a great video, informative and funny. I have been listening to vaporwave music for about a decade now and did not expect to ever see it mentioned in a camo video on your channel. Hope we get another of these someday.

[@PhilipStraatsma]

The impressive amount of research put into this video is stunning. I hope it takes off for you and grows your channel.

[@johntuffin6665]

Wasn't there a hotel floor carpet turned into a camo pattern?

[@sebastiencharette6215]

Trucker girl mud flap camo

[@DylanDraper1]

Thank you for citing those images, that’s is MASSIVELY helpful

[@arcblooper2699]

How could you miss dicktarn?

[@Constable.Chauvin]

i am not searching that up

[@mildly_miffed_man1414]

@Constable.Chauvincoward

[@paulreid5746]

Excellent work. I am impressed by your understanding of synth and it's surgeries such as outrun and evaporate, and thr overall genre- and even the origins in GTA and miami vice which a lot of people wouldn't have picked up on. Even the history of 80s Miami and how it got that way! Great work. You really know your stuff!

[@rickymherbert2899]

Great video, certainly enjoyed it and I appreciate the work you put into producing such high quality content. I wish you, your family and all your viewers a Merry Christmas and continuing success in 2025.

[@dgax65]

Another awesome video. The deep dives into camo history are really fascinating. You're doing some good work here.

[@microchrist6122]

Boogaloo mentioned 🌺

[@scottwatrous]

I def want to see more coverage of meme camos from time to time. There's a lot of fun ones.

[@JozefLucifugeKorzeniowski]

i was just thinking about, specifically the day before yesterday, going down the rabbithole to try and find the headwaters of vapor wave. because so much of 80"s media has this familiar pastiche of common styles. i didn't live in the 80's but my parents stayed stuck in them for a bit after they were gone (probably because, compared to the 80's, the 90s looks like malaise, no more coke and lasers now it's about heroin and flannel) and i remember so much more media and music that incorporates the same aesthetic. "new wave" and "post punk" lending it all an ethereal specious quality. i'm glad you did the work for me and sated my curiosity.

[@jeffkardosjr.3825]

There's a ladies top once that I saw that was a red background with black leopard spots. Such a thing would probably work well against near IR.

[@Vtarngpb]

Real gopniks wear aldidas, adidos, abibas, or even alqiadas 😉

[@sensationalfailure]

You may want to look up how to pronounce Adidas.

[@TheFishE77Official]

Literally nobody cares. "uh-DEE-dus" is the accepted and regularly used pronunciation, even if "AH-de-DHAS" is technically the "real" way. And yes, I actually worked for the company, and nobody that works there says it the "right" way either, so stuff that bullshit.

[@sensationalfailure]

@TheFishE77Official Outside the U.S. (and that's what counts, since it's a German company), it's "AHdedas". Where in Herzogenaurach did you work, WoGIT? That's literally the only place in Adidas where enough foreign short-term employees work who wouldn't know how to say the brand name.

[@vast9467]

@@sensationalfailurebut the “official” way sounds stupid so it doesn’t really matter

[@sensationalfailure]

@@vast9467 I doubt whether you even know what the 'official' away sounds like, as the aforementioned approximation doesn't do it justice. It's quite short and choppy. The elongated 'aDEEdas' sounds braindead.

[@robertdonnell8114]

Wonderful!!! You went deep into the origins of some really obscure "Camo" You can now have cloth material printed to your specifications and sew this yourself into uniforms which I do for SciFi conventions, Oddly few get the joke.

[@thehellezell]

As a subscriber who’s more on the art side than the tactical side, gotta say i started this thinking it was just going to be a “fun” quick vid but I gotta give you two thumbs up on your research and presentation here. Excellent work!

[@kozzy18]

No mention of the various ahegao camo patterns out there?

[@bored383]

There has been a little corner of the paintball world ( MCB ) that embraced Hawaiian themed clothing and camo a long time ago - namely the hibiscus patterns, sometimes in subdued colors, sometimes bright. There was some consternation there when the boog stuff started to take off, because it felt like a fun and irreverent bit of joking that that already irreverent bunch of paintball folks had embraced was being damaged by it. Plenty of custom clothing and gear had been already in use for some time by those anarchic and anachronistic paintballers. Thanks for another great video!

[@deancosens5710]

There were genuine East German NVA sport uniforms which included tracksuits, coming in two versions for officers and other ranks. Replicas of the officers model are available as reproductions too.

[@NPS69]

You know exactly what meme pattern you forgot to include.

[@johnnyrottenkolber5447]

It's been long awaited

[@smilingnid4276]

Surprised you didn't shout out your video on the Carpet camo.

[@jettdavis9149]

Maybe it's the color scheme they used, but I always thought the Miami Tigerstripe camo was based on MrBeast's logo, or vice versa, until like a year or two ago. Love this video!

[@felixmanuel4527]

Hawaïen shirt,camo history and gun jesusin the same vidéo. ITS the Best xmas gifs i can have. For me hawaïen shirt + army = mash.

[@kutter_ttl6786]

I'd give good money for Varusteleka to come out with an IanPat tracksuit.

[@chanman819]

I keep expecting to see the 1986 racing game when Out Run is mentioned

[@ChalcolithicPrizim]

Supreme KMLK hoodie 😮

[@CocoHutzpah]

I'm proud to have bought Ianpat this past April Fools day.

[@thescatologistcopromancer3936]

I used to wear Hawaiian shirts to the range but I didn't like the individuals who assumed I was part of their club. Weird how they all had cop predator stickers on their vehicles

[@callsignstag]

Kruschiki mentioned 🙏🙏🙏

[@ARTimo3x]

hell yea

[@Cobbsterner]

our favorite morally ambiguous surp guy 🙏

[@stone1er371]

Cant wait for a retrowave ianpat gopnik suit

[@jonr6680]

Gopnik tactical tracksuit, hilarious, thanks for the LOLs 😂

[@mpf1947]

No ahegaopat?

[@TarawaS2000]

My KomandoStore Sasha jacket got delivered yesterday. I'm literally wearing it walking my doge and listening to this. 😂😎

[@newdefsys]

Only _Uniform_ _History_ could make this video.

[@OliveMule]

This is my vibe. I have lots of these

[@hobbstactv2571]

I've interviewed several people involved in the early days of the Boog movement on my podcast (Roads2Liberty on YT and Rumble) and am friends with the originator of the "Thicc Boog Line" igloo flag, and even had a Guardian hit piece written about us when I set up a Q&A between several "Boojahadin" and the 2020 Libertarian Party candidate, Jo Jorgensen. You did a great job breaking it down in an unbiased way.

[@Apoc_Bone_Daddy]

IanPat is so goated imho

[@invictusgaming7998]

Tremendous video

[@cwilliams808]

Thank you for calling them aloha shirts lmao

[@unexpected9370]

this was fun

[@JPOC226]

Atlanta Convention center carpet camo

[@mpf1947]

There was a whole video on that one a few years ago.

[@CobraDBlade]

I bought one of the IanPat boonie hats the same day it was announced. Would have gotten a whole set but I'm too fat.

[@CyberKatze]

Ahecam from vajra concepts

[@IvanIvanoff-d4p]

The soviet union has more reliable inventory stocking than them

[@b20schill]

I need a list of all these companies so I can drain my bank account.

[@felonfrost3268]

We had new colours of older camo patterns in the UK about 30 years ago - it was all about the Urban Warrior look in the mid 90s 😂😂

[@eric-pn7eg]

My new obsession has been Adidas tracksuits so I just had to watch this. I prefer non-camo tracksuits but I find them interesting.

[@DylanDraper1]

After seeing this, I think I’m in the same page as you. I don’t know about a camp tracksuit, but a regular tracksuit does seem sick.

[@rubenskiii]

I often wear old Russian “kavkaz” camouflage pants a lot, very comfortable and it’s a quite uncommon camouflage in my country. Have had many compliments wearing it!

[@P.T.S.E.]

Does the UCP count as a joke pattern?

[@1KosovoJeSrbija1]

1:20 high visibility stripes and camouflage

[@IvanIvanoff-d4p]

1:27 the 3 stripe mafia is like fight club. I dont know what youre talking about and stop talking about it

[@compelledpluto]

Press 4 to pay respects is not a fad it will continue forever

[@michealwhitehead4081]

I watch this wearing blue Adidas track pants and a US Navy hoodie.

[@stanjuice]

If you haven’t, you really should look into the Uniforms of the movie “Ad Astra” The Mars Camo goes insanely hard🗿

[@reddevilparatrooper]

Seems like Art Deco of the 1920s also coming from Miami Florida.

[@djinnxx7050]

I was wanting to watch a Netflix documentary on the history of camouflage, but I couldn't find it.

[@opstorm333]

Kruschiki mentioned!

[@AutieTortie]

"nik" is a suffix, not a prefix. 😂😂😂

[@prfwrx2497]

I heard Gopnik coming from the word gop-stop (a stick up or pickpocketing stop when some hoodlum asks you for a light).

[@z0phi3l]

would love the Ianpat boonie hat

[@MotherGoosebumps]

I own the Kommando Store sasha jacket, and it definitely gives off the "eastern bloc" vibe when worn with the full fit

[@mctippers4519]

The Ian pat camo reminds me of a similar patter using Christian Craighead AKA Obi-Wan-Nairobi

[@davidrihani8586]

Would u please do the history of the Jordanian 🇯🇴 camouflage ?

[@UtubeH8tr]

Ahegoa camouflage. Enough said.

[@chadwik4000]

I've been using a Nike dark brown with coyote brown stripe soccer jacket for this purpose for awhile without knowing I was secretly being "hip"... Now I just feel dirty...

[@Sebomai-b8i]

Boogaloo was never so much a group as it was a cultural movement that started on 4Chan's /k/ board and incubated in Facebook groups.

[@jw4925]

The rhodie hawaiian shirt is peak cursed

[@high-velocitymammal5030]

I love my Miami tigerstripe and would get more if I wasn't skintmaxxing

[@sqike001ton]

so having meet one former soviet spetsnaz who operated in Afghanistan the sneakers weren't so my for quite but they were more comfortable and caused less feet issues as compared to military boots in the up and down mountain terrain soviet boots were designed for flat ground and nominally to keep your feet warm they was also "lore" or rumor that if you steeped on a landmine with combat boots you lost your leg usually just above the knee if you steeped on that same mine in sneakers you only lost the ankle and had a below the knee amputation so stepping on your own mines it was better to not be wearing boots

[@Frille512]

Sneakers do not protect you from landmines lmao

[@rl-762]

my friend has a set of dogecam crye pattern fatigues

[@777anarchist]

Ali G camouflage is missing.

[@pedrobarbosaduarte3704]

in conclusion: gay af. join the army

[@Kush-ii]

Ahecam

[@VictorGarciaR]

Meme camos are horrible. Weird real ones tend to be awesome tho Belgian jigsaw camo slaps. Czech m92 if you are looking for something less obnoxiuos

[@MrHimushka]

You forgot ahegao camo

[@thecamocampaindude5167]

Is this vid about me?

[@nicksweeney5176]

Electric...