Horrible Maps 13

[@EmperorTigerstar]

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[@QuizmasterLaw]

Tigerstar brings the pain

[@riko_sandokan]

Is there any way to send you some horrible maps?

[@pufl_]

Tigerstar, is your named based off of Warrior Cats?

[@Panzermeister36]

​​@@riko_sandokan good question. I've had a map for a few months now that I want to send to him.

[@ldsgermanshepherdboy9272]

Is there a way to send you new horrible maps to go over for the next video?

[@UlmDoesAnything]

Despite Spanish Colonization, practically no one speaks spanish anymore here in the Philippines (from what i know as a city boy anyway)

[@guppy3026]

Yeah, aside from Chavacano, you won't hear anyone speaking Spanish here anymore.

[@kuroazrem5376]

Some people do. There is even a Spanish creole called Chavacano, which is spoken in Zamboanga, among other places. But sadly Spanish mostly dissappeared from the Philippines thanks to the USA. ¡Viva las Filipinas hispánicas!

[@Novanandel]

​@@kuroazrem5376did you just praise the Spanish colonization of the Philipines? 💀

[@butterbread858]

@@kuroazrem5376 "Sadly" nah, pretty happy actually

[@pocketmarcy6990]

That’s because all the natives didn’t die of smallpox

[@hart-of-gold]

4:04 To be fair, We probably shouldn't be showing the Aral Sea as a body of water anymore.

[@JJMK_1]

Fair

[@aaronTGP_3756]

Yeah, it's basically a collection of tiny lakes.

[@PuzzleCrusher84]

Aral is a country now

[@marcusmelander8055]

Sometimes I'm so dumb, for the US one I was like "yeah it's missing all the territories like Puerto Rico and it looks a bit poorly photoshoped", forgetting the existence of Alaska, the largest state in the US.

[@IloveRumania]

It's amazing how we never run out of horrible maps.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

in a sadly fascinating way yeah though... < conspiratorial whisper > *every* two dimensional map of the planet /is a lie/!

[@IloveRumania]

@@QuizmasterLaw Technically the truth! It's impossible to accurately map a 3D sphere onto a 2D surface!

[@QuizmasterLaw]

@@IloveRumania ...we Never run out of horrible maps welcome to the conspiracy!

[@gen.tucker6024]

Between you writing that and me writing this, countless horrible maps have been made no doubt

[@larsthedude1984]

EmperorTigerstar doesn't want you to know that he commissions all these horrid maps so he'll be able to be in business and never run out of content! Wait! No! He's sent UN assassins to cover up the truth!! NO!! GET BAC-

[@ethanpkaiser]

That first map was actually used in my 8th grade history class, and while my teacher never used it to describe territories held, the fact it would ever be used in an academic setting at all is a bit concerning

[@emiledlund9559]

She didn't have an issue with the giant Russian empire stretching as far south as syracuse, as far west as Western flanders and as far north as the three country cairn?

[@ethanpkaiser]

@@emiledlund9559 I don’t think it was my teachers call, and the class almost exclusively focused on colonial life and the American revolution. I’m pretty sure I was the only person in that class who knew the Russian empire was even a thing before the map was ever shown. Fwiw she only used the map twice for like 5 seconds for reasons outside of saying “this is what the world looked like”. I think it was more like “Thomas Paine wrote common sense, which basically said *pulls down map* why should an island here govern an area over here” *rolls up map*

[@dakapo8985]

​@@ethanpkaiser Yea I would definitely argue that maps in general doesnt really matter in 1-9 grade history. And since grade schools budget regularly i bad with a new map is a cutback on something else i guess priority where somewhere else. Rightly so.

[@nebularspace]

you should see the maps my teacher uses.

[@timothymclean]

0:33: Obviously, it's the Russo-Kalmar Union, which famously conquered Central and Southern Europe in the 1600's.

[@insaneteapot9662]

Average EU4 game

[@officialromanhours]

I do this everytime I play Vic2 and thus feel personally attacked.

[@TenositSergeich]

Love how Russian colonialism is not a thing, Russia just does stretch to Pacific coast here.

[@fastasaswhale]

"Come on Oakland, you are ready lost the Raiders." One of the best lines I heard this year.

[@tranvianoruega8756]

​@@RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK you good bro?

[@universal_hyssoap]

​@@RESIST_DIGITAL_ID_UK may Christ have mercy on you. please repent and believe in the gospel

[@sexygeek8996]

As a resident of Las Vegas: We want to send them back and we don't want the As either.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

1:52 The Australia map is missing New Zealand (as usual with other maps)…definitely not a nine. And the Papua New Guinea border isn't that great either, the border is pretty much straight, while that shows the Fly River portion bulges out more than it actually does. 4:11 Regarding the Philippines, while they were formerly a part of the Spanish Empire, Spanish is pretty much not spoken there besides the area around Zamboanga and Cavite where Chavacano (a Spanish Creole) is spoken. English dominated once the US took over the islands.

[@Mossythedog]

And 'Australia' just refers to the country, not the continent. It should be 'Australasia' or even better 'Oceania'.

[@50Steaks68]

You’re everywhere… still

[@Peizxcv]

@@50Steaks68 Dude even have time to put on a yellowface and pretend to be Asian

[@timothymclean]

@@Mossythedog Depends on what sixth continent you go with. Lots of places say Australia is the continent and the rest of Oceania is not part of a continent.

[@Fabi-es1xy]

madagascar missing

[@ndv135]

Asia on the Port of Oakland one looks more like Asia during the Early Jurassic Period than anything resembling what it looks like now! Or even how it looked in the Permian Period!

[@2712animefreak]

3:03 They also messed up by colouring Albania and Yugoslavia as Soviet-aligned. Albania was China-aligned and Yugoslavia was unaligned.

[@dirtybirdjack764]

Been my favorite series on YT for years 🙏🏻

[@Zaitsev-vo8uk]

I am extremely happy to whoever made that map in their Spanish class for not coloring in the Philippines as a Spanish-speaking country

[@capsaicin938]

The hand drawn Hispanic map is really good imo

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

As someone who once took a Spanish class for 3 years, I like it too! It's one of the nicer maps of this series!

[@nacelnikprosiak1260]

In the book "Stalins Wars" written by Geoffrey Roberts author shows 2 pretty bad maps where he forgets that Germans and Hungarians carved up czechoslovakia before atacking USSR or draws really weird Romuno-Hungarian borders I could send you photos of this somewhere

[@GamePlayer553]

I'm pretty sure that map from that particular and peculiar politician is stolen from a "What aliens in movies see when planning to invade Earth" meme (which, in THAT context, would make the map considerably more accurate)

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I didn't know about that meme! It would make perfect sense, since in movies, it's always the US that gets invaded by aliens for some reason. Probably because the movies are from our country!

[@ethanodell8044]

The military in sci-fi movies: “We must save the world from these aliens!” The world: 4:33

[@buurmeisje]

That Africa cookie in the beginning actually looks really nice

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I like it too!

[@hansnase364]

1:53 funny how you rate the Australia map missing New Zealand a 9/10. :D

[@CYbeRuKRaINiaN]

New Zealand is a part of Australia? 😳

[@petertrudelljr]

To be fair, it was labeled "Australia" not "Australia/New Zealand/Oceania".

[@hansnase364]

@@petertrudelljr Then why does it include Papua New Guinea?

[@EmperorTigerstar]

I mean, that’s why it’s not a 10

[@hansnase364]

@@EmperorTigerstar fair enough

[@andrewgenio]

1:55 far more important than the falklands, it's missing Tierra del Fuego, the triangle thing shared by chile and argentina on the south

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I didn't realize that! They omitted not only _one_ archipelago, but _two_ as well! Thanks for the comment!

[@Rezkeshdadesh]

The Aral Sea not being filled in is not an oversight, they just wanted to future proof the map by showing it completely dry.

[@jayayywhy4374]

giving the Gadsden purchase back to Mexico is accidentally based

[@IPMOSharp]

4:33 Trying to make a grand political statement that then excludes two entire states and several federal territories is simultaneously a special brand of stupid and a great representation of current American politics. It is well deserving of mockery no matter who did it.

[@QuizmasterLaw]

Map 2: "To Greenland, or not to Greenland. That is the Question!" I've seen it represented as part of Europe in Europe I've seen it represented as part of North America in Canada and USA Conclusion: EVERYONE LOVES GREENLAND!

[@supermaximglitchy1]

Greenland is Nordic America

[@mercator79]

how much to buy it? Not the map, actual Greenland XD

[@theKobus]

GREENLAND IS AFRICA

[@milliondollarmistake]

geologically it's in north america politically it's european

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous mapping, or to take arms against a sea of odd maps and by opposing end them." (I just finished reading it for English class a few weeks ago!) In all seriousness, though, I didn't notice till now that they represented Greenland as both European and North American! Which continent are they part of? Thanks for the comment!

[@DiamondKingStudios]

As for the US only map, that politician sure found a way to alienate residents of Alaska (my state of birth), Tuscon, Aroostook, and Marquette altogether. Pretty rare if you ask me. Oh, and don’t forget the Keys!

[@eelvis1674]

I guarantee that the politician who tweeted that map doesn't want their taxes to go to Puerto Rico etc either

[@redeye4516]

4:57 many sacrifices had to be made during the War on Everything, Emperor.

[@euroxstar]

1:25 if you look closely, you can see UK and Ireland on top of Africa

[@SapostropheAint]

I wish you would review whatalthist maps, theyre really fun to dissect.

[@petersmythe6462]

"I can't imagine the representative had a secret vendetta against [American colonies and overseas states]" I don't know, I think if you wrote a petition to stop giving Puerto Rico money, a lot of Americans would sign it. In fact, you could probably even phrase it as "Stop giving Puerto Rico money until it democratizes" and a lot of Americans would just think it's a foreign dictatorship instead of an American colony that doesn't get full political autonomy.

[@taka2721]

Yeah, anyone who posts this meme on Twitter is probably not too keen of giving money to the American colonies

[@enochlee3601]

Ah yes the coveted Nope/10, the moment we all wait for

[@SnapplyPie]

Oh boy, no one can ever get Ottoman borders right...

[@viniciusrissardo3252]

Dude, How can I sent you one of these kinds of maps? I have a really horrible one from a book when I was in school. And I think it'd qualify for this series 😂

[@catlovingtrio]

Where do I submit maps? I have some bad maps I want to submit.

[@Legohunter-uv1wc]

How do I send you a map? I have a really good (by good I mean bad) one to show you. Is there a link to a specific website?

[@petersmythe6462]

Putting Yugoslavia as Soviet-aligned is news to me.

[@EndOfSmallSanctuary97]

It was for a few years in the 1940s

[@frequentlyoffline3917]

Marjorie Taylor Greene once called Guam "unamerican" and Michael San Nicolas, the then-delegate of Guam at the time went to her office along with the Guamanian national guard.

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

What's her problem with Guam? They're our countrymen, as Delegate San Nicolas showed her! Thanks for the informaiton!

[@bagelfrrr]

"You already lost the Raiders" lmaoo

[@Rasta8889]

The last one actually has some thematic overlap with Roman Mars' TED talk on flags (which is great, go watch it). Many flags, logos and seals are just plain horrible in both their aestetics and their symbolism.

[@jessezeller-davis7699]

Wait that meme map includes the Gadsden Purchase but it also includes neighboring parts of Sonora and Baja California.

[@Mercure250]

3:03 One additional thing : Why is there an independent nation north of Finland when it's supposed to be part of Norway?

[@hebl47]

And let's not forget that Georgia has moved next to Sea of Azov.

[@Zaitsev-vo8uk]

1:05 They didn’t include European Russia, but they included Asian Turkey for Europe

[@pizzaman5369]

It’s great to see this series thriving

[@georgeheld1901]

how does one submit for these? I have a pretty bad map of Europe I found, and I'd like to submit it

[@botjewalt1654]

I found a horrible map in a museum in El Salvador but how can I send it to you? Is there a form or email that I can send it to? Thanks!

[@CyanWatercress4]

I love this! keep it up :)

[@JustaRandomGuy890]

1:40 even emperor tigerstar missed the fact that New Zealand is missing

[@blackXhawksXkickXbut]

The Port of Oakland not having China on their logo is actually based

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

5:42 Sure Japan is bigger than it should be, sure the Caribbean islands are missing, sure Iceland is missing, but at least this map has New Zealand unlike the Australia map you showed at 1:06. That map aside, an American politician posting the one at 4:33 is just sad...it says A LOT about a country's education system when they can't even name all the states within its territory. Erasing Alaska and Hawaii is the equivalence of saying the Alaskan natives and Native Hawaiians don't exist which...isn't a good look especially if you don't admit the US overthrew the Hawaiian kingdom and now the natives have to deal with not having their homes and tourism development now dominating the place.

[@caliboy09]

The 2:00 Australia map is missing NZ and part of PNG

[@ScenicFlyer4]

Quick question, where do we submit these bad maps? I've searched the internet and could only find your twitter as one, but I'm not sure if that's where we submit them. Could you let me know please?

[@mixra]

Just saw a map recently without Swiss, looks like Europe got a new lake

[@theKobus]

Swiss Atlantis

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

I guess Switzerland just turned into Switzersee!

[@jamesadams141]

You give 9/10 to Oceania named "Australia" but with Australia, Papua New Guinea, but not New Zealand nor other countries?!?

[@nchmbzhvchvv]

4:36 This is how aliens see the earth.

[@lunatic_52]

How can we send in maps for this series? I have a couple bad ones.

[@jeepmega629]

More horrible maps!!

[@supermaximglitchy1]

1:47 they forgot New Zealand that should make it a 0/10 immeadatly

[@Texan_christian1132]

SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT WOULD BE SCARY ABOUT THE USA BEING THE ONLY COUNTRY?

[@breaderikthegreat3224]

3:40 Maybe this is an alternative Timeline in which the Baltic States and Kresy became a Soviet Puppet State and Greece won the Greco-Turkish War (partly) And angry that they barely have a coast Iraq dryed up the Persian Gulf so that Kuwait, Saudi Arabia etc also don't have a coast

[@wizardsummoner9124]

The Philippines recognise Chavacano, which is a Spanish dialect. So it wouldn't be too far-fetched either.

[@xXxSkyViperxXx]

its not a spanish dialect. its a spanish creole. much of its words are spanish but the grammar base and many loanwords are from the local austronesian languages it has most contact with

[@Metal_Maoist]

Quick question. How can I send in a map?

[@HistoryandOtherStuffwithBV]

where can I send maps for future videos of this type?

[@medianinitiantion1058]

Another nice video mr tigerstar

[@konkasd2539]

Are you going to make a video on the tigray war?

[@naervern2107]

The picture at 4:32 shows an unknown planet with a single (visible) landmass amidst a vast ocean. Possibly implying that person to be quite fanatic about space exploration, willing to invest his Terrestrial country's budget solely into this novel planet, including all that nice water or blue whatever.

[@matulog]

What a weird side of youtube I have stumbled upon

[@yeboiepiktrix524]

Where do I submit a terrible map?

[@fennoscandianmapping7037]

Map #3 is in my AP World History textbook. For some reason, AP does not know how to make a good map.

[@ChrissieBear]

Ground news? Is that what happens when you put the news into a blender?

[@Slashingllama]

Portugal did control a or of the coast of a Southern Africa but it did not go in deep only slivers

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

There's a lot of horrible maps out there, and I found these quite entertaining! Mr. Representative's map of the US was quite... incomplete. Also, Oakland turned China from a trade partner into a large lake. I laughed when you mentioned them losing the Raiders! Thanks for the video!

[@cyberfutur5000]

At least the port map contained some land mass, where New Zealand is^^ Speaking of it, why is it, that so many maps crop that place out? Poor Kiwis.

[@tamaz88]

5:37 bro I’d rather die than paying taxes to the US

[@iapetusmccool]

Map no.1 also has a really weird projection, and I'm not sure what it actually is. At first I thought Mercator, but Mercator makes Greenland look larger than Africa, which isn't the case here. Then I thought Van der Grinten, which is a commonly used "almost mercator" projection (and IMO a really dumb one, because it has almost as much distortion as Mercator but with the properties that make Mercator useful). But van der Grinten makes the north coasts of Canada and Russia slope down to the centre much more. Also, Italy, Iran, and a whole load more coubtries are blue too.

[@WiseToTheLies]

What are your thoughts on the United Nations map/symbol, and why do you think they did not include Antarctica in it?

[@timothymclean]

Probably because no nations exist in Antarctica and it would make the logo look a lot messier with the projection they use.

[@LazyCat010]

1:25 Africa looks like it's wearing a hat with a feather in it.

[@Robi2009]

0:01 - Africake?

[@simondesmond3574]

otto von bismarck be like

[@QuizmasterLaw]

I think missing China may be enlarged Hong Kong harbor.

[@NiallsOceanLiners]

Good day for a horrible maps video!

[@dan_tr4pd00r]

To add on to the chorus of people commenting about Spanish not being widely used in the Philippines: As observed by Americans during colonization, Spanish was the language of the upper-class gentry while the masses spoke in their regional languages. It was mostly used as a lingua franca, which was slowly displaced in its niche by English over the course of the 20th century, losing official status around the 1970s. According to my parents, by the time they were growing up in the 60s, the use of Spanish had been relegated to old money families. My parents only had to learn Spanish in university and have minor proficiency with it. By the time I went to school in the Philippines in the 2000s, Spanish language had a reputation for being a relic of the past, virtually nonexistent. The latest census data from 2020 shows that only 0.5% of the country's population have any proficiency in Spanish. I think just based on the math, those figures don't include the creole Chavacano, but even then I'm still fairly confident the percentage of Spanish speakers in the Philippines is below 1%. So yeah, no. Not a Spanish speaking country at all (currently,) gonna have to dock you a point for that. 9/10. :)

[@about47t-rexes12]

You should look at the maps for the game Axis and Allies. Love the games, but the proportions are hilariously bad

[@EmperorTigerstar]

I actually already have a video specifically about that!

[@Sawdust_]

hey tigerstar, if you want another bad map, look up "Histeria! - Joseph Stalin Sees His Agent" its a map of the iron curtain stuff like yugoslavia being split up into 3 nations (slovenia, a merged bosnia-croatia, and serbia with montenegro and north macedonia)

[@jamespyle777]

Interesting fact, American Truck sim has both the port of San Francisco and Oakland logos but not the port of Los Angeles or Long Beach.

[@bengineer8]

Where do I send horrible maps? I didn’t see it mentioned in the video, description, or pinned comment.

[@EchoL0C0]

You could try his Twitter.

[@Jackster8484]

I find it funny how finmark got its independence from norway. On the map at 3:03. This probably alternative history where the Sami have started thers own nation state. And Norway just let them.

[@StuffandThings_]

That last map... my god, it looks like they turned the continents into intestines. How... how did that even happen? Everything is disturbingly long and curvy.

[@ArnarJin]

How do I send you maps? I've already sent you 2 maps on Twitter, and you didn't even respond to me.

[@Jerseff]

4:25 umm why is the argentinian flag split with the welsh?

[@Noah_Levy]

"You already lost the Raiders" lol

[@Mandrew_]

I think the oaklank one was simplified because its a logo and it was on the floor.

[@nebulan]

I thought the Aral Sea dried up.

[@DougGlendower]

To be fair, Oakland's entire budget surplus now is only good for a 16oz coffee, can't get that venti.

[@luki7614]

Imagine being european cartographer and someone send a mail to you "The HRE have a new state located here" And then you look at your paper you've been working for weeks. Today sending mapping channel terrible maps to hurt their eye is nothing different. Just little bit of trolling

[@mathewritchie]

Port of oakland got the weast coast of north America but the rest looks like it was done by a todler.

[@datrandom134]

You already lost the raiders Oakland. Ouch that hurts on so many levels

[@Odanobunagahistory]

In my science book have 2 pain 1.lao is not landlocked 2.tajikistan border is werid

[@Sea_Enjoyer]

"Missing the Falklands" don't make me put on my red coat.

[@jpasher6687]

3:37 Latvia misspelled as Lativa

[@paulolincoruptible1331]

For the first Map, Portugal didn't control this part of east Africa but the sultanat of Zamzibar pledge to the king of Portugal since the cap was passed by Vasco de Gama. Even if it wasn't a de facto thing because zambibar gave to Portugal a tribute only once ( to my knokedge ) and didn't participe toi levy it was by official tittle ans Map a part of the portugese empire. Sources : my History teacher in my second year of college Sorry for my bad english i'm french

[@sovietblobfish]

you were very generous to the 'australia' one that featured papua new guinea, a place australia has not owned since 1975

[@Liggliluff]

It's referring to the continent Australia, and this is exactly why I find that continent and name terrible. Let's just call it Oceania and include the Pacific Islands in it. Islands aren't normally part of continents, but normally they still count. Having Oceania instead of Australia as the continent, every country belongs to a continent.

[@sovietblobfish]

@@Liggliluff even if we assume its oceania and not australia, why would you include half an island instead of the whole thing, and the half you include just happens to be the half australia used to occupy that''s like me only showing half of hispaniola for the carribean map and putting the other half the island in a south america map

[@quujj]

@@sovietblobfish Because Indonesia still owns the other half, not Papua New Guinea. All of New Guinea is considered part of Australia (continent), but this mistake has nothing to do with the fact that Australia used to own PNG.