It's Over: The Sun Will Set On The British Empire

[@asdfoifhvjbkaos]

the easiest way to get permenent daylight is to just claim some land near the north and south poles

[@szurketaltos2693]

So you're saying that the UK needs to purchase Greenland?

[@edarddragon]

@@szurketaltos2693 with what money?

[@antonievandermeer34]

So the sun never sets on the Norwegian Empire?

[@Colby_0-3_IRL_and_title_fights]

​@@antonievandermeer34I think it sets for 6 months of the year?

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

​Or purchase nunavuk from Canada ​@@szurketaltos2693

[@holygooff]

The UK: a place where the sun is never seen.

[@OszkarFulop]

and yet it apparently is there

[@Zenithzfn]

fr its been so gray recently

[@VOLightPortal]

And a place where its shine comes to die.

[@Nooticus]

You’ve clearly not been to the UK cos its actually so sunny here

[@IamTuna]

@@Nooticus what

[@DA-bs2cg]

7:30 Petition for Toycat to go to the Pitcairn Islands at 18:50 GMT-8 on the 20th March 2025 and watch the sun set

[@sanneoi6323]

Signed

[@Nike_IV]

Signed

[@kzswtz8224]

signed

[@RegentPandora]

Signed

[@zamarydoo1410]

Signed

[@Trintenus]

Never thought we would see the day...

[@vitaminluke5597]

Turns out you don't see the day. You know, because the sun set.

[@P4Tri0t420]

Finally its happen

[@Coolouie]

You don't.

[@BeStRavenclaw]

Rather "the night" xD

[@qed456]

Its an absolute disgrace

[@c_karis_1]

Thank God. Finally they can get some sleep.

[@CMJ321]

That's the funniest thing I've heard in a while!

[@frocco7125]

finally a snooze

[@the_internet_nerds]

Finally i can sleep

[@mickenziemitchell5487]

I cant believe the sun set on the British Empire before GTA6

[@HeadsetHatGuy]

🤖

[@oliverbacik4841]

​@@HeadsetHatGuy he aint a bot he has videos on his channel

[@Obreyze]

@@oliverbacik4841🤖

[@oliverbacik4841]

@@Obreyze how am i a bot when i can reply to comments

[@Obreyze]

@ 🤖

[@12Rosen]

ITS STARMOVER

[@stephen_ne8406]

ITS STARMAGHEDDON

[@muhammedjaseemshajeef6781]

Briover

[@SilentShadow269]

That pun was awful.

[@andrewprahst2529]

Toycat, you have to stop it from happening! You're a Brittish citizen, you're the only one who can

[@sanneoi6323]

I love how France is the one where the sun doesn't set. If you abuse the Arctic/Antarctic daylight thing then technically the sun never sets on Norway either because it has territory in both.

[@jnl7196]

Without those France still doesn’t have the sun set on it

[@sanneoi6323]

@@jnl7196 yea

[@geryon]

Sun also never sets on Order of Malta.

[@zanthe1]

As a Maltese this is based

[@ice161h]

@@zanthe1 malta and the order of malta are different

[@twilighttricksterXXI]

They don't even have land

[@ice161h]

@@twilighttricksterXXI that's the joke!

[@twilighttricksterXXI]

@@ice161h I know. Which is why the sun never rises on the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

[@finnersmcd]

WE CANT LET THIS HAPPEN, DONT LET THE FLAME DIE OUT 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Libanoni974]

The worse for you is that this quote will be use now for France because they have territory all around the world.

[@bubgamingandvlogs3870]

🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 uk

[@samsungsmartfridge3173]

If I remember correctly one of the reasons the US never fully went into the direct colonialism game was because of the absolutely awful experience we had fighting in the Philippine-American War. The tons of guerilla warfare, scorched earth, war crimes, etc. done to subdue the Philippines basically ruined the appeal for the whole empire thing. There was actually a pretty strong anti-war movement in the US during all of this, sort of a proto-Vietnam.

[@shnitzilhazel9957]

Yeah, the progressive movement in the US would never have allowed it. The only one I could think of being a possible US colony would be Liberia. And that is only if the US had activity tried to colonize it.

[@darianmarc]

Id argue all the territory gained after the US got its independence was direct colonization

[@oliviastratton2169]

The General who ran that campaign actually got court-martialed he was so horrible.

[@OscarOSullivan]

Well the likes of Puerto Rico, Guam and Mariana islands are the USA equivalent of BOTS. Also lest we forget the Banana republics.

[@tryaluck]

​@@shnitzilhazel9957the US still has colonies they just call them overseas territories, Puerto Rico, US virgin islands, Guam and northern Mariana islands. And technically Hawaii is a colony, quite a few native Hawaiians want independence. And the US also occupied Panama for a long time and also attempted to colonise Tristan da Cunha. So saying the progressive movement wouldn't have allowed it doesn't hold water, when they did and still do allow it.

[@clownfishinasuit]

Never thought I'd be sad to see an empire go but this just saddens me.

[@ACS2]

The first and last European empire (in the classic sense) was Portugal. Started with Ceuta and ended with Macau. More than half a millennium.

[@hyun-shik7327]

What about Rome? 753 BC - 1453 AD. European empire? Absolutely. Classic? Part of the Classical World - absolutely.

[@sanneoi6323]

​@@hyun-shik7327I think they were referring to colonial...

[@OscarOSullivan]

Russia could stake a claim to being the last large scale European empire.

[@sanneoi6323]

@@OscarOSullivan Russia's basically Asian at this point

[@ttl3366]

@@sanneoi6323that’s an incredibly idiotic thing to say.

[@turbo8584]

200 years of sunshine will end.

[@Le_ROBOT-]

They still have Diego Garcia,right? So not really. Not until 2124 when the lease runs out. Unless I'm reading the deal wrong.

[@larryOCannon]

Bro this we got the collapse of the british empire beofre GTA6

[@brandonm8901]

It's just France, it always has been just France 🫡 🇫🇷

[@lennonkelly-james2693]

🏳️🏳️🏳️

[@brandonm8901]

@@SebastianForal Well that's just not true is it

[@brandonm8901]

@@SebastianForal I don't think it's accurate to call giving up territory for nothing in return as a deal. That is surely surrendering land

[@jimmy_butler]

​@@SebastianForalexcept for when you did

[@lennonkelly-james2693]

@@brandonm8901 It's what happens when you elect a woke government.

[@SkyHighCity]

The sun will set on France when all it's islands are flooded due to the sea rising

[@johnlabus7359]

These islands aren't all flat. Aren't most mountainous?

[@SkyHighCity]

@@johnlabus7359 right, not sure why I didn’t think of that

[@szurketaltos2693]

I think the only territory of France that is entirely low lying (didn't check the Carribean because obvs French Guiana is not) is Clipperton Island, which I believe is not critical to the sun never setting on France. However, if French Polynesia were to secede combined with losing Clipperton to the waves, I think that would do it. Or maybe if both New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna secede.

[@Xphomegra]

hehehe

[@thomaseriksen6885]

Toycat wakes up from 70yr coma. Is understandably a little disoriented.

[@Benjamin.Jamin.]

Oh well. It was good run.

[@lambda653]

Your country, within a century, has gone from major world power, or maybe even top world power, to an embarrassing dysfunctional kleptocracy that no one cares about and your reaction to seeing this is "oh well, guess i'll have a pint." *_What???_*

[@HeadsetHatGuy]

​@@lambda653what did you expect, for them to lash out like american patriots? the brits are just built different

[@Pooheadstudioussoyes]

@@HeadsetHatGuyRude

[@MyhumpsmylovelymanlumpsMyhumps]

@@Pooheadstudioussoyesnot sure anyone cares about being rude to strangers on the internet, 😂 get used to it.

[@stephen_ne8406]

Frenchempirebros? did we win?

[@SebastianForal]

🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️

[@Jeff-theBuilder]

Ultra Common French W

[@DempseyWhiteley]

​@@Jeff-theBuilder tbf tho

[@conorfromouterspace]

​@@SebastianForalsubhuman negtoid

[@blockyuniverse7881]

@@Jeff-theBuilder Extremely Rare French W

[@savastevanovic]

11:05 If the number of Eiffel towers per capita was 1 that would mean there are 295 385 Eiffel towers in French Guiana.

[@avail6797]

if there was no military based, China would see an opportunity to expand their power. It is best for that country to let the British and the American operate a base on that island.

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

Britain should've just kept it

[@Postoronniy]

To be fair, one could just as easily have claimed that "night never ends in the British Empire".

[@Ultraw]

Mauritius: let me help you! Mauritius: SIKE!

[@michaelschemlab]

9:32 Tuvalu is already a Commonwealth Realm, and has Charles III as its king

[@ibx2cat]

Not owned by the UK (yet) though!

[@TheOriginalJAX]

@@ibx2cat That is not how that works; The commonwealth is a voluntary alliance. You are not doing us any favours, I get that you are youtuber so I get that this is impossible for you but maybe set your own ego aside for a moment and stop making us look like prats to everyone else by misrepresenting us. Is the clicks and upvotes worth it? I am genuinely curious what is wrong with you? why are you playing the empire version of house with barbie and ken dolls included? Seriously. Going by the last person I replied too you are having the type of impact I thought this kind of content would so good one; you opened the door to outright revisionism. Give an inch they take a mile every time and the apologetics just come flooding in.

[@michaelschemlab]

@@TheOriginalJAX you realize he’s joking, correct?

[@TheOriginalJAX]

@@michaelschemlab Well if you have to ask.... And I don't care. I am being nice when I say he is being inconsiderate in terms of how he is going about this. Because I'm not Joking and whether he is or not is not the point here. This is extremely disrespectful.

[@TheOriginalJAX]

@@michaelschemlab Also my point stands cause this open the doors to apologetics and revisionism. Humour is only applicable when done in a good faith manner the well is already poisoned.

[@germyz]

2:19 Bro, dont let your words taken out of context 💀💀💀💀

[@tomsuzyinfluencerinfj2712]

I worked in England for 20 years....The sunshine was never in UK (always rains) but OK, in all the other British places. Bummer

[@Glockas]

0:37 My post made it into a ibxtoycat video, sweet.

[@TheOne_6]

It's Empirover...

[@albertomunoyerro5562]

I am finally happy

[@jHatKaclyre]

RIP British Empire

[@jeryndavelauan2453]

It's already dead since 1997

[@GeckoTalks]

This is a case of yes but actually no. If you consider the modern British empire as countries with the British monarch as head of state. Then the sun still would not even get close to setting. But if you consider it just the U.K. Then yes it well set.

[@steffen6987]

WHY IS TWO TIER KIER GIVING AWAY THE LAST PARTS OF THE EMPIRE??????

[@dog-ez2nu]

because actual people used to live on those actual islands and they have zero to no connection with some cold, wet island thousands of miles away.

[@lennonkelly-james2693]

​​@@dog-ez2nuThe islanders still won't be able to resettle the islands after they're given to Mauritius, a micro nation which not only has no historic claims to the islands but also agreed to give up all claims to the islands as part of their independence deal.

[@Zenkrypt]

The tories opened up the talks, btw, under cleverly im pretty sure.

[@kets4443]

As a Labour supporter, this should not have been done, Cameron tried to stop the deal and this is just an international embarassment

[@baumholderh8425]

@@dog-ez2nuthe islands were original uninhabited when the Europeans took it

[@chickenpermission3594]

The light may be dimming but the flame still lives. Its upsetting to see the motherland being ruled by cowards, traitors and the villains.

[@OfficialUKGov]

It truly is over.

[@giovanni_vaz_cardoso]

The Maldives were also a british colony though, I wonder why the Chagos were managed as part of Mauritius and not the Maldives.

[@milexberg]

History.

[@Udhdhfufuf]

What was the point of giving over a few small islands

[@hilaryhongkong]

Mauritius is actually *not* the closest country nor were their people the first to discover or inhabit them. It's the Maldives.

[@Lungoose]

Now i'll feel nothing but anguish when i gaze upon my British Indian Territory flag 😣

[@jake_dev1046]

Same 😮‍💨

[@SuperGion915]

No worries people, The Sun Will NOT Set On The King's reign

[@RealWatch1]

the end of an era

[@jeryndavelauan2453]

Atleast all of former British Colonies, Protectorates and Mandates can now have peace

[@PhysicstIsaac]

​@@jeryndavelauan2453 Mauritius has been doing this for decades, they play the victim 24/7

[@jeryndavelauan2453]

@@PhysicstIsaac nobody cares

[@PhysicstIsaac]

@@jeryndavelauan2453 you seem to

[@jamesrocket5616]

Welcome multipolar world order

[@Cashcorn]

ibxtoycat makes geography videos now this is amazing

[@Hession0Drasha]

We are now trusted in the dark 😂

[@MareSerenitis]

Came to post this. Delighted to find it already here.

[@Archduke_Astatos]

So the french get the last laugh after all...

[@ehannasir8464]

i love watching these videos at 2 times speed

[@TheEnd-um7yd]

We got the sun setting on the British empire before gta 6.

[@quacksalotwaddl]

I always love it when I find that the person across from me in my college dorm is watching this 2cat video.

[@justsayin2548]

French Polynesia is massive, which i have never realised 😂

[@fullmetaltheorist]

There's nothing we can do.😢

[@rebelcommander7starwarsjur922]

Wait will those islanders be allowed to return to the other islands? Like not that one with the military bases but what about the other islands? I thought they’d be allowed to go back there.

[@JoJoModding]

They're gonna do some Ruanda Plan thing but with a twist: Ruanda (or whatever other country they'll use) transfers a bit of its territory to the UK.

[@Baello999]

Technically, the phrase "the sun never sets on the X Empire" first applied to Austria, via the Hapsburgs inbreding all over Europe, and was first used by Akkad back in the 3rd Millennium BC. The term still applies to France, so take that Rosbifs! Also, "The sun never rises on the Welsh Empire"

[@maxtube444]

its thatchover

[@VladimirzPutin]

Actually, yes there is a technicallity if we are talking mainland then the sun will set but terretories no

[@adamatch9624]

7:55 Ngl I like that more it’s kinda as if we are just taking a quick Power Nap in our old age

[@Draggie306]

One could also say that the “blood never dried” in addition to the sun never setting on the British Empire.

[@genericbeansmile756]

Ironland should find land sources to make it the new empire where the sun never sets

[@alen4835]

"Let's be honest, who does count American soldiers as people?" Perfect

[@MK_ULTRA420]

As an American, the reservists count as people.

[@kernowbysvyken5600]

He has not been sent victorious, this is not very happy and glorious

[@zamarydoo1410]

RIP to one of the coolest flags 🇮🇴🇮🇴🇮🇴

[@mozamota]

Yeah, they leave the Malayan to defend themself against the invading Japanese and shamelessly return after the war..

[@thongervlog123]

Britishers 🇬🇧: The sun never sets in British empire... Indian 🇮🇳: Even God couldn't trust Britishers in the dark.....

[@lennonkelly-james2693]

@@thongervlog123 Broken record. Nice GDP per capita btw. I can see why you all leave India for Britain.

[@EvangelinoFranca]

@@lennonkelly-james2693 crying in british

[@lennonkelly-james2693]

@@EvangelinoFranca Don't drink your tap water

[@thongervlog123]

@@lennonkelly-james2693 Britain looted more than 45 trillion from India and in 21st century UK is economically and military behind India...

[@gregoryturk1275]

@@lennonkelly-james2693Least arrogant Imperial federation fan

[@GuyMahoney]

Japan still has an Emperor, not a King.

[@hackermanglackersnacker5016]

I had a nightmare toycat’s second channel was over

[@Osquirr]

It'll be an unforgettable moment

[@SalvatoreBabones]

But the sun never sets on the sovereignty of King Charles III.

[@Joridiy]

12:28 funnily enough, even those who like "colonies" or "colonial empires" don't actually like the colonial administration per se, but rather they like incorporated parts of the country scattered through the world. That's what we always have liked, a country with a little part (or parts) of itself far away from the mainland with people who like being part of that country and who also have representation and right to vote. But since *that* concept has no direct name (one could say "overseas incorporated fully represented subdivisions") colonialbros will use the word "colony" but not really *meaning* the colonial system. So yeah, overseas incorporated fully represented subdivisions are cool

[@oreodepup]

Just because colonialism is generally a dirty word doesn’t mean that those localities aren’t still colonies. For instance the Falkland islands is a colony despite the fact that no one lived there previously. They were at some point colonized by the literal definition.

[@Joridiy]

@@oreodepup close enough, Falklands are an example of administrative colonies for they aren't integrated within the United Kingdom. What I mean for Overseas Incorporated Fully Represented Subdivisions are places like Canary Islands, Ceuta, Melilla, Açores, Madeira, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Reunion, Mayotte, Bonaire, Saint Eustatius, Saba, Alaska, Hawaii, Kinmen/Matsu, Kaliningrad or even places relatively close to their mainland like Bornholm, Río Muni, Galápagos or San Andrés y Providencia. All these are examples of what I mean, they're fully incorporated, the local population are fully citizens with representation and right to vote and most of them are happy to remain part of the country. Examples of modern day colonies (colonial administration going on where population has no representation, self government or voice) are most of the overseas British territories, some overseas territories of France (not those mentioned above but places like Saint Pierre et Miquelon, Saint Barthelemy, New Caledonia or Wallis et Futuna), some USA colonies (Puerto Rico, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and Virgin Islands, American Samoa) and Western Sahara (which even if it's a contiguous territory, it works like an administrative colony in process of population replacement). So it's a bit difficult to tell them apart but the ones that we like are those who are fully incorporated, have representation, voice, vote and the population actively like to remain part of the country they're a part of.

[@CaptainX2012]

That's assuming that we won't acquire more empire before then

[@RobertHosein]

What a time to be alive.

[@i.cyarrell]

This phrase always remind me of a quote: "The sun never set in the british empire because even god couldn't trust the english in the dark" lol

[@Nismo11]

Is this not cause for concern over the ".io" top level domain name? It's the country code this territory, and with it changing hands to Mauritius, there's no country to take over this domain, and I believe non-country code TL domains must be more than 4 characters. Maybe they could do something similar to Hong Kong when it was handed over from Great Britain, keeping ".hk" despite ".cn" already in existence. I hope I'm missing something here, but this could have major ramifications for so many sites across the internet.

[@TysonWalker-u1w]

What about Russia

[@GeorgeDenis.]

8:00 thats the time in santorini. In cyprus the sun will rise earlier.

[@Nooticus]

This is one of the rare videos of yours that I cannot reasonably give a like to. This was one of, if not THE top story on BBC news on the day in which it came out to the public, and you still did not explain the situation properly whatsoever. After stating that most people didn’t understand this news, its clear that you also didnt (or forgot to miss out a VERY key point). The key point you missed is that the Chagossian people WILL be able to return to the other smaller Chagos islands, just not Diego Garcia, the biggest one, which will continue being leased out to the UK/US jointly for military use. Also an unrelated but interesting fact you didnt mention but I expected you to, is that when the Chagossian people got sent to Mauritius, many of them suffered discrimination so then they ended up having to move to the UK, where most of them settled in CRAWLEY!

[@Braveplantt]

btw thanks for talking us hkers out about our strong opposition against PRC in some ways... :D

[@P4Tri0t420]

11:20 Facts lmao , i laughed so hard lmao

[@steventhomas8514]

Problem there is Mauritius has never had any territorial claim of the chagos islands.

[@therealiroquoisball]

They have had a claim on the archipelago since the 80s

[@steventhomas8514]

@@therealiroquoisball they have never had a claim the Chagos Archipelago were uninhabited until the late 18th century, when the French established copra plantations using slave labour in 1793. The islands have been British territory since 1814 when they were ceded to Britain with Mauritius and the Seychelles at that time.

[@khinev3128]

Not with a bang.. but with a whimper..

[@jumpvelocity3953]

Why do you keep oscillating up and down in place

[@markusklyver6277]

The Sun never sets on any country that doesn't exist anymore.

[@gregoryturk1275]

Why is Britain giving it away 💀

[@thatonelocalauthority2809]

Dumb leadership.

[@lmiartegtra9412]

I cannot overstate just how much i despise kier starmer.

[@user-kg2lp8jz2r]

Just colonise a part of the moon

[@jwil4286]

Why did it go to Mauritius and not the Maldives (which would be much closer)?

[@YourLocal_Mkara]

we got sun setting in the british empire before gta 6

[@athomicritics]

the base that took down Malaysia Airline 370

[@DatNguyen-sh4vj]

I thought this statement has always been true as soon as the British Empire dissolved, since there has been no British Empire since and the closest thing to it is the Commonwealth of Nations

[@appa609]

Hong Kong is not better off but China is.

[@MrSur512]

Loved it when you called it the subcontinent ❤

[@Libanoni974]

THE SUN NEVER SET ON THE FRENCH REPUBLIC ! *French Laugh*

[@alexdale8705]

Guys it's already like 3 am on the British empire the sun set on it in the late 40's 😂

[@cuff1626]

My first video i watched from you was the British empire hasn't set video. Should this be my last video watch from you??

[@Gia1911Logous]

Btw you put the wrong akrotiri at 7:55 That Akrotiri is in Greece, it is on santorini In Cyprus, on that day, the sun will rise at 5:47, 32 minutes earlier and 3 minutes before the sun sets in the Pitcairn islands So still... the sun hasn't set on the british empire VERY IMPORTANT THIS COMMENT BTW I need for you to do a correction video now cuz, this is the fact of the matter At 5:50 in cyprus, the sun sets in the pitcairns but on 5:47 the sun rises in cyprus

[@Crashingbro]

10:04 the sun never sets on the American empire 🗣🔥🗽🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 Cuba: liberated 🇨🇺 Philippines: protected 🇵🇭 Panama: freed 🇵🇦 D.R: visted 🇩🇴 Haiti: annoying 🇭🇹 Puerto rico: forever sleepover 🇵🇷 Virgin islands: purchased 🇻🇮 N. Mariana isl: chill i g 🇲🇵 Guam: borrowed forev 🇬🇺 US Samoa: Samoa at home 🇦🇸

[@stargazer-elite]

Legally speaking, the US military bases are considered American soil just like embassies the same deal applies to American airports outside of the country as well

[@JamieElli]

Of course if you count embassies, a lot of countries have enough for permanent sun, including Britain.

[@stargazer-elite]

@@JamieElli that’s my point

[@ponraul1221]

Those can still be evicted by the host nation

[@OzzieBo]

FELLOW BRITISH! WE MUST BUY A SINGLE SQUARE INCH INSIDE ANOTHER COUNTRY TO PREVENT THE SUN SETTING ON THE LAST REMNANTS OF OUR EMPIRE!

[@vector246]

diego garcia is still remaining british so technically it should set in 2124

[@SeanZurich]

Is Oceania the old world, the new world, or neither? Especially the pacific islands, like you can’t tell me Hawaii is the old world.

[@kermitthemutantlevitatingf7836]

Dammit the frogs won