Queen vs Queen: whose crest is best?

[@awookieandagerman]

I've also just always loved that Brian is a crab. Like, Roger and John get to be massive threatening Lions. Freddie casts himself as a couple of fairies in yet another sly allusion to his sexuality. And then Brian, songwriting legend, guitar wizard extraordinaire, doctor of astrophysics... is a crab. A flaming crab mind you, but just a crab. I love it for the absurdity.

[@BvousBrainSystems]

This channel has the most insane quality/views ratio i have ever seen. Well, positive at least.

[@LinusBoman]

Haha, thanks mate! I hope that both keep going up with time! 😁

[@dragons123ism]

@@LinusBoman 430 views 😳 Ridiculous

[@bartdevries8531]

@@LinusBoman Came upon your channel just recently, but he's right.. you earn way more views. Hope they will come soon! Superb content!

[@UnwantedSelf]

So as a Kid I never knew Unicorns weren't real. In England, we sung the Lion and the Unicorn all the time in reception and pre prep and learnt about the Queen and looking at the coat of arms. So I grew up thinking, "Oh yeah, Lions, I saw them at the zoo, Unicorns are cool, super rare but, I've only ever seen horses along the road, I expect they have some at the zoo near the palace." I also thought all the dragons had just gone existent, why else would they be on the Cambridge shield.

[@secretscarlet8249]

The 3D depiction of the Queen's Crest on the gate feels pretty majestic and not campy compared to the paper version. Very well written video!

[@marrrtin]

Never saw the Queen logo broken down before. Fascinating. In parallel, there's a version of God Save the Queen on "A Day at the Races".

[@WeaselKing1000]

'God Save the Queen' is the closing track on the previous album, 'A Night at the Opera'. It's not on 'A Day at the Races'. However, both albums do feature the Queen 'crest' on their covers.

[@ZanderCircuitry]

This is my new favourite channel, it really scratches my nerdy designer itch

[@ExperimentIV]

yoooo alex, never thought i’d see you here!

[@ZanderCircuitry]

@@ExperimentIV haha! Well my 'real' job is as a graphic designer :)

[@ExperimentIV]

@@ZanderCircuitry omg i totally forgot! it’s marlo btw

[@Jemini4228]

Its very interesting that Freddie made his bandmate's representations more predominant than his own.

[@IbeCosmic]

I've been binging these videos all day at work and I'm just now looking at the view and sub counts and HOW? Everything about the video from audio quality to presentation implies a much higher sub count. This is incredible. Well, I don't know why the number is what it is, but I can at least do my part to push it where it should be. Great stuff mate!

[@LinusBoman]

Thanks Ibraheem - that's too kind! Glad to have you on board. :)

[@Acriimony]

Hi Linus, as someone whose affinity for sports is nonexistent, I recently went down a rabbit hole of NBA team logos and was absolutely fascinated at the amount of disparity between the logo quality. Between teams who've moved cities and kept a now irrelevant + logo along with it (Utah Jazz, anyone?), or teams who look like their logo was made on a free trial of Windows '98, I think you'd really get a kick out of it. Future logo shootout, maybe? ;)

[@khazermashkes2316]

I would watch this!

[@olijackson3870]

Wow, every time I look at the Queen logo now I’m going to look at it differently. I realise now how cool it is.

[@GeorgeChipo]

This channel is gonna get really big veeery soon.

[@johnwilliammaxwell5044]

I'm a real fan of these videos. I really hope the channel gets enough support to keep you posting.

[@julesfenn4313]

I love Queen and this video is great. Your style and humour are fantastic, not to mention how informative your videos are! ✨✨ great job, and who cares about parties 😂

[@LinusBoman]

Thanks Jules! That's very kind, glad you enjoyed it!

[@stefanosiclari]

5:16 reminded me of the crest of Rhodesia on the 1968 flag, with the motto "SIT NOMINE DIGNA" - Be worthy of (your) name. That's a good motto in my opinion, a reminder of having to do good.

[@einootspork]

That's the motto of fucking RHODESIA? That's some insane irony. I can hardly think of a less worthy country.

[@VampireLestatTheBratPrince]

I absolutely love that at the end of concerts they’d play God Save the Queen as Freddy walked out with a crown and robes.

[@JoeSayerUK]

Exceptionally high quality content! Your channel will explode soon. Keep it up!

[@Somba335]

everytime i watch a new video your subs go up by the thousands! its great to see that hard work finally gets appreciated!

[@nw42]

Just discovered this channel, and man do you swing for the fences! Great videos with really interesting concepts!

[@kaleidopsy3806]

started watching you, not seeing how little views you get. if i never checked i wouldve thought you had millions of views. quality work

[@jannik-x]

X Gene Simmons Lion X Queen Anne's Nightmare Lion ✓ Freddie's Cute Cats

[@nono-io5kt]

Listen to this man about the rabbit hole that is heraldry.

[@jefcaine]

Just discovered you! Your videos are ridiculously entertaining!

[@SuperGiorgi22]

Fantastic work, once again!

[@R.J._Lewis]

At 8:49 "... that's a pretty big achievement!" I see what you did there.

[@ThrustCurve]

Please never stop making videos like this

[@soberhippie]

Next episodes: who's a better musician, Queen or HM the Queen

[@WreckItRolfe]

The mane of the Lion is constantly changing, and back at least in the 40s the Unicorn's horn was massive.

[@Emma-kz8fs]

Totally agree, Queen the band earned what they had through talent rather than being born into money and power. As a Leo myself I love the 2 lions 🌼🌸

[@ElizabethS-wv2ge]

I also always got tickled that FM wore that silver braded arm band much like the Order of the Garter circlet is worn on the arm or the leg of the monarch

[@luntuafrica]

I’ve read up so much about the English Royal Coat of Arms (it sparked my interest in heraldry) but I never noticed/knew all these points about the Queen logo. That said, I feel you missed two big points: 1. The elegant “QUEEN” font (? Typeface? Fontface? Whatever it’s called). 2. How brilliant it looks in black & white. I actually didn’t realise there was a colour version.

[@PBMS123]

3:41 you missed an important aspect here, the Escutcheon in the Coat of Arms is the Royal Standard. The standard you saw covering Queen Elizabeth's coffin.

[@PsRohrbaugh]

I love this channel. So interesting.

[@helsbellsninja]

I learned so many things from just this one video.

[@WillJBailey]

Really good writing.

[@mbg8733]

Well the official achievement isn't the image you find when searching for it, but the blazon. The lion can be defined however you want it is still official. That is just the version that is most commonly used.

[@cyrilio]

As someone that has done a lot of research on family crest I'm loving this!

[@reganlandau]

I am so happy the algorithm decided I should watch your channel. It was correct. All hail the algorithm.

[@emilyrln]

That 18th century coat of arms is pure nightmare fuel 😂💀

[@PBMS123]

Technically that is called the Coat-of-Arms. Yes there is a Escutcheon-only version of the Coat of Arms, however more generally, the Coat of Arms refers to the ENTIRE symbol. Just like in Australia, the coat of arms of Australia, or officially the "Commonwealth Coat of Arms" refers to the entire symbol, with Kangaroo and Emu, while a Escutcheon-only version is jus the shield of Escutcheon in the middle.

[@baadtaste1337]

Oh - drats - all my pigeons flew away... well - there it is

[@Seloliva1015]

I never stopped to look at Queen's logo, it's great!

[@jeremysanchez8118]

I know nothing of design, and i don't know if im learning BUT THAT WAS TOTALLY WICKED

[@chris_wicksteed]

The O.G logo is much better designed to my eyes. It's compact, fitting into basically a pentagonal shape. The shield is nicely central. Each of the elements is well weighted. Queen's logo should have the Q in the centre, but instead has the crab leering out at me. The phoenix feels very detached/superimposed, while the fairies don't stand out at all. There's too much white space, and no defined outline.

[@Supertimegamingify]

When the logo is displayed with the word "Queen" below it, the ribbon Q is right in the middle.

[@jca111]

I was gonna say the same - when the text "Queen" is underneath, as it was always used like that, it was very balanced.

[@JohannDakitsch]

Not gonna lie, when I saw the thumbnail for a moment I thought this was an Epic Rap Battles of History video

[@DSQueenie]

Remember the Royal Coat of Arms is different in Scotland.

[@marpostma]

On the band crest the negative space above the head of the lion on the (viewer's) right is very straight and in the same place that the unicorn's horn is on the royal crest. At first glance I thought it was a horn. I wonder if Queen did this intentionally to further mimic the royal crest.

[@jakobholm6343]

There's a crab in the middle! Omg never noticed that before

[@uncinarynin]

Thanks for the insightful and entertaining analysis, from the city of the iron-eating ostrich in the state of the red-horned, fire-spitting silver panther on green in the country of the stone-crowned eagle holding hammer and sickle with a broken chain.

[@twiley3530]

I love the band's logo. It's look more appealing.

[@LarixusSnydes]

What a playful use of the two meanings of achievement and a great deconstruction of both pieces of heraldry at the conclusion of this video. I think it's a bit silly that they depicted England essentially twice on the shield while leaving out the Dragon of Wales. They could also put some leeks on the bottom, for the same reason. I also love most of Queen's music and their Heraldry is certainly majestic and fitting.

[@VoceCorale]

Please do a comparison video about rock band logos!

[@Richardincancale]

9:51 Who’s tongue and which cheek? 😊

[@LinusBoman]

😏

[@makeghandi]

I think based even just on the sheer redundancy in the design the royal coat of arms falls to Queen's.

[@gregoryvnicholas]

Great content. But it should be "Queen vs Queen: whose crest is better?".

[@greggv8]

So what's the breakdown of the symbols on the escutcheon of the Queen Anne era version?

[@erezasken5744]

You should do a video about superhero cover text logo things. Like the old Batman with the face and text in it

[@fntthesmth423]

Has somebody made a version of the royal crest using corgis?

[@cllris]

Considering Queen (band) doesn't actually have a crest... Achievement unlocked!

[@alf8618]

linus: i like you

[@xremming]

You should take a look at Finnish coat of arms!

[@intheparalleluniverse4897]

As a Queen fan, graduated design student and objector of the monarchy (not from England but having the same sentiment toward the monarch issue in my country) this video is almost like it tailored for me 😸

[@digiternst]

Maybe it's time for a royal rebrand?

[@wiesejay]

Do a critique on ribaldry

[@aaronjaben7913]

3:49 Wrong. Dexter and sinister is Latin for right and left

[@donaldboyer8182]

Could King Charles have a new "coat of arms" commissioned or might that have to wait for William?

[@mabus4910]

Fun fact: unicorns have split goat like hoves unlike horses.

[@alicemadness999]

0:08 he looks like he abt to sell me 15% off on geicko

[@stormRed]

Iconic of Freddie to represent himself as fairies

[@TheSmart-CasualGamer]

To quote Bohemian Rhapsody (The film): "What do you think?" "Well, it's gayer..." "Not the moustache!"

[@lesterfalcon1350]

Astrophysicist Brian May has himself represented by an astrological symbol, hmm.

[@jvphilip]

And the ribbon is shaped as a Q... Q for Queen.

[@Eckskalibur]

Well the answer’s obvious of course. It’s Queen’s.

[@jj-if6it]

Random comment but I work in marketing... I think if you changed the thumbnail to the actual crests, you'd get much bigger views for this video! The current one with the title is pretty vague

[@jamessteward_]

Hi Linus! Great video! Just a small suggestion - you could record a background plate of your room and then use it to mask out your microphone from the shot, allowing you to have your great audio quality but without needing to see the microphone. This tutorial explains more kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3vZZaqrj9qgmNk

[@LinusBoman]

Thanks James, great suggestion! I'll give it a try next time. Wonder if I'll get comments asking how the mic disappeared? 😂

[@jamessteward_]

Probably 😂

[@jackfrenchpresents]

The mic is charm why do you need to remove everything?

[@melancholicwaffle]

heh. Standard options

[@michellepurkes2416]

I hope the Scotts hate everything about the Queens crest. I'm from the U.S. with Scotts-Irish heritage and the audacity of the chained unicorn makes me want to fight.

[@mrjoe332]

"the chained unicorn represents Scotland" Boy, now why would the scottish still hate the british?

[@MrDaithis]

The Scottish are British.

[@owlman_]

Except the unicorn doesn't represent the Scottish, but the Scottish king. _He_ tamed the unicorn because he was so awesome and powerful. He was showing off by putting it in his achievement.

[@kaitlyn__L]

The British Monarchy started after the English Monarchy ran out of kings and begged the Scottish King to also be English King (see: union of the crowns; not to be confused with the Act of Union)

[@EmyrDerfel]

​@@kaitlyn__Lalso Scotland failed at colonialism in central America and ran out of money.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@EmyrDerfel it sure did! That was part of the aforementioned England paying money to get the Scottish king. England had done better at colonising, including at various times parts of Scotland, but was lacking a king. So they paid off the Scottish king’s (and his nobles’) debts in exchange for also becoming their king. Good on you for understanding contextual nuances and that no kingdom was ever morally clean.

[@ronaldmalfoy]

duh, it's freddie mercury,. dude does everything better than anyone else.

[@brixan...]

9:11 I disagree that how you feel about a design depends largely on the thing the design is for. Am I the only person who appreciate a design regardless of whatever else is attached to it?

[@EmyrDerfel]

You wouldn't mount it as the badge on the grille of a car. It wouldn't work on a powertool, fridge or laptop. It wouldn't work as the sign above a shop unless it was dwarfed by the text, making the crest pointless at a distance.

[@brixan...]

@@EmyrDerfel agreed, but I don't feel that way because of its connection to the Royal Family. It's the aesthetic value

[@mnm1273]

I don't know if the slogans are really that outdated. I suppose God and my right is as outdated as the concept of monarchy. I'd say "evil to him who thinks evil" is a fair motto that lines up with the concept of punishing crime. Bad things should happen to bad people isn't a controversial opinion. If anything with modern fights against racism sexism, transphobia, homophobia, islamophobia... "evil to those who think evil" is rather fitting and accepted. "God an my right" just fits the royal family, who style have a strong religious position. Divine rights sure sounds outdated, but then we still have a monarchy so...

[@Tobberz]

REEEE how dare you be not a die hard royalist!! I enjoy your videos and am disgusted you don't get more views and subscribers.

[@samschulz6799]

I love your videos, but I feel like your thumbnails don’t represent the sheer quality you’re putting out, like there’s a disconnect between your clean elegant filmmaking and sorta childrenschannel design of the thumbnails and titles... hope I’m not rude 🙈

[@LinusBoman]

Haha - thanks Sam, not rude at all! It's something that I really could put some more time into to be honest - I tend to think of the thumbnail last, probably to my detriment. I will try to think more about my approach - I guess I hadn't thought about the tonal disconnect between thumbnails and content... you raise a very fair point!

[@samschulz6799]

@@LinusBoman I feel kinda starstruck by your response, thanks for being so nice! Your videos kind feel like a mixture of Ethan Chlebowski and Matt D'Avella, but for Typography and

[@samschulz6799]

oh also, i know that Jarvis Johnson changes his titles and thumbnails regularly to see if which get picked up best by the algorithm. He once saw that an underperforming video, went massively viral just by changing the title to something that was similar to anther popular video by a different creator. Anyhow that's just armchair theorising, its super impressive that your putting yourself out there and how much energy your putting into doing this, i wish i had the courage to do so one day as well!

[@LinusBoman]

Thanks Sam, I knew of Matt, but I'm not familiar with those other creators - it's definitely given me something to look into! This channel is really learning as I go, so it's good to get feedback that challenges my current approach! Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts. 😁

[@ThinWhiteAxe]

As a Yank I am not remotely royalist plus I am a rock fan, so I'm gonna be biased, but I do prefer Queen's logo.

[@ShlomoRaz69]

WE ALL GINNA DIE!!

[@louismaass.02]

The Canadian version low-key looks better 🤣

[@KN-ck2kd]

6:07 Why- in God's name why- do the animals have erect members?

[@owlman_]

Virility. It's actually a faux pas in heraldry to not give your male animals a big old dong. It can be interpreted as a castrated, lesser, weakened, emasculated animal.

[@KN-ck2kd]

@@owlman_ Ah, thank you! That makes sense, although it doesn't make the image any less horrific!

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@owlman_ glad the modern rendition moved away from that!

[@Jehty_]

@@KN-ck2kd what was the reason for why it makes sense? Sadly the comment explaining it was deleted

[@KN-ck2kd]

@@Jehty_ something to do with denoting strength and virility, I think

[@B_27]

Looking at the two logos from purely a design and craftsmanship point of view, it is obvious that Freddie Mercury's design is superior.

[@rudorebob6643]

Hahaha unicorn wiener

[@artsed08]

I don't like your opinions. If you don't like this modern democracy, find another one.

[@weiyin8046]

liz is not gonna fuck you, you dont have to embarrass yourself like this.

[@karstais]

It's called a coat of arms ffs

[@ThrustCurve]

Please never stop making videos like these