Why are Purple Flags So Rare? (Short Animated Documentary)

Why are Purple Flags So Rare? What Caused the lack of them? Find out in this short simple animated historical documentary.
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[@mynameisntpatrick1476]

"Did you ever wonder why purple flags are rare?" "No. Wait. Now yes."

[@JoeJoe-23]

Yep that was me in a nutshell

[@attiepollard7847]

The Centauri Republic has the color purple on their flag but they are actually a constitutional monarchy.

[@someguy3766]

Me between the moment of my birth and right now: Never cared about this. Me right now: *Intensely interested*

[@nelsonk1341]

Nowi also wondering why pink flag so rare, why black flag so rare, and why grey......

[@johnrankin7135]

@@nelsonk1341 black is super common on flags..

[@SuperML_]

1:23 "Now, Europeans had been trying to make their own purple dye for centuries by simply dyeing red cloth blue, but the results were mixed." That's quite precise

[@aprilbizot4434]

SuperML nice

[@MisterFoxton]

You got the joke! Well done.

[@RandomMcreeMain]

I can't do it it's 666 likes .......I need to keep........... the......... balance

[@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372]

actually there is no purple color (as light wave length) it is mix of red and blue, check wiki ;)

[@wasp2272]

@@ssruiimxwaeeayezbbttirvorg9372 thats.. because its not a primary colour

[@Lyendith]

"They tried to created their own purple by simply dyeing red cloth blue, but the results were mixed." I see what you did there.

[@roguenetwork27]

I never picked up on that lmao

[@lpedr0l]

What is? I didn't get it

[@RoyalLegend1000]

They mixed red and blue together ​@@lpedr0l

[@Alec0]

@@lpedr0l The results were mixed, just like the paints

[@The_whales]

Hehe, “mixed”

[@bhgtree]

Kindergarten teacher: "Now everyone, draw a lovely colored flag." KT (to child with blank white page): "You didn't draw a flag...". French child: "yes, I did."

[@solinvictus2045]

Fucking hell.....

[@emanuelneagu14]

teacher was right to blame him, a simply white flag isn't lovely colored... (and yes ik it's a joke)

[@YourAveragePersonLol]

@@emanuelneagu14 its also a surrender flag. No wonder why france surrendered

[@emanuelneagu14]

@@YourAveragePersonLol right

[@asheep7797]

nice try, MILITARY!

[@tevvmusic]

I love learning about things I didn't care about once in my life

[@krxyzee_editz]

Same

[@Delq0]

Agreed

[@ashlynantoninacelestial9161]

Ah yes, me too

[@inotghoffar4570]

Same

[@jellycpufi1880]

Underrated comment xD

[@n1kolaos]

“Some are rectangles, some are squares and some are.....Nepal’s.”

[@charlesjakesamadan4008]

*Nailed It*

[@feudfan55]

In the shape of Nepal...

[@theoriginalshew]

I was hoping he'd also say "and some are the same, like Chad and Romania"

[@nhandinh7404]

@MLG Joe HOW DARE YOU!

[@nhandinh7404]

@MLG Joe I think their flag is unique, not shi-

[@charliehillstrom6356]

"Some are rectangles, some are squares, and some are Nepal's"

[@Salty-Doggy]

Charlie _ nailed it

[@brandonlyon730]

some are also Libya where they have it just plain green and nothing else. Or well it was before the revolution anyway.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

That part broke me! XD

[@jesseberg3271]

Loved that bit!

[@Toad256]

Then there is Ohio's flag.

[@contaminating]

By the way, mauve (the cheaper dye mentioned) wasn't made on purpose! It was made by a student in his home laboratory who was trying to create a chemical known to cure malaria :)

[@oneminuteofmyday]

The 1980’s thank him.

[@liamthommpson9741]

Actually laughed at "the french royal coat of arms was a field of white, i'm not being mean" xD

[@blarpax9061]

Liam thommpson its true tho

[@ravenz1644]

They surrendered like that just once, and all the glory from Charlamagne to Napoleon was wiped.

[@OzzieTheHead]

@@ravenz1644 French army probably has more victories then the rest of the continental forces

[@samarkand1585]

@Master Yoda Well of course, since the UK only goes in once others have done the hard part of the job

[@rieqgreg2138]

@@samarkand1585 right I'm sure when they fight India, Zulu, Malaya and others with the help of European Union back in the empire days

[@SacsachCCABP]

This video in a nutshell: “Hey can I use purple?” “Sure that will be a bauabushjagillion dollars”

[@Taima]

babushka dollars

[@vintage-radio]

@@Taima WHAT THE FUCK LMAOO

[@Taima]

@@vintage-radio lol, I'm glad you enjoyed that

[@GumSkyloard]

Spanish Republicans: lmao

[@WretchedRaymond45]

@@Taima lmao yes

[@theskepticalwhaler4946]

For reference, before the advent of modern purple dye, Tyrian purple dye cost more than gold by weight. It means 1kg of the purple dye was valued more than a 1kg gold bar.

[@justinb864]

Which is why wearing purple was the ultimate flex

[@guifdcanalli]

it came from rare snails

[@gormster]

Significantly more. It was about three times the price of gold. Nowadays, however, it’s more than *55* times the price of gold, at about 3.1 _million_ US dollars per kilogram.

[@leirumf5476]

And yesterday I bought 1.5 square meters of purple fabric. I should go back in time a couple of centuries and resell it. Plus inflation I'd not just be rich, I might be even richer than bezzos

[@integlangs]

How much dye was required for each item of clothing?

[@RA-ix3ww]

Video in 5 seconds: Why purple flags are rare? Because back then purple was extremely expensive. Thank you for watching.

[@ShrekWesAC]

@yabghus Bro what? He literally explained how purple is associated with royalty and wealth what are you on about

[@ShrekWesAC]

@yabghus your profile picture is purple :)

[@aliciajeschke6059]

@yabghus yea but you can change it.

[@viridia1526]

yabghus : purple is a unisex colour. Kings wore it as a symbol of wealth, men wear it nowadays. No colour is a females or a boys. How old are you?

[@martinbefartin]

Thanks

[@johnlorenpelayo]

Short answer: *purple is for rich people, we ain't rich man*

[@comm154]

yagbos purple I don’t recall ever being used to represent imperialism... just royalty and the papacy.

[@999oresx]

@yagbos purple is ugly he said, jeez

[@nightmare7067]

@yagbos purple is beautiful

[@uzzi3760]

yagbos purple is nice

[@truvonne]

@yagbos Purple is beautiful

[@delavegavincegabrield.9429]

"Why are there no purple flags?" Short answer: Old days no money, purple dye expensive.

[@Belisariuslover]

Yeah basically lol

[@kamusta3446]

*filipino laughs in ube*

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

Next time new country is formed they should pick purple as one of their colors to be unique.

[@condor2279]

just mix red and blue dye LOOOOL

[@starthelotus3453]

@@condor2279 it didn’t really look that great when that was done, so the cheap alternative was wine lol

[@Rhythm.E30]

"Lithuania who didn't get the memo" Lithuanian leaders don't get alot of the memos

[@Purple_haired_cleric]

That was the funniest/ best quote of this vid 😂

[@Cortinen]

Atleast it's creative :D

[@smashedham6417]

as a lithuanian i agree

[@MonsieurWeevil]

Well the colours mentioned in the video were red white and blue. Lithuania has Red. So does that mean you need at least 2 of them? In that case...🇩🇪 O boy!

[@pauliusgedrimas978]

our fax machine is broken. Email servers are down too

[@charcolew]

The book "Mauve", about the life of William Perkin, who first produced an artificial aniline dye of the colour, is a fascinating read. Once one of Victoria's daughters wore purple to her wedding, the aspiring and the wealthy classes suddenly developed a mania for the colour.

[@philtucker1224]

He named his first son Dylon.

[@doraemon402]

Monarchs: Purple represents our class Spanish republicans: yeah, we want the purple one

[@conejitorosada2326]

Everyone agreed that Purple sucked so the Republic must go down

[@dargtagnan3696]

@@conejitorosada2326 of course, no civil war happened... it was all a flag colour issue, for sure

[@zenyattakawai3076]

@@dargtagnan3696 even today there are republican people who use the flag ...

[@chnkg1775]

@@zenyattakawai3076 is the coolest one fr

[@zenyattakawai3076]

@@chnkg1775 Is was a communist and authoritarian regime ...

[@petartoshkov2076]

"It wasn't a surrender, it was a proud show of our royal flag" -French nationalist 1940

[@cyprienvieville6940]

Even more funny when we know that a lot of royalists were supporting petain x)

[@nemeczek67]

The white flag was hated by the French resistance fighters. Both of them.

[@someguy3766]

Nazi Germany: "Oh god sorry guys, we didn't realise." *Starts shooting again*

[@marlonmoncrieffe0728]

@@nemeczek67 😆😂🤣

[@mekorita21]

@@nemeczek67 french resistance :D funny kid

[@superyoshi_13]

2:31 ''And after the Spanish Republic was Francoed'' That made my day.

[@attiepollard7847]

The Centauri Republic has the color purple on their flag but they are actually a constitutional monarchy.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Yep, that was a good one.

[@Whydoyoureadme]

Youd think he would have wanted to keep the colour purple since he was very catholic and though a dictador he was still a monarchist. And youd have thought the spanis republic would NOT have used purple for the reasons above... Spain had it the wrong way around lol

[@superyoshi_13]

@@Whydoyoureadme Why would I think that if I'm from Spain? I literally kow the history of Spain pretty well and know the reasons why Franco didn't wanted to keep with the color purple.

[@bysne9398]

Purple flag part of Republic Spain came because of "Comuneros" flag.

[@МирјанаАдамовић]

French Sargent: raise the flag! French soldier: raises a white flag French sargent: charge!! Enemy: look they surrender! French: SIKE! Also why dont people say 'sike' anymore? It was a huge meme.

[@yalta5060]

I don’t know

[@kusuossecretgf5401]

idk man, I think it was a good meme too :/

[@TeenWithACarrotIDK]

Imagine the enemy were like “Oh, they want to come Say that they surrender face to face, very french.”

[@issydelz]

because its like your like count

[@emanuelneagu14]

If you got a very good joke, like this one, don't think that others don't say the meme you wanna say anymore, just say it, only superficial people will cringe at it, those who don't exist without fashion and never wanna look back, over good memories...

[@hawktalon2433]

“All the countries in Europe have flags with very similar colors except for Lithuania who apparently didn’t get the memo” made me laugh as a Lithuanian

[@MonsieurWeevil]

Well the colours mentioned in the video were red white and blue. Lithuania has Red. So does that mean you need at least 2 of them? In this case...🇩🇪 O boy.

[@Smurfen249]

Lithuania used to be blue and red durning medieval era thank Russia for the change.

[@malikmohamed6051]

@@MonsieurWeevil 😁😁😁😂😂😂👍

[@RooneyAldo]

@@MonsieurWeevil 🇮🇪 😂

[@MonsieurWeevil]

@@RooneyAldo Well...

[@MrPabgon]

Fun story: In Spain, the Republicans were the ones with the purple strip in the flag. Now, even though it seems off-topic, i promise it's not lol, but when you see electrical towers, they carry groups of 3 cables. When those cables reach electrical stations, each of them have a specific colour: red, yellow and blue. It wasn't always like this. Before the Civil War between Republicans and Falangists, one of those colours wasn't there and it was instead purple. But when Franco won the war and started his dictatorship, going through electrical stations, he mandated to remove the purple colour off the cable, given its correlation with the Republic, and change it to another one, thus creating the combination of 3 colors we see today. I just find it so funny that he focused on something like this.

[@Justk1Drauhl]

so petty lmao

[@piporgames]

Pues no lo sabía, muy interesante 👍

[@rompevuevitos222]

If they can change cable colors for such stupid reasons, that explains why it is so hard to get standardized cable colors nowadays

[@ornessarhithfaeron3576]

Wait, why don't you have DIN-colour-coded cables like the rest of Europe?

[@mmmmeeeeeeeeeeeexi]

@@piporgames Yo tampoco, y con lo de Franco FrancoFrancoFrancoFrancoFranco... Por qué digo Franco o.o Que buenos momentos cuando seguía de moda, ahora nos reímos con un pan cayéndose :(

[@alphaxalex1634]

Short answer: *purple was expensive yo!*

[@magmafang7187]

I thought it was going to be like that because of purple being royal

[@BCrane-ej4iq]

An so... W A R

[@crook4422]

Magma Fang I mean it signified royalty because of how expensive it was to produce

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

The only way to obtain purple was to go diving to the bottom of the Mediterranean sea to collect Muricidae snail shells. Once collected, you had to smash the shells. Then you had to add wood ash and water, slowly heat it up over about a month and let it ferment, in the dark. Over a thousand snail shells were required to dye just a single robe or cloak. So, good luck accomplishing this in less than a year. Not to mention the trouble if something went wrong.

[@zaikolebolsh5724]

"...yo!"... Why do I find this so annoying?

I love this channel. Im going to be honest, some of the subjects i couldn't care less about , but he has made it so funny and great to watch and in a silly way im now more educated about certains things i never knew or cared about before . This channel is a must for kids

[@Steeyuv]

Yep, including kids aged 63.

@@Steeyuv Definitely hahaha . tbh you are never too old to learn . But what i meant was this is great for kids especially if they are struggling when it comes to history in School . This channel makes it a bit easier to understand .

[@Safinitzine]

Another slap on the face for the Holy Roman Emperor. “Can I rule for 1000 years, please? -Can you dye purple? -Can’t afford it... -So, no. Weakling!”

[@mojewjewjew4420]

@M Sadly most succesors of Great Empires were morons. Alexander the Great [Diodochi],Ghengis Khan and many others.

[@ErebusAbaddonAzrael]

@@mojewjewjew4420 do i need to remind you alexander the great conquered the known world of his time

[@gustavfrye2736]

@@ErebusAbaddonAzrael What does it has to do? His successors still were shit and divided his empire.

[@angrypepe7615]

answer: old monarchies didn't have enough money because they weren't sponsored by James Bissonnet

[@mitchellreece3711]

*James Bissonette

[@potatoesandducks958]

@@mitchellreece3711 James Bizzanette?

[@rperm834]

Raid shadow legends

[@fieryr]

@@potatoesandducks958 James byzantine

[@TheGrandGamerOfficial]

Lol

[@corporalzeph2518]

"So, one exception.." *Shows Mongol dancing in a field* *John Green would like to know your location*

[@blackcat1642]

He is going to have a trip to your place with a colorfull cats of friends a romantic interest and end up imagining the world more complexly

[@johndoesmith4111]

*_WE’RE THE EXCEPTION!_* _(cues Mongoltage)_

[@eukarya_]

1:30 Fun fact, in Spain there's still a region called Castille and Leon and still uses the medieval flag so this shade of purple is still in use officially although not by a country

[@Pablo_Abajos]

And we migth break in to two communities making Leon the only ones using purple

[@eukarya_]

@@Pablo_Abajos Well, I think the province of Valladolid uses a purple flag also. Not an autonomy but a recognised entity nonetheless.

[@Keyzer93]

@@eukarya_ y Palencia también

[@Tortuzga]

@That Toast Palencia es una provincia tu que hablas

[@Tortuzga]

La bandera co-official de cantabria y repito CÓ-OFICIAL, el gobierno de Cantabria la admite es un fondo completamente de un color morado tirando a magenta.

[@totomac3600]

**People waving white flag to surrender** France: “Hey look our flag!”

[@YataTheFifteenth]

"Sorry my friend that's copyrighted."

[@user-zn8xu8dg5z]

@@YataTheFifteenth Imagine trying to surrender to a country in a war and that country copyright strike you

[@YataTheFifteenth]

@@user-zn8xu8dg5z Napoleon: "sweet free money"

[@Thegoldenringsyt]

@@YataTheFifteenth lol

[@dallasschwalger1963]

After one surrender France makes in WW2, people start to mock the damn country despite actually knowing it's full history.

[@mixis1931]

I know I'm late and most people don't care but Lithuania's flag is meant to simbolize: Yellow - the sun and the fields; Green - the forests; Red - blood spilt for the country.

[@levranz1054]

I care

[@closier2]

I care

[@k0mentator507]

I care

[@Leogra78]

Thanks for the information

[@JustAnotherYouTubeCommenter]

I care

[@lol-wb8lg]

summary: everyone’s too broke for purple

[@Awfulfeature]

“Look! The French are surrendering!” “No sir they’re being patriotic, and also loading the cannons.” “Wah-?” *Explosions*

[@Awfulfeature]

*queue Super Mario 64 - Slide* The American Revolutionary War WWI WWII (Okay so i cant think of any others)

[@tryambaknathjha7574]

@@sci_pain3409 France has won the most wars

[@LordVader1094]

@@sci_pain3409 Napoleon in the majority of his wars. Hundred Years War and a whole lot more

[@nogisonoko5409]

@@sci_pain3409 I would like to disagree with you there. A LOT.

[@GerLeahy]

@@Awfulfeature Statistically they are one of the most successful military nations on the planet. The surrender nonsense was an American invetion, which is utterly ignorany of France's very, very impressive military history.

[@eminkilicaslan8945]

I already knew that thanks to children science booklets I read. Short answer: Purple dye used to extracted from a specific sort of sea snails and it was so expensive that wearing purple was a sign of wealth. But I scientist- whose name I forgot for now- accidentally synthesized artifical purple dye while searching for find a cure to a disease. Edit: Apparently scientist's name is William Perkin and he was researching for anti-malarian.

[@kohndoe9440]

Why not use color from lavender? Europe has so many of that flower.

[@nicolasiiiletzar7984]

@@kohndoe9440 Maybe it's difficukt to make a color with this flower

[@wppb50]

@@kohndoe9440 No good. Lavender dyes to a soft grey, or at its strongest a greyish-pink.

[@BreezyStreamy]

@@wppb50 Makes sense, lavender color eyeshadow can look more grey or pink and rarely looks purple unless paired with another purple.

[@TheStrangePoet3791]

Thanks to the KZbin algorithm, I have once again learned a useless piece of trivia and am going to continue on to binge watch a bunch of videos from this channel, mainly because they are both informative and funny.

[@thedwightguy]

If this thread EVER does a Lego model set of these aritocrats, soldiers, Kings, and papacy figures along with more soldiers, I'M BUYING.

[@TheSultan1470]

I learned you are useless!

[@ruebenjesse]

Thank you. I recently googled for an answer on why they didn't just mix red and blue dye, but apparently it was harder than one might think

[@ExtremePragmatist]

"...but the results were mixed." I see what you did there, you clever bastard. 😂

[@zolamastrike]

Meh.

[@furexu]

Fuk i finally get it

[@julianaylor4351]

There's a special stripe in heraldry that denotes bastardy.

[@kylemohs8728]

Lol, I love how the French flag was just a white one. Sometimes historical in-jokes are set up centuries in advance.

[@АлексейТабаков-ы8в]

Are you mean actual French flag since 1814 before the July Revolution in 1830? And modern French flag based on Bourbon white stripe and flag of Paris (blue and red stripes) since the end of 18th century.

[@narthex1681]

The french royal coat of arms either was blue or white with lys flowers depending on the dynasty. I think the flag was entirely white only a for a few years after the revolution

[@liverturcxdanpavs]

The real royal flag had golden fleur de lis on it

[@oui3255]

Not gonna like the comment just to keep it at 777 likes xD

[@liverturcxdanpavs]

@@oui3255 I liked it for you

[@Lolo50000]

"What's your favourite colour?" "Purple" *Angry Secularist Republic noises*

[@Darkfawfulx]

Like the Second Spanish Republic?

[@hodor9851]

@@Darkfawfulx yes

[@necro-retro915]

Are you exited for la resistance for computer game "hearts of iron 4?"

[@jeromechen7816]

1:17 missed opportunity to make that sign say “die or dye”

[@cheerfulpessimist952]

The history of the French Royal Coat of Arms: "Your majesty, what do you want as the design for the royal coat of arms?" "Just leave it for now, I'll tell you later." *never tells anyone later*

[@ufhb6649]

That’s got to be one of the only good jokes I’ve heard about this white flag

[@Hand-in-Shot_Productions]

@@ufhb6649 Indeed! To add extra insult to the other white-flag jokes, I have not found any evidence that the French ever flew the royal/surrender flag during World War II, as a national flag or a surrender flag! It would make sense that France did not announce their 1940 surrender with a white flag, since other famous surrenders of the same war did not use white flags (Germany, May 1945; or Japan, August 1945). Either way, I have always found the 1814 French flag to have that major a design mistake: it looks like the Bourbons forgot the white flag meant surrender for _literally_ the rest of Europe!

[@dapoun7228]

@@Hand-in-Shot_Productions Well,since the radio and phone exist,the white flag is quite useless

[@gestapoboyz6375]

Purple Wales looks amazing

[@HebrewsElevenTwentyFive]

I agree 🤙🏾

[@biggbals4375]

Wow yeah

[@rachard]

Woo Yeaa

[@troygrindley3793]

Our flag is already amazing...it’s got a dragon on it 😂😂

[@toffeecrisp2146]

@@troygrindley3793 but it needs more targaryen and less, my pet dragon...

[@Bagster321]

1:13 Love the Crash Course reference.

[@edipires15]

Seth Gwyn the exception being the mongols, that was a running gag in Crash Course History

[@MemeMaster-bg4mf]

Aggressive Tubesock Pretty sure John Green is gay lmao.

[@attalan8732]

@Aggressive Tubesock Thank you for your input, feel free to walk off a bridge.

[@patacas4080]

@@MemeMaster-bg4mf you're joking right?

[@Jose04537]

@Aggressive Tubesock Why being an ass when you could be silent?

[@boredpancake418]

This just popped up in my reccomendations. I had never even considered this or cared, but I still enjoyed watching the video. This is a very good thing about your channel. You can make people interested in stuff that they never cared about before

[@Longshanks1690]

Because it worked out so well for the Byzantine Empire.

[@pippi2285]

If you die, you might as well die with the best flag in the world

[@nikolaosboukouvalas449]

But they didn't have a purple flag. The Komnenian flag was a black, double-headed eagle on a yellow background and the Palaiologan was a yellow Cross with four Bs (or firestarters, depending on who you ask) on a red background. Before that there was no "official" flag, but various standards (usually blue or red) employing Crosses and Chi Rhos.

[@marcus4046]

@@nikolaosboukouvalas449 did...........did they copy the HRE!?!?!? *IS VISIBLE HORROR*

[@TheNinjaDC]

I mean, Eastern Rome did last longer than Republican & Imperial Rome (combined).

[@tylerellis9097]

King Edward "Longshanks" I, Hammer of the Scots, Lord of Wales and King of England Weak ass Meme Most Byzantine flags were red and never purple

[@maxm.6637]

Me: never wondered why purple flags are rare. History Matters: I’ve heard you’ve been wondering why purple flags are so rare. Me: you know what? I HAVE been wondering why purple flags are so rare!

[@Shagyamum]

Yeavlol

[@miriamdopp6689]

exactly me 😂

[@allymog5228]

"Now that you mention it..."

[@neledahm5179]

Everyone felt this.

[@Kyle-qd2sy]

Medieval France: let’s make our flag white France 1940: the prophecy is fulfilled

[@lolmanmagee2785]

shoulda made it purple

[@graceneilitz7661]

The time when the French flag was completely white was during the Bourbon Restoration in the early 1800s. Before the revolution the flag had some yellow on it.

[@micahbush5397]

Another factor not covered is that compared to Tyrian purple, the more common dyes for making purple weren't as color- and light-fast, so they would have been prone to fading if put on something that was exposed to the elements as often as a standard.

[@caraunio2542]

The funniest part is that when the spanish republicans decided to make a new flag, they tried to find the flag of the Comuneros that rebelled against the Governor of Castille centuries back, they found a castillian flag centuries old in a monastery, belonging to those Comuneros as the legend told, the flag was actualy the same color as 1:30 but after so much time and sun exposure it turned a more clear purple, so they just decided to make it purple. It's been proven in recent years

[@osasunaitor]

That makes sense! The Castilian Commoner (Comunera) flag always stroke me for having the exact same colour of the Republican flag, despite being centuries older

[@lolxdani9996]

I confirm that

[@dontbeasadsoulja]

I am personally very interested in Spain's history, especially in the Spanish civil war era, and to me this is an absolutely sensational fact. no joke

[@CarlosCastillo-zf5fb]

"Y aquel que la encontrara y la sacara de la piedra, sería el elegido para convertirse en rey de Inglaterra." Y luego ya se le iba la república por los poros a los republicanos ante la opción de convertirse en reyes. [Referencia a excalibur, y a este intento de leyenda para legitimar la traición]

[@ForelliBoy]

"Lithuania didn't get the memo" Latvia: *am I a joke to you*

[@tsar389]

There flag is literally darkened austria

[@presiyanpeev2218]

they have white

[@tsar389]

@@presiyanpeev2218 a white stripe? So does all of Europe except Spain, Portugal, etc

[@gustavszile8146]

@@tsar389 It's not like a fat white stripe like Austria's. It's a thin one. Plus our flag is Carmine red. Much darker red than Austria's.

[@chalkfourtyfive]

*laughs in Ukraine*

[@jackbarnes7432]

"Raise the royal flag!" - France, 1940

[@DTChapman1]

They were just setting themselves up for that joke, hundreds of years in advance.

[@Cl0ckcl0ck]

Yeah, that was after the Brits had left them holding the hot baguette by running back to their island after the first few shots were fired. Over 90% of Brit casualties in mainland Europe in 1940 were inflicted on them while they were fleeing (with French and Belgian soldiers guarding the rear). To hide this (and the murder of 1500 French sailors by the Brits), the Brits invented the myth of the cowardly French.

[@Random.Guy0]

Gosh the people that can't handle memes about France ashame our country more that surrendering did.

[@jackbarnes7432]

@@Cl0ckcl0ck Holy crap... someone needs to open a history book. The British retreated from mainland Europe after the British Expeditionary Force and much of the French Army was encircled and cut off from the rest of France. The BEF was comprised of only a few hundred thousand soldiers and operated more or less exclusively in the far north of France and Belgium, while the rest of the line was manned by roughly 3 million French troops. The reason why much of British casualties during the Battle of France happened while they were retreating is because they were encircled, cut off, and more or less forced to retreat after the Germans broke through French lines manned by French soldiers, before the BEF conducted any major offensive operations on front. The French botched the defence of their own country. The French High Command had spent the last 2 decades sniffing their own farts and getting high off their victory in WW1. They put way too much faith into their defences and had barely innovated in both technology and tactics since 1918. They also ignored aerial reconnaissance reports of German forces moving through the Ardennes, falsely believing the terrain to be impenetrable. With all that in mind, why should the entire BEF go down fighting in France, leaving the UK wide open for invasion, when the French themselves had failed to defend their own country through sheer incompetence? It was honestly the LEAST the French could do to allow the British to evacuate back to England, giving them the opportunity to defend their own country. The "murder" of 1500 French sailors is a massive oversimplified fallacy. When the French surrendered to the Germans, one of the terms of peace was that the French Fleet would remain docked in North Africa but would apparently be left alone by the Germans. History has since revealed that the Germans had no intention of leaving a perfectly good fleet of warships out of their war effort, since when Vichy France was invaded by the Germans and Italians just 2 years later, they desperately attempted to seize what remained of the French Fleet in Toulon, before it was scuttled by the French sailors as they held off the German forces. The British had the good sense to realise that the French Fleet wasn't going to be left alone in 1940, since after all, the Germans had broken pretty much every agreement they had made prior to this, and thus the British presented an ultimatum to Vichy France to hand over the fleet or have it destroyed. The bombing of the French Fleet was not murder, the naval forces of a enemy puppet nation is a justifiable target in war. And finally, the British did not 'invent' the 'myth of the cowardly French', and they certainly didn't do it in an attempt to hide any of their actions during WW2. The aforementioned actions are not hidden history, nor has there been any attempt to cover them up. The tongue-in-cheek joke surrounding the French being cowards in WW2 is just something that's naturally come about, Britain and France are two very similar nations after all, and one of them surrendered and the other did not. Also, the idea is far from being exclusively pushed by the British. Plenty of people from all over the world, including the French themselves, joke about France's overall poor performance in WW2.

[@mh8795]

@CL0ckCL0ck your grandparents were cowards who hid in the woods during the war, eagerly awaiting the British to come and tell them we’d rescued your pitiful nation.

[@QuincelSC]

"Some of them are rectangles, some of them are squares, and some of them...are Nepal." Killer line.

[@cekan14]

As an Spaniard, I can confirm, at least with most of the video. However, according to what I read some time ago, the kingdom of Castilla y León actually used a red flag. This specific flag, after hundreds of years, was found to be purple-ish, but it was just that the red pigment had aged like a lot, so it looked like purple, but it was actually a type of red. Another funny thing is that while in English there exist the words purple and violet to refer to this category of colour, in Spanish, apart from púrpura and violeta, we have another one! And that is morado, which is the most used nowadays and, as far as I know, does not have am equivalent in English.

[@vincentlevarrick6557]

In English we have a red-purple-brown colour (like the one seen at 1:30) called maroon which may be related etymologically.

[@cekan14]

@@vincentlevarrick6557 Interesting! It turns out there is a much similar word to that in Spanish, and that is marrón, which means brown. But I just looked at the colour maroon you said, and they are kind of similar.

[@Luis-fl1qs]

Y lila!

[@petertaylor4980]

I've never thought about the etymology of morado, but presumably it's from mora. People who need lots of colour words (paint manufacturers, fashion designers, etc.) will certainly consider blackberry and mulberry to be colours, so if you really need to distinguish morado from púrpura that would be the way to do it. But certainly they're not commonly used as colour names, so I'm not disagreeing with you.

[@JackHankeAnd]

As an American I was actually taught (back when I was in elementary school in the early 2000s) that "morado" was the Spanish word for "purple," so to at least some English speakers, "morado" does now have an English equivalent.

[@MatijaCG]

History Matters: *Why are purple flags rare?* Every other not used colour: Am I joke to you!?

[@oLii96x]

@@_blank-_ and orange

[@ozza4496]

@@_blank-_ I think brown is used in Swaziland's flag.

[@Ayastie]

orange has a bit of national flags. Orange is also a "newer" color for Europeans as it was just considered a shade or red in the past.

[@Ghost_PM11]

Maybe some colors just don't look good on flags, and I know this is very subjective. I just can't imagine a serious flag with a pink stripe.

[@majava5282]

@@oLii96x Ireland and the Ivory Coast immediately spring to my mind. There likely are more.

[@boundedsleet6262]

The casual 'Nailed it' sign from Nepal's flag design always cracks me up for some reason.

[@MemeMaster-bg4mf]

0:55 *CRISIS AVERTED*

[@thescottishanimeguy9946]

Man I'm hardly this early so random fact time again: The last German victory was the Battle of Bautzen which lasted from 21-30 April, 1945 and saw germany recapture the town of Bautzen.

[@jonasb104]

@Ricardo VS No, he killed himself at the 30th of April. The 20th right before this is his birthday. And I guess only the fanatics kept fighting the last week. My grandpa was stationed in Italy at the end of the war and he deserted even before Hitler killed himself. He then found out through an Italian who told him while he was already on his way back home.

[@thescottishanimeguy9946]

@@Ursusarctosberingianus it is quite intresting, a battle 2 or 3 days before the wars end and saw the Wermacht fight alongside the americans against the SS

[@yarpen26]

And one of the most humiliating defeats ever suffered by a Polish army (since it was largely their engagement). What an absolutely disastrous way to end a war that already cost your nation pretty much everything and which you come out of just as much occupied as the former Axis countries are. It's no wonder almost nobody in Poland ever brings up Bautzen.

[@nogisonoko5409]

@Ricardo VS A lot. There are a lot of German last holdouts in the Europe that did not surrender on May 2 1945 and keep fighting until it was liquidated by Soviets and Allies.

[@krim7]

"Big ole' purple stripe." Gets me every time 😂🤣😂🤣

[@decoture9978]

amazing

[@elitestryker5709]

Is flag from 0:49 from air ships conquer (or sth?)

[@superbeavers7645]

"Every nation has one" *Northern Ireland cries in confusion*

[@nono_Hoi4]

true the ulster banner is an unofficial one

[@dcarbs2979]

But then, Northern Ireland has never been a sovereign state - Only part of Ireland or UK. Even when it was part of Ireland, Ireland was in the UK.

[@rejuno1991]

@@dcarbs2979 Yeah but now it is a country lol.

[@dcarbs2979]

@@rejuno1991 Indeed. A constituent country of the Sovereign State of UK (GB & NI)

[@crystxlzx6442]

It does,it's the cross on the union jack i

[@justthatguy3760]

Ahh, yes. Nepal. My favourite flag type.

[@thomasjohnson4987]

JustThatGuy 37 are you from nepal?

[@Inertia.]

Being a Nepali🇳🇵, we feel proud of our flag then we watch flag videos on KZbin, we feel confused af 🙈

[@star_lord1431]

"This one isn't a joke by the way" *Doubt*

[@TravisKemFishing]

So I lived for a time in central Missouri in a county called Callaway. It has a very popular story (true or not it's the story) that during the civil war, they wanted to stay neutral and made fake cannons all along the border to keep both sides out of Callaway county. This gave it the nickname, Kingdom of Callaway. And their flag for the county is solid purple field with a crown emblem in the center.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

I like Dominica's flag, nice purple Sisserou parrot. Beautiful underrated island

[@DaveMiller6042]

YOU ARE EVERYWHERE. YOU'RE JUST LIKE 'GUY WITH A MUSTACHE', 'JUSTIN Y', AND 'GUY WITHOUT A MUSTACHE'. WHY?!

[@vivekagarwal8890]

@@DaveMiller6042 everybody has the same question........

[@squeaky9715]

@@DaveMiller6042 he goes around funny education videos.

[@lennymj]

Avery the Cuban-American I’ve only seen you in a few videos

[@mpx41]

0:55 When reality is more cruel than slanderers.

[@eukarya_]

0:4 In Spain there's a city called Zamora whose flag is literally 8 red stripes and green one completely separated from one another and with a pointy end. It has some history related to the Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula and is one of the most singular flags I've ever seen

[@primitiveplanet8202]

A dude called Viriato resisted Roman conquest some 2000 years ago and the red strips represent his victories over Romans. Also he is considered some remote ancestor in Portugal because his home town is in today Portugal and Zamora borders north east Portugal.

[@eukarya_]

@@primitiveplanet8202 I know, the red stripes are because Viriato was said to tear a piece of the Roman centurions' cape which happened to be red and put it in his spear, and the green stripe was given to the city by Ferdinand the Catholic. Viriato is believed to never lose a battle and he was only defeated when the Romans convinced some of his friends to kill him but when the tried to claim their prize the Romans said to them "Rome does not pay traitors". Hahaha, I know a bit of the history of the city.

[@ItsLime]

Wow! What are the chances I found this channel just as it hit 1mil subs! Congrats!

[@xeroxsos3659]

Dude, that Spanish flag with purple is so cool, such a shame it got reverted to original

[@azaria_phd]

We Spaniards also think it's a shame, although for different reasons. But really, the tri-color flag (the purple one) is badass.

[@condedooku9750]

@@azaria_phd From my point of view the Republican flag is very beautiful, only one is better from my point of view, the one with the Burgundy cross.

[@azaria_phd]

@@condedooku9750 the burgundy cross is awesome. Shame it would never be adopted tho, for obvious reasons.

[@condedooku9750]

@@azaria_phd I totally agree.

[@rwgsdzkflagsgafhfjafjlaff504]

fr

[@kartaiss]

Fun fact: the current Lithuanian flag did not historically exist before 1918, when it was designed by a local painter. The initial idea was the historical colours of red and yellow, dating back to the 14th century, but that seemed too similar to the Polish flag, and one of the pillars of Lithuanian identity in the early 20th century was "not being Polish".

[@Jonnyc448]

Simple: smashing clams is hard

[@nialls1048]

I Think My Dog Is a Cat that sounds a bit rude haha

[@toffeecrisp2146]

Not to mention the urine....

[@DoomFinger511]

Yellow, orange, green, red, brown and white were always the cheapest colors to make. The first 5 could be made from clay, bodily fluids or plants and were readily available, while white could be made from anything by just bleaching out the color with chemicals and sunlight. Pink, blue and black were the next expensive as they could only be achieved from very specific plants or minerals or animal furs. Tyrian Purple is still the most expensive dye today because it can only be made by crushing the shells of a specific mollusc.

[@GeographyWorld]

Estonia's flag is so nice. It shows the landscape of the country in winter. White for snow, black for trees and blue for the sky. Also, I'm not Estonian.

[@NeblogaiLT]

I'm not from Estonia, but from nearby Lithuania- just a few hundred km to the south. Our the sky in winter, when it is not dark (which it is, almost all the time in winter), is usually grey. Like right now :) But Estonian flag does look nice!

[@GeographyWorld]

@@NeblogaiLT I visited Lithuania a few years ago in the winter. Lovely country.

[@iceran9622]

man... this makes kind of sad, those edited purple flags looked awesome

[@krosskreut3463]

the purple one of scandinavian could be a great one with some modifications to be a union or like that

[@jameswelsh1019]

Those people at the end were so important they got their names mentioned twice.

[@DeathMane]

Fun fact: Jamaica is the last country in the world without red white or blue on it.

[@chervynlapince5268]

Sri lanka too (If we don't count bordeaux as red?)

[@lsdadiccion]

@@chervynlapince5268 Sri Lanka has red

[@rajsinghania1090]

There's only 2 Jamaica and Mauritania

[@DeathMane]

@@rajsinghania1090 Mauritania has red on their flag.

[@petertaylor4980]

The Qatari maroon looks more like purple to me, but I'll grant that it's technically red.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

0:04 Cuba! Nice. But we have the best flag

[@DaveMiller6042]

Question. What is your opinion on south Korea's flag oh glorious leader

[@jonasb104]

It does look nice. Not the Red×Yellow combination literally every communist country used in the cold war for their coat of arms or flags. Something more creative.

[@RonJohn63]

So much like the American flag...

[@thomasemch2956]

Kim Jong-un how are you in every single comment section

[@jonasb104]

@Hoàng Nguyên LoL😂

[@trlacr1781]

Purple: * exists * Catille and Leon: YES

[@XofHope]

The colors in the Lithuanian flag are the same as in the Portuguese one: red, green and yellow. The Portuguese flag has two vertical bands, one green (for hope) and one red (the blood of all those who fought for the country), where they meet there's a round yellow symbol known as the armilar sphere, which represents the world, or more specifically, the many pathways across the world, an allusion to the age of descoveries and how it was the beginning of a single world, of globalization.

[@Spoon80085]

I'm red green colorblind, so I just stopped caring about that.

[@ImBakesirl]

Ditto. Purple isn’t even a legitimate color.

[@Spoon80085]

@@ImBakesirl Purple is just blue with commie influence

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

That sucks Imagine not being able to see colors

[@RomeropostigoFamily-YoungestCa]

"Why did our King turn our flag plain white (in a French accent) "Ah because he says it foreshadows the future!"

[@blackpowderuser373]

"Spanish Republic got Franco'd" 😂 Also, I like how History Matters had to make a disclaimer on the French royal flag xD

[@flameclow1219]

Not funny, Franco's traitorous soldiers raped and murdered the people of my town

[@asd-pf4gy]

@@flameclow1219 yeah, mine too, but I can still see how the comment is funny.

[@flameclow1219]

@@asd-pf4gy Yes sorry, I'm spanish

[@JaimeRodriguez-dp4oq]

@@flameclow1219 I am also spanish I fun at the joke because the past is the past

[@flameclow1219]

@@JaimeRodriguez-dp4oq Me encargo de sacar muertos en las Cuencas mineras y de recoger testimonios de gente que aún vive, si quieres un día te vienes conmigo y ves lo gracioso que es y lo que inició el fascismo en este país.

[@Lassemalten]

Maybe add that purple was so expensive because it came from cruching the shellfish/snail murex. I would presume people are wondering where the purple comes from. Instead of just completly skipping that part.

[@trlacr1781]

1:00 Lille is the birth place of De Gaulle. LOL.

[@albertturon336]

As a man from spain, i'd love to see purple in the flag again

[@Bfm359]

I am from spain and I totally disagree

[@Esparcia84]

El morado en nuestra bandera no representa nada y para muchos es de mal gusto, nuestra bandera está bien como esta, es llamativa y para muchos de las más bonitas en el mundo, los colores representan a la perfección las españa unida, las riquezas de nuestro imperio y la sangre derramada por defender el reino. Viva la España unida 🇪🇸

[@melisso9426]

Y la sangre derramada por defender a nuestro reino...🤮

[@Esparcia84]

@@melisso9426 España es un reino, si no te gusta, te vas, por lo menos harías algo bien para España

[@pbl99.sp_]

@@Esparcia84 qué imperio? xd

[@MichaelSmith-ij2ut]

0:20 Anyone else hear the stifled laugh?

[@exodus_20_15]

Now I do

[@marjan2]

I always wanted to know this (like really, I talked about it with my dad few years ago). So big thanks to yt for recommending me this

[@YoutubeGuy825]

The fact that he has to clarify the french flag is so funny 😂

[@oldcow__plays3987]

Last time i was this early, spain still had purple on its flag

[@magdavillafuerte505]

@@_blank-_ no , it' s awful

[@oldcow__plays3987]

@Biracial Boy *I KNOW*

[@magdavillafuerte505]

@Biracial Boy puple with yellow is fucking weird.

[@magdavillafuerte505]

@@oldcow__plays3987 you don't know me

[@magdavillafuerte505]

@Biracial Boy ¿why?

[@anastasios0513]

"After Spain got Francoed." lol

[@KnifeChatswithTobias]

It’s cool learning all these little tidbits. But it is also fun listening to shout outs in the end credits. Who knew!

[@financialproblems9308]

0:55 **insert France surrender meme and valid reason why France had to surrender meme**

[@darth3911]

Tacticaldifficulties imagine them bringing there flag to the battle field and all there enemy’s thinking there surrounding

[@independentquebec3500]

It would be a great plan to lure the enemy into thinking you have given up

[@88888888888888888443]

Found this channel a few weeks ago and now I'm hooked

[@basileosalexios9200]

OH MY GOD that FLASH of Brazilian Empire Greatness at 1:48, my little heart just jumped. Dom Pedro I looks very good on your art, would love to see his son (and much better emperor) pop on the channel one day too :) Lots of Love from Brazil

[@basileosalexios9200]

@Ken Fullman Dude you can't go wrong with Dom Pedro II. Guy's a legend, it's one of those stories you don't understand how there aren't a lot of movies about the guy. His wikipedia page is a great start.

[@iJuulia]

@@basileosalexios9200 você é o brasileiro mais patriota que eu ja vi kkkkkkkkk

[@eukarya_]

1:30 technically it was only adopted by the Kingdom of Leon but when it merged with Castille the flags merged as well so the colour passed to the whole Kingdom of Castille and Leon

[@ArkadiBolschek]

Also, evidence points towards the "purple" in the pennant of Castille actually being crimson.

[@eukarya_]

@@ArkadiBolschek I think crismon is the one used right now

[@flameclow1219]

@@ArkadiBolschek it is often wrongly said that the republican flag was made badly, but many sources claim that the color of the flag comes from the radical republicans of the first republic who used purple to identify themselves

[@enriquebenedicto506]

2:25 actually, the reason why the second Spanish republic had the purple colour in it is because they thought it was the colour of the "comuneros" Of Castile, who tried to depose Charles the first of Spain and fifth of the Holy Roman Empire, this was wrong and they actually used the red colour, but in the times of the second Spanish republic, they thought it was the purple. I am a spaniard and castilian, but I've never seen the colour purple as the representation of Castile. Actually, now Spain is divided in "comunidades autónomas", autonomic communities, 27 of them, but in that time it was divided in kingdoms instead so the representation of only two of them in the flag would cause revolts as well as did in the UK to make the Irish have representation on the Union Jack. Anyway, it's an amazing video and an amazing channel, very well explained and I've learned a lot thanks to it.

[@sahiblindberg]

"Raise the royal flag" got me laughing out loud

[@101ericrobert]

I'm now just realizing how rare that my state flag of Connecticut is for having a small amount of purple, there is a bunch of grapes

[@mafiousbj]

The old French kings knew the would become a meme someday...

[@crw662]

Knowing that France once had a pure white battle flag is now the greatest piece of knowledge I have.

[@danielmanzanal945]

I must say that there are a couple of things wrong. At 1:29; The King Alfonso VII was the King of Leon (Castile was under the Crown of Leon at the time) and the flag of Leon was a purple rampant lion in a silver field (the purple field flag represents the Province of Leon nowadays). At 2:26; the section makes no sense. Yes, the flag of Aragon was red and yellow and the color purple is asocited with Castille, but the red and yellow flag of Spain, used from 1785 until 1931, has its history kinked with Carlos III and the navy flag, and the color purple is asociated with Castile bescause of the Comuneros rebelion in 1520 (who used the color purple), its has nothing to do with the previosly explained flag of Leon ( by the way, the flag of Castile is a Yellow castle in a red field). So, in 1931 the Second Republic of Spain changed the width of the stripes, the color of the bottom one, to simbolized the will of the people (asociated with the Comuneros rebelion) and all of that stuff, got ridded of the crown and made a couple of more changes. I find these content, and channel, amazing. I just wanted to point out the little mistakes, nothing more than that. keep up the good work :)

[@SeaDog1667-1st]

"kinked"🤨

[@zaadbaad541]

Purple is my favorite color. Makes me feel rich!