Solving more of your flag mysteries for you!
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Why don’t you do a competition where we make up fictional flags and country background stories
Manhattan? Did you mean Block Island is off the coast of Long Island or Rhode Island instead? Would you say Victoria is just off the coast of Vancouver?
She asked me if I like Toronto
Hey great video except why did you block out the Swastika at 12:06, is it something to do with the almighty Algorithm demonetizing videos etc. or was it a personal choice?
I’ve just never seen that before that I can remember, for example watching History Channel documentaries as a kid they’d obviously just show old pictures or film clips.
@@wishunter9000 Riley did it
I solved it! The last flag is the Hamburg Süd Key Flag of the Hamburg Süd shipping company. Makes sense that it would be on a boat
Only 12 mins, thats quick
Nice I was just in time
👏👏👏
Well done!
Good job! That’s incredible
I love how JJ always calls his series and videos "award winning" no matter what.
What an award winning comment.
I mean, anything can be award winning if you create an award to give to it.
I am giving this reply of mine the “Reply-ly Best Reply of the Year 2023 Award”
Literally earlier today, I was thinking, "It would almost be a shame if someone gave JJ an award, since this would goof up his joke."
It'd be funnier if he said award seeking.
I thought they really had won awards!
I like how JJ calls his viewers friends. It's wholesome.
Agreed. I’ve picked this up when greeting students in my classroom
And all his videos are award winning. 😊
We do collectively pay his bills.
Very Quaker of him haha
Does that mean people who don't watch his videos are enemies?
Re. The flag of Sikkim, it might be because Sikkim was an independent kingdom until 1975, when it was annexed by India (the last territory to be annexed by India). My grandparents have a set of World Book Encyclopaedias that I've dated to late 1974 purely because they say that the current US President is Gerald Ford and that Sikkim is an independent kingdom!
do they encyclopedias not have a date on them?
@@muhilan8540 Myeah, usually books have a printing year stated
Those two facts would date them between the resignation of Richard Nixon and India's annexation of Sikkim, quite a narrow time period actually. Since they usually updated print encyclopedias about once a year, they were probably published in late 1974 or maybe early 1975.
It wasn't merely annexed as most people assume. The Chogyal (ruler) of Sikkim was unpopular among his people and the people wanted to get rid of him. A referendum was held where a majority voted to join India and so it acceded to India in 1975.
Yes annexation referendums held by the occupier after you have disarmed the police and arrested the monarch are very reliable. Crimea and West Papua too.
If you were wondering why the Sikkim flag is in that Brazilian classroom here's why. I had the same string of flags when I was younger as was in that classroom, and I remember there being a whole host of strange flags. In addition to the Sikkim flag there were some more flags from 3 or 4 obscure Russian republics, as well as the Taiwanese Olympic flag. As to why those are all grouped together I can only assume ignorance or local pride.
Reminds me of how they like decorating things with strings of random flags in Japan as JJ talked about in an old video.
@@TheAlexSchmidtI live in Japan and random flags are indeed a popular type of decoration 😂
OR they got sold in bulk and some cheap producer tryed to get rid of some old flags from countrys that don't exist any more (Sikkim was independent from 1947 - 1975), and since its from a school room from a developing country, they will also be tight on the budget and buying ANY flags often is better then buying NO flags (plus they appear to be old so god knows how long they do there duty there already). In my experience, the answer is more often boring capitalist distopia then bad intend.
Sikkim was an independent kingdom until its incorporation into India in 1975. Much like how you can still buy maps without an independent South Sudan, if no one notices the anachronisms will remain.
Sikkim has a special status in India and was an independent “protectorate” until 1975
I've been watching JJ's videos for years now and I've only just realized that he's joking when he calls all his videos award-winning
It's no joke. No Trophy Awards for all of them.
How dare you! I've given them all extremely official awards! This one, for example, wins the Best Use of a Red Dot Award for 2023. 🙂
i thought his videos were winning awards, they’re award winning in my heart
no hes not
The last flag is the flag of a shipping company, the Hamburg-Südamerikanische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, or Hamburg Süd in short. The key is the symbol of the city of Bremen, I found a website that said the flag of Hamburg Süd was used in combination with the Bremen key by ships that were overtaken from another shipping company, Hapag-Loyd, but I have no idea why.
06:29 Actually the wheel on the Sikkim flag is slightly different symbolism than the wheel on the Indian flag. The wheel of Dharma on the Sikkimese flag depicts 8 spokes representing the Eightfold Path in Buddhism, and the wheel is used to represent Indian Buddhist temples on Google Maps. The Indian flag's Ashoka Chakra (24 spokes), however, originated as a symbol from of the ancient Mauryan emperor Ashoka and was picked for a few reasons. One was to represent the dynamism of peaceful change. The second was to represent the asymmetrical spinning wheel on the flag of the Congress before independence and the Chakra being symmetrical was more aesthetically pleasing.
Also I would like to add on that Sikkim used to be an independent state and only joined India in 1975. The Sikkimese flag originated from that time Sikkim was independent.
Yes!
I wanted to say something about it but you've clarified it
BTW for people timestamp is 06:37
Noru muyi penta na kodaka
Sikkimese flag is different from it tho. It looks like a generic Dharma flag.
+1
Ashoka? Isn't that a character from some Star Wars TV show?
I know the Indian name came first. A lot of Star Wars characters are named after figures from ancient religions.
a big win for the vexilollogy community to discover more mysterious and strange flags found
100%, the more obscure flags we know the better
thank you jotaro kirby
@@starrats444 thank you sono chi no sadame my melody
On the seal for the Lenape or Lenni Lenape (both are used) there are three symbols for the three clans of the Lenape. From left to right it is the Wolf, the Turtle, and the Turkey. Typically the Turtle is used when representing them, I don't know why, but I know a bit because I am in the OA in the BSA and we use some of their traditions. Because of this we always try to be as respectful as we can, each lodge observes the traditions of the natives of their area. I am in the Unami lodge which is where the Lenni Lenape used to live and we use the Turtle as our symbol for the lodge.
Ah love seeing a wild reference to my tiny state! Block Island is not only filled with rich vacationers from all over the world, it also supposedly contains some of the legendary pirate Captain Kidd's buried treasure, and part of the legend of hidden "buried treasure" is because of his visits to the island.
As he sailed, as he sailed
My state never gets mentioned. Probably because it's in Australia.
Great video as always. But one correction: Block Island is not off the coast of Manhattan; they’re well over 100 miles apart. You presumably meant to say Long Island.
"LonGailand quoffee"
As a Chicagoan and Cubs fan, that first "mystery" was a pleasant surprise!
I was so confused about the flags outside that restaurant, but once I realized that flying the flags of everyone that's had control over Texas was a thing in Texas, it wasn't particularly hard to figure out what that mystery 7th flag was.
honestly JJ should make more of these.
7:50 "Off the coast of Manhattan"
I don't know if we're both thinking of the same Manhattan or anything, but I reckon that it's not exactly the closest thing to Block Island...
The removal of the red part isn't the only thing that changes between the Russian flag you showed and the currently used one. The shade of blue actually changes to the slightly lighter one that was used in the flag of Russia from 1991-1993, which symbolizes these more hopeful times.
Nah, in reality, it's just a cropped flag of Israel, the country where people that use that flag actually live.
@ForOne814 I live in Budapest, my friends live in Helsinki, Paris or London. We all use the white blue white. I really didn't know that all these lands had been annexed by Israel. Could you please explain me when it happened?
@@alexeyleontyev1249 well, I live in Russia, and no one here does. That was the point. It's the flag for people that aren't Russian, neither ethnically nor culturally, and who don't even live in Russia. Thanks for giving me even more evidence of that, not that I needed it though.
Also, if you're a conspiracy theories fan: yes, they were, it happened after WWII.
@@ForOne814 Ah, Russia, from the saviours of Europe to the old racist grandpa... It really is quite depressing...
I mean seriously how do you even justify the whole denazification thing with the rampant antisemitism among the russian far right?
LOLOLOL "hopeful times" are you trolling or something?
Re: Sikkim - my guess is that it’s in a collection of world flags because that flag was only used in Sikkim’s ambiguous semi-independent Indian protectorate phase before full annexation in 1975. I am sure certain countries recognised it as independent during that time. My understanding is that it has no official flag now.
These are my favorite kinds of videos, which is saying a lot because you put out so much thoughtful content. Thanks for keeping the flag mysteries series going JJ.
The last flag is Hamburg Süd (German Shipping Company) - Key Flag
Brooo!! Nice one!! THat is obscure as hell. It looks like that flag has not been used by that company for a while.
@@forcastfascistfuture It's a historical photo, so it makes sense that a historic flag would be used in it. Though I do wonder what happened to all of the old key flags...
Rhode Islander here!! As soon as I saw the flag I just said "why is block island upside down?“ yes it’s a summer vacation spot. Very touristy, nice beaches with lots of piers/ice cream/seafood shops, etc.
The Mario Paint music you put behind the clip of you making the mockup of that bear logo was a huge dose of unexpected nostalgia. I adored that game as a kid. Great video as always.
10:08 Holy hell, I am on the telly :) That's the video from an antiwar protest of Russians living in Belgrade, Serbia!!!
Leave the country.
@@CunnyRape smoke a rooster
Скатертью по жoпe, "герой" Верхнего Ларса...
The Chicago Cubs one was surprisingly easy, I recognized it immediately. I actually saw someone wearing a hat with that logo yesterday, and I live in Utah. 😅
Same. I love baseball & knew it immediately.
For the people who don't follow sports many sports flags are a mystery. I live in Finland and I don't recognize all the Finnish hockey and soccer team logos but for the sports fans they are common knowledge.
Great, love this series
The amount of story telling you've created here is incredible JJ, thank you
This series is what got me watching you! Glad this series is back and hope it’s here to stay!
Yeah, you're correct on Block Island basically being a tourist trap. Almost every Rhode Islander can attest to hearing advertisements for Block Island every summer.
As a huge Chicago cubs fan, it was fascinating seeing you find the solution to the cubs one! Personally my favourite of all their logos!
Very happy to see another one of these. I love all your videos, but these are especially fun.
Learning lover here! 😊 Love your vexillological videos JJ. I hope you are getting some rest and keeping your energy up and stress down! Sending you positive thoughts and appreciation. Hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday!!
7:50 Block Island is nowhere near Manhattan. It's in the Long Island Sound, between Rhode Island and Long Island, and 150 miles from Manhattan.
My Nana has lived in Block Island for nearly 30 years and I never thought I would see it here! It's a well known place in Rhode Island and nearby states but even then I meet people here in the Northeast US who've never heard of it. It does get very tourist-y during the summer months (so many idiots on rented mopeds not knowing how to drive them), but it's a very cute place. Glad to know someone's representing!
I immediately heard the “sail away on the block island ferry” jingle from the radio and tv commercials
Haha, Detective McCullough solves more flag mysteries! 👏 I like this series! Now, to see if someone solved the last one! Thanks, J.J.!😄✌️
Thanks for another awesome video mr McCullough
A triumphant return to form for an excellent series!
I'm almost embarrassed to say I knew the Lenape flag from playing probably too much Europa Universalis 4, where they are a playable nation.
This is hands down the most entertaining and thorough educational channel on CZcams. Easily my favorite CZcamsr
I really enjoy this series of videos. I would have no inspiration to go search for these flags on my own, but I end up learning so much through the experience shared in this content. Thank you.
Been too long since the last flag video, love the content!
These are some of my favorite videos.
Can’t believe this series is still going! Keep it up! And keep making wacky flags people!
This is such a fun series
Would love to see a video about the American urban legend canon. thanks for the consistently great content, JJ!!
One thing i really appreciate about the video is that you explain your detective methods. Teaching the audience to fish
I think the point of the Russian white-blue-white flag is more to mimic the Belorussian one, as a symbol of dissent. The Russia but without the red seems to have been just a convenient post hoc rationalisation. I've also heard, that to exclude red was meant as cutting the ties with communism (which are still very strong under Putin). Of course the red on the flag predates communism by quite a lot. As I say, the point was to have an anti-gov't flag, like in Belarus
No, it has independent history. Basically, it's close to Great Novgorod's flag. And Great Novgorod is a city, which had in the past Novgorod republic - the middle age's democracy, this republic was even part of Hansa's union. It was kinda of Russian free city. Later Novgorod's republic was crashed by Moscow forces of Ivan III, and since that time Russia never had real freedom...
new jj flag videos are the highlights of my days
I'm an American University student, and it's weird, but unsurprising to see a fellow student being a fan of JJ.
It was so weird. I recognized that being Anderson or Letts before American was even mentioned.
Honored to have JJ attempt to pronounce my home state of Coahuila lol
These are my favorite videos you do thank you so much
Oh my god!!! I was was just thinking about how it’d been ages since one of these videos !
Immediately clicked! I know it’s gonna be a great video
I’m surprised how quickly I guessed the cubs flag and the block island flag. I actually went to block island last year for our senior class trip and it indeed is very tourist trapy lol
Being a genuinely rabid Cubs fan it was so fun to watch J.J. uncover the Cubs flag mystery. 😂 So happy to see my squad is being represented all the way in Amarillo! Great video J.J.!
I live most of your content, but these flag search vids are my absolute favourites!
JJ, I love ya, but Block Island is nowhere near Manhattan. That big island you’re looking at is Long Island.
Manhattan is pretty small, only about 22 square miles, and it doesn’t really have a “coast” because it doesn’t directly touch the ocean. It’s more than a hundred miles away from Block Island.
Love you JJ
Great video, hearing j j talk about flags is my favorite pass time
Makes my day when a new one of these come out
Block island is off the coast of Long Island not Manhattan.
An important thing to mention about Belarus flag is that the one used currently is literally the flag of the Soviet republic of Belarus with the hummer and sickle removed, similar thing with the current coat of arms, which is soviet coat of arms with the map of belarus replacing the globe with hummer and sickle, so the people are using white-red-white not just because of the better times, but also because currently used Belarus national symbolic is not actually Belarus.
the soviet times were the better days of belarus by far anyways
It actualy is it has the ryshnyk patter which is one of the most belarusian thing you can find in the nations culture. Meanwhile the other flag even with the coat of arms looks plain and simple. With so much white that it almost looks like a surrendering flag but with more uniqueness to it.
I'm from Rhode Island and seeing Block Island pop up was a trip
I was eagerly waiting for the next flag mystery video!!!
Don't know jack about flags, but this series is still fascinating to me. Also, it's been more than five minutes; I demand answers!
I would try and solve the key flag mystery, but I'm concerned about what my suggested ads and videos will look like if I start googling German Reich era flags haha great video though! Glad I knew two of them (Rio Grande and Sikkim)
Great videos as usual!
I really enjoyed this!
I'm going to start flying flags from obscure fictional works and just wait till they end up in a JJ video.
I used to have Newfoundland and Texas flags!!
The wheel or chakra on Indian flag also represent Buddhism not Hinduism. Not officially though, officially nothing in the flag represent any religion.
I love this series
More of these videos please
I love flag mysteries!
No idea about the last one, but the diamond pattern makes me think of it possibly being a nautical flag instead of a municipal flag.
The key however puzzles me too.
Kinda ironic that JJ hates Wikipedia but keeps using Flags of the World which has lower standards and less accountability.
Very cool JJ
Love your platform 👍
Great content, love it.
You just had to say flags and I was here!
Yes!!!
We need to get JJ nominated for a Webby or something, so at some point when he says a video is award-winning, it'll actually be true!
Long time fan! Laredo is my home town, was excited to see a familiar flag on your thumbnail :D
1. I clicked on this video with great excitment as soon as I saw it. Love this series. Make more.
2. I knew the 1st one!!! Life long Cubs fan 😅😂
Hey J.J, do you recall or know about the unique American government year system? I think you mentioned it in one of your videos. It's like "year of our independence 246". I can't find it on Google, even the dreaded wikipedia
I talk about it in my.... I forget actually, I have one video about how countries keep track of time or something.
@@JJMcCullough and Taiwanese YK2. It was a good video. Personally I exclusively use the French Revolutionary calendar!/s
@@JJMcCullough I shall use it as an excuse to rewatch older videos of yours!
@@JJMcCullough I've been looking through your videos (including the shorts) trying to find it, but I can't for the life of me! Yet I distinctly remember you mentioning in a video about how U.S. Presidential Proclamations include the year of the independence of the United States and how the U.S. Constitution ends with the words "and of the Independence of the United States the Twelfth". But I can't find it, and by God, it's annoying me!
@@matthewmccallion3311 I found it! It was in Important Historic Moments (Chosen by You!)
Not JJ referring all of Long Island as Manhattan
Always a great day when JJ drops one of these
Per Kaz Rowe, Block Island is a notorious location of ship wrecks pre-American Revolution.
As Russian I prefer the 🇷🇺 to the ⚪🔵⚪ flag
After all, the tricolor 🇷🇺 is the flag of the Russians, not Putin
you are bad russian then
@@kazaaakplethkilik3229 man...that's not how it works(╮°-°)╮
being bad russian is cool
As Russian(Canadian), I prefer white-blue-white flag. We had to rebuild government from scratch after Putin.
@@xeniyal7454 Не надо второй перестройки, от первой ещё не отошёл ))))
i love JJ but we must concede that he is horrible at reading non-english words lol
I'm always unbelievably hyped for these type of videos even though this content isn't the main focus of his channel 😭
Yaaay, new flagspert video
United States of Canadian America
Colour red removal from Russian flag is the stupidest and most "twitter moment" thing I`ve ever seen. As a citizen of Russia, I hate this flag so much, it literally crosses out the entire history of Russia. I mean, can you imagine Japanese or Polish flag without RED COLOUR? And don`t forget, Belarussian flag is with red part too
Agreed, as a russian i hate putin but this flag is cringe
I just finished the WEIRDest people last week, I thoroughly recommend it as well .
I love how at 7:47, you used the sound of a block breaking from Blockland when showing Block Island. Such a small but hilarious detail that I couldn’t help but notice lmao
A little bit more background on the Russian and Belorussian flags: The first flag out of the two was the Belarusian, it was popularized when unrest in the country hit a peak after Lukashenko rigged last election the last election.
The Russian opposition flag copies the same layout but also replaces the blue found on the Russian flag with a lighter shade, like the Russian flag from the early 1990s when Yeltsin was still in power. The two opposition movements are very intertwined so this also gives the movement more consistency.
This copies the Belorussian flag's nostalgic undertones. The bloodless flag interpretation is also popular but as the red normally symbolizes bravery on the Russian flag, not a lot of Russians actually use this interpretation.
Love the videos, got a UBC offer so Im moving to Vancouver soon. Be on the look out for the white blue white bumper sticker 🤍💙🤍
Belarusian flag as properly stated by JJ - originated in 1918 and predates Lukashenko. It is actual national flag of Belarus. While Lukashenko regime uses Soviet Era flag with some modifications
7:53 Do you mean the coast of Long Island?
Immediately clicked this video once i saw the Republic of the Rio Grande flag. Thank you for talking about it and I'm glad to see my hometown be recognized more!
As a Cubs fan now living out in Las Vegas, that first flag really made me smile.
The Alabama coat of arms does much the same thing as Texas does with the six flags. The shield is split into five parts: France in one corner, Spain in another, the Union Jack in another, the Confederate battle flag in the last corner and the American flag in the middle.
It is a little strange, though. Why use the modern Union Jack flag when the French and Spanish ones are ancient.
I made a short about this!
As far as I know, white-red-white flag became a symbol of freedom and rebellion in 2020, when people started massive protests against Lukashenko who sent his opposition leaders to jail and faked the election results. I wouldn't say nostalgia is the right word here, rather the uprising and solidarity.
Thank you so much for explaining white-red-white and white-blue-white flags. Being a Russian citizen, we often wonder whether our voices are heard, when we resist any way possible. It means the world to know they are ❤
All award winning videos in my heart
Good to see some Block Island representation. I always go there for my birthday. And yeah there are some tourist trappy parts of the island and the tourist trap problem is getting worse. but the lesser known areas like Gracie’s Cove are nice. That “big chunk of missing territory” is actually the islands great salt pond.