The Worst Flags Proposed For Countries (That They Didn't Use)

▶ In this video I talk about a few of the worst flags that have been proposed for countries. None of these ended up being used, for various reasons which we find out in this video. From the awful European Union's 'bar code' flag, to the crazy proposals in the New Zealand flag contest, among many others.

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[General.Knowledge]

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[balpreetsingh]

The laser kiwi flag is the best proposal I have ever seen

[felipelopes]

Fun fact: That proposal Brazil's flag is now the flag of São Paulo state.

[spddiesel]

1:50 I believe you missed the point of the guy's design. Rather than eliminating the stripes from the flag altogether, I think he's submitting six different designs for changing the field of stars at one time. I presume his logic was since the arrangement of the stars was the only change to be made, it was more efficient to not include elements that didn't change, hence no stripes.

[darthplagueis]

New Zealand not implementing the laser kiwi flag is one of the great tragedies of our age.

[gagetolinwrites]

It's weird that Haiti and Liechtenstein changed their flags because they were too similar but Monaco/Indonesia and Romania/Chad haven't done the same.

[Gudha_Ismintis]

10:20 - They used the French monarchist flag because French Canadians are generally descended from the French settlers of Nouvelle France from 1534 to 1763 - which was governed by the French Monarchy

[lukebortot]

The laser kiwi flag is amazing. I also love the Canadian 'beaver riding a goose' flag, although it was never seriously considered.

[delila]

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[josephwest]

I'm guessing the Canadian proposal using the French monarchist flag may have been influenced by the fact that when the French lost control of Canada (following the French and Indian War of 1754-1763), France was still a monarchy.

[Daniboy]

8:56 - Fun Fact: This flag proposed by Júlio Ribeiro was actually adopted, but not as the national flag, it was adopted as the flag of the State of São Paulo.

[mga]

the depiction of the kangaroo on the australian flag is actually pretty iconic as it’s seen pretty much everywhere including on food packaging

[francogermanmoyano]

I feel like the guy who proposed the usonian blue with stars one was actually proposing alternatives for the corner with the needed 50 stars and the stripes would remain the same

[josueveguilla]

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[kindafreexp]

The white and blue Mexican flag is probably supposed to be a white and blue checkered pattern, but the emblem in the middle has a white field that essentially deletes some of the blue squares in the middle and makes it look like the other blue squares are random.

[the_reconnaisant]

“Mom, I’m gonna be founder of a nation, what should our flag be?”
“Just choose one from your childhood sketchbook!”

[JasminMiettunen]

When he brought up Finland I went “oh no, what did we do” and I'm still laughing about how the worst proposals were just “this color scheme isn’t pleasing to the eye” and “this looks too much like an existing flag” lmao

[JohannaA.]

3:32 = The guy trolled Poland like a pro, eh?

[andreicecold]

The first "flag" is almost certainly not an actual flag but is instead a compilation of possible orientations for the 50 stars in the upper left corner of the new flag.

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