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Slay!

@@pokemontas8025 What? Why would I kill someone or something if my own or someone else's life is not threatened?

@@JohnGisMe 😑

@@JohnGisMe "Slay" in this manner is a cringey term that feminist morons use.

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I have family in Lausanne, Vaud. 🇨🇭

I have a sneaking suspicion that Wheeling, WV was taking notes.

I have it in my collection and fly it from time to time on big days in the city's history.

We need a 5th star on the Chicago flag for Chief Keef

Nice! A crossover of two of my favorite KZfaq channels!

I remember when Mayor Jane Byrne got the city picked to host the 1992 World's Fair for the 500th anniversary of Columbus' first voyage (and the 100th anniversary of Chicago's Columbian Exposition). I thought it was cool that there would be a *fifth* star added during my lifetime. But alas, the bid fell apart.

Yeah it looked purposely to be conveying a river and a highway.

That make sense, although I still don't like it that much.

@@GeographyKing Same here.

It’s 2 rivers (also the Calapooia) and the two highways. It’s actually a pretty nice flag.

It was a lot of fun but wow some of those all-text flags are painful.

Yeah, there’s numerous studies on what makes for visually appealing designs and fonts in a wide variety of contexts, but SO many of these look like they were put together by a guy who knows a guy who knows a guy who once made a brochure for their company picnic with their 2003 MS Office Suite.

Almost all cities do NOT think about the flag; they just take the city logo that is already paid for and slap it on a rectangular cloth.

I've noticed that unfortunately, quite a lot of flags were created either to be souless and corporate, or to be souless and follow the trends that NAVA likes. I'm speaking of the flat design, childish squiggly line or flower art.

I don't think "keep it simple" or "a child can draw it from memory" was meant to imply it should look like it was drawn by a child, and simple doesn't mean poorly drawn, it means don't have too many themes. The first 2 "key principles" are the generic guidelines for every advertisement and logo in the last 25 years. No lettering can suck it. I don't get their or Geo King's dislike for words (particularly the name of the city) San Francisco's flag, the greatest city flag in history (not its current misinterpretation) has the words "Oro En Paz, Fierro en Guerro". (Gold In Peace, Iron In War). That looks good on any flag.

@@promontorium I agree, words on flags is okay

@@promontorium Your statement ,"I don't think "keep it simple" or "a child can draw it from memory" was meant to imply it should look like it was drawn by a child" is quite correct. They are saying *not* that a child could create it, but could replicate it. But regardless, it *has* influenced flag design. I'm also okay with limited inclusion of words, and in fact, given how few people will get to know city flags, I think it's arguably *better* for most city flags to have the name of the city. Big cities like Chicago may have recognizable flags, but any city with less than a million people might be better off with the name, large and easily read. As far as other words, I have always like scrolls, so the SF one is okay with me, but I hate marketing mottos, such as Long Beach. Fewer words *is* better. Despite the negative impact NAVA is having on flags (IMO), I totally get their disdain for words or small non-word details. If you have to strain to see things, they better be very attractive to justify them. Tell me why you don't like the current incarnation of the SF flag. I think it's good (though I do actually prefer Chicago and Phoenix).

@@promontorium I think Fayetteville (31:36) strikes the perfect balance between simplicity and inclusion of the name.

This would be great. This video is pretty fun, but 99% of them are monstrosities for cities the vast majority of people haven't heard of.

I do plan on looking at best and worst flags amongst cities with populations over 100,000 in a near future video.

@@GeographyKing Awesome!

@@GeographyKing That would be great. Some are really good, like Washington DC or Phoenix, while some still are monstrosities...

That could work, Jake, but make sure you don't have a label on the dog that says "Jake's dog" and don't have a TM (trademark) on your girlfriend.

I think it's because it was unscripted.

Reno really loves our 'People's Flag'. So much so that they turned it into a mountain for their official flag.

It looks similar to the former flag of the Donetsk Oblast of Ukraine

But Reno accepted it.

The entire region is tripping, man . . .

“Durham. This is what Durham came up with” *sighs* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I went down the vexillological rabbit hole last year and was shocked at how many new, quality flags the state of Kansas has. It's a shame he missed two of the better ones in Kingman and Dodge City.

Seems like it will lead to a future of boring samey flags

@@guppy719 Oh, I think you're quite right. I loved NAVA's standards when they first came out, but now it has led to this. A few minutes ago I mentioned to Kyle that this "South Park art" that he keeps mentioning is the *result* of NAVA's standards.

@@guppy719 I mean, we already had boring samey flags, it's just now they actually look like flags instead of "seals on a bedsheet". But I do agree. Some of these flags are nice in a vacuum, but the blue/green color scheme with a swoosh does get old pretty quickly.

​@@guppy719 Thank you for having the guts to say this. I feel like the urge to meet NAVA standards has led to the Ikea-fication of flags. I particularly like the creative nature of many of those flags of towns in Massachusetts. They are not boring, and I find them beautiful.

I do have something coming up looking at only the flags of the larger cities.

I live in Bothell, WA and appreciate the education on BHams flag

It is a coincidence about the MLB, NHL, XFL, and MLS teams being the same colors now because the Rams had that random gold color with the blue when they left and the Browns (MLB) who became the Orioles were Orange. Also the MLS team was almost branded green, luckily it is the red and blue of the flag now. If we could just get the Battlehawks to exchange the white on their color scheme to the yellow of the flag it would be perfect! (Well until we get a NBA team then hopefully they adhere to the flag colors 😅)

The StL flag was adopted in 1964. This video covers cities with much newer flags (since 2015).

As a fellow Saint Louisian, I agree Our city flag is one of my favorite flags period. Such a simple but memorable design

Thanks. I see it now, but that wasn't my first thought

He’s rating flags that were changed or approved as of 2015. But I also love Wichita’s flag. I had no idea that Hutch has a flag.

That was designed by a teenager??! I'm very impressed.

The blue lines representing the three rivers of the city 👍

This aged like milk.

Was Wichita flag designed in the last 7 years ?