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Fun fact: If you see a flag get bigger and bigger, it means they are coming towards you.

When i see a ship, I assume hostile every time. I never cared for PvP combat in any game so i just run away. Seeing a ships flag is a sign to me that they are too f***ing close to my ship

Flag of the Reaper's Mark: "BEWARE" New players: That description won't stop me, because I can't read!

We had a pretty hilarious situation in a sloop with my buddy. A brig was peeling on us quickly, hoping to skin our potato- we suddenly shifted sails and shot a red flare and the Reaper Mark went up. Almost immediately they turned around and left as fast as possible. Funny when sudden aggression scares the initial aggression most of the time lol.

literally get racial slurs from every rainbow flag I come across. shit's hilarious.

Me who has never played Sea of Thieves: "Ah yes, I totally get this."

as a wild rose flag user you are absolutely correct with the tall tale addiction. it took me a few days to do them all (kept getting sunk) and the only reason why i did it was to unlock the wild rose stuff. my entire ship is wild rose and my outfit was all wild rose until i unlocked the sunken curse. now i roll with a red crop top like thing and no jacket to show it off lol

This is very accurate. Been playing since the beginning. It’s funny how the flags became more important as the game when on. It’s the smallest cosmetic but definitely the most important.

When I fly a bilge rat flag I'm saying "Just like a rat, I'm down for anything on the menu boys"

It's my goal to use these flags and act the exact opposite way he said.

As a warsmith I can 1000% attest that we do not want to be tracked, and did you also know the sails are based on blackbeards???

Sea of Thieves really really need national flags! The best thing to do on that game is to be British, have 3 more British mates, and go searching for ANY French vessels on the sever and sinking them; the smelly cheeseffrogs. Now imagine, when we are shouting through VOIP, asking if the vessel we are chasing is French. It would be so much better with the Queens colours flying above/behind.

Well this explains why every time me and the boys try to make friends and play music while flying our rainbow flag we always get shot on sight

Every time I see a rainbow flag, my instinct is to prepare for death because every single crew I've met with one has been out for blood even when I have no treasure. I have absolutely no idea why

2:14 I'm not hostile! I just want to do my merchant stuff. *But* when you sink my merchant ship this flag is what you're going to see for the rest of your session.

As someone who regularly flys the imperial sovereign flag, I can attest that, that evaluation is 100% accurate. Not even insulting, it's just the truth. I also still use the day 1 eye patch.

Bilge rat be like: Skaven do stab-stab, yes yes

3:10 "The rats, the rats, we're the rats. We stalk at night we prey at night we're the rats" My friends and I have been determined to unlock all the bilge rat sets.

Me and my buds were watching this for laughs. As i turn to them to tell them about the Dark Warsmith Sails, the part about them being based off of Blackbeard’s flag played. They all laughed their asses off, I was speechless. Good call.

I've yet to run into another ship with a rainbow flag, but I feel bad that it has a reputation for likely being trolls

And then theres me that has never touched SoT but im watching this

The fact that Ashen Dragon flags mean hostility: Me: *worriedly laughs in, “I just like dragons dear lord don’t kill me.”*

“They’re not the brightest crayon in the tool shed” bro just killed my brain in one sentence

"Ashen Dragons are always hostile brigs." Me and my friend using it on a passive sloop: *we might reconsider*

The Merchant flag is accurate No-one will get any cut of my tea. No-one.

Then there is No Flag: You either don't have time to go up the crow's nest or just don't know which to choose.

I use the Reaper's Mark to say "Hey, come get some." My crew is always spoiling for a fight. We're so dedicated we've selected uniform cosmetics for all the crew hands to wear and the captain wears a special set.

The audacity of your accuracy is simply hilarious loved the video !!

Me Who uses no flag: *I am invisible* Reason: I'm a lazy pirate to climb all the way to the top of the crow's nest, lol.

Me: literally has never heard of this game before. Also me: *fascinating*

I run the red admiral flag and this is surprisingly accurate

I never played sea of thieves but i watch this video once in a while because its simply entertaining

"There's no way I'm a stereotype." *4:45**-**4:57* "Goddammit."

Rainbow flags have been unerringly friendly so far. This one time, my brother got stranded on an island after a Kraken took our ship by surprise and some random brig started making a BEELINE for him. He naturally freaked out and started hiding the loot he had but when the guy got within range he just asked if my brother needed a ride and offered to take him to the nearest outpost. Obviously he didn’t believe this act of goodwill, but went along with it because he didn’t really have anything to lose. The WHOLE TIME he was expecting a backstab but the guy just gathered up the loot, drove him to the outpost, and started offering HIS loot as a gift on top of everything. Brother said thank you and the dude logged out. God bless the gays. I cannot wait to be disappointed by trolls flying this flag.

I have never played or watch any sea of thieves content and know nothing about the game, but thoroughly enjoyed this

I don't care about this game, or anything about it, but you still kept me around. Great content.

I’ve noticed that Shrouded Hunter flags are hostile fishermen. You know, that one guy that’s just fishing and he’s pretty chill but if you attack him he’ll use the massive hoard of cursed cannonballs he’s accumulated from the hours he’s spent fishing that day.

I remember one time, I asked a more experienced player in the crew if I could fly the rainbow flag, because it looked friendly. I learned that day how cruel the sea really is. edit: I'm referring to how the vast majority of rainbow flag users are griefers, if that wasn't clear.

Never even knew about these stereotypes, just thought it looked cool, and you were 100% accurate 🤣

You know as a day three and somehow ending up as a sea hobo from my random encounters as an open crew from both your flag video to the outfit one its honestly a little funny. Glad to know that my kind are kindred spirits.

"The capitalist machine must be oiled with the blood of Pirates". Jesus, that's such a good line, holy shit.

The order of souls flag is so accurate

It’s astonishing how I raise the white flag for the reasons mentioned and other players respect that Like I’ve had three encounters over the last day where ships starting coming towards me, they see the flag, then they veer away There was one brig which murdered me though and I did exactly what the sterotype was and just stared at them until they realized they weren’t going to get a reaction out of me and left

Me and my crew didn’t know for the longest time that the red skull flag was actually a pvp flag and we could be seen on the map. We wondered why no one wanted to come near us lol

Me and my buddies flew the pride flag and only referred to it as the "Jolly Roger" we then pulled over other crews to have dance partys abord their vessels

"The ashen dragon is an invariably hostile brig" Dear mother of goodness he's right.

The part about the Jolly Roger is so true lol. I was doing a shrine and another sloop rolled up to mine above me, invited me to their xbox party to say hello, spoke in German (I play EU, I'm a Brit) and laughed their asses off. When I returned I realised they took my treasure, off in the distance they flew the Jolly Roger, and I could only salute their honesty.

I really enjoyed this content. Very funny and quite informative. Well composed.

"You're a sea hobo." How did you accurately predict that?

Silent Barnacle Flag: Actual madmen. They belong in an asylum. It looks like a white flag from a distance to lure you, but if you're close enough to tell that it isn't, all you can do is pray

It's funny because people often just bluntly attack other ships even if there is not loot to take. If they would wait a bit they would often get loot but they are just in a blind bloodlust.

Yo the Parrot one was sooo right. I have the entire Parrot cosmetic set, and use the alliance flag. lmao

Me who hasn't gotten the game yet: Ah yes cool sounding guy explains flag

“Ashen Dragons are always hostile brigs. That’s about it”- me and my crew on a full ashen dragon set brig: “yeah checks out”

Pretty much summed up my ashen dragon im impressed

Master Chief, you mind telling me what your doing on that ship? Sir, hiding as a barrel on their mast

My logic was usually just "Oh, this one looks pretty/non-aggressive."

"Ah, the royal sovereign flag, surely I won't fit my flags steroty-" "You're a day one player who avoids conflict as much as possible" Ouch, got me lmao

Me and the boys fly rainbow, ur fate is determined on how chaotic we are feeling at that time, which changes quicker than the wind

Once was a Reaper brig with a few other friends, slowly approaching a lone sloop sitting idle near a fishing post with a gold hoarder emissary flag up. We quickly shot at least ten cannons with two of my mates boarding and killing them. We didn't notice they had an alliance flag up at the time until the ship started sinking lol, but nevertheless ended up getting a message saying we were banned from ever joining the most popular SoT discord and blacklisted from other discords. Couldn't help but laugh

ok this guy has a really nice voice though

I retained none of that information but was entertained none the less!

This vid actually got me into sea of thieves

For the dark Kraken flag: I fly it in the hope that people will assume I'm a hostile tryhard who nolifes this game and avoid contact with me so I can secretly sneak off before they realise I'm not hostile and a noob. So far it has worked 0 out of 2 times. Still gonna use it though, because it looks cool

"Uses blunderbus and sword, not very accurate but swarm you" These...these are just 40k orks

Nailed it on the rainbow flag. 9 out of 10 times I encounter a crew flying this, they immediately initiate combat and start throwing their entire (limited) vocabulary of standardized curses and insults over voice chat.

This is very helpful to someone who plays this game very casually lol.

Man i just got back into sea of thieves after years, never knew flags had meanings within the community lol. Very good to know

I want to know how many people actually have/use a language with these flags and don’t just pick whatever cause random or style.

You nailed the checkered flag. My friends and I flew that when we started playing, it seemed semi-friendly without the "we surrender!" connotation of white. Nowadays it's usually no flag or whatever goes with the ship cosmetics

I was wondering if the mutinous fist flag would get a mention but I am not at all surprised it didn't. It's my fave flag because I'm a Bleeding Edge fanboy and proud of it. I imagine no one else uses it, if they have it at all.

I literally don't play Sea of Thieves nor watch anything related to it but this still popped up in my recommended and boy howdy am I glad it did. Edit: Spelling

Literally every single rainbow banner ship attacked me and trash talked me hard, some one of the funniest experiences i have

My captain always flies the checkered flag because “then we can race like nascar” 💀💀💀

3:49 I don’t even play the game but I would totally use this flag and act like that 😭

"The capitalist machine must be oiled with the blood of pirates." And with that, I've a new main

I feel mildly upset the rainbow flag is exclusively used by trolls

I honestly played this game by myself always and just left everyone alone. They also give me the same treatment due to my tiny boat. I also dug up treasure for others if we crossed paths on an island

Thank you this was really helpful

“The average merchant would fight to the death rather than make an alliance” The English: “amateurs...”

Order of souls: “Will repair their ship without responding to their attacker as if they can’t see them” . . . I R O N I C . . .

As a new player that always puts up the reaper emissary flag, I can confirm this is true

I heard the imperial sovereign one and sort of gasped because that describes me exactly

me, using a flag because i just like the way the rest of the set looks and want to have the whole thing on:

It's funny, because during the pirate days, a pirates flag was the most powerful tool they could use

I've never played Sea of Thieves once but I still got here and I'm fascinated by this culture 100% into it

I didn't realize there was a genuine communication method behind these flags. As a relatively new player, I always thought they were purely a cosmetic thing. I usually use the alliance or white flags anyways but I think the Order of Souls bit would've suited me well last night. I was so profoundly unaware of my surroundings I didn't notice another sloop right behind me until I looked behind me. now that was quite the chase full of megalodons, me running - or sailing - away, the other ship opening fire on a second ship then a skeleton ship shows up and I think I saw a megalodon. it was one hell of a sea battle.

Me who rarely ever spots any other players “Ah yes there are no flags”

the stereotypes series is a perfect fit for this game, so well done on finding that! the stereotypes also seem to be surprisingly accurate. you could either do a more extensive outfit stereotype, as DA wasn't out back when you made the first video and you didn't really touch on "fashion lords" who dress in standard-looking clothing, a ship stereotype and a finally, most obviously, a weapon stereotype video (I assume the latter two are well on their ways)

God, the summary of the Order of Souls is so accurate. Im the experienced pvp player in my group and everytime we are attacked Im complained at for not helping patch up the hull like its all hands on deck. Im usually on the enemy ship attempting to neutralize them the best I can as a single person. And then I watch on respawn as my crew mates are just bucketing water and either not patching the hole or attacking with cannons. Its a crunchy banana to swallow but I have high hopes for them.

I thought this was gonna be innacurate until you reached the admirals flag. I fly it mainly because I like the anesthetic of the Admiral set, but somehow you got me down to a t.

"not the brightest crayon in the tool shed" .....this man just put 2 insults into one mega insult lmfao

You got to understand. Especially with the positive reception of some in the comments. The rainbow flag is a alright choice for a bait flag. It’s perfect for the historical technique of raising a friendly flag, and then putting up a pirate flag last minute as you attack a ship. If I see someone who puts up the pride flag and then puts up the Jolly Roger right before attacking me. I can’t even get mad if I sink. That’s just classy. So really, the people using the flag and going full aggression mode can be either trolls, or just history buffs who figured it was the best “friendly flag”

i just realized that the jolly roger happened to me (except they were jolly roger the entire time.) they were a sloop, we were a galleon. The thing is, we also fought alongside a rainbow flag. They were chill and helped us when the sloop was knocking down our masts.

Love the runescape team cape mention

I absolutly love the idea of the players giving new sense to this flags. The black flag beeing the "Dont mess with me, or u die" instead of "i want to kill u" and the checkers beeing chaotic neutral. Fun fact: thats also my experience. Im a black flag/rainbow flag user. Black is cuz i dont want people to fight with me, rainbow is cuz lgbt but also, cuz most people run when they see it, now i know why lol.

Thanks to this video I learned to always fly the alliance flag when fishing. I'm a full time fisherman (seriously, I'm not doing anything else in that game) and use all the killer whale ship cosmetics I already own + alliance flag and all the other signs of being a friendly. I encountered a lot of players but rarely got into a fight. The nicest guys out there are actually 2 man reaper brigs. Dunno why. Just what I observed.

even though i dont have SOT, i like to watch this still lol

I'm colourblind and I use the rose one because it's one of the few I can fully see ^-^