They were showing HWNDU season 3 to Airforce recruits to help them understand the importance of operational security and not taking photos while you are on base or posting about your activities on social media.
@@RainbowRenegade Some might have been nazis, but a lot of them were probably just people wanting to fuck over Shia cause it's fun seeing a famous individual get mad
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica it's honestly not as hard as the CSI shows make it look, most criminals are idiots and even for the clever ones there's always a nosy neighbor.
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica lmao are you comparing a damn police officer to an astronaut? are you like 10 or what? anyone can become a damn police officer.
Finding that flag in Tennessee is still one of the most amazing things I've ever seen randos on the internet do. Its got government databases, ground recon teams, and star charts. Its so great.
My favorite was when they found the (taliban? isis? don't remember) terrorist training camp, and someone in the russian military gave that information to his superiors, and they wiped it off the map with artillery like a day later
A long time ago humans just died, when they were not able to solve problems. Since then we almost completely disconnected from natural selection. But if you have an average intelligent human, with a passion, basic knowledge and a goal, they can do incredible stuff. The capture the flag season was awesome.
Humanity is united in our desire to be forever divided! We can't have a stable functioning society unless we can flip random people who disagree with us the bird!
What he should've done for the first 'capture the flag' moment is write a message on the back of the flag. Something like: "You united. I win; you were not divided."
They hated the idea of Trump’s wall to keep people from coming into the country illegally so much that they put up a fence to keep the people they didn’t want out lmao
@@sirken2 I'm just going to destroy this low hanging fruit. This is a whataboutism. A wall in the capacity Trump and his delusional supporters / republicans wanted was to stop A) "illegal immigration" which can mean a number of things but primarily undocumented persons within the US. Majority of which overstay work visas which they get through people like Trump himself which btw he actually imported workers on visas before but w/e. B) drugs smuggling which has been primarily done through imports which go through you guessed it legal ports of entry. C) People traveling in between ports of entry aka "hopping the border". Majority of these people are asylum seekers and their first priority is to put in a claim for asylum. The initial crossing into US land is to protect themselves/family so they aren't stranded on the border in purgatory between US and Mexico like the several hundred people who listened to trump and attempted to make a claim at the border while staying outside the US and ended up waiting years many of which being subject to harm waiting for their pending claim outside of US protection. Also for the record the no tolerance policy separated families not based on violence or a threat to the child but rather simply the act of applying for asylum. So if you can't grasp anything I said and just break down or more likely don't even read it, at least take this away. If you really give a fuck about the immigration crisis then legalize and decriminalize all common recreational drugs and hold our intelligence community accountable for literally fucking with every single country south of the border. How about instead of defund the police we abolish and reallocate funding from the DEA into the ORR? I doubt i'll convince anyone of anything or get any good faith converation going here. This country is absolutely fucked by tribals.
Lol, I remember at the time thinking that if Shia had tried to put that flag on the moon, 4chan would somehow find a way to get up there and steal it from there too. It's was pretty crazy.
@@filipbitala2624 4chan is absolutely resourceful and fully capable of wrecking lives. Although usually the beehive is only provoked into war when it comes to Memes and shitposting...
Someone in the chat wrote during the Capture the Flag segment, "Yeah, that's great and all that people can figure this out, but they still haven't figured out who killed 2pac"
4chan holds simultaneously the worst and best of humanity the only pure place still Alive on the internet. It is my favorite internet story and a true testament of where actual power comes from
I seem to remember 4chan coming to the aid of some female gamer with a tiny stream, who was being ruthlessly attacked by deranged d-bags. I wanna say that they were gleefully celebrating making this girl cry and end her stream because she was playing some gae Harry Potter game. Some of 4chans finest trolls banded together and pummeled those smug activists into submission. I forget all the details, but I seem to remember some of those ppl begging for mercy and pleading for 4chan to call the dogs off. It was really kind of touching. For whatever faults they have, they were disgusted that ppl would celebrate a bulkying campaign against some defenseless young girl.
@@bombomos We saw him as the epitome of America, stupid but knows how to manage money, bullshit his way through everything. Now Biden... Also epitome of the America, the sick man of the West.
Lol Shia was actually also spotted in Johnson City TN when he was moving the flag. He went into my wife's Starbucks that she was helping manage at the time. He asked my wife and the couple of barristas there at the time who recognized him to not say anything or post a picture..... several days later, the flag was found again. 🤣
He started the greatest game of capture the flag, had he of been smart about it he could have made it something much bigger. Imagine making this a thing every few years or so.
area 51 and joshfight were similar but not the same. everyone wants that "get out and DO SOMETHING TOGETHER" energy. and i feel like the spontaneity is part of the fun. after all when something wacky and outsider becomes a regular occurrence it just becomes corporate and boring, like burning man
Now he needs to do the thread where pol tracked down a terrorist training camp, gave the information to someone at the Russian ministry of defense, and they blew it up.
Funniest thing is that someone FROM the MOD was participating in the thread, that's why the information got to the command to begin with. PS: actually that happened on several different occasions and in some of them they contacted them through Twitter, lol.
Just avoid social media, though? Don't livestream your hero/villain lair and you should probably be fine. lol I mean, those guys on the roof in England got away with their secret identities intact.
@@AlleluiaElizabeth well yea because one they didnt hurt anyone and 2 because they were masked and literally appeared on camera for like a minute total
@@shanehaney6040 The pussies were already there from earlier, it's just exposed now. But it is getting harder and harder to do it on the big platforms
To the guy who went up to the camera and said "Shia's a rich white liberal who doesn't care about the working class".... Props to you. The hero we didn't know we needed.
I mean the first part is accurate but how do you know the second one is? Like it wouldn't surprise me if it's true but like it wouldn't surprise me if the guy who said that also didn't care about the working class.
You know what's funny about that though? That guy almost certainly voted for Trump. When's the last time Republicans did anything for the working class?
I was there when this shit happened. One of the greatest internet moments to ever happen. Didn't have a job at the time so I was able to lurk around a lot and watch the place on and offline. Good times.
I wish I would have been there for it. It looked like so much fun to be part of that group of mad lads. It felt like an adventure, all the way here in Cali.
@user-uc4vg4rg9e they got understandably upset by a bunch of beheading videos, figured out where the videos were taking place (inside an isis military base no less) by the hills in the background and a few power lines, triangulated it to within a few feet of the location, and one of the Pol members was a Russian officer who passed that information on to his superiors who then bombed the shit out of the base, killing nearly every perpetrator in the video and nearly a hundred other isis members. The Pol officer even got close enough to positively ID the dead bodies of 3 of the 5 guys involved in the beheading. That was just one incident. They pretty much did it every time a beheading video came out. There's a reason ISIS stopped releasing those videos. Because if they did, Pol would hunt them down and get them blown up. Pol actually legit has done a surprising amount of actual operations that go from silly jokes to actual espionage. They found a kid who tortured cats to death and got him arrested, they tricked the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels into ruining his own case by planting fake evidence and hiring a stripper to pretend to be a witness of Trumps acts, which absolutely destroyed his case when his evidence and witnesses vanished when it came to trial. They identified the Berkley bike lock antifa guy that was beating people during riots. Love them or hate them, they're certainly a force to be reckoned with.
I remember especially paying attention to the flag capturing, it was so dumb and genius saga at the same time. The flag actually ended up here in Finland since the whole art thing was made by Shia and two people and one of them was a Finn. It was a small while up in the north in lapland and then just put into Kiasma museum in capital of Helsinki. Laughed so hard that people actually banished the flag so far that it came here.
I don’t think the political right is as much to blame for it. The rhetoric, insane censorship and the current in vogue racial agenda is being pushed heavily by the left which is in control of the US institutions and the media with only a few exceptions. It’s truly insane to see as a foreigner...
@@arminius504 You can't base your political opinions on what you see from social media and the internet. More importantly, to really understand what's going on politically in America, you have to live in America. There's more to the political struggle between Democrats and Republicans than racism, cancel culture, the media, and Donald Trump. That's just theatrics for the cameras, donations, investors, and what not. It's way more complicated than that. These two parties are working in Congress for power and control over America. How we live, tax rates, infrastructure, education, foreign policies, business regulations, health and well being, state regulations etc etc. Once you see how the two parties want to run the country, that's when you make the decision of who is right or wrong. Politics is an ugly beast at times, but it's so important for us as citizens to understand who to support, why to support them, and what they will do for you if you support them.
@@jerryjerri2936 "Politics is an ugly beast at times, but it's so important for us as citizens to understand who to support, why to support them, and what they will do for you if you support them." I literally can't think of a single politician I would invite into my home. I choose neither, and will just sit and wait for the shoe to drop like other sane people. We're fucked, period. The trick is being prepared.
@@jerryjerri2936 I have lived in the US before and I don’t really see the point of your comment. You just wrote the obvious. The elites in your country are anti American. They want your guns, your freedoms and they are importing millions to replace you and ultimately replace the country. They already have their new flag and they are already demonizing an ethnic group which they want to destroy (like in any revolution) and which can be blamed for all evils (even though statistically the media narrative is insane propaganda and the group is much more peaceful than others). Diversity = celebration of the erasure of ethiW people. That is how evil and how insane/ morally bankrupt the leadership in your country is. Your media is pure propaganda. Your education/ indoctrination sucks and your foreign Policy has been nothing but anti American and destructive. Yes I would hope that people educate themselves and don’t get brainwashed by biased social media and mainstream media...
@@connecticutnoobs Damn, that's the first thing that comes to your mind when you read a rational comment? Okay... You're probably on twitter on a daily basis; name-calling/smearing people who don't entirely agree with the cult, which you adhere to... All this whilst watching MSNBC or some other fringe political shit.
16:48 for anyone who doesn't know, the guy on the ID is Purple Aki, he's kinda a meme in England, he goes around asking fit young guys if he can feel their muscles and has gone to prison many times for it.
thats also extremely too common in the body building world. guys go in for "photo shoots" and are often outside of their comfort zone and taken advantage of. and end up on fetish sites.
One the best timelines in recent 4c history besides the NPC meme and Kekistan. Shia went to 4chan and chose to repeatedly feud with /pol/ of all places and declared war on them probably for clout to recharge his downward spiraling career and ego and was not prepared for the consequences. He brought it on himself but it may have saved his life because his meltdowns landed him in court ordered rehab and therapy before ending up like some out-of-control celebrities tragically do.
The funniest and saddest bit about this whole thing... is that Shia missed an amazing opportunity. If he had looking into the camera grinned and said "Alright, it's clear we've got a thing going. We disagree but now I've got a game. The next flag is worth a thousand dollars to the person who can grab it and bring it to me. I'll sign it and give both the money and the flag back. Stay tuned for an update." If he had done that, he would have become a MASSIVE hit on the net. But he didn't he broke down for crazy town.
A big part of the fun with hwndu was the butthurt it inflicted. If Shia started playing along, /pol/ would have declared victory and stopped playing as a response.
@@mistermann569 Exactly, and IMAGINE how good for publicity that would have been? Some of the most beloved celebrities are the ones that are willing to have fun with people. If he had turned the whole thing into a game he would have gotten the kind of publicity worth billions for maybe one or two million.
@@Darth_Conans I'm poor a thousand sounds like a lot to me, but the point remains. If he made it into a game with a prize, he would have gotten a good fifteen more minutes of shining stardom. Instead he pitched a fit like a child.
@@MissPopuri I'm sorry fairytales don't usually happen the same in real life.
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@@UnlimitedBick Jesus of Nazareth actually lived and was actually crucified. Wether you believe christianity that says he did miracles and stuff is irrelevant. Jesus was real, and thats a fact
@@MissPopuri Jesus hanging out with the boys is not the same as Shia Labeouf surrounded by random people. I'm sorry you're incapable of thinking without religious allegory. For perspective, this is a TH-cam video of a gaming personality reacting to a celebrity. Calling me a neckbeard is hardly an insult here. Take this shit back to your pastor.
What I remember most, was that 2016 was the year of Pokémon go. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people running around almost every city, every day, just tryin to catch ‘em all irl. Straight living their best life. I haven’t spent that much time outside since I was a child, and haven’t since. Didn’t need anything else, just me and my phone trespassing all over town in the middle of the night trying to catch that dragonite that just spawned. That shit was magical. It’s all been downhill since then. F
When I am out of my mind with Dementia and shitting my pants in some decrepit nursing home, I will remember these events far more than any movie Shia has ever done.
Man, I miss the old Shia, the hole digging Shia, the car transforming Shia, the just do it Shia. But for real though, regardless of politics Shia is a really good actor, loved him in Fury.
I remember following this Internet historian series as rhe events unfolded, it was so surreal and intense from someone who doesn't live in the US. I was astonished how 4chan did all that.
This story was fun as hell to observe in real time) Also first flag was just hilarious - sky provides a ton of info about location, yet this flag didn't have ANY protection) I was just waiting when people will find this by dawn/sunset + stars (pretty old technic to find out location) + weather + aircrafts
HWNDU truly was one of the greatest events we've had. Sure it was ironic that the very guy who claimed that "trump will not divide us" was dividing people because of Trump, I really would've wanted this to be a celebration of people coming together even if they did or didn't like Trump but Shia turned it into the opposite of that and divided based on your support for Trump or rather wether you hated him. However those who truly where not divided by any of this where the online trolls, the tricksters the fun loving edgy people, this was before 4chan went from being an anti-pc fun place to the controlled shithole that it is now, 4chan was always a shithole but atleast back than "not hating Trump" wasn't a reason to get banned yet
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica this was literally 8 months ago so can you be a bit more specific what you mean? Unless you literally don't get the point that Shia went crazy and thought everyone was a Trump supporting neo-nazi....
@@rafaelkresmar3998 Since when was not hating trump a reason to get banned on 4chan... ive been to 4chan lately and there plenty of people that like Trump thats not banned... id argue majority of /pol/ seems to like Trump and theyre not banned
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica this was 8 months ago when anyone who questioned wether Trump actually had something to do with january 6 was getting banned. During the Election it was similiar but yeah now they don't really care again and I've seen plenty of posts that did get people banned a year ago. But that was mostly the backlash during the Election and January 6 aftermath. If i'm not mistaken back than they where even thinking about banning the entire /pol/ like reddit banned whatever the Trump reddit was called. Twitter also banned him during that time so yeah that's what I've been referring to, pretty much different times and a different situation from now
I became very sad when asmon said "this is what the internet used to be like." He's right. I lived through the entire wild west days of the internet, and I didn't even know it at the time. We were all worried that net neutrality would be the downfall. That the government would somehow find a way to censor the internet. Little did we know, we would essentially do it to ourselves. The users of the internet are the ones that make sure order is maintained. I'm not even sure many laws have passed that limit what we can do, we just do it semi-voluntarily. There are obviously still corners where anything goes, but they're becoming schizophrenic echo chambers. They just fill up with a bunch of people who all believe the same crazy nonsense. There's no more casual racism for the memes. You're either on a website that is 100% anti racism, or you're on a website where everyone is legitimately racist. I only hope that the next generation does what every other generation has done and rebels against what their parents want. Maybe then we can have fun again. I don't know where all these virtue signaling buzzkills came from, but it seems like the internet has become the place where lonely people go to project a false version of themselves and their life for other people to judge. Everybody pretends they're smarter than they are, they do more fun stuff than they do, they're more attractive than they are, they have 100% altruistic political beliefs and have never done anything mean or offensive in their life. 5-10 years ago, the internet was the place people went where they didn't have to worry about any of the stuff I just mentioned and they could just remove any socially acceptable filter they have and mess around.
What happened was technology advanced to the point where certain people's participation was no longer wanted, and it became feasible to remove those people and what they represent in order to maximise profit
How come so many people preach about hating Nazis while also sounding and acting like one? Are people not driven insane letting themselves living their lives filled with resent?
>Are people not driven insane letting themselves live their lives filled with resent? I dare you to take another look at them and tell me they aren't insane already.
So to anyone wondering, the livestream of the most recent placement (somewhere in France) got taken down January 20th this year (I'm 80% certain that the timing was deliberate). But the last I saw it, the thing was in complete tatters because of wind damage. Like, it was reduced to a string blowing in the wind.
You know what my favorite part of this phenomenon was? How it brought together all these different people. From across the country!! Just having fun, talking trash, singing and dancing and having real political conversations in between all the trolling. I just learned that the guy who sang Snake Eater to the camera, known as "Jesus", went on to work for WWE! His wrestler name is Mansoor. And he married his sweetheart back in 2021! After seeing him be so nice to the internet folk and form this huge group of strangers into a group of fire forged friends... that just felt like the happy ending he deserved. God bless him and his beloved wife. I wish him and all the other HWNDU characters, including Shia, all the best in life. Particularly Shia! He didn't know what he was doing at the time, but he really was uniting people from different walks of life.
The funniest part about all of this is that the only people who are interested in "dividing us" are the idiots standing in front of the camera screaming that they won't let someone else do it.
Can you imagine what could be achieved if every 4chan galaxy brain worked together, with the same level of dedication and enthusiasm? That would be both absolutely amazing and downright terrifying.
Well they did managed to search for an ISIS base using the propaganda video they posted and someone in the thread has contact with the Russian Ministry of Defense and called an Airstrike on the ISIS base.
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They were showing HWNDU season 3 to Airforce recruits to help them understand the importance of operational security and not taking photos while you are on base or posting about your activities on social media.
Interesting. Got sauce on this (article/video)?
@@Skyline_NTR did you fucking read his comment? Where did you see article or video anywhere?
@ mans was just asking for the source, calm down
@ this dude actually got mad over a guy asking for a source LMAO 💀💀💀
It's crazy. Especially at the end when he reveals it took 36 hours total. The entire time I thought it was over weeks at least.
The guy who was singing the Snake Eater theme, aka Punished “Jihadi Jesus” Snake has now become a WWE wrestler known as Mansoor.
No fucking way rly
Lmaooo
@@CrossaIicious damn the fucking mad lad
DUDE HOLY FUCK, YOU'RE RIGHT. GODDAMN.
oh wow :D
Shia was succesfull. He united everybody against him.
He did not divide us.
The dude is off his fucking rocker
>everybody
Nah
Only pol nazis
@@RainbowRenegade Ayo - smacks lips - So you sayin' you lockdownlovers ain't fascists, dictators and nazi's? Shhhhttt.
@@RainbowRenegade Some might have been nazis, but a lot of them were probably just people wanting to fuck over Shia cause it's fun seeing a famous individual get mad
I worked at a police department, this level of dedication puts most of our case work to absolute shame.
Yeah right
And im an astronaut
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica it's honestly not as hard as the CSI shows make it look, most criminals are idiots and even for the clever ones there's always a nosy neighbor.
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica lmao are you comparing a damn police officer to an astronaut? are you like 10 or what? anyone can become a damn police officer.
@@lordfrostwind3151 So why are slightly more than 1/3 of murders and frickin 86% of car thefts unsolved in America?
Finding that flag in Tennessee is still one of the most amazing things I've ever seen randos on the internet do. Its got government databases, ground recon teams, and star charts. Its so great.
My favorite was when they found the (taliban? isis? don't remember) terrorist training camp, and someone in the russian military gave that information to his superiors, and they wiped it off the map with artillery like a day later
@@weeb3244 I remember that, tho not sure if Isis or Taliban, it's crazy that a bunch of online randoms can archive what governments cant
@ReeN1995 I wouldn't say can't. I would say unwilling.
@@justincider8892 fair point
A long time ago humans just died, when they were not able to solve problems. Since then we almost completely disconnected from natural selection. But if you have an average intelligent human, with a passion, basic knowledge and a goal, they can do incredible stuff. The capture the flag season was awesome.
it's incredible how ''he will not divide us'' message can bring so many people together against it
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Humanity is united in our desire to be forever divided! We can't have a stable functioning society unless we can flip random people who disagree with us the bird!
What he should've done for the first 'capture the flag' moment is write a message on the back of the flag. Something like:
"You united. I win; you were not divided."
@@sentientshadow126 That would require self awareness.
It would have also been the worlds greatest counter-troll
Yes
They hated the idea of Trump’s wall to keep people from coming into the country illegally so much that they put up a fence to keep the people they didn’t want out lmao
Thats the funny thing with people they hate "the wall" but look at CHAZ what was the first they did? They built a wall and put security in place.
@@sirken2 look at the Democrat controlled US Capitol. Walls, fences, police everywhere. All those things they say are bad and racist.
@@vantao9408 and with Biden taking land to continue construction of the wall
@@sirken2 I'm just going to destroy this low hanging fruit. This is a whataboutism. A wall in the capacity Trump and his delusional supporters / republicans wanted was to stop A) "illegal immigration" which can mean a number of things but primarily undocumented persons within the US. Majority of which overstay work visas which they get through people like Trump himself which btw he actually imported workers on visas before but w/e. B) drugs smuggling which has been primarily done through imports which go through you guessed it legal ports of entry. C) People traveling in between ports of entry aka "hopping the border". Majority of these people are asylum seekers and their first priority is to put in a claim for asylum. The initial crossing into US land is to protect themselves/family so they aren't stranded on the border in purgatory between US and Mexico like the several hundred people who listened to trump and attempted to make a claim at the border while staying outside the US and ended up waiting years many of which being subject to harm waiting for their pending claim outside of US protection. Also for the record the no tolerance policy separated families not based on violence or a threat to the child but rather simply the act of applying for asylum.
So if you can't grasp anything I said and just break down or more likely don't even read it, at least take this away. If you really give a fuck about the immigration crisis then legalize and decriminalize all common recreational drugs and hold our intelligence community accountable for literally fucking with every single country south of the border. How about instead of defund the police we abolish and reallocate funding from the DEA into the ORR?
I doubt i'll convince anyone of anything or get any good faith converation going here. This country is absolutely fucked by tribals.
@@CaptainBuggyTheClown damn you totally destroyed that lol.
Such a classic. Truly a cultural touchstone.
It holds up.
I was there FeelsGoodMan
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Lol, I remember at the time thinking that if Shia had tried to put that flag on the moon, 4chan would somehow find a way to get up there and steal it from there too. It's was pretty crazy.
They would nerd pole up.
Elon would take it
He united more people to fuck with him than made a progress with 'he will not divide us'.
Which is kind of beautiful, if you think about it.
Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
kinda like the streisand effect if you know what i mean
Just say on internet that 4chan cant do shit and cant so nothing to you cs they dont know you, and bam you have like 100 000 people out to destroy you
@@filipbitala2624 4chan is absolutely resourceful and fully capable of wrecking lives.
Although usually the beehive is only provoked into war when it comes to Memes and shitposting...
This was a classic to rewatch
internet historians big supple titties makes me happy and warm inside.
All of internet historians are classic to rewatch honestly
@@saych232 they really are the best
Are the vids still up
Someone in the chat wrote during the Capture the Flag segment, "Yeah, that's great and all that people can figure this out, but they still haven't figured out who killed 2pac"
Communism killed him, love did him in.
Maybe because he's black and the flag is white
Maybe hes not dead
@@zheldor651 bruh, that's the last place where I expected Disco Elysium
@@BlackGuyFromTheValveIntro That crackered me up.
4chan holds simultaneously the worst and best of humanity the only pure place still Alive on the internet.
It is my favorite internet story and a true testament of where actual power comes from
I seem to remember 4chan coming to the aid of some female gamer with a tiny stream, who was being ruthlessly attacked by deranged d-bags. I wanna say that they were gleefully celebrating making this girl cry and end her stream because she was playing some gae Harry Potter game.
Some of 4chans finest trolls banded together and pummeled those smug activists into submission. I forget all the details, but I seem to remember some of those ppl begging for mercy and pleading for 4chan to call the dogs off. It was really kind of touching. For whatever faults they have, they were disgusted that ppl would celebrate a bulkying campaign against some defenseless young girl.
If one does not have the Freedom to be the Worst they can be, then they can never become the Best they can be.
Imagine going to Europe to protest the American president because he has this much support.
@@bombomos Lithuanians too
@@bombomos We saw him as the epitome of America, stupid but knows how to manage money, bullshit his way through everything. Now Biden... Also epitome of the America, the sick man of the West.
I mean this was more because this was a fun game and entertaining to annoy Shia and see him rage about it
Lol Shia was actually also spotted in Johnson City TN when he was moving the flag. He went into my wife's Starbucks that she was helping manage at the time. He asked my wife and the couple of barristas there at the time who recognized him to not say anything or post a picture..... several days later, the flag was found again. 🤣
Lemme guess, the one on roan street or state of Franklin? Cause I live not far from JC and know the area pretty well
Somehow hearing that nut was in my state kinda irks me.
@@UmatsuObossa man i would post it just from spite
@@filipbitala2624 Right, that would be the first thing I did if a celeb asked me not to.
He started the greatest game of capture the flag, had he of been smart about it he could have made it something much bigger. Imagine making this a thing every few years or so.
area 51 and joshfight were similar but not the same. everyone wants that "get out and DO SOMETHING TOGETHER" energy. and i feel like the spontaneity is part of the fun. after all when something wacky and outsider becomes a regular occurrence it just becomes corporate and boring, like burning man
I actually liked the "capture the flag", It was fun.
There is actually an efforts for this dumb fun and it was glorious.
“Had he of been smart”? Your grammar is so bad I can’t understand your comment. What the hell are you trying to say?
Now he needs to do the thread where pol tracked down a terrorist training camp, gave the information to someone at the Russian ministry of defense, and they blew it up.
Based
Funniest thing is that someone FROM the MOD was participating in the thread, that's why the information got to the command to begin with.
PS: actually that happened on several different occasions and in some of them they contacted them through Twitter, lol.
You are joking, right? No fucking way. Drop me a source, I wanna read that!
@@kronkrian100 I'll be here in case he drops it. Wanna read it too!
@@kronkrian100 /watch?v=LG1FWWX7ZPk
After the last video, you can’t even convince me that Shia LaBeouf is REAL.
Unironically that capture the flag thing seemed like an actual good piece of community art
You know, this just made me think about how hard it actually would be to keep identities a secret if you were a Super Hero or a Super Villian
Just avoid social media, though? Don't livestream your hero/villain lair and you should probably be fine. lol I mean, those guys on the roof in England got away with their secret identities intact.
Not true if you were the flash you could phase out your face
@@AlleluiaElizabeth well yea because one they didnt hurt anyone and 2 because they were masked and literally appeared on camera for like a minute total
We are the Super Villian! Moa-Ha-Ha-Ha!!!
@@AlleluiaElizabeth Then you wouldn't be a super villain or super hero to begin with.
can't believe this was 4 years ago
The good days, before...the dark times.
cant believe it too. I want to go back
@@DarkLord3709 not sure if it was much better then
How did people become such pussies in the last 4 years...
@@shanehaney6040 The pussies were already there from earlier, it's just exposed now. But it is getting harder and harder to do it on the big platforms
To the guy who went up to the camera and said "Shia's a rich white liberal who doesn't care about the working class".... Props to you. The hero we didn't know we needed.
why do i get the feeling if this was a video about a guys trump signs being stolen from his lawn you would be sounding like a victim
@@Chaelsonen Stealing political signs from peoples yards sounds like a liberal move
@@TheDragonageorigins pssst your on a video celebrating stealing a dudes political sign.
I mean the first part is accurate but how do you know the second one is? Like it wouldn't surprise me if it's true but like it wouldn't surprise me if the guy who said that also didn't care about the working class.
You know what's funny about that though? That guy almost certainly voted for Trump. When's the last time Republicans did anything for the working class?
I was there when this shit happened. One of the greatest internet moments to ever happen. Didn't have a job at the time so I was able to lurk around a lot and watch the place on and offline. Good times.
I remember wanting to catch a flight over to America to join in the original livestream
@@Raptorworld22 ich kann mir nicht vorstellen das 4chan furry-unterstützung gewollt hätte
@@nccn4021 Do you think that furries wear arm badges irl so everyone knows what media we like?
I wish I would have been there for it. It looked like so much fun to be part of that group of mad lads. It felt like an adventure, all the way here in Cali.
@@nccn4021spast
"It was a different time"
And I miss it every day
Man, I miss pre-2016 internet so much. Yeah it was dumb as hell, but it had so much more soul. Everything is so sanitized now.
Welcome to The new order.
09 it started going down hill
Nice pun.
The internet hasn't been good since 2010 at least. Smartphones opened the floodgates for normies to come in and ruin everything.
I really wonder how much that flag would auction for. Piece of internet history right there.
Put it up as an NFT
I wonder if we'll ever see the original again
@@leolionheart3982 It's not digital.
I just saw an article that it was recovered in 2021 and returned to the two artists who worked with Shia.
Incels don't have money
He needs to watch the time 4chan called in an airstrike.
I would watch that...
Watch him watching it...
Dude where can I find that lol
They did what😂
@user-uc4vg4rg9e they got understandably upset by a bunch of beheading videos, figured out where the videos were taking place (inside an isis military base no less) by the hills in the background and a few power lines, triangulated it to within a few feet of the location, and one of the Pol members was a Russian officer who passed that information on to his superiors who then bombed the shit out of the base, killing nearly every perpetrator in the video and nearly a hundred other isis members.
The Pol officer even got close enough to positively ID the dead bodies of 3 of the 5 guys involved in the beheading.
That was just one incident. They pretty much did it every time a beheading video came out. There's a reason ISIS stopped releasing those videos. Because if they did, Pol would hunt them down and get them blown up.
Pol actually legit has done a surprising amount of actual operations that go from silly jokes to actual espionage. They found a kid who tortured cats to death and got him arrested, they tricked the lawyer representing Stormy Daniels into ruining his own case by planting fake evidence and hiring a stripper to pretend to be a witness of Trumps acts, which absolutely destroyed his case when his evidence and witnesses vanished when it came to trial. They identified the Berkley bike lock antifa guy that was beating people during riots. Love them or hate them, they're certainly a force to be reckoned with.
Trump didn't divide anyone, media and bad parenting did.
That’s what Dixiecrats do
"why doesn't the gov put stuff they can't solve on the internet" they do, they're promptly called glow in the darks and ran off
I remember especially paying attention to the flag capturing, it was so dumb and genius saga at the same time. The flag actually ended up here in Finland since the whole art thing was made by Shia and two people and one of them was a Finn. It was a small while up in the north in lapland and then just put into Kiasma museum in capital of Helsinki. Laughed so hard that people actually banished the flag so far that it came here.
the sad part about looking back on this meme is that we are more divided than weve ever been.
I don’t think the political right is as much to blame for it. The rhetoric, insane censorship and the current in vogue racial agenda is being pushed heavily by the left which is in control of the US institutions and the media with only a few exceptions. It’s truly insane to see as a foreigner...
@@arminius504 You can't base your political opinions on what you see from social media and the internet. More importantly, to really understand what's going on politically in America, you have to live in America. There's more to the political struggle between Democrats and Republicans than racism, cancel culture, the media, and Donald Trump. That's just theatrics for the cameras, donations, investors, and what not. It's way more complicated than that. These two parties are working in Congress for power and control over America. How we live, tax rates, infrastructure, education, foreign policies, business regulations, health and well being, state regulations etc etc. Once you see how the two parties want to run the country, that's when you make the decision of who is right or wrong. Politics is an ugly beast at times, but it's so important for us as citizens to understand who to support, why to support them, and what they will do for you if you support them.
Good.
@@jerryjerri2936 "Politics is an ugly beast at times, but it's so important for us as citizens to understand who to support, why to support them, and what they will do for you if you support them."
I literally can't think of a single politician I would invite into my home. I choose neither, and will just sit and wait for the shoe to drop like other sane people. We're fucked, period. The trick is being prepared.
@@jerryjerri2936 I have lived in the US before and I don’t really see the point of your comment. You just wrote the obvious. The elites in your country are anti American. They want your guns, your freedoms and they are importing millions to replace you and ultimately replace the country. They already have their new flag and they are already demonizing an ethnic group which they want to destroy (like in any revolution) and which can be blamed for all evils (even though statistically the media narrative is insane propaganda and the group is much more peaceful than others). Diversity = celebration of the erasure of ethiW people. That is how evil and how insane/ morally bankrupt the leadership in your country is. Your media is pure propaganda. Your education/ indoctrination sucks and your foreign Policy has been nothing but anti American and destructive. Yes I would hope that people educate themselves and don’t get brainwashed by biased social media and mainstream media...
Story by Hideo Kojima
"he will not divide us" they shouted, forming a cult that seperated themselves from society
wrongggg
@@TheDankFarmer Fox News viewer spotted
@@TheDankFarmer ye so true imagen watching main stream media in 2021 rofl
@@connecticutnoobs Damn, that's the first thing that comes to your mind when you read a rational comment? Okay... You're probably on twitter on a daily basis; name-calling/smearing people who don't entirely agree with the cult, which you adhere to... All this whilst watching MSNBC or some other fringe political shit.
@@TheDankFarmer ye lol
16:48 for anyone who doesn't know, the guy on the ID is Purple Aki, he's kinda a meme in England, he goes around asking fit young guys if he can feel their muscles and has gone to prison many times for it.
I thought that was Purp lol
thats also extremely too common in the body building world. guys go in for "photo shoots" and are often outside of their comfort zone and taken advantage of. and end up on fetish sites.
If you were there you know this was one of the greatest times on the internet. Memes become real life, so much magic. Beautiful piece of history.
Capture the flag was a tier 1 weaponized autism operation... Gotta love 4chan
"He will not divide us"
>proceeds to shove and yell at anyone who makes a dumb joke
The best one was the dude who kept chanting "He will come inside us. He will come inside us so hard."
Internet historian has easily become one of my favorite youtubers ever, the videos they put out are so unbelievably amazing every time.
Imagine how much would be accomplished if doing good things was funny
Doood, Capture the Flag was one of the greatest things to ever come out of 4chan.
Hahahahahahaha. I'm actually crying laughing
Internet trolls break into a museum to ... commit a meme
🤣🤣
Watch "windows of the world".
One the best timelines in recent 4c history besides the NPC meme and Kekistan. Shia went to 4chan and chose to repeatedly feud with /pol/ of all places and declared war on them probably for clout to recharge his downward spiraling career and ego and was not prepared for the consequences. He brought it on himself but it may have saved his life because his meltdowns landed him in court ordered rehab and therapy before ending up like some out-of-control celebrities tragically do.
7:22 "Oh boy, 2016 was a different time" Yes it was. And it was absolutely amazing.
Interestingly, 2016 was widely hated at the time, mostly cuz everyone's favourite stars died or some shit.
'LiverPool's closed' love it, that's like 10 4chan memes deep
The funniest and saddest bit about this whole thing... is that Shia missed an amazing opportunity. If he had looking into the camera grinned and said "Alright, it's clear we've got a thing going. We disagree but now I've got a game. The next flag is worth a thousand dollars to the person who can grab it and bring it to me. I'll sign it and give both the money and the flag back. Stay tuned for an update."
If he had done that, he would have become a MASSIVE hit on the net. But he didn't he broke down for crazy town.
A big part of the fun with hwndu was the butthurt it inflicted. If Shia started playing along, /pol/ would have declared victory and stopped playing as a response.
@@mistermann569 Exactly, and IMAGINE how good for publicity that would have been? Some of the most beloved celebrities are the ones that are willing to have fun with people. If he had turned the whole thing into a game he would have gotten the kind of publicity worth billions for maybe one or two million.
@@MagicalMaster yeah... such a shame
Only a thousand dollars? It'd be worth it just to find the flag and steal it and never turn it back in at that point.
@@Darth_Conans I'm poor a thousand sounds like a lot to me, but the point remains. If he made it into a game with a prize, he would have gotten a good fifteen more minutes of shining stardom. Instead he pitched a fit like a child.
Some dude in Greenville, Tennessee has the first HWNDU flag hanging in his house as a trophy. I'm jealous.
Honestly, Asmo has a point with 4Chan having a massive potential for doing good deeds.
They found the personal info of various animal abusers and sent it to the cops
God I miss this version of the internet
"He will not divide us!"
*divides self away from world to ensure only one viewpoint is allowed*
Why did I get cult vibes from the people just randomly saying "He will not divide us" as Shia was being arrested.
they are not even good enough for that. He was getting arrested and they just run away.
@@MissPopuri I'm sorry fairytales don't usually happen the same in real life.
@@UnlimitedBick Jesus of Nazareth actually lived and was actually crucified. Wether you believe christianity that says he did miracles and stuff is irrelevant. Jesus was real, and thats a fact
@@MissPopuri Jesus hanging out with the boys is not the same as Shia Labeouf surrounded by random people.
I'm sorry you're incapable of thinking without religious allegory.
For perspective, this is a TH-cam video of a gaming personality reacting to a celebrity. Calling me a neckbeard is hardly an insult here.
Take this shit back to your pastor.
@@MissPopuri Yeah, you go ahead and hold your breath until the return of Christ, I'll be over here speedrunning sins to secure my seat in hell.
I don’t know how I missed this happening but this is definitely one of the greatest things I’ve ever seen
The power of Pol should not be underestimated.
The power of reality show that pol Don even come superpower
@@unknowngod8221 No one understood a thing you wrote
@@unknowngod8221 wut?
If they weren't so political and annoying id actually join them
What I remember most, was that 2016 was the year of Pokémon go. Hundreds, sometimes thousands, of people running around almost every city, every day, just tryin to catch ‘em all irl. Straight living their best life. I haven’t spent that much time outside since I was a child, and haven’t since. Didn’t need anything else, just me and my phone trespassing all over town in the middle of the night trying to catch that dragonite that just spawned. That shit was magical. It’s all been downhill since then. F
Pokemon go got a lot of bad press but that shit was fun
The way they managed to find the flag and the exact location was brilliant. Well done, lads!
When I am out of my mind with Dementia and shitting my pants in some decrepit nursing home, I will remember these events far more than any movie Shia has ever done.
11:30 pol got isis bombed
Man, I miss the old Shia, the hole digging Shia, the car transforming Shia, the just do it Shia. But for real though, regardless of politics Shia is a really good actor, loved him in Fury.
You know what those metal waist height fences they put up as a "wall" are called?.....Dividers 😅
Steven crowder casted his whole show from there one day too. It was awesome
I remember following this Internet historian series as rhe events unfolded, it was so surreal and intense from someone who doesn't live in the US. I was astonished how 4chan did all that.
These really were better times.
Even though it was stupid, at least it was entertaining as fuck lol
This was the beginning of the bad times. When politics invaded internet and everyone started showing how dumb they were.
Spit on politics. Return to monke
@@SWBGTOC That happened long before 2016
@@FictionExistence Yeah it started before but not that long. I'd say around 2013-2014 maybe, from my viewpoint.
some dude in america is holding a piece of history.
the guy that stole the flag probably has it on his wall as a trophy.
This story was fun as hell to observe in real time) Also first flag was just hilarious - sky provides a ton of info about location, yet this flag didn't have ANY protection) I was just waiting when people will find this by dawn/sunset + stars (pretty old technic to find out location) + weather + aircrafts
HWNDU truly was one of the greatest events we've had. Sure it was ironic that the very guy who claimed that "trump will not divide us" was dividing people because of Trump, I really would've wanted this to be a celebration of people coming together even if they did or didn't like Trump but Shia turned it into the opposite of that and divided based on your support for Trump or rather wether you hated him.
However those who truly where not divided by any of this where the online trolls, the tricksters the fun loving edgy people, this was before 4chan went from being an anti-pc fun place to the controlled shithole that it is now, 4chan was always a shithole but atleast back than "not hating Trump" wasn't a reason to get banned yet
What in the god damn hell are you talking about
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica this was literally 8 months ago so can you be a bit more specific what you mean? Unless you literally don't get the point that Shia went crazy and thought everyone was a Trump supporting neo-nazi....
@@rafaelkresmar3998 Since when was not hating trump a reason to get banned on 4chan... ive been to 4chan lately and there plenty of people that like Trump thats not banned... id argue majority of /pol/ seems to like Trump and theyre not banned
@@PippyPopsSelfHarmMonica this was 8 months ago when anyone who questioned wether Trump actually had something to do with january 6 was getting banned. During the Election it was similiar but yeah now they don't really care again and I've seen plenty of posts that did get people banned a year ago. But that was mostly the backlash during the Election and January 6 aftermath. If i'm not mistaken back than they where even thinking about banning the entire /pol/ like reddit banned whatever the Trump reddit was called. Twitter also banned him during that time so yeah that's what I've been referring to, pretty much different times and a different situation from now
Is it even possibly to get banned on 4chan…
that "he will not divide us" is now a sacred /pol/ relic, to be cherished for generations to come
"It's Pepe man!" :')
Instant classic!
I became very sad when asmon said "this is what the internet used to be like."
He's right. I lived through the entire wild west days of the internet, and I didn't even know it at the time.
We were all worried that net neutrality would be the downfall. That the government would somehow find a way to censor the internet. Little did we know, we would essentially do it to ourselves. The users of the internet are the ones that make sure order is maintained. I'm not even sure many laws have passed that limit what we can do, we just do it semi-voluntarily.
There are obviously still corners where anything goes, but they're becoming schizophrenic echo chambers. They just fill up with a bunch of people who all believe the same crazy nonsense. There's no more casual racism for the memes. You're either on a website that is 100% anti racism, or you're on a website where everyone is legitimately racist.
I only hope that the next generation does what every other generation has done and rebels against what their parents want. Maybe then we can have fun again. I don't know where all these virtue signaling buzzkills came from, but it seems like the internet has become the place where lonely people go to project a false version of themselves and their life for other people to judge. Everybody pretends they're smarter than they are, they do more fun stuff than they do, they're more attractive than they are, they have 100% altruistic political beliefs and have never done anything mean or offensive in their life. 5-10 years ago, the internet was the place people went where they didn't have to worry about any of the stuff I just mentioned and they could just remove any socially acceptable filter they have and mess around.
What happened was technology advanced to the point where certain people's participation was no longer wanted, and it became feasible to remove those people and what they represent in order to maximise profit
Have faith, our zoomer kids are preparing to take over in the most kek ways.
this new generation watches skibidi toilet, there is no hope
6:02
In 2017 him saying Milk is Racist was a Joke.
Now in 2022, they actually think Milk is Racist.
We will look back at this as the peak of internet history…
Videos like this is why I love the Internet. 4Chan is a force not to be wreckoned with😂
Most of the insane shit came from places not called 4chan lol
@@DarthStormcrow did another site ever convince the US to bomb an ISIS base? a base 4chan found?
They took what little remained of his sanity.
@@DarthStormcrow you probably think thats reddit, leftoid
How come so many people preach about hating Nazis while also sounding and acting like one? Are people not driven insane letting themselves living their lives filled with resent?
>Are people not driven insane letting themselves live their lives filled with resent?
I dare you to take another look at them and tell me they aren't insane already.
They were never forced to watch "The Wave" in school or somehow didnt understand the point of it.
So to anyone wondering, the livestream of the most recent placement (somewhere in France) got taken down January 20th this year (I'm 80% certain that the timing was deliberate). But the last I saw it, the thing was in complete tatters because of wind damage. Like, it was reduced to a string blowing in the wind.
man i need to find this stream
2016 was the absolute peak of the internet
This is what 4chan was made for. Truly the most beautiful form of trolling in history
I've been WAITING for this one...
This needs to either be made into a movie or at least a mini series, it’s too good lmao
You just watched it. Here it is.
You know what my favorite part of this phenomenon was? How it brought together all these different people. From across the country!! Just having fun, talking trash, singing and dancing and having real political conversations in between all the trolling.
I just learned that the guy who sang Snake Eater to the camera, known as "Jesus", went on to work for WWE! His wrestler name is Mansoor. And he married his sweetheart back in 2021!
After seeing him be so nice to the internet folk and form this huge group of strangers into a group of fire forged friends... that just felt like the happy ending he deserved. God bless him and his beloved wife.
I wish him and all the other HWNDU characters, including Shia, all the best in life. Particularly Shia! He didn't know what he was doing at the time, but he really was uniting people from different walks of life.
Why did that Shia jumpscare get me so good
Oh man. That recommended video at the end. The Berkeley Bikelock Fugitive. That one should be right up his alley.
How did I miss this????
The capture the flag was so fucking funny.
"2015 was a different time"
it was 6 years ago. we were all there
ive waited literally 3 years for him to watch this. finally. ever since he started watching internet historian i wanted him to watch this
what people failed to notice was one mans sacrifice to buy a recorder and leave it playing the KEK theme until it was found the next day by shia labuf
The funniest part about all of this is that the only people who are interested in "dividing us" are the idiots standing in front of the camera screaming that they won't let someone else do it.
2016 truly was a golden age for memes.
Christ, I forgot about all of this. I remember watching it happen live.
Thanks for the memory trip.
Shia screaming about division whilke drawing a line in the sand between who he will and will not accept is peak celebrity delusion.
"It was just people that were sad about covid"
Jesus man you can be so insightful and so brandead at the same time sometimes.
OMG such nostalgia, so much joy of this back in the day.
In the end he lost and lost it ;-)
Dude i wish i could go back to 2015
I'm watching this video for seventh time and I'll never get bored of it! The whole ordeal is a meme on its own.
omg the nostalgia, i miss those times
19:05 lmaoo love the mini jump from Asmon got me too ANY JUMPERS LULW
20:35 battlefield soundtrack ! loved it haha
Here's another one that connoisseurs of open source autism might appreciate "THAT TIME /POL/ CALLED AN AIR-STRIKE ON ISIS
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yes this is true
@@Luna-ii4mx shut up
Asmo talking about 2015-2016 as if 99 percent of us were not around to witness it lmao
Many people don't pay attention to polotics until they suddenly do.
Whenever that happens, they rarely look back to see what they missed.
Can you imagine what could be achieved if every 4chan galaxy brain worked together, with the same level of dedication and enthusiasm? That would be both absolutely amazing and downright terrifying.
I'm convinced they do this as a hobby and work for places like O.U.R. for realz.
Well they did managed to search for an ISIS base using the propaganda video they posted and someone in the thread has contact with the Russian Ministry of Defense and called an Airstrike on the ISIS base.
Seemed like a good time to stop by
😂😂😂😂😂
@@obsidianair5291 allllllll by myselffffffff
The internet was a better place back then.