When I was in Vienna a few years ago and tried to get a flag (as I do for every new country I visit) I remember I couldn’t find a single souvenir store that sold a flag without the eagle. So now evidently my basement in the US thinks it’s part of the Austrian government
the austrian coat of arms has a crowned eagle as well as a hammer and sickle on it. so no matter which revolution wins (the fascists or communists) they won't have to change anything. very forward thinking.
The symbols of hammer, sickle and the mural crown embellishing the eagle's head represent peasantry, workers and bourgeoisie. The golden sickle and the golden hammer were introduced onto the eagle in 1919 during the First Austrian Republic. The hammer and sickle are symbolic for farmers and workers and the peasantry.
A crown isn't a fascist symbol. Fascists are inherently anti-monarchist. The only reason A country like Italy kept their monarch during Mussolini's fascist reign was as a figurehead supported by the people.
I find it quite amusing that Peru has a similar flag design to Austria (basically rotated 90°) and has the exact problem (and outcome) you just described with the civil vs. state flags hehe
@@danielbishop1863 interesting question and I wanna know how it is in Austria. In my country, parodying any flag is actually considered desecration of the flag and is punishable by fines. if that applies to Austria, it would make parodying the state flag extra illegal rather than more legal lol
@@aidenbooksmith2351 As far as I know there is no such thing. There is a Law for Coat of Arms tough where every Austrian can make his own design but you are not allowed to use any Design already used by the State for the Federal Government or the States (Länder). So Paroding a State CoA for your own might be a legal offense, but you always can claim artistic freedom if you do it for Arts, Satire etc.
I just wish TH-cam didn't put upcoming videos in the feed of released videos, and instead allowed you to "scroll into the future" and see upcoming videos in order of when they are released, and not from the time the uploader pressed save. Then having a week for an upcoming video would be fine, and even preferable. Because it would be like a nice timetable.
Not flag but: there was some hoopla here in Norway this year when the Labor Party used the coat-of-arms in some election campaign material. This is strictly illegal for any non-state entity so they had to remove it.
3:39 Nice to see that Doofenshmirtz hasn't given up on his dream of ruling over something, and if not the Tri-State Area, then the next best thing must be Austria
More on the Austrian eagle: The current coat of arms of the Republic of Austria has been in use in its first forms by the First Republic of Austria since 1919. Between 1934 and Anschluss in 1938, the Federal State used a different coat of arms, which consisted of a double-headed eagle without the hammer and sickle. The establishment of the Second Republic in 1945 saw the return of the original arms, with broken chains added to symbolize Austria's liberation. When the hammer and sickle were added in 1919, the government in charge of Austria was chancellor Karl Renner of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, now the Social Democratic Party of Austria. In 1981, the Wappen der Republik Österreich described the blazon in Federal Constitutional Law. With this change of law, it was defined that the specific drawing is to codificate in an own statute law and that all other versions of the coat of arms of Austria were no longer in law. In accordance to this, the Wappengesetz from 1984 and the drawing of the actual Wappen der Republik Österreich is in Austrian law.
What the Austria flag stands for🇦🇹 ? 🟥-precision quality handguns ⬜️-beautiful mountains ⬛️- friendliness 🟦- exotic beaches *BONUS* 🦅- Starting two World wars and blaming it on Germany
@@christschess7069They’re referring to the fact that Hitler was Austrian, and Austria-Hungary was the first to declare war and start off the chain of alliances in WW2. It’s a bit obscure, but it’s more of a joke than anything.
@@christschess7069Is it? Hitler was Austrian, WW1 started because of the Austrian declaration of war on Serbia following the assassination of Crown Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria :)
In Germany there´s a similar case in which u are dont allow to use the "Bundesdienstflagge" if u r not a government offical. For the People there´s another version with another version of the Bundesadler (Federal Eagle)
It seems to me it's mostly about regulating the use of the flag for marketing. It's normal to see the civil flag on the packaging of a local product. Even if it's unlikely to be misused maliciously it makes sense for the to be rules about that. The law would be most directly relevant to graphic designers working for Austrian Brands. Don't wanna slip up and paste the wrong flag into your PS project, though it'd be easy to make the civil flag from scratch.
To be fair to Monaco, the flag they've been using was officially adopted in 1881 by Prince Charles III, although red and white have been the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi since at least 1339. And the dimensions are different from Indonesia's in that Monaco's flag is a square. But yes, the lozenge flag is much cooler! The House of Grimaldi was founded in 1160 by Grimaldo Canella in Genoa and became the ruling house of Monaco when Francesco Grimaldi captured Monaco in 1297. A poetic interpretation may take from the flag according to the Monegasque government is that it is a representation of the blood of Saint Devota, 4th century martyr and the Principality’s patron saint. And the Lesotho flag is interesting! Blue represents the sky and rain, white represents peace as Lesotho has had the ideology of peace since King Moshoeshoe I, and green represents prosperity. The symbol in the middle is called a Mokorotlo which is a traditional Basotho straw hat. It has been said that the Sotho adopted this hat from the Cape Malays who wore a similar hat called the toedang. The Sotho display them in their homes to both uphold their customs and protect the home against danger and other evil influences.
I find funny that technically Argentina has a civil flag, but it's unused because of a law passed in the 80's that made the Argentine flag with sun the national one too. People still use the civil flag anyway because it's a pain in the ass to make the sun correctly.
Finland also has a separate state flag from the civil flag, it has the lion coat of arms in the middle of the cross. There are also separate flags for the president, the minister of defence and the commanders of the land and naval forces.
@@poiuttyrfghj8474 A common misconception. You are allowed to fly the flag any day you like, but you have to take it down for the night. And this is the big catch, as it really limits the number of civilians willing to fly the flag every day. Instead, civilians tend to use a household pennant that you can just fly for as long as you want. Yes, people would think you are weird for flying the flag every day, but it is by no means illegal. The law actually states that everyone is allowed to fly the national flag. Then there are official flag days when government offices are required to fly a flag, but for everyone else, it is a recommendation.
Reminds me a bit of the US flag code. It's a set of rules that you're supposed to abide by when displaying the American flag. Things like the blue part with the stars goes on the flagpole, and you're not supposed to print the flag on clothing, and you actually are supposed to ceremonially burn a damaged flag to dispose of it. But none of these rules are actually laws; they're just guidelines and people violate them all the time! Especially the clothing one...
…how they’re raised, lowered, hang from walls, what side of the speaker they’re placed, how they’re worn on uniforms etc. always pointed so you look as if you’re moving forward
Was about to point out that there is a very similar video but in German. Then noticed it is another one of your channels. Thanks for publishing in multiple languages!
Interesting to see how local culture varies when the country has these two types of flags. In Denmark people have been known to call the police if someone leaves an unilluminated flag up at night, and if a private citizen were to fly the swallowtail flag I'm pretty sure the same thing would happen quite soon.
Huzzah! I really love your new meeples (Tapakapeeples?), the videos feel even more gloriously expressive now 😊. Echt gut gemacht, Alter! I love the German channel too, forgive me for not commenting on the mother-tongue version of this as well but while I can understand Wienerisch well enough, writing it is well beyond my C1 German skills 😅
Technically, that is still the case. We can wave handheld blue flags around when we're feeling patriotic, but erecting a flagpole outside a building and flying the blue flag is a representation that it is a government-owned building. If we want to fly a flag outside our homes, we're supposed to use the red flag. But, most younger Australians would have never seen a red Australian flag.
We have a similar problem in poland where people on national holidays hang out flags with coat of arms on it which is reserved for government and sea ships beacouse they don't have a clue that it's wrong
- We are not German, don't call me German or I will get indignant. - We invented coffee and classical music. Also psychotherapy, probably not by coincidence, but I wouldn't know. - Everything's fine. There are no problems, only compromises, also I don't like change. Just work around it, it'll be fine. - Don't ask me about my family's history between 1938 to 1945.
@@aForkfulOfGold the Austrian relationship with Germany feels kind of like the Canadian relationship with the US, although I suspect there's more to the Austrian identity than "not German"
@@joshuahillerup4290 There is of course, yes! But still that is a big part of it, due to historical reasons between the German unification by Prussia in 1870 (instead of a loose confederation under Austrian stewardship, which the Habsburgs seemed to have in mind) and the ramifications of WW2. It is no longer than 150 years ago that essentially anyone in Austria would have said "Yes, I am a German". "A German", not "German". It was different then.
@@joshuahillerup4290 I don't feel like I know how to answer that, it's too broad a question. I can say that despite quips or slight exaggeration for comedic effect in my first reply to you there is some truth to everything I wrote in how many Austrians see themselves/their country.
Australia has a red ensign version of our national flag which is our civil ensign. Up until the 1950s the blue ensign version was only allowed to be used by government entities, civilians were required to use the red ensign. But since then the rules were relaxed and the civil red ensign is now mainly only used on Australian registered civilian ships. (The red ensign was recently also used by some protesters doing that thing where they use an older version of the national flag to support a return to a previous political order during the protests against our covid lockdowns.)
Interesting thing - in Poland we have two state flags (one with Coa and one without), with rules which state entities may use each, but civilians may use both.
The symbols of hammer, sickle and the mural crown embellishing the eagle's head represent peasantry, workers and bourgeoisie. The golden sickle and the golden hammer were introduced onto the eagle in 1919 during the First Austrian Republic. The hammer and sickle are symbolic for farmers and workers and the peasantry.
Funnily enough my PFP deliberately doesn't use the UK's State/Civil flag but the older version (designed for James VI when he wanted to bring his realms together) without the cross of St. Patrick, which was added following the Act of Union with Ireland in 1801, I'm part Irish in case you're wondering. I wonder how other flags are viewed in Austrian Law, only because I saw footage of a protest in Vienna and of the flags I could Identify there were; the Austrian Empire Flag, the Austro-Hungarian Flag, the German Empire Flag, the Holy Roman Empire Flag and the Flag of the Eurasian Economic Union, I also saw the European Union flag but that was being ceremonially taken down so I don't think it counts.
A distinction like this used to be made in some British colonies, the union jack in the corner on either a red background or a blue background depending on the purpose, but this went away.
Australia used to have a state-civil distinction as well; the state flag had the blue background we all know today, but the civil flag had a red background
And Germany just has 2 versions where the eagle in the centre has 5 or 6 stripes on each wing, 5 being for everyone (afaik), 6 for official buildings etc
It's the difference between the "Federal Coat of Arms" and the "Federal Shield". Having the coat of arms on a German flag is condoned, as it's basically a different flag on it's own, however not an official one.
Hi, Tapakapa. I love this video! Could you make a vexillological video explaining the terms "civil flag & civil ensign", "state flag & state ensign", and "war flag & naval ensign"?
In the German case, the Federal Service Flag show the "Bundesschild", a special version of the federal coat of arms reserved for this special use-case. If you put the regular federal coat of arms on a flag, it becomes the "Bundeswappenflagge" (federal coat of arms flag) which may be freely used by everyone.
In Germany we have the state and civil flag like you showed, but theres an alternative unofficial flag that looks just like the state flag, but uses a different Coat of Arms on it. The Oficial state flag has a Coat of Arms with a round base and the eagle has more spread out wing feathers. The unoffical flag uses the oficial German Coat of Arms that has a pointy base and the wing feathers are straight down among other smaller things.
Actually the law defines the size ratio with 2:3 and the colours of the Eagle which both are slightly different for the Flags sold. When you fly These Flags would be interesting how a cort would rule.
I don’t understand how nobody talked about the new art style of this video so far. It looks pretty nice but i kind of like the old one a bit more, but i also understand why you would change it.
Do one on the Scottish Lion Rampant (Royal Banner). I’m sure there’s similar ideas around it’s use being restricted but allowed to be carried by individuals at certain times. But it’s seen everywhere
One of the pubs in my town (England) brought a flag pack for the Euros that I noticed had the eagle on it. I thought it was obsolete and me and my friends were memeing about the pub recognising Austria-Hungary. Turns out they’ve been breaking the law this whole time.
My Twitter profile banner is the state flag of Finland. Finland isn't as strict, though. I think that only having a non digital flag is a crime. And not really enforced.
I think Finland is culturally much more strict when it comes to flags. I have never seen a physical state flag where it shouldn't be. And you can get a fine for flying the state flag in Finland too, the law doesn't even differentiate if the use of the flag can mislead anyone into thinking something is a government office, or if you are just waving it casually.
Scotland has a similar situation. The blue flag with the white X is the civil flag, and the yellow flag with the red lion is the royal flag. Scottish football fans like to wave the red lion flag even though strictly speaking they shouldn’t.
I thought the real Austrian Flag has the Gösser Logo on the back side. But it seems to depend what sporting event you are watching. Downhill skiing has the Gösser flag, Ski jumping the Stiegl flag. Maybe that should be the next video topic.
(2:15) I know I've commented on it before, but the usage of US icons for representing Austria is still weird. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is a song written by people from USA about their travel through Maryland. It's not connected to Austria as far as I can see. I just find it weird and odd, and I think something more Austrian could be used ... it could be a clever reference that only some gets, and some might also start associating it with Austria. I just think you could be more clever :)
Specifically used "Country Roads" because it's well known everywhere, quite popular among Austrian patriots, and captures the sentiment I was going for in the scene.
question: since you showed the Monaco flag, do you include the heads of state or government department head flags as separate flags like the civil and state flags or is that something else entirely? asking because that’s a whole can of worms in the US
Same happens in Peru. People decor their houses in Fiestas Patrias or the childs decor their schoolbooks with the State flag cuz it has a Coat of Arms.
Here in Chile we have a similar system of law, the Civil and State flags are the same but the state flag has the coat of arms in the middle, here however I think is more popular that division, seeing that in protest and in the national day I only see our civil flag and the state flag is use just by the president, making it more a presidential flag than a state flag. Supposedly you can get fined if you fly the state flag but I can't remember the last time that happened
When I saw the title I was thinking it was illegal cause it was the old imperial flag and got cooped by neo-na*i’s. There was a similar issue in Germany. Glad it wasn’t that!
As someone who has an Austrian state flag in America (was a prop from Sound of Music), this was an interesting watch! Also, what's the music in the beginning?
I confused the Austrian flag with the Peruvian one the other day, which is equally as confusing because sometimes it has the thing on it and sometimes not? Idk anymore
The state flag contains the stripes twice - in the background and on the shield. That is like if I wasn't sure if it is an Austrian flag, and the eagle was showing me that it indeed is an Austrian flag.
Serbia has the same situation where our state (official) flag has a coat of arms on it and is used internationally, while the civil flag only has the red, blue and white tricolor.
Please don't yell "I am the Austrian chancellor!" at little girls. You can support me on Patreon, though.
www.patreon.com/tapakapa
amazing work as always!
Love your videos!💚
I love the new logo
why did you take 2 months to make a 5 minute video
I enjoyed that there is so much humour in this video.
When I was in Vienna a few years ago and tried to get a flag (as I do for every new country I visit) I remember I couldn’t find a single souvenir store that sold a flag without the eagle. So now evidently my basement in the US thinks it’s part of the Austrian government
Same with me
Hi
omg its khanubis!
I actually could only find a souvenir shop that sold the state version. So my dumbass was walking around with a state flag around vienna
It now is property of the austrian government! AEIOU
the austrian coat of arms has a crowned eagle as well as a hammer and sickle on it. so no matter which revolution wins (the fascists or communists) they won't have to change anything.
very forward thinking.
Compromise at its Austriest.
@@Tapakapa lol
Right, and the talons have broken chains on them, so you could either say they broke away from communism or that communism has broken it's chains.
The symbols of hammer, sickle and the mural crown embellishing the eagle's head represent peasantry, workers and bourgeoisie. The golden sickle and the golden hammer were introduced onto the eagle in 1919 during the First Austrian Republic.
The hammer and sickle are symbolic for farmers and workers and the peasantry.
A crown isn't a fascist symbol. Fascists are inherently anti-monarchist. The only reason A country like Italy kept their monarch during Mussolini's fascist reign was as a figurehead supported by the people.
I find it quite amusing that Peru has a similar flag design to Austria (basically rotated 90°) and has the exact problem (and outcome) you just described with the civil vs. state flags hehe
Look up Pozuzo - its an „Austrian Village“ in Peru…. pretty funny
A similar flag design TO Austria, you mean
@@BirdRaiserE yeah sorry English is not my native language
@@anthonygc96 it's fine, English is hard
The Confederate States of America also used the Austrian Flag with a circle of Stars in the uper left Corner.
I noticed when you buy the flag with the eagle on it, the eagle never has the exact same size as the one on official flags
Yeah, most "flagmakers" don't give a shit about design guidelines.
@Tapakapa Or they want to play it safe, making it as different as necessary to the official flag to eagle ratio ;)
So what's the legal status of parodies of the state flag? Like it if used a turkey instead of an eagle?
@@danielbishop1863 interesting question and I wanna know how it is in Austria. In my country, parodying any flag is actually considered desecration of the flag and is punishable by fines. if that applies to Austria, it would make parodying the state flag extra illegal rather than more legal lol
@@aidenbooksmith2351 As far as I know there is no such thing. There is a Law for Coat of Arms tough where every Austrian can make his own design but you are not allowed to use any Design already used by the State for the Federal Government or the States (Länder). So Paroding a State CoA for your own might be a legal offense, but you always can claim artistic freedom if you do it for Arts, Satire etc.
This gives me an idea. I will run around Washington D.C with the Austrian state flag saying "Hello i'm the Austrian chancellor".
G'day mate. I'm tha Chancellor of Austria. What's tha good word?
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 you got a loicense for that flag m8?
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Is it true that Kangaroos live in the Alps? Or do they live in another part of Austria?
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453oi m8, you can’t be running around with that flag without a loicense. pick up 5 pieces of rubbish m8.
thats like the 6th video in a row with flag on thumbnail
Sure is.
@@Tapakapa Hoping that'll be a pattern
@@KarolOfGutovo It just might ...
@@Tapakapajust keep uploading, uploader boi, and make it quick yeah? i got some blokes to shank downtown
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thank you tapakapa for setting your video to premiere 1 hour after appearing on my feed....some are days away! Good on you buddy!
Glad to hear that. ^_^
I just wish TH-cam didn't put upcoming videos in the feed of released videos, and instead allowed you to "scroll into the future" and see upcoming videos in order of when they are released, and not from the time the uploader pressed save.
Then having a week for an upcoming video would be fine, and even preferable. Because it would be like a nice timetable.
Not flag but: there was some hoopla here in Norway this year when the Labor Party used the coat-of-arms in some election campaign material. This is strictly illegal for any non-state entity so they had to remove it.
Good call. Wish it were as strictly enforced in Austria.
Lol
3:39 Nice to see that Doofenshmirtz hasn't given up on his dream of ruling over something, and if not the Tri-State Area, then the next best thing must be Austria
More on the Austrian eagle: The current coat of arms of the Republic of Austria has been in use in its first forms by the First Republic of Austria since 1919. Between 1934 and Anschluss in 1938, the Federal State used a different coat of arms, which consisted of a double-headed eagle without the hammer and sickle. The establishment of the Second Republic in 1945 saw the return of the original arms, with broken chains added to symbolize Austria's liberation. When the hammer and sickle were added in 1919, the government in charge of Austria was chancellor Karl Renner of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria, now the Social Democratic Party of Austria.
In 1981, the Wappen der Republik Österreich described the blazon in Federal Constitutional Law. With this change of law, it was defined that the specific drawing is to codificate in an own statute law and that all other versions of the coat of arms of Austria were no longer in law. In accordance to this, the Wappengesetz from 1984 and the drawing of the actual Wappen der Republik Österreich is in Austrian law.
Anyone who claims that Austria's coat of arms is not Marxist-influenced to a significant extent is either ignorant or is lying to you.
What the Austria flag stands for🇦🇹 ?
🟥-precision quality handguns
⬜️-beautiful mountains
⬛️- friendliness
🟦- exotic beaches
*BONUS*
🦅- Starting two World wars and blaming it on Germany
The bonus is blatantly wrong, but you do you.
No no no, they sorta did start WW1.@@christschess7069
@@christschess7069They’re referring to the fact that Hitler was Austrian, and Austria-Hungary was the first to declare war and start off the chain of alliances in WW2.
It’s a bit obscure, but it’s more of a joke than anything.
@@christschess7069Is it? Hitler was Austrian, WW1 started because of the Austrian declaration of war on Serbia following the assassination of Crown Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria :)
@@christschess7069That reply is blatantly wrong, but you do you
In Germany there´s a similar case in which u are dont allow to use the "Bundesdienstflagge" if u r not a government offical. For the People there´s another version with another version of the Bundesadler (Federal Eagle)
@@acevant7535 U r absolute right
Funny mustache man flag is looking good tho
It seems to me it's mostly about regulating the use of the flag for marketing. It's normal to see the civil flag on the packaging of a local product. Even if it's unlikely to be misused maliciously it makes sense for the to be rules about that. The law would be most directly relevant to graphic designers working for Austrian Brands. Don't wanna slip up and paste the wrong flag into your PS project, though it'd be easy to make the civil flag from scratch.
I like the slight change in both editing style and with your characters. The stick people a no more, the age of slightly rotund people has begun!
Tapakapa is a walking billboard for Austria
Bit more critical than the usual Austria ads, maybe ...
To be fair to Monaco, the flag they've been using was officially adopted in 1881 by Prince Charles III, although red and white have been the heraldic colors of the House of Grimaldi since at least 1339. And the dimensions are different from Indonesia's in that Monaco's flag is a square. But yes, the lozenge flag is much cooler! The House of Grimaldi was founded in 1160 by Grimaldo Canella in Genoa and became the ruling house of Monaco when Francesco Grimaldi captured Monaco in 1297. A poetic interpretation may take from the flag according to the Monegasque government is that it is a representation of the blood of Saint Devota, 4th century martyr and the Principality’s patron saint.
And the Lesotho flag is interesting! Blue represents the sky and rain, white represents peace as Lesotho has had the ideology of peace since King Moshoeshoe I, and green represents prosperity. The symbol in the middle is called a Mokorotlo which is a traditional Basotho straw hat. It has been said that the Sotho adopted this hat from the Cape Malays who wore a similar hat called the toedang. The Sotho display them in their homes to both uphold their customs and protect the home against danger and other evil influences.
I find funny that technically Argentina has a civil flag, but it's unused because of a law passed in the 80's that made the Argentine flag with sun the national one too.
People still use the civil flag anyway because it's a pain in the ass to make the sun correctly.
Finland also has a separate state flag from the civil flag, it has the lion coat of arms in the middle of the cross. There are also separate flags for the president, the minister of defence and the commanders of the land and naval forces.
I found it interesting that you’re only allowed to fly a flag on specified flag days in Finland also.
@@poiuttyrfghj8474
A common misconception. You are allowed to fly the flag any day you like, but you have to take it down for the night. And this is the big catch, as it really limits the number of civilians willing to fly the flag every day. Instead, civilians tend to use a household pennant that you can just fly for as long as you want. Yes, people would think you are weird for flying the flag every day, but it is by no means illegal. The law actually states that everyone is allowed to fly the national flag. Then there are official flag days when government offices are required to fly a flag, but for everyone else, it is a recommendation.
And of course, you can fly the flag all night at Midsummer, but only then.
Because everyone is too drunk to take the flag down.
Reminds me a bit of the US flag code. It's a set of rules that you're supposed to abide by when displaying the American flag. Things like the blue part with the stars goes on the flagpole, and you're not supposed to print the flag on clothing, and you actually are supposed to ceremonially burn a damaged flag to dispose of it. But none of these rules are actually laws; they're just guidelines and people violate them all the time! Especially the clothing one...
…how they’re raised, lowered, hang from walls, what side of the speaker they’re placed, how they’re worn on uniforms etc.
always pointed so you look as if you’re moving forward
Was about to point out that there is a very similar video but in German.
Then noticed it is another one of your channels.
Thanks for publishing in multiple languages!
Interesting to see how local culture varies when the country has these two types of flags.
In Denmark people have been known to call the police if someone leaves an unilluminated flag up at night, and if a private citizen were to fly the swallowtail flag I'm pretty sure the same thing would happen quite soon.
Huzzah! I really love your new meeples (Tapakapeeples?), the videos feel even more gloriously expressive now 😊. Echt gut gemacht, Alter! I love the German channel too, forgive me for not commenting on the mother-tongue version of this as well but while I can understand Wienerisch well enough, writing it is well beyond my C1 German skills 😅
As an Australian I can confirm *I’ve never seen this flag in my life* (no I didn’t misspell it)
Well you've probably seen TheJuiceMedia's spoof of the Australian coat of arms.
Same with me
Fricken hell Tapa, this was so funny. I always love your work but this was a cut above in the amusement stakes. Bravo sir Bravo 👏🏼👏🏼😁
Glad you enjoyed it! ^_^
As always, great video. You style is so unique
Tapakapa is evolving
This isn't even my final form.
Australia used a defaced British red ensign as its civil flag until 1953. The blue ensign was the state flag.
Technically, that is still the case. We can wave handheld blue flags around when we're feeling patriotic, but erecting a flagpole outside a building and flying the blue flag is a representation that it is a government-owned building. If we want to fly a flag outside our homes, we're supposed to use the red flag. But, most younger Australians would have never seen a red Australian flag.
We have a similar problem in poland where people on national holidays hang out flags with coat of arms on it which is reserved for government and sea ships beacouse they don't have a clue that it's wrong
I would love to see a video explicitly about the Austrian identity
- We are not German, don't call me German or I will get indignant.
- We invented coffee and classical music. Also psychotherapy, probably not by coincidence, but I wouldn't know.
- Everything's fine. There are no problems, only compromises, also I don't like change. Just work around it, it'll be fine.
- Don't ask me about my family's history between 1938 to 1945.
@@aForkfulOfGold the Austrian relationship with Germany feels kind of like the Canadian relationship with the US, although I suspect there's more to the Austrian identity than "not German"
@@joshuahillerup4290
There is of course, yes! But still that is a big part of it, due to historical reasons between the German unification by Prussia in 1870 (instead of a loose confederation under Austrian stewardship, which the Habsburgs seemed to have in mind) and the ramifications of WW2.
It is no longer than 150 years ago that essentially anyone in Austria would have said "Yes, I am a German".
"A German", not "German". It was different then.
@@aForkfulOfGold are there other cultural things across Austria, that aren't defined in terms of another country?
@@joshuahillerup4290 I don't feel like I know how to answer that, it's too broad a question. I can say that despite quips or slight exaggeration for comedic effect in my first reply to you there is some truth to everything I wrote in how many Austrians see themselves/their country.
I have the Austrian flag hanging in my home because the movie The Sound of Music's use of the flag was inspiring to me (anti-Nazi)
That's a nice perspective on it! ^_^
Australia has a red ensign version of our national flag which is our civil ensign. Up until the 1950s the blue ensign version was only allowed to be used by government entities, civilians were required to use the red ensign. But since then the rules were relaxed and the civil red ensign is now mainly only used on Australian registered civilian ships. (The red ensign was recently also used by some protesters doing that thing where they use an older version of the national flag to support a return to a previous political order during the protests against our covid lockdowns.)
Interesting thing - in Poland we have two state flags (one with Coa and one without), with rules which state entities may use each, but civilians may use both.
Interesting!
Finally someone else acknowleges the fact that the design of the coat of arms of Monaco would make an awesome flag.
in tel aviv university, the main entrance has a row of flags from many different countries. the flag for austria is the state flag.
The symbols of hammer, sickle and the mural crown embellishing the eagle's head represent peasantry, workers and bourgeoisie. The golden sickle and the golden hammer were introduced onto the eagle in 1919 during the First Austrian Republic.
The hammer and sickle are symbolic for farmers and workers and the peasantry.
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Aw man i wish the austria flag had the emblem with the bird
Funnily enough my PFP deliberately doesn't use the UK's State/Civil flag but the older version (designed for James VI when he wanted to bring his realms together) without the cross of St. Patrick, which was added following the Act of Union with Ireland in 1801, I'm part Irish in case you're wondering.
I wonder how other flags are viewed in Austrian Law, only because I saw footage of a protest in Vienna and of the flags I could Identify there were; the Austrian Empire Flag, the Austro-Hungarian Flag, the German Empire Flag, the Holy Roman Empire Flag and the Flag of the Eurasian Economic Union, I also saw the European Union flag but that was being ceremonially taken down so I don't think it counts.
1:18 This "hihihihihihi" has taken over my vocabulary at this point lol
A distinction like this used to be made in some British colonies, the union jack in the corner on either a red background or a blue background depending on the purpose, but this went away.
Australia used to have a state-civil distinction as well; the state flag had the blue background we all know today, but the civil flag had a red background
I was in this german rollercoaster park called “Europapark” and there in the Austria section a boat actually had that flag.
I'm loving the use of voice acting 😂
3:40 “Hello I am the Austrian Chancellor!” Me (whispering): That failed art school 😏
Finland also has a different state flag to the civil flag. There is also a separate presidential flag.
I think i like the previous art style in your videos more, but i guess its your choice which you want to use :p
whats weird tho is that the last time I was in austria, I bought a copy of the state flag and still have it
And Germany just has 2 versions where the eagle in the centre has 5 or 6 stripes on each wing, 5 being for everyone (afaik), 6 for official buildings etc
It's the difference between the "Federal Coat of Arms" and the "Federal Shield". Having the coat of arms on a German flag is condoned, as it's basically a different flag on it's own, however not an official one.
This is the 4th video in a row with a flag and nothing else for the thumbnail
when i went to Salzburg, the State Flag was the only flag i could buy, i couldn’t find the Civil Flag
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Hi, Tapakapa. I love this video! Could you make a vexillological video explaining the terms "civil flag & civil ensign", "state flag & state ensign", and "war flag & naval ensign"?
Throw in naval jack while you're at it
Would be too dry for most people on its own, but maybe with the right base example it might work.
It might also have been done before. There are a lot of channels that talk about flags.
1:10 Salzburg too!
In the German case, the Federal Service Flag show the "Bundesschild", a special version of the federal coat of arms reserved for this special use-case. If you put the regular federal coat of arms on a flag, it becomes the "Bundeswappenflagge" (federal coat of arms flag) which may be freely used by everyone.
What about the official Swiss flag, which is square vs the rectangular ones you sometimes see? I think Qatar also uses non standard dimensions.
Huh, now your characters have bodies :o
wEiRd I kNoW
I read the title as Australia, was so confused why an Austrian flag was banned in Australia
I'm so happy to be here to see it, love your videos enjoy your day
So glad to hear it! ^_^
In Germany we have the state and civil flag like you showed, but theres an alternative unofficial flag that looks just like the state flag, but uses a different Coat of Arms on it. The Oficial state flag has a Coat of Arms with a round base and the eagle has more spread out wing feathers. The unoffical flag uses the oficial German Coat of Arms that has a pointy base and the wing feathers are straight down among other smaller things.
The official coat of arms is called "Bundeswappen", the coat of arms shown on the state flag is called "Bundesschild".
Actually the law defines the size ratio with 2:3 and the colours of the Eagle which both are slightly different for the Flags sold. When you fly These Flags would be interesting how a cort would rule.
I love all the new characters in this video!
Yay! ^_^
Even as a finn, I didn't know the differene between our own national and state flags! Now I do, woo!
My new dream is to go out in public with the Austrian state flag and tell some child "HELLO, I AM THE AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR."
I don’t understand how nobody talked about the new art style of this video so far. It looks pretty nice but i kind of like the old one a bit more, but i also understand why you would change it.
Do one on the Scottish Lion Rampant (Royal Banner).
I’m sure there’s similar ideas around it’s use being restricted but allowed to be carried by individuals at certain times. But it’s seen everywhere
One of the pubs in my town (England) brought a flag pack for the Euros that I noticed had the eagle on it. I thought it was obsolete and me and my friends were memeing about the pub recognising Austria-Hungary.
Turns out they’ve been breaking the law this whole time.
This guy needs to be more popular
That there's a law with an associated fine that everyone breaks but nobody ever gets punished for is probably deeply unsettling to Germans
I'm from Brazil. The world map in my school classroom has the Austrian state flag instead of the normal civil flag. No idea why.
4:50 I'm guessing that the 2 hungarian flags are like that. One with, and one withouth the coat of arms.
My Twitter profile banner is the state flag of Finland. Finland isn't as strict, though. I think that only having a non digital flag is a crime. And not really enforced.
I think Finland is culturally much more strict when it comes to flags. I have never seen a physical state flag where it shouldn't be. And you can get a fine for flying the state flag in Finland too, the law doesn't even differentiate if the use of the flag can mislead anyone into thinking something is a government office, or if you are just waving it casually.
Scotland has a similar situation. The blue flag with the white X is the civil flag, and the yellow flag with the red lion is the royal flag. Scottish football fans like to wave the red lion flag even though strictly speaking they shouldn’t.
In Overwatch you can put a flag as like a profile picture and they use the one with the eagle for whatever reason
The Real Austrian Flag has a Stiegl Logo at the center!
... and the Real Austrian National Anthem is the Radetzkymarsch. ^_^
I thought the real Austrian Flag has the Gösser Logo on the back side.
But it seems to depend what sporting event you are watching. Downhill skiing has the Gösser flag, Ski jumping the Stiegl flag. Maybe that should be the next video topic.
@@Tapakapa Why do I now have a picture of marching corn cobs in my head?
Might I ask what’s the use of having a beach towel for a landlocked country?
We've got quite a few lakes. Also: Swimming pools. ^_^
Very well! I stand corrected 😆
(2:15) I know I've commented on it before, but the usage of US icons for representing Austria is still weird. "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is a song written by people from USA about their travel through Maryland. It's not connected to Austria as far as I can see.
I just find it weird and odd, and I think something more Austrian could be used ... it could be a clever reference that only some gets, and some might also start associating it with Austria. I just think you could be more clever :)
Specifically used "Country Roads" because it's well known everywhere, quite popular among Austrian patriots, and captures the sentiment I was going for in the scene.
Why does the eagle on this flag bear the hammer and sickle?
What are those books on the table?
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@@Tapakapa Well yeah but I can’t make the letters out
question: since you showed the Monaco flag, do you include the heads of state or government department head flags as separate flags like the civil and state flags or is that something else entirely?
asking because that’s a whole can of worms in the US
Same happens in Peru. People decor their houses in Fiestas Patrias or the childs decor their schoolbooks with the State flag cuz it has a Coat of Arms.
My science teacher had this flag in his classroom. No clue why…
Well I guess the science teacher having one is better than the art teacher...
I love the new shirt character designs! keep up the great work :D
Here in Chile we have a similar system of law, the Civil and State flags are the same but the state flag has the coat of arms in the middle, here however I think is more popular that division, seeing that in protest and in the national day I only see our civil flag and the state flag is use just by the president, making it more a presidential flag than a state flag. Supposedly you can get fined if you fly the state flag but I can't remember the last time that happened
Where on this chart did the Federal Service Flag touch you?
The real question is can you just get a custom print with a different eagle on ut
Doesn't Spain have a seperate civil flag that's quite unkown?
4:25 - I just noticed what that good birdie is holding.... Oh dear. Austrians, you ARE an enigma.
When I saw the title I was thinking it was illegal cause it was the old imperial flag and got cooped by neo-na*i’s. There was a similar issue in Germany. Glad it wasn’t that!
As someone who has an Austrian state flag in America (was a prop from Sound of Music), this was an interesting watch! Also, what's the music in the beginning?
I confused the Austrian flag with the Peruvian one the other day, which is equally as confusing because sometimes it has the thing on it and sometimes not? Idk anymore
I managed to buy one this summer in Salzburg. Its hanging on my wall now. It was €20.
i'd use it since it looks better, having an awesome eagle instead of some boring lines
What exactly IS legal in Austria, other than denouncing their ancestors?
The state flag contains the stripes twice - in the background and on the shield. That is like if I wasn't sure if it is an Austrian flag, and the eagle was showing me that it indeed is an Austrian flag.
I have always had a love for the design of the austrian eagle.
We have a state flag here in Finland as well.
Is it also illegal to bear it at home? As I have this exact flag hanging on my wall.
I think he explains that in the video.
Lebanon looking at this and saying "hey, there's supposed to be no confusion but from a far enough distance, there's definitely some confusion" 🇱🇧🇦🇹
Serbia has the same situation where our state (official) flag has a coat of arms on it and is used internationally, while the civil flag only has the red, blue and white tricolor.
I'm an Austrian (like most in here, I guess-Google loves to make somewhat localized suggestions) and had absolutely zero clue about all this. 😔
well, I made my comment before finishing the video where he reveals that no one knows
Serbia also has a different civil and state flag