saw the original video a few times and just now realised how ironic that his flag project was doomed by the croaking of frogs. Thta's the power of the almighty KEK

@Thalanox

2 жыл бұрын

There have been a frankly bizarre number of weird coincidences over the past 8 to 10 years involving frogs.

@jrbarbosa8342

2 жыл бұрын

@@Thalanox liink me up with some articles please"!!!!!!

@borntoclimb7116

Жыл бұрын

True

@richardmarin2538

8 ай бұрын

I wouldn't call them almighty when most of them got into it because they couldn't get any maidens, and after all this time most of them still can't.

bro, the whole HWNDU saga is fuckin legendary.

@EverianKalim

2 жыл бұрын

When the Liverpool one happened i was tempted to go as its only 30 minutes away from me

@Dustyholes

2 жыл бұрын

single handedly the greatest thing Shia has given to us

@HugoStiglitz88

Жыл бұрын

Dude I literally wanted to drive to New York while the original streams were happening but I didn't have a car at the time lol I did watch a lot of the original streams. I was watching like while Britney was there, Jimmy the Greeks appearance and a bunch of other memorable moments Oh and I tuned in while that speaker was playing SHADILAY. I didn't know what shadilay was at the time but when I found out I was dying 🤣

The fact that the Punished Jesus Snake is a professional WWE wrestler will never be not funny to me.

@ravendarklawgaming197

2 жыл бұрын

Which one? I'm out of the loop on wrestling.

@MrHitmancheg

2 жыл бұрын

@@ravendarklawgaming197 Mansoor.

@willl676

2 жыл бұрын

lmfao, I had no idea until you told me, that's great

@ravendarklawgaming197

2 жыл бұрын

@@willl676 Wikipedia: In 2017, American actor Shia LaBeouf, Finnish artist Nastja Säde Rönkkö, and British Artist Luke Turner launched a political livestreaming installation, He Will Not Divide Us, which Al-Shehail and a group of friends participated in. During his time on stream, he became known as Jesus (or Jihadi Jesus) by fans, and most notably donned an eyepatch and sang "Snake Eater", the opening theme to the 2004 video game Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater,[29] and re-enacted the opening scene to the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.[30] LMFAO

@willl676

2 жыл бұрын

@@ravendarklawgaming197 lmao, that's hysterical

You mentioned putting this kind of thing to positive use. Police forces have. They’ve made games out of helping solve cold case files. You are given all the information in the case that the police have and then let loose to use your time and resources to try and solve the case. They “ play tested it” with already solved cases And when the internet came to the same conclusions it worked as a proof of concept. they started slowly involving currently unsolved cold cases.

@verdanteridium

2 жыл бұрын

Humanity itself is our greatest computer

@emanymton713

2 жыл бұрын

@Inland Empire sure, a constantly moving target is going to of course take time to pinpoint. No one is saying otherwise. But you are inferring that people can’t be found. Even moving targets leave clues. Time is the biggest factor. Solving a seventy year old murder where anyone that would have benefited from the closure is already dead, on paper, doesn’t sound like a win. But, the crime was solved. That is absolutely a win.

@emanymton713

2 жыл бұрын

@Inland Empire it doesn’t matter that “ nothing was at stake here” it is a proof of concept that can and has had real world implications.

@sleepnchilln5294

2 жыл бұрын

They even did that with some terrorist hideout in middle east, 4 chan needed around 2 days to pinpoint the location

@HamsterPants522

Жыл бұрын

I think this event in itself was positive. It was people making a game out of something that would otherwise be incredibly boring and almost meaningless.

The most ironic thing is he wanted people to be united and to send a political message, ended up alone and divided with no message to spread. Tried and failed but everyone had fun at his expense.

@nathanwilkins6107

2 жыл бұрын

What’s also funny is that 4chan was bringing him way more attention than he would have otherwise gotten. If he’d kept playing the game, he would have spread his “message” to more people.

@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair Shia wasn't wrong: Trump didn't divide the US, the Communists did

@gabrielclark1425

2 жыл бұрын

Let's be honest here, they divided themselves from everyone else.

@sik3xploit

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlueTeam-John-Fred-Linda-Kelly Also keep in mind people saying "He will not divide us" were not referring to people who would defend the nation, but rather people looking to undermine it.

@skilletpan5674

2 жыл бұрын

Shia joined the Hollywood left cult. That's what happened.

man the flag wars were fucking amazing to watch in real time.

The greatest game of capture the flag ever played. S3 is still one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

@KillerofGods

Жыл бұрын

What happened to S2? What was in it?

@kiarawolfe4723

Жыл бұрын

​@@KillerofGodsknow it's been 2 months, but believe was Mexico or New Mexico and someone pulled a gun so no video allowed

@KillerofGods

Жыл бұрын

@@kiarawolfe4723 Thank you, I appreciate the info. Always wondered why it got removed

The power of the internet is sometimes very scary. But also very funny

This was the greatest example of the Streisand effect in human history. The message was simple, the man with a moral superiority complex the size of Mt everest was hopelessly out thought at every level at every time placing on full display just how simplistic his understanding of the world was on a scale so grand it could only be viewed as comedic. Every ounce if defiance only increased the joy of trolls causing a positive feedback loop of joyful insanity. Shi in his attempt of believing he proved a positive on a scale of delusional had an army of trolls proving a negative at all costs. A meme war for the ages.

@HamsterPants522

Жыл бұрын

Joyful insanity. That sounds like a wonderful source of catharsis. Something the world doesn't have enough of these days.

I like how he has the expression "This can't be real but I am watching it" from 3:45 onward

I swear you could make developing a warp drive a game and gamers/random bored internet users would figure that shit out in no time.

@gabrielclark1425

2 жыл бұрын

Oh no, we already have that shit figured out. It's just that we also know that it'd be so expensive that the only people who'd be able to afford building one would be total assholes who would probably abuse the fuck out of it.

So this is what I remember about the end of this whole thing. It ended up on top of a building in France, and the weather over time really tore it up. It basically became string. The stream ended Jan 21st of this year (for the political art reasons I'm sure you can figure out)

@martind5653

2 жыл бұрын

Oh so that's what happened to the flag. I though I saw it tattered on the wall last year, but maybe it's my memory betraying me, it was actually on the poll again and wind tore it apart. Even nature was with us on this one.

@LordTyph

2 жыл бұрын

Probably because it was perfectly representative of the current administration: Barely there and utterly ruined.

I love how people just made this into a whole ass military operation

@Xaito

2 жыл бұрын

What is the "ass military" and how does one join it?

I usually detest trolling for the sake of trolling, but I still respect the natural cryptography that went into tracking the flag down.

@halflucan

2 жыл бұрын

Trolling is a gift to humanity

@Mr.Agateophile.

2 жыл бұрын

It keeps the attention whores off the streets.

@Xaito

2 жыл бұрын

At some early point in internet history trolling was unnecessary and annoying. After normies invaded our internet with their facebooks and twitters and acted like they're the new sheriff in town, trolling is a form of protest like civil disobedience.

@Mr.Agateophile.

2 жыл бұрын

@@Xaito lol

@Cookiedible

2 жыл бұрын

@@mmmoendo but they did

No strummer, you don't have to use your brain if you just LOOK AT THE VIDEO INSTEAD OF CHAT NON STOP. JUST PAUSE THE VIDEO. Also, NEVER underestimate 4chan lol

@jcon2060

2 жыл бұрын

If you're stealing content, at least do it right ffs. For whatever nonsense asmon says, he has never stooped this low.

@alexandertiti

2 жыл бұрын

@@jcon2060 i don't consider "reacting" stealing content but he shouldn't assume that if he looks away for 5 seconds, he can just understand what's going on from audio alone. he was literally missing visual explanations on screen because he was looking away at chat over and over. just PAUSE dude. just pause. it's that simple. what else can you expect from a newbie jumping in, in the reacting scene for the first time, right? lol

@NeiasaurusCreations

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexandertiti It is literally stealing content though. And in most cases nothing is really added to the video. There's some rare channels out there that add new stuff, or give a new perspective that falls under fair use imo, but most are just content thieves. And that's fine, as long as they don't pretend otherwise, or that they're providing some great service. Twitch reactors are just youtube content thieves in general, and then have the nerve to open their mouths about it. It's one of many reasons I've come to greatly hate twitch. Because they steal our shit, and then act like they're some holy artist giving us their blessing by sending sh*tty brainless twitch simps to us. As if we actually want that type of people. Again I have no issues with someone being a content thief, as long as they're honest about it, and don't have that attitude people like pokimane have. You can be a content thief, just don't sniff your own farts while stealing other people's shit. Also the irony of pokimane stealing people's content, and then issuing false dmcas is so funny it hurts.

I never knew this existed but damn if i'm not glad somebody went to all that trouble to meme on a hollywood celebrity.

@NeiasaurusCreations

2 жыл бұрын

Isn't that the internet's favorite passtime? I thought we all agreed when we started using internet, that hollywood sucks, and celebrities are clowns for our amusement?

Jan 2017-HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US! Jan 2020-STAY 6FT APART! YOU MUST SAY DIVIDED!! I love it. Like poetry.

@MrProg-ey3tl

7 ай бұрын

And it wasn't even Trump that did it lol

If people spent 1/4 of the effort it took to track down a fucking flag on finding missing persons, locating sex traffic rings, or solving murders, that would be wild.

@Mugthraka

2 жыл бұрын

4chan found and had an ISIS training camp bombed by russian army, cause one dude was so bored he was looking at satelites photos of the back arse end of the Middle Eastern boonies. THEY have found people that where abducted by sex trafciking rings and had the FBi involved iirc.

@Siegram999

2 жыл бұрын

They do they just aren't committed or obligated to it

@vianneyb.8776

2 жыл бұрын

One anonymous user had a breakthrough in mathematics (superpermutations) by trying to find the shortest chain to watch all episodes of an anime (Steins;Gate or Haruhi Suzumiya, I think) in every possible order.

@No_Anime_No_Life.

2 жыл бұрын

@@vianneyb.8776 so what the answer from him? i want know too

@vianneyb.8776

2 жыл бұрын

@@No_Anime_No_Life. I thought I answered your comment, but now I can't see it anymore... The formula is complicated and unfortunately, I am not a math expert, but you can find the PDF for the paper on the wiki page for superpermutations and Haruhi Suzumiya. The more elements you have, the longer the chain, so for an entire anime, you end up with a really long chain.

There sadly is one part of this saga that is no longer up on YT iirc

@WeiderMystic

2 жыл бұрын

i thought there was one missing. there is a gap between the original streams and the flag.

@Mattidute

2 жыл бұрын

Part 2 was taken down due to the guy with the gun from what i remember and part 5 was taken down as the ending of it was just hard to watch (Shia breaking down, crying and apologizing to his mom and stuff).

If this amount of work went towards curing cancer, Alan Rickman would still be alive.

It sucks that Season 5 doesn't have a video. He was in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, and people could go into a different cabin inside some museum and have a livestream chat with him and his friend. /pol/ found the exact cabin they were in in less than three days based on things like the woodgrain pattern they could see in the video.

@Ayy_Doll_Fiddler

Жыл бұрын

I think /pol/ didn't have direct involvement with that one. It was more of Illilauta's (Finland's 4chan) thing.

Man those were the days... Now the memes are reality

@lightests

2 жыл бұрын

Can't say I like this ... We have to go back!

The degeneracy is on another level. It's hilarious.

Ive been waiting for this react since you watched the first Internet Historian. This is the best one imo. So funny.

They didn't have scissors, but who tf doesn't carry a knife on them at all times?

@michaelmorrison5280

2 жыл бұрын

It happened in the UK. Carrying knives outside of your kitchen is illegal over there.

@Jack29245

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelmorrison5280 I know this is an old comment but I'd like to say that this isn't true. You can legally carry a knife in the UK as long as it's none locking and not longer than 3 inches in length and you don't need a reason to have it on you.

15:01 Nah bro, you misunderstand entirely. /pol/ was repeatedly capturing Shia's flag - because it was funny. That's was literally it. It was funny. It was a game. Rich White liberal wanted to put on a big avante garde politically motivated art thing, people decided to fuck with him because 1) they could (funny), and 2) no one likes a smug prick. So the game was on, then when it became increasingly challenging - that just upped the ante.

I always love seeing the reaction people have to the flag triangulation, it is always so funny :3

There was actually an independent documentary of the first season of HWNDU where a lot of the people who went there to meme were interviewed and gave their version of events. It was a very interesting watch, seeing them talk about it and giving their personal opinion on things. The man singing Snake Eater ended up signed to WWE and won a battle royal wrestling match if I remember correctly. Truly a wild ride.

Iv seen this like 80 times. makes me smile everytime

Do Fyre Festival next please Xeno!

@angryoaf

2 жыл бұрын

Lmao yes!

I think that the ppl aren't bored but see finding the flag as a challenge

never underestimate people that have fun just fucking with stuff

This is possible one of the greatest troll if not the greatest trolling to ever happen

"be nice out here , youre surrounded" Thats the left in a nutshell. Especially when you bring up that weird and spicy historical event

I have never heard about this and came here just randomly. This has got to be the funniest shit I have seen in months, I truly laughed my ass off. My faith in the youth of this country has been restored...well played guys, well played.

you should watch some videos by disrupt. they can be confusing at times, but they are really well edited. love the reaction!

I was watching this as it was happening and it was pretty funny. It was extremely popular at the time with a lot of people keeping track just to laugh at it. It’s crazy the length the internet went to just prove that no matter what he did the internet could get to his flag and/or fuck with him. He wanted to bring people together and in reality he did achieve his goal. He brought the internet together to mess with him and his flag. Hahahahahaha. It is amazing what our species can do when we come together to do something over letting our egos get in the way, or an ideology or the media scaring the shit out of people and pushing an us vs them. When we put all the bullshit aside our species has shown time and time and time again that it can do great, amazing, and wonderful things.

Never underestimate the power of bored smart people with free time.

that twitch user that said "keep watching baldo" 6:32 i felt that

I wish all the parts were still up

He got devided over and over again. 😅

All of this just to fuck with Shia LaBeouf. I fucking love it.

sadly season 5 is gone that was also a great one they went to over 3000 cabins to compare the woodpatern to find the flag

best game of capture the flag.

shout out to the 2 viewers in chat who were adamantly against the videos and talking shit about people, but still tuned in to watch.

Dude you should find the video where 4chan found a terrorist camp and had it bombed. It's fucking crazy

I f-in love this story...

HWNDU and Drawball War are probably coolest things ever happened in the internet.

@passingrando6457

2 жыл бұрын

I'm partial to Dub the Dew and Jenkem myself. In the first case, a mountain dew flavor had some great names put forward in an online poll, in the second, 4chan fabricated an entire fake drug and got a Fox News anchor to say the phrase "Shit butt gas" on national television. Oh, there was also the time they got Oprah Winfrey to quote Dragonball Z while talking about pedophiles.

He did set up a camera with HWNDU after it... It was in Poland and no one gave a shit about it so he took it down a month later. That was the real end of this whole thing.

watching this while sitting in Queue

every time i watch this video i can't believe this really happened haha

19:40 It's literal capture the flag lol

How hard do you have to work to keep your head buried this far underground?

God I need to go outside after this

Nice to see a man with taste. Mgs 4 is a masterpiece!

so sad i never got to watch the lost episode

Sometimes I wish I never stopped visiting 4chan.

20:23 NOT COOL. I spat out my hot cocoa.

Love the metal gear solid themes 😂😂😂

never underestimate weaponized autism

He should watch serious business too lol.

I was there for the whole finding of the flag didnt sleep for almost 30 hours cause i was helping find it😂 miss those times when i had nothing to do

It's funny how much drama and hilarious fun Shia caused, honestly, is kindoff its own cultural thing, if it's kinda like art really hate it or love it

Just 4chan being based as usual

i love the seething babs in his chat

So what happened at the end?

4chan launched a missile strike on a syrian rebel camp.

It's called trolling for the love of the game

Shia is insane xD what happened to this dude lost his mind

@rOvertJustice

2 жыл бұрын

TDS can be terminal for some patients.

16:35 What? It's like you're surprised at the level of vitriol that's regularly directed at people. This is the normal background level of hostility people live their lives dealing with.

Someone should show Xeno the thread about the terrorist camp Anon got Russia to bomb.

Jesus Christ how slow is this man?

To be fair Shia was correct: Trump didn't divide us, the communists did.

@chiliflis8660

2 жыл бұрын

Those woke bastards are dividing us.

Moral of the Story, Don't fuck with 4chan. Especially /pol/

if only the internet would use there powers for not memes we would be in a better world.

I wonder if you'll watch the iPhone video? It's short but hilarious as well.

it is a lot easier to understand if you focus on the video instead of the chat though.

Xeno talks like FF14 is hard but has a hard time understanding a internet historian video?

@GunNlazor

2 жыл бұрын

Because he's barely watching the video

9:51 you might be right but please don't provoke them

...4 chan will. Whatever it is they want to do.... 4chan will. Kek.

LMAO

@Sassy_Witch

2 жыл бұрын

oh hey :D

@preshrunk_cyberpunk5479

2 жыл бұрын

@@Sassy_Witch you!

brittney venti is great

Wait, is this where ree came from?

@passingrando6457

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, Reee was around for years before this.

The main issue was shei what ever its name is was saying Trump wont divide us when obama already did that

@Jimbow-sz9kh

2 күн бұрын

Big ups for this comment right here. Took us back well into the 60s in terms of racial division

Needs more ads imo

The best part is that the people messing with him couldn't care less about MAGA, they just wanted to mess with Shia . . . no reason, just because they could.

All it shows is that people have way too much time on their hands and have nothing better to do. First world problem.

@Cookiedible

2 жыл бұрын

the time people spend on social networks or playing video games would then tend to show it even more

"yeah Nazi trolls are not exactly funny" *biden 2024 sõyjak* That's expected out of twitch chat tho. Guy is probably a reddit sub mod too lol

Wow those are some exceptionally bored people

@Sevaria

2 жыл бұрын

Not really, they did it for fun; no different than you would a sport or a video game, just at the end of it you get to see Shia seethe on Twitter rather than share GGs with the other team.

@Zakjuh

2 жыл бұрын

As opposed to you, watching a video of a guy reacting to a story about apparently exceptionally bored people.

if you are reading the chat at least pause the video, ... dislike

Whose more pathetic, the guy whatever his state of mind is trying to send his own political message, or people trying this damn hard to meme on him. This is the epitome of an example of people needing to mind their own business. If the answer isn't obvious, you're the problem. I love memes and all, but at some point it just becomes pathetic.

Everyone on 4chan should be put in a room and the player should Sims that door into the void. Shia should probably chill for a while. Take some 'me time'.

Shia is goated!! Holy shiit, he have stired up some good ass content!! Also how he tells the story on how he got arrested on Jimmy Kimmel is absolutly amazing! 🤣🤣🤣 Fuck the haters!! Shia 4 life! 🥳

@zym6687

2 жыл бұрын

🤡

@SocramOlrak

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dotoku14 *Simping for millionaire socialist that hate the same working class their ideology was created to "support"

@chiliflis8660

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dotoku14 COMMIES

@Cookiedible

2 жыл бұрын

@@SocramOlrak "socialist"