Capture the Flag | He Will Not Divide Us

Internet Historian · 11.5M views · 2017-03-16 · 5:01

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Overview

Internet Historian's comedic retelling of how internet users located and captured the flag from Shia LaBeouf's He Will Not Divide Us installation, framed with Metal Gear Solid parodies. It covers the trolling campaign and the geolocation of the flag.

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HN refers to it as a humorous account of how online communities pinpointed the flag's location, used as an example of crowd-sourced geolocation.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2019–2022

Topics

Internet culture & memes Satire & parody

What people said

sigwinch28 · 2020-03 · Recommendation
Yes, The Internet Historian on YouTube has made a series of videos about this: "HWNDU" (He Will Not Divide Us). It started with a flag outside in a public place [0], followed by being moved to a flagpole in the middle of nowhere (the one you're thinking of) [1]. The flag was then moved into a museum in Liverpool [2], and finally it was moved indoors with a camera pointing at a plain white painted wall [3]. Beware: lots of memes and occasionally offensive language. [0]: [LINK] [1]: [VIDEO] [2]: [LINK] [3]: [LINK]
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_dain_ · 2022-12 · Reference
This trick happened for real with the HWNDU stunt back in 2017. 4channers found the flag based on the stars in the livestream, along with matching aircraft contrails to flight radar maps. [VIDEO]
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verdverm · 2022-07 · Reference
Reddit geolocated a flag based off a camera feed. They used the sun and contrails to locate it iirc [VIDEO] I think describes this event
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