10 Flag Memes To Fly Proudly On Your Feed

We’re used to seeing flags as these gallant (perhaps star-spangled) banners waving in the wind. Carried at the front of an advancing army, hoisted to the top of a tall ship’s mast, saluted at a baseball game. But flags are just rectangles with colors or animals on them at the end of the day (well, most of them are rectangles. A few are triangles or squares, but that’s kind of in the weeds now, isn’t it?). There’s something funny about so much meaning adhering to a symbol that in some sense is quite arbitrary, and the flag nerds at Reddit's /r/vexillologycirclejerk understand this. The subreddit began as a way to post memes and make fun of other posters who are really into flags, but it’s evolved into something much bigger than that. Here are ten examples of quality flag humor.

Linguistic Nationalism

Fifty Nifty States

Ireland + Stegosaurus

There's a whole series of Irish stegosaurus flag memes made by this poster and others, including some where the stegosaurus disappears, is drawn anime style, etc. It's a continuing bit.

No Flag… But Flag?

Anything that is a rectangle can be a flag, but (again) not all flags are rectangles.

Live Flag Found In Wild

It's rare to find a 3-D flag, but you can stumble across them sometimes

A Good Edit

Simply A Cursed Image

How The Dragon Looks

You gotta see how to Whales look after this.

Slurp Juice

US Flag With Three States

These are the three states to rule them all.