no, wait, that’s incorrect. the brazillian flag makes me rationally angry.
but first let me explain that I have nothing against Brazil or Brazilians. They’re cool people in my experience, and I’m sure it’s a great country. but that flag has personally victimized me.
Look at this flag. What country has a flag this complicated? VERY FEW, LET ME TELL YOU THAT
and as someone who had to recreate this flag for their VGAPride program, because of the Brazil Gay Flag… ARGH this flag is so complicated.
It’s not the case anymore because I reorganized how the program worked, but at one point it had EVERY SINGLE OTHER FLAG in one file, and BRAZIL in another file, because if I put Brazil in with any other flags it would crash the program. I had to modify the max limit on how many graphical commands a given flag could take, because the Gay Flag of Brazil was MORE COMPLICATED THAN AT LEAST HALF THE OTHER FLAGS PUT TOGETHER. I had to add the a new command for drawing different sized stars as otherwise this flag would be way too complicated to implement.
and the worst part? Scroll back up and compare those two flags. I didn’t even do that good a job of implementing the flag! Some of it is because I’m limited to 640x480, but some of it is just that this flag was so complicated that it was hurting me too much to create.
And that’s after I wrote a secondary application to let me design flags outside my program, because manually designing this thing like I did EVERY SINGLE OTHER PRIDE FLAG I EVER IMPLEMENTED would have been too hard, especially with the text (which is again, isn’t done that well. especially that “E”, which is way too straight, especially for a gay pride flag).
Like, I’m sorry Brazil. You’re cool, but your flag gives me PTSD flashbacks.
weird discovery: it’s not exactly my fault that the flag is so wrong? Like, here’s my version of the gay brazil flag overlaid with the SVG from wikipedia. It lines up pretty well, except for the smallest stars.
But then we overlay the gay brazil flag over the actual brazil flag, and…
none of these stars line up!
which is bullshit. the layout of the stars is defined by law. there’s literally an official government diagram on how you align the stars:
so whatta fuck.
please tell me I don’t need to go modify the SVG on wikipedia, because some other fool made it wrong?
okay so.
The SVG on wikipedia was uploaded by user Eddo (since renamed Giggette, apparently?) in 2010. It got updated in 2011 by Fry1989, but that was just a fix to adjust some of the colors.
Now, Eddo listed it as being their own creation, but then also said they got it from a site called National Gay Flags of the World.
That site is long gone, but I found a partial archive from 2012. Annoyingly the internet archive didn’t manage to save the Gay Flag of Brazil flag from that page, so I can’t check how it aligned the stars.
But here’s the weird part: They say that some flags have a logo before them, which means they were designed by Greg Gomes, the creator of the site. And if it does, this is a copyrighted flag by them, and you need to get permission to reuse them, and you need to give credit.
And guess what? The Brazil Gay Flag is one of those!
So now we’ve got two problems:
This flag seems to be copyright infringement of a Greg Gomes design, which has been incorrected marked as public domain (ie, no restrictions) for 14 years!
So not only is the flag wrong (due to a mistake by either Greg Gomes or Wikipedia user Giggette), it’s copyright infringement!
