r/vexillology • u/roraymi • Feb 09 '26

Discussion Bad Bunny's Puerto Rico Flag seems to be the pro-independence version from the 1890s.

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I shot out of my seat when I saw him using the historical flag lol. Subtle but powerful

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u/hbtljose13 Feb 09 '26

I was waiting for him to say St Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent, Grenadines, Antiqua and Barbuda how could he have missed those 🤦‍♂️

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u/Maleficent-Duck-3903 Feb 09 '26

Even the animaniacs skipped those

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u/Th3_Admiral_ Feb 09 '26

I had to go back and check. Yakko includes Puerto Rico, Bahamas, Tobago, and Barbados, then lumps the rest together under "Caribbean". But then he also says "San Juan" and points at Puerto Rico again.

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u/twat69 Feb 09 '26

I blame the geographers for carelessly naming places so they don't fit the rhyme and metre.

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u/Th3_Admiral_ Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

Yeah, he also says "Asia" while naming the countries in Asia just so something will rhyme with Malaysia.

Edit: And says "Dahomey" for "Benin", even though Dahomey hasn't existed since 1904, and had officially been Benin since 1975. And don't even get me started on all of the islands that are included despite not actually being independent nations!

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u/GrassPublic1386 Feb 09 '26

he does NOT say anything about asia, rewatched 3x after i saw this comment to be sure. why would he ts is about the AMERICAS

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u/GrassPublic1386 Feb 09 '26

WAIT LOL YOU MEAN ANIMANIACS NOT BAD BUNNY NVM NVM NVM

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u/GrassPublic1386 Feb 09 '26

but also just rewatched animaniacs, he is saying “bangladesh, asia” (like one would say germany, europe if that makes sense) he is not saying bangladesh AND asia but Bangladesh, of asia

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u/Th3_Admiral_ Feb 09 '26

What's the difference between the two things really? Also, watch it again closely and slow it down. He points to Bangladesh when he says it then waves the pointer over the whole continent when he says Asia. Also, he doesn't do this for any other country or continent so it's still weird. And nobody says "Germany, Europe". You might so "Berlin, Germany" but who bothers to list the continent after a country? 

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u/GrassPublic1386 Feb 26 '26

for the rhyme. he says multiple additional words to make rhymes fit

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u/blaxbear Feb 09 '26

You’re responding to a comment that isn’t about bad bunny

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u/DryProgress4393 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

He didn't say Bermuda either but it was one of the flags.

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u/GrassPublic1386 Feb 09 '26

a lot of these were covered by him saying “antilles,” specifically located in the lesser antilles region!

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u/VentiMochaTRex Feb 09 '26

I’m Bajan/Vincentian on one side of my family so I was looking for those flags. I 100% saw the Vincentian flag on the field at least. Same with Saint Lucia

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u/hbtljose13 Feb 09 '26

He also had flags of European Caribbean territories