The rejected EU flag from 2002.

This was never intended as a flag

"The barcode has been featured in a number of prominent European newspapers, mistakenly touting it as the new European flag to replace the current twelve gold stars. This, however, was certainly not the idea behind its conception. The barcode was merely a suggestion for an extra symbol, parallel to the existing EU symbols, to bring Europe in a new way to new audiences."

https://www.oma.com/projects/eu-barcode

And vexillologists everywhere rejoiced.

Or had an aneurism. It's hard to tell

Some things are best rejected.

What product comes up if you scan it?

Maybe we should sort the colors, so it looks like this:

The queer community deserves a better flag. The rainbow was great and made sense - the whole spectrum of the rainbow; everybody. Now it’s just displeasing to look at with clashing colors. Maybe a vexillologist can chime in to put that into better words.
This is not a critique of people, just my opinion of this flag.
- "The queer community"
  In fact what was wrong with queer vs an ever-changing acronym? Or could we just use rainbow?
- I dunno man, I really like the flag. Like you I dont have a good reason for why either, and thats fine, tastes are different.
I'd vote for that. 😋
Used the expanded version, which means it has more countries than the version in the post. It was made before Brexit and before the accession of Croatia and Romania, though
- Also, a version rotated to match other pride flags so that this, uhh... not-a-flag can look slightly more like the flag we're vaguely imitating here

Color puke.

make it monochrome

https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/a1972289-67a1-4df2-86bc-111f9314e98e.png

That's not a flag, it's a printer error.

Imagine having to remember this flag in school.

bip

If you flip it twice and shake it vigorously, nothing particular happens.

Obviously it got rejected, it doesnt have the Romanian flag

I think, out of fairness the french flag should be rotated 90 degrees.

I can see why

It’s not very pretty. But I like the concept.

Yeah, the stars thing feels like it's just kind of another entity from all the countries, whereas this barcode drives home much better that it's a group of countries doing a thing.

I see the problem: the lines should have been horizontal

Thank god

Well, it be easy to identify on a flag pole, at least. You wouldn’t be able to spot individual details, necessarily, but what else would look this busy?

And America would rejoice for no longer having the most overstuffed flag.

Terran Academy Scream

I have to say that is goofy.