I posted the video Tuesday night and well it kind of blew up but let's backtrack a little. Currently I'm the way to WTM for my interview about the flag thing. Good evening my dinner first though. Got a sub. I just have recorded this video about 2000 views just under. I have an interview set up today with WTM. Interview set up tomorrow during my lunch break with WEMY. And I'm meeting tomorrow between my two jobs. I had to come and late my second job but meeting tomorrow about the city manager's office. And I'm going to be talking to them about making the design real. It's awesome. Just got out of the interview. It went pretty well I think. Who knows maybe the city will adopt the flag and adopt the design. I felt a bit stiff. I'm despite what I'm doing right now. I'm much more comfortable behind the camera than in front of it. But hopefully things go well. But I had no clue what was about to happen. The interview was aired and they had a few errors. The newtuber Alex Jester is 20th. Alex Jester. That's the dream for one of my related with hopes of pursuing a life as a video game programmer. Alex went to CCC which is working better polished his focus and both his end audio media. And left a lot of my stuttering in. But that interview propelled the video even further, showing it to many more people. And WETM decided to put a poll on the Facebook page. I want to be more clear that not everyone was as excited as I was. There were a lot of positive comments. I love the new design. It's just what we need for unity and revitalizing our city. It's time for a change if we want to stay on the map. Love it. Time for an update. I think it's a great idea. The new. Watch the video. Change is needed. I don't think I've ever seen the Elmire flag until this video. Some more negative ones. Alex is leaving so we get stuck with some concept of his. Didn't like it. The new concept looks like an emoji flag. Go back to the design board. The proposed flag looks like a third grade or desired. It looks like something you'd see on cartoon network. It's just more like a symbol of a drawn, but it's like a moving flag. What's the blue sign? It's a black and white flag. And honestly just some downright funny ones. Is that a flag or someone's call of duty emblem? It's a copy of the United Nations flag and the new world order. You are not fooling anyone. Total government agenda 21. Stupid. Just stupid. Those two circles must be symbols for roundabouts. Don't worry though. I didn't take any of them to heart. But one thing I noticed was people putting their own views on it that I didn't even attend. And I don't mean the funny ones. A lot of people pointed out that the current flag's depiction of Native Americans isn't exactly cool for 2019 standards. And someone else mentioned that the original Eroquoy flag is purple. So the flag I designed evokes the Native American heritage in a much more respectful manner. So when else mentioned that the rings remind them of the vintage carousel in our eldritch park. But that's the beauty of simple designs. Everyone could see something different related to their own experiences. Instead of trying to jam every single ID and symbol of a city into the flag, why not just make something simple that people can put their own meanings into? Also just as an aside, to everyone who's have just been putting El Maira across the flag? Never use writing of any kind. It says San Francisco across the bottom. If you need to write the name of what you're representing on your flag, your symbolism is failed. The United States flag doesn't say like USA across the front. Plus, that'd be impossible to read anyway. Also, as another aside, I didn't pick the college purple and gold because of El Maira College. I literally see purple and golden wildfires everywhere I go. This is on my walk to work. My meeting at City Hall went pretty well. I met with the city manager, the mayor, and the second district councilman. They were cool and seemed happy to be able to talk about flags rather than the usual business of running a city. They told me that this kind of thing would take a lot of time. It had to go through a bunch of bureaucratic processes. And they probably had to see other designs as well and not just take the first one proposed. But they seemed interested in the idea and loved the fact that the conversation was even happening in the city. I think they were trying to let me down easy. But I'm not giving up that easily. I love this city, despite its issues. And my goal is to try and unite the people under a symbol so that we can tackle the actual issues with a common identity, rather than as individuals who happen to live in the same place. So, let's make the flag the official unofficial flag of El Maira. I've had a lot of people ask me about buying merch. So if you'd like a shirt, hat, hoodie, or even a tote bag to show El Maira pride, I'd like to invite you to my Spreadshirt page, where you can buy some variations of the design on a bunch of different items. You can get 15% off your entire cart with the code Welcome-O.M. The cart with the code Welcome-106773034, which is really long, but I'll put it in the description. I know it's hard sometimes, but El Maira, I think it's time to change. We can't keep living on as the city that used to have manufacturing jobs. The city that used to have big name events, and the city that used to be El Maira. The statistics are clear. If we do not change, we'll continue declining. So why not start with something as small as a flag? Thanks for watching. Thanks for watching.