Fun with flags (in Slack)

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This post is about a pet trolling I do in Slack, and I thought Iā€™d share with the world.

When colleagues return from time off abroad, they often bring a local delicacy for the office and announce it in Slack, so that we can help ourselves. Normally people add happy emojis, often including the flag of the country mentioned in the post.

Instead, I like to add the emoji an incorrect flag that only resembles the correct one in appearance, planting a subtle seed of confusion. Most people will go on and click the incorrect flag emoji, and go on with their lives.

The incorrect flag may be:

  • A flag with similar patters
  • A flag with similar colors

You could call it flagrolling.

Examples:

  • šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡¾ (Uruguay) instead of šŸ‡¬šŸ‡· (Greece)
  • šŸ‡µšŸ‡« (French polynesia) instead of šŸ‡¦šŸ‡¹ (Austria)
  • šŸ‡®šŸ‡Ŗ (Ireland) instead of šŸ‡«šŸ‡· (France)

Goals:

  • Be the first one to post an incorrect flag
  • Get as many clicks as possible on the incorrect flag
  • Extra credit if noone adds the correct flag

French Polynesia šŸ‡µšŸ‡« instead of Austria šŸ‡¦šŸ‡¹

flagrolling-austria

Philippines šŸ‡µšŸ‡­ instead of Czech Republic šŸ‡ØšŸ‡æ

flagrolling-czech

Norway šŸ‡³šŸ‡“ instead of Iceland šŸ‡®šŸ‡ø

flagrolling-iceland

Morocco šŸ‡²šŸ‡¦ instead of Vietnam šŸ‡»šŸ‡³

flagrolling-vietnam

Credits

Thanks a lot to George Stefanis for the idea to create this post and for proofreading it.