Help identify this flag in Germany

[u/kbhina]

Found this flag cut out sticker in the small German town of Irrel. Can someone identify this flag?

Irrel: https://maps.app.goo.gl/NgVkz7ow3FFwUmX3A?g_st=com.google.maps.preview.copy

[u/MinuQu]

It is a new flag from the neonazis in Germany. New as in literally just 2 years old. At the beginning of 2023 a far-right German YouTuber and his friends tried to recapture the pride month and make it a nationalist thing, calling it "Stolzmonat" and this gradient German flag became the symbol of it. Goal was that instead of pride content, the public discourse would be flooded with an organized barage of homophobic and transphobic postings. Some of the more edgy and radical ones added the black and white triangle with the Prussian eagle you can see here. It was pushed extremely by Twitter's algorithm and especially the AfD instantly jumped onto it, high-profile politicians posting this flag and including it in their profile picture. In the end, it had just a limited success and it mostly just stayed in this far-right echo chamber.

You'll probably find older versions of it which predate 2023 because the concept isn't that creative, but it only became wide-spread after this. It is fascinating though, that the person who made the sticker didn't even attempt to cut it out cleanly. 

[u/FB_100 → u/MinuQu]

I think this exact design is from 2023, because I found a Reddi post with this exact design from the first of June 2023, that also includes versions for GB and France in the Post and Versions for Scandinavia, Italy, Greece, Portugal and others in the Comments, so I think, that the user from this Post created them, because the ones in the comments seem to be made after someone asks for them, but I can't guarantee it is the case.

[u/MinuQu → u/FB_100]

Could certainly be! I know that the German gradient flag without the triangle is a bit older than that but this is probably the exact picture used on the sticker and maybe the original design that includes the Prussian eagle.

[u/Wassertopf → u/FB_100]

It’s a bit funny, because your linked sub is usually very pro LGBT.

[u/xSilverMC → u/MinuQu]

The beautiful part is that someone not connected to the neonazi pricks was able to trademark the term and sold pro queer stuff under it (and might've been able to c&d the neonazis, but that part's a bit foggy)

[u/GroundedSatellite → u/MinuQu]

Neo-nazi AfD propaganda spreading on Twitter? Who'd have thunk it?

[u/CalDemps → u/MinuQu]

Objectively a good flag design - with highly objectionable symbolism.

[u/JaskaBLR → u/MinuQu]

Based

[u/activatedlithium → u/MinuQu]

who s the youtuber?

[u/FrisianTanker → u/activatedlithium]

Don't tell this fascist about the fascist YouTuber

[u/activatedlithium → u/FrisianTanker]

his name is shlomo finkelstein, hehehehe

[u/Rounpositron → u/[deleted]]

Tbf they if they criticise the Greatest Ally they'd probably max out their wrongthink limit and get Stasi'd

[u/activatedlithium → u/Rounpositron]

it s a trade that s part of the job