You're bringing that special someone home for the first time. You ask if they want a drink. "Sure" they say. You head over to your drinks cabinet and begin mixing them a vodka lime. They sit on your sofa, looking around your apartment. "What is that?" they ask, pointing to your freshly printed Ekamara tourism poster. "Oh that?" you say, handing them a glass. "It's a reference to an obscure April Fools video by a mid-tier UA-camr obsessed with housing politics". The drinks aren't even half-finished by the time you're in the bedroom. Ekamara poster available now: crowdmade.com/collections/britmonkey/products/merchmonkey-ekamara-tourism-poster
He also forgot to mention Stella The US Army base under ekamura and on the left peak which is used as a temporary storage facility nuclear missile rocket engines, before they are sent to Texas for repairs or scraping.
This has a bunch of beautiful hidden jokes, but my favorite is “Congressional Bill to make Woodrow Wilson Hate Day federal holiday passes Senate”. Just perfectly crafted.
You had me until 7:53 where you said “my mate Dave.” It was a little odd when you said the skyscraper got millions of tourists and yet no one had heard of it. But at 7:53 I was like, “was this an April fools joke” and I looked at the description and sure enough, I had been hoodwinked! GREAT video!!!
the rest of the USA would angrily scream "Communism!" ... but, hey, if this valley is so isolated that they didn't know on which side of the road other American car drivers are driving, why not ... ;-)
This whole thing would be 100% believable if you hadn't named the state capital "New Liverpool" as no one would be dumb enough to name a city after such a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
In the states there's a town named Liverpool in NY. So no, people are dumb enough, kthx. I used to have the misfortune of living there. As a person from the states, though, I don't get the issue with Liverpool. What's wrong with it?
Just found your channel today and all the videos I've binged so far rang of truth, so when this one played I was taking it all in as fact. Might have caught on earlier if I'd been watching the screen. This is now tied for my favourite video on the entire internet. Thank you so very much for making it. ✌️🍍
At first I thought it was just a isolated city that is a state wannabe, but at the "cars driving left side of the road" part I knew there was no way this was true.
This is probably the most effort I've seen put into an April Fools joke on UA-cam. Edit: Okay, yeah, I get it, you didn't know it was fake. Everyone else said it already.
@@friggo3869 geography now april fools videos in general, usually have at least lot of effort put into them, with a lot of interesting lore. my favorite personally, is limberwisk.
Ngl I just put on random videos at work to block out my coworkers' chatter, and I didn't realize that it was a joke until he started listing the famous people from this place. 🤣
They also have a tv channel called KEMH, channel 19, affiliated with NBC (1956-1979, 1983-1988), going dark (1979-1983), then CBS (since 1988). The station is based in the vicinity of 238 Uranium Avenue, is one of two television channels based entirely within the state, and is a sister channel to the radio station of the same name, which was founded in 1927. For KEMH, color broadcasting began in 1966, but for years a station founded in 1972 (KEMX, now called KEGT since 2004, which broadcasts to the three suburbran houses and a section of southern Idaho) couldn't begin color broadcasts due to a lack of funding so severe that they went on air with equipment from 1958. After 15 years of black and white TV, the relay's equipment was updated in 1987, making it the last American television station to begin broadcasting in color.
This is honestly some of the best world building I've seen in a while. This would make an amazing setting for a story in the style of Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons, or The Amazing World Of Gumball.
This guy made up a whole lore for a made up town and spent countless hours photoshopping pictures to make it seem real all for an april fools video. Mad respect
@@ScizorShorts7 well i got fooled before i looked in the comments becauss i looked everywhere and couldnt find it so i went to comment section to see if anyone knew where it was lol
Worst thing: I was attributing its lack of representation in the Senate to some kind of agreement reached during the legal litigation lmao (as if it were even possible) My brain needs to wake up.
Best. April. fools. joke. ever. Even tops the spaghetti harvest from the BBC. Because you threw so much more in there. And I'm an American, in awe of how well you built this world.
Fun fact: Ekamara has a defense treaty with Kekistan which has a combat experienced fighting force. In their alliance with Ekamara, the two tiny nations are nuclear and armed, so don't mess with either of them.
Same. I was on google maps trying to find it for ages. Came to look at the comments to see if anyone had any information about the state and it turns out it's all a lie. I actually wanted to go visit as it looked so cute ;(
I found this video today, and I had to question my reality completely. No way there’s “50 states” and one state “everyone forgot about”. Spent a bit googling trying to figure out who owned this territory, then contemplated reality. Then I looked in the comments.
For anyone wondering, the song at the end is La Quimica from the album Forever Cool Double Nice. Only version i can find on UA-cam is by Velvet Bethany.
It actually took me until the Supreme Court decision part to remember this had to do with the date. Since the Supreme Court doesn’t work like that when making split decisions...
@@goose6112 There will usually be a majority, if not, they will take positions that are somewhat closer to the opinion taken by the chief justice and see if they can be made into concurrences IIRC. If that doesn't work, they'll see if it happens with another decision made by the next most senior justice. I could be completely wrong here though, but the important thing is that the Supreme Court absolutely loathes having to be put in positions like that, and the justices will actively work to prevent a scenario where there's a split court. If anything, they will try to make their decisions as close to unanimous as possible.
@@goose6112 I would add that this is also why seeing so many 5-4 decisions on the Supreme Court is somewhat threatening. This isn't supposed to happen, and the moderate justices are supposed to switch their opinions to the one which seems to take more of a majority in order to make the decision more definitive.
Honestly, about a minute in, I was going "It's too small to have a high enough population to get itself declared a state, that's why all the Midwest states are those giant squares, they were trying to cover enough area to get enough population to be declared one.
What an amazing video, the facade of those ‘The _____ you’ve never heard of’ educational videos is so well done that I was booking my ticket to Ekamara by the time it was over
Yeah, ekamara was never recognized as a state by the US Congress which means it’s a part of either Montana or Idaho, but it’s not an individual state because that would require the federal Congress in Washington DC to pass legislation, allowing two states that officially one conservative and one liberal to join. It would also require the state Ekamara is a part of to agree to the same legislation.
@@tobyk.4911 SCPs are basically just ficticious Internet creations of various "anomalous", or "haunted", I guess you could say, things, creatures, events, places, ETC, ETC. It has its own website with a large amount of lore, including various groups and factions in the SCP universe, and "tales'", or rundowns of various events that go on.
Scp-XXXX “Ekamara” Object class: Euclid Containment procedures: [EXPUNGED] Description: Scp-XXXX is an isolated city incased by a 2 mountain ‘Alpha, Bravo’
I wholeheartedly believed this for the first 3 minutes. If I hadn't checked the upload date, I would have continued to believe it. No one has ever got me this bad before
1:30 Yeeaaahh you got me until here when you mentioned Feb 29, 1900. That date totally exists and is totally legit!! Also 6:27: Ah yes, Testicles, the ancient Greek philosopher
@@alcedob.5850 nope 1900 was not a leap year. 1896 and 1904 were leap years but every 100 years is not a leap year except for every 400 years which is a leap year (2000).
@@silvercoulter huh, I googled a little more and turns out it was but only in countries using Julian calendar (like the Russian Empire). But for the rest of the world using Gregorian, it was not.
Quick fact, although not officially there was actually a supereme court case with FOUR parties involved before this, being the Amistad case, however that case still remains the first supreme court case with THREE parties involved, and it was actually officially recognized as such.
You really had me fooled for most of the video LMAO Throughout the video, I thought "this sounds like a made-up town, but whatever" Then, after the weird flag and the quote by the greek philosopher "Testicles", I decided to check whether this wasn't an April Fools video... It was. Never have I been fooled so much. Well, it is 10th July 2022 as I'm watching this, so it's unsurprising that I didn't check the date of upload.
The first two minutes sounds like something I might have actually heard in American history class. After that I got increasingly confused and suspicious until I checked the upload date. Very nice work!
I'm proud to say I only got the joke months later when I googled the flag and it was captioned with "made this cool design for the fictional state of Ekamara". The one single thing that threw me off a tiny bit was the car being airlifted, a hot air balloon can barely carry itself
I fully believed this until the two pictures looking out of the tower, and the tower above the mountains. If not for that, i would not have went to check the description and probably would have bought it for so much longer
Are you American? I am assuming not but if you are that's embarrassing but if you aren't I absolutely understand that because I don't know obscure facts about other countries until I learn them
Thankfully the comments saved me 3 minutes into the video. Had I not read the comments I would have watched the whole thing without realising it was a joke.
“It’s the only stats where dueling is legal” that’s where you’re wrong (and where I realized it was an April fools joke). It’s legal in Texas and Washington. Albeit you can only use your fists.
That’s genuinely really coo! I really don’t know why I’ve never heard of this state. I feel like living there would be pretty nice because of how lowkey it is there, and I like lowkey people/places. Although the high radiation is definitely a downfall, but besides that, seems pretty nice! Good video
Next up, secret Canadian provenance titled balls, located in Italy had population of 5 billion but it was shot up to the sun and never seen again. This all happened in 2512
i stumbled upon this video today, watched to the point where you said it was between idaho and montana, decided to google it, could not find it, then i looked at a map, could not find it, with the video going on for about 2 minutes at which point i thought about googling new liverpool paused on the picture of what frankly didn't look like a us town that would be in a valley, and finally looked at the date it was posted. moral of the story is that i'm just happy i didn't take that at face value and thought, surely i would've heard of this somewhere before.
I believed it everything until you started to say "uranium causes memory loss, maybe you saw it on tv but you don't remember it". Now everything looks so absurd.
This is hilarious. My first thought was "most watchers here don't know what a state is". I am not sure if you did this on purpose, but there are actual green arches at a McDonald's in the USA. If anyone tried to search this, you would get flagstaff AZ. I lived there briefly. I don't think I even went to any burger shops (Vegetarian) but I honestly don't remember very much at all from around that time.
I only noticed something weird at the footage of the teens running to the "lake", it looks too much like sea. However i only found out at the single skyscrapper part.
As an native Ekamaran, there are a few things that I would like to add. 1. Ekamara is the only state that still uses the Julian calendar. February 29, 1900 for us is March 13, 1900 in your calendar. 2. We are actually off the I-90. The person responsible for making the sign flipped the 9 to make the erroneous 6 and the sign was never fixed. Why the mistake happened remains a mystery. U of E actually has a contest every year for humourous historical fiction based on The I-60 sign. 3. The political information is outdated. Ekamara has voted Democrat since 2011 when Obama became the first president to visit our state and acknowledge our existence. Ekamara did not vote for Trump in 2016.
Once you hear "state owned business providing services to the citizens" in the US you know it's too good to be true Also coco-molar "toothpaste AND soft drink company" 😂
It's 15th July, I was totally finding this super interesting and odd and how I never heard of it, until I heard the memory loss part and decided to check the date this was posted...
You're bringing that special someone home for the first time. You ask if they want a drink.
"Sure" they say.
You head over to your drinks cabinet and begin mixing them a vodka lime.
They sit on your sofa, looking around your apartment.
"What is that?" they ask, pointing to your freshly printed Ekamara tourism poster.
"Oh that?" you say, handing them a glass. "It's a reference to an obscure April Fools video by a mid-tier UA-camr obsessed with housing politics".
The drinks aren't even half-finished by the time you're in the bedroom.
Ekamara poster available now: crowdmade.com/collections/britmonkey/products/merchmonkey-ekamara-tourism-poster
as an Ekamarian I can confirm that my Dad forgot we exist.
Train pfp
i saw u on another vide o
Hmmm
lol transsexual.
@@dragontheice8508 :(
the "re-elect president al gore" is the funniest part to me
I’m quite partial to him naming “The Thing” as being filmed in Ekamara
hey buddy
@@hypocriticellie1245 what are you doing here
I know, right! It's like saying that he didn't invent the internet!
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You forgot to mention the uncontacted Native American tribe residing in the Ekamaran wilderness.
Do they kill people 💀💀
He also forgot to mention Stella The US Army base under ekamura and on the left peak which is used as a temporary storage facility nuclear missile rocket engines, before they are sent to Texas for repairs or scraping.
@@harsh....8993 no.
My parents are actually from there and I was named after the base
@@harsh....8993Not if you disturb people.
This has a bunch of beautiful hidden jokes, but my favorite is “Congressional Bill to make Woodrow Wilson Hate Day federal holiday passes Senate”. Just perfectly crafted.
I just watched this whole video before looking at the upload date😂😂
As well as the motto from the greek philospoher called Testicles that's basically a "size doesn't matter" joke
You had me until 7:53 where you said “my mate Dave.” It was a little odd when you said the skyscraper got millions of tourists and yet no one had heard of it. But at 7:53 I was like, “was this an April fools joke” and I looked at the description and sure enough, I had been hoodwinked! GREAT video!!!
sources are from rick astley if your wondering
I think the most unbelievable bit is the fact that the mining corp is owned by the gov and the money is spent on the people
the rest of the USA would angrily scream "Communism!" ... but, hey, if this valley is so isolated that they didn't know on which side of the road other American car drivers are driving, why not ... ;-)
government moment
@@tobyk.4911 "that isn't very cash money of you"
Im pretty it works like that in Alaska
In Alaska we have something kind of like that called the pfd.
This whole thing would be 100% believable if you hadn't named the state capital "New Liverpool" as no one would be dumb enough to name a city after such a wretched hive of scum and villainy.
In the states there's a town named Liverpool in NY. So no, people are dumb enough, kthx. I used to have the misfortune of living there.
As a person from the states, though, I don't get the issue with Liverpool. What's wrong with it?
Manchester wanker
There's an entire region called New England
@@mariodicesare5518 But it’s nothing like England, New England is actually kinda a nice place
@@zephyrwayfarer its full of scousers
It took me 7 minutes and 44 seconds. You cannot possibly imagine how embarrassed I am right now.
Took me till the end, aahahahahahha
Seaweed beer made me suspect something's wrong
dude how often do you see EKAMARA on a list of the 50 states though
Testicles didn't ring a bell?
@@red2theelectricboogaloo961 51
Just found your channel today and all the videos I've binged so far rang of truth, so when this one played I was taking it all in as fact. Might have caught on earlier if I'd been watching the screen.
This is now tied for my favourite video on the entire internet. Thank you so very much for making it. ✌️🍍
At first I thought it was just a isolated city that is a state wannabe, but at the "cars driving left side of the road" part I knew there was no way this was true.
Lmao they most likely used road footage from the US Virgin Islands.
That was about the point for me too.
in my coutnry yes
@@snelwasnthere yes since im australian
This is probably the most effort I've seen put into an April Fools joke on UA-cam.
Edit: Okay, yeah, I get it, you didn't know it was fake. Everyone else said it already.
I think Bandiaterria is the most effort put into a April fools prank on UA-cam. This is a close second though
@@friggo3869 geography now april fools videos in general, usually have at least lot of effort put into them, with a lot of interesting lore.
my favorite personally, is limberwisk.
If Stardew Valley was a place
Ngl I just put on random videos at work to block out my coworkers' chatter, and I didn't realize that it was a joke until he started listing the famous people from this place. 🤣
Suckerpinch/Tom7 has some good uploads then.
This could easily be an SCP
Or a independent country
Yes
_SCP-4004 intensifies_
@@emperorofwends8875 *former independent country since there's uranium in dem there hills!
It's basically a less-anomalous version of Three Portlands
They also have a tv channel called KEMH, channel 19, affiliated with NBC (1956-1979, 1983-1988), going dark (1979-1983), then CBS (since 1988). The station is based in the vicinity of 238 Uranium Avenue, is one of two television channels based entirely within the state, and is a sister channel to the radio station of the same name, which was founded in 1927.
For KEMH, color broadcasting began in 1966, but for years a station founded in 1972 (KEMX, now called KEGT since 2004, which broadcasts to the three suburbran houses and a section of southern Idaho) couldn't begin color broadcasts due to a lack of funding so severe that they went on air with equipment from 1958. After 15 years of black and white TV, the relay's equipment was updated in 1987, making it the last American television station to begin broadcasting in color.
This is honestly some of the best world building I've seen in a while. This would make an amazing setting for a story in the style of Bob's Burgers, The Simpsons, or The Amazing World Of Gumball.
This guy made up a whole lore for a made up town and spent countless hours photoshopping pictures to make it seem real all for an april fools video. Mad respect
And I was wondering why I couldn’t find it on google maps. Got me good.
DELETE THE COMMENT, WE NEED TO FOOL THE NEW USERS
@@ScizorShorts7 well i got fooled before i looked in the comments becauss i looked everywhere and couldnt find it so i went to comment section to see if anyone knew where it was lol
I went on google maps to try and find it 😭
Drugs are bad mkay.
I'm ashamed to admit it, but you really had me in the first 2 minutes. :D
This man is a super genius, it took me the entire video to realize
@@azadanzans5359 so you didn't notice the historian Aldam Hilter
had me in the first 9 minutes
For me, the Greek philosopher Testicles gave it away :D
Me too
Worst thing: I was attributing its lack of representation in the Senate to some kind of agreement reached during the legal litigation lmao (as if it were even possible)
My brain needs to wake up.
states can have their representation changed if they agree to it so that wasn't a baseless thought.
Best. April. fools. joke. ever. Even tops the spaghetti harvest from the BBC. Because you threw so much more in there. And I'm an American, in awe of how well you built this world.
Fun fact: Ekamara has a defense treaty with Kekistan which has a combat experienced fighting force. In their alliance with Ekamara, the two tiny nations are nuclear and armed, so don't mess with either of them.
I spent an embarassingly long time googling until I remembered what day it is. Well played, BM, well played.
Oddly enough, there's a non-zero number of "238 Uranium Ave"'s
Same. I was on google maps trying to find it for ages. Came to look at the comments to see if anyone had any information about the state and it turns out it's all a lie. I actually wanted to go visit as it looked so cute ;(
I found this video today, and I had to question my reality completely. No way there’s “50 states” and one state “everyone forgot about”. Spent a bit googling trying to figure out who owned this territory, then contemplated reality. Then I looked in the comments.
It took me a entire day to realize this place doesn't exist
Pee pee poo poo
"World's oldest man Adam Lidler"
What?
@@bananprzydawka7129 7:39
I'm also European, but the satelite image is obviously fake
really?
things like Coca Molar or Greek philosopher Testicles didn't throw you off?
6:23 A profoundly intelligent philosopher, I'm glad you stumbled across his teachings...
I cant believe I fell for this I literally didn't catch on to anything being wrong until you started talking about the memory loss 😭😭
For anyone wondering, the song at the end is La Quimica from the album Forever Cool Double Nice. Only version i can find on UA-cam is by Velvet Bethany.
This was surprisingly entertaining and top notch world building
Testecles quote is brilliant
My favourite philosopher
To be honest, I was convinced everything was true until I heard " a quote from the greek philosopher testicles" lol
Non quantitatis res, sed quomodo materia adhibeatur.
it applies to the banana too
@@andyjay729"That's fucking latin" - St. Dixus of Long
I'm ashamed to admit it took me till the memory loss part to remeber the date
It has April fools in the title and I still got fooled 😭😭
same
You didn't fool me at all lmao. I saw a picture of Portland, OR (my home city) in a group of "Ekamaria" photos in the vid lmao
Also Alopecia as a ward name lmfao
this took me too long to realize this was an April fool's prank. I was seriously frustrated why google couldn't pull up ekamara
"it is not the size that matters, but how the matter is used"
- Teste Cles, Greek philosopher
yes the video shows this quote, but its a really great quote from a really great philosopher
It actually took me until the Supreme Court decision part to remember this had to do with the date. Since the Supreme Court doesn’t work like that when making split decisions...
Hmm I'm interested in what The supreme court does when making a split decision
@@goose6112 There will usually be a majority, if not, they will take positions that are somewhat closer to the opinion taken by the chief justice and see if they can be made into concurrences IIRC. If that doesn't work, they'll see if it happens with another decision made by the next most senior justice. I could be completely wrong here though, but the important thing is that the Supreme Court absolutely loathes having to be put in positions like that, and the justices will actively work to prevent a scenario where there's a split court. If anything, they will try to make their decisions as close to unanimous as possible.
@@redcoat4348 oh ok thanks for telling me
@@goose6112 I would add that this is also why seeing so many 5-4 decisions on the Supreme Court is somewhat threatening. This isn't supposed to happen, and the moderate justices are supposed to switch their opinions to the one which seems to take more of a majority in order to make the decision more definitive.
Plus 1900-02-29 wasn't a day
I love how there was 7 minutes where this was completely believable to someone who isn't good at geography
At exactly 7:17 which is the mention of the infamous knockoff Coca Molar is when the video started to become unbelievable.
which seven minutes though?
@@cact0s_ulion405 the world may never know
Did no one else catch the reference to the non-existent I-60 at 1:39?
Honestly, about a minute in, I was going "It's too small to have a high enough population to get itself declared a state, that's why all the Midwest states are those giant squares, they were trying to cover enough area to get enough population to be declared one.
I didn't even get it until I checked the comments since I couldn't find anything on Google maps...
why did it take until Greek philosopher Testiclés till i realized 💀
this is great, would've fooled me if April fools weren't in the title.
Wait, "april fools" is in its title?
@@gamingwithcharlie5008 Well I guess it was at some point
I'm ashamed to admit it but I am from the timeline this is actualy real
If I had a UA-cam channel, I would just make videos about interesting fictional cities I made up.
you do have a youtube channel.
@@BritMonkeyYes but with 0 videos!
@@jpaulc441 change that, now im subscribed so ill know if it ever happens.
i will be subscribed with notifications on to see if you ever make a video about fictional cities you make up
You have a new subscriber with notification !
What an amazing video, the facade of those ‘The _____ you’ve never heard of’ educational videos is so well done that I was booking my ticket to Ekamara by the time it was over
Yeah, ekamara was never recognized as a state by the US Congress which means it’s a part of either Montana or Idaho, but it’s not an individual state because that would require the federal Congress in Washington DC to pass legislation, allowing two states that officially one conservative and one liberal to join. It would also require the state Ekamara is a part of to agree to the same legislation.
This could technically be considered a SCP
what does SCP mean?
@@tobyk.4911 it means secure, contain, & protect.
@@tobyk.4911 SCPs are basically just ficticious Internet creations of various "anomalous", or "haunted", I guess you could say, things, creatures, events, places, ETC, ETC. It has its own website with a large amount of lore, including various groups and factions in the SCP universe, and "tales'", or rundowns of various events that go on.
Scp-XXXX “Ekamara”
Object class: Euclid
Containment procedures: [EXPUNGED]
Description: Scp-XXXX is an isolated city incased by a 2 mountain ‘Alpha, Bravo’
Look up SCP-4006
I'm embarrassed to admit how long it took me to realize this was an April fool's joke, amazing video
fooled me until the quote around 6 minutes in
Same i was fooled
Nobody mentioned yet how the old-timey piano music from 5:27 to 5:59 is Nyan Cat? 😆
Why'd it take me so long to realize this was an April fools joke?
same bro, same.
I wholeheartedly believed this for the first 3 minutes. If I hadn't checked the upload date, I would have continued to believe it. No one has ever got me this bad before
1:30 Yeeaaahh you got me until here when you mentioned Feb 29, 1900. That date totally exists and is totally legit!!
Also 6:27: Ah yes, Testicles, the ancient Greek philosopher
Microsoft Excel still reports that as a leap year, ironically enough. 1-2-3.
Yeah, actually 29 February 1900 was
Edit: somewhere in the world but for countries with Gregorian calendars it wasn't
@@alcedob.5850 nope 1900 was not a leap year. 1896 and 1904 were leap years but every 100 years is not a leap year except for every 400 years which is a leap year (2000).
@@silvercoulter huh, I googled a little more and turns out it was but only in countries using Julian calendar (like the Russian Empire). But for the rest of the world using Gregorian, it was not.
ah yes. Τεστίκλης.
The left side driving was what finally tipped me off, everything else was great.
Also, it was impossible for them to have an NFL team
Is it bad that I wish this place was real
(Except the memory loss stuff obviously)
But it is we think we can't remember
i forgor💀
Quick fact, although not officially there was actually a supereme court case with FOUR parties involved before this, being the Amistad case, however that case still remains the first supreme court case with THREE parties involved, and it was actually officially recognized as such.
bro i didn't realise this was an April fools joke😭
You really had me fooled for most of the video LMAO
Throughout the video, I thought "this sounds like a made-up town, but whatever"
Then, after the weird flag and the quote by the greek philosopher "Testicles", I decided to check whether this wasn't an April Fools video...
It was. Never have I been fooled so much. Well, it is 10th July 2022 as I'm watching this, so it's unsurprising that I didn't check the date of upload.
I just thought he was giving an actual lesson with jokes along with it, which allowed me to give a pass to some of the most absurd lies
It's the 22nd ig the video just blew up out of nowhere
August 27 2023, same
I've been quoting Testicles for years.
Ah yes, the great latin philosopher Test*e*cles.
Also credited with saying "You can never walk it off, you can only waddle it over"
@Daniel Greek
Had me for about a minute there. Thought "How could he know this but not I?"
Yeah. No one knows anything that you don't. Good argument.
@@informitas0117 he’s American if you couldn’t tell by the profile picture
@@augustosani yikes that doesn’t help the argument 💀
@@TheMedjed-k9n you'd think an american would know more about america than a british person wouldn't you?
The first two minutes sounds like something I might have actually heard in American history class. After that I got increasingly confused and suspicious until I checked the upload date. Very nice work!
Good work guy's !! I needed a laugh 😊 thankyou 👍
And they still get two Senators.
Ah yes the oldest man, Adam Litler
6:27 is truly a powerful quote
I knew this was fake because as an American I know they would NEVER SHUT UP ABOUT HOW GREAT EKAMARA WAS
I'm proud to say I only got the joke months later when I googled the flag and it was captioned with "made this cool design for the fictional state of Ekamara". The one single thing that threw me off a tiny bit was the car being airlifted, a hot air balloon can barely carry itself
I fully believed this until the two pictures looking out of the tower, and the tower above the mountains.
If not for that, i would not have went to check the description and probably would have bought it for so much longer
Literally believed it up until the very end of the ending
Are you American? I am assuming not but if you are that's embarrassing but if you aren't I absolutely understand that because I don't know obscure facts about other countries until I learn them
@@MassachusettsTrainVideos1136 I’m Puerto Rican, do I get a pass for believing this (I assumed it used to be a state)
Thankfully the comments saved me 3 minutes into the video. Had I not read the comments I would have watched the whole thing without realising it was a joke.
Very respectable sources
I remember visiting there on a road trip the people are really nice and it's very friendly
Yes. A very good April Fools joke.
“It’s the only stats where dueling is legal” that’s where you’re wrong (and where I realized it was an April fools joke). It’s legal in Texas and Washington. Albeit you can only use your fists.
How did I manage to watch this on April Fool's Day 2 years later? And why did it take me a full minute and a half to realize?
I can confirm. I recently moved to a new village that replaced 15 trees. I have met all 10 members of the state legislature.
I love this, it feels like a Geography Now April fools joke.
You didn’t get me, but I appreciate the effort.
Was so captivated by his story and just lost it at 7:50. His mate Dave just chillin
That’s genuinely really coo! I really don’t know why I’ve never heard of this state. I feel like living there would be pretty nice because of how lowkey it is there, and I like lowkey people/places. Although the high radiation is definitely a downfall, but besides that, seems pretty nice! Good video
I love how convincing it is at first but slowly becomes more of a joke as the video goes on.
If only authors were this dedicated towards their story’s world building
I can't believe I only realised it was a joke when I looked down in the comments section. Not even the title gave me a hint. I am ashamed.
Had me till the end, I’m red right now
Next up, secret Canadian provenance titled balls, located in Italy had population of 5 billion but it was shot up to the sun and never seen again. This all happened in 2512
I must continue to congratulate your rigorous journalism; I didn't check the description until the radiation absorbing kelp, some impressive sourcing.
i stumbled upon this video today, watched to the point where you said it was between idaho and montana, decided to google it, could not find it, then i looked at a map, could not find it, with the video going on for about 2 minutes at which point i thought about googling new liverpool paused on the picture of what frankly didn't look like a us town that would be in a valley, and finally looked at the date it was posted. moral of the story is that i'm just happy i didn't take that at face value and thought, surely i would've heard of this somewhere before.
For anyone wondering, the building shown at 8:02 is actually located in the town of Nelson in British Columbia, Canada.
I believe that thank you for sharing
@@Sammykyt You're welcome
2 weeks ago I went on a vacation there for Ainsworth! I live in salmon arm so it's like 4 hours away and was a nice trip :)
@@TheSheeeeep Aw man, I remember going to Ainsworth when I was little. I lived near Nelson for a couple of years when I was really, really little.
I believed it everything until you started to say "uranium causes memory loss, maybe you saw it on tv but you don't remember it".
Now everything looks so absurd.
Me who lives in Colorado Springs looking at him using pictures of springs: very interesting
bro made the most believable April Fools Video EVER
A city tucked away in a tight valley just sounds so cozy to me
This video is an absolute masterpiece
I kind of wish this was real.
Ya know... You actually had me for a bit. Ya really did. Then I looked at the date you posted the video.
This is hilarious. My first thought was "most watchers here don't know what a state is". I am not sure if you did this on purpose, but there are actual green arches at a McDonald's in the USA. If anyone tried to search this, you would get flagstaff AZ. I lived there briefly. I don't think I even went to any burger shops (Vegetarian) but I honestly don't remember very much at all from around that time.
I only noticed something weird at the footage of the teens running to the "lake", it looks too much like sea. However i only found out at the single skyscrapper part.
If it wasn't for the title I would've have believed this as a non American
I almost believed it
Then I realised the geography and city planning didn't match up in different photos
And then I checked the date....
As an native Ekamaran, there are a few things that I would like to add.
1. Ekamara is the only state that still uses the Julian calendar. February 29, 1900 for us is March 13, 1900 in your calendar.
2. We are actually off the I-90. The person responsible for making the sign flipped the 9 to make the erroneous 6 and the sign was never fixed. Why the mistake happened remains a mystery. U of E actually has a contest every year for humourous historical fiction based on The I-60 sign.
3. The political information is outdated. Ekamara has voted Democrat since 2011 when Obama became the first president to visit our state and acknowledge our existence. Ekamara did not vote for Trump in 2016.
i actualy belived this until the last few seconds and everything makes so much sense now
Once you hear "state owned business providing services to the citizens" in the US you know it's too good to be true
Also coco-molar "toothpaste AND soft drink company" 😂
It’s a good hustle, if you can get it.
The skyscraper at 235 Uranium Avenue was a nice touch.
as soon as i read this comment the clip began playing
It's 15th July, I was totally finding this super interesting and odd and how I never heard of it, until I heard the memory loss part and decided to check the date this was posted...
"they had us in the first half, not gonna lie"
Brilliantly put together. Great satire (I think.) Thanks!
took me five minutes and thirty-four seconds to realize this was fake.
6:27 the Greek philosopher Testicles 😂😂😂