The Mapping Saga

Upon discovering the YouTube channel Mrownerandpwner, Noaj of Wemyss found a playlist of videos titled History Series: Europe where a nations on a map were personified into sentient characters which could speak. The videos were map animations which attempted to tell the history of Europe using sentient tribes, empires, and nation-states. They talked with one another, explored other parts of the "map" they were on, and (most of all) killed one another in wars. This method of telling history intrigued Noaj who then continued to watch the entire playlist.

There was a second playlist on Mrownerandpwner's channel which served as a continuation to the aforementioned playlist (which ended with the formation of modern Europe) titled "Alternate Future of Europe". Noaj clicked on this playlist only to be disgusted by the fact that it seemed to be predicting events that would never realistically happen and clicked off the playlist. He then realized that the story wasn't meant to be an accurate prediction of anything and was simply a series made for fun. He clicked back on and witnessed a pretty unorthodox story where personified nations with amnesia wake up from a dark age where the entire world was destroyed by war and had to rebuild technology; the story went on to tell of nations having to flea to different planets to escape a super villain sized nation named "Seizon". This took Noaj down a rabbit hole where he found the "mapping community", a community of people who build videos such as this one. Noaj himself joined them and entered a not-so-serious contest to produce an "Alternate Future of the Vatican City" video. This video he produced with Polandball characters, Polandball being a genre in and of itself. It is considered to be heavily related to the mapping community so it found relevance here.

In essence, the video was young Noaj's attempt at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_satire#:~:text=Political%20satire%20is%20satire%20that,such%20arguments%20are%20expressly%20forbidden. political satire]. The short film was about a the smallest country in the world, the Vatican, drafting a plan to take over all of Italy but is overheard by one of the other smallest countries in the world San Marino who reports to Italy the Vatican's plot. The episode also includes some good old fashion Russian election hacking. It was published to his YouTube channel on October the 23rd of 2016. It sits at a little less than 600 views with 8 likes and 0 dislikes, seemingly a positive rating. Noaj's schoolmates who noticed his YouTube channel uploaded a new video watched in confusion and then made fun of Noaj for creating such a strange work. The contest itself was really more/less of a joke made in the Mapper Podcast livestream not meant to be taken seriously. Noaj of Wemyss decided to take it seriously anyway only to be beaten by another mapper to creating the video first, creating the video first being the only requirement to winning the joke contest.