Third option: they've fallen into a pattern recognition fallacy and think it's a number when it's a completely different symbol. This happens a lot more often than most realize and even knowing about it, it can be difficult to go against the human instinct to find patterns that may or may not exist and then fit the data to it.
Someone, somewhere, will misrepresent this to give credence to the "do your own research" crowd.
Which is not to discredit the message. They misrepresent everything.
"The building is behind me therefore it's a six"
"But the number should be facing away from the building therefore it's a nine"
Me, an intellectual: "I want egg"
However we might complain about philistine relativism, it's not "what is ruining the world"
Idk, the COVID "I'm just as right as the doctors" idiots have come pretty close. What was probably quite a containable virus is now just something we'll have to deal with forever.
To all native speaker complaining about grammar: please translate the meme into german or french (without using AI)
What is ruining this world is that people are too lazy to crop their screenshots and make better looking posts with no wasted space. 😊 Just an opinion.