"Why does the American flag on the USA.gov website have only 9 stars?" Top minds of Reddit decide it's a white supremacist reference to the Confederate States

Except it was correct a week ago... regardless if you could make them out or not, you could tell there was closer to fifty than there is nine. This is definitely a new alteration

No it wasn't. That image has been used on that site since 2020. There are 9 stars and 11 stripes (9/11).

Not sure if that theory is more r-slurred or less.

Because the president is a white supremacist. Nothing is by accident

It's all part of the carefully crafted plan. Trump is a genius!

Because it's a tiny icon and there literally aren't enough pixels to show fifty stars . There are also fewer stripes.

That is not why. It was recently changed, and the 9-star flag has a significant meaning.

And what meaning is that, you ask?

It's the 9 Confederate states

Ah yes, 9 out of the 11 Confederate states.

The worrisome part is if you know anything of history, the 9 star American flag was originally used by the confederate at the start of the Civil War. It was to represent the 9 states that seceded. So essentially it's a confederate flag on our government websites.

That would be 7 states that originally seceded, before the start of the war.

Where did this NPC software update come from? It can't just be Reddit?