17 People Who Were Hilariously, Embarrassingly, And Yet Confidently Wrong

1.On his own app, no less.

A tweet by Elon Musk claiming that it's illegal for a non-profit to convert to a for-profit business, with a community note showing that it's legal

2.Ah, I love this classic mix-up.

A Twitter exchange where one user says "Vienna is Austria. Australia is about 8000 miles east", another replies "Vienna is the capital of Australia lol”, followed by a map showing Austria
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3.Listen, Texas is big! But it's not size-of-the-entire-continent-of-Europe big.

Facebook comment claiming that Texas has more miles of roads than all of Europe does
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4.The Spanish language just spontaneously popped up in the Americas!

The image shows a social media exchange. Comment 1 states "Colonial language," while comment 2 replies, "Spain didn't have colonies, cope."
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5.There's, like, a whole character in Braveheart who really hammers home the point that it is not, in fact, the same island.

Social media exchange where person 1 says Ireland is known for "Braveheart," then person 2 corrects them that it's Scotland, then person 1 says "same island"
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6.Listen, I'm normally very pro-"count your kid's age in years past 2." But this was not the time to deploy that argument.

A humorous social media post with text: "When my colorblind husband dresses our 25-week-old son." Comment below erroneously corrects, saying "why 25 weeks, it's 2 years"
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7.I also agree that the century thing can be confusing! But it's definitely not confusing enough to say this.

Social media post showing a thread of replies to a comment mistakenly stating "The 1900's were from 1800 - 1899" with users correcting it, expressing disbelief, and humor
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8.What?

Two social media comments: the first says "You are so clueless ?", and the second corrects the grammar of the first comment with "it's 'You're'"
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9.Can I get a refund?

A TikTok comment thread where users debate the incorrect use of "than" versus "then." The person who used the wrong "than" makes a joke about charging for grammar lessons
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10.Ah yes, the old grammar rule of the disappearing apostrophes.

Screenshot of a Reddit exchange about older generations working in tech, emphasizing grammatical errors and a critical response. No names visible
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11.Sometimes, 5 a.m. is, in fact, not 5 a.m.

A Twitter user tries to diss a Drake hater by commenting how they tweeted at 5 AM, but the hater says they're in the UK and the user responds by saying " 5 AM is 5 AM"
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12.Sugar?? In my honey???

A 1-star review by S states Gutters Pure Clover Honey Creamed has 17g of sugar per tablespoon, causing sugar rushes and deeming it unsuitable for diabetics
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13.Governments hate this one simple tax trick!

A Facebook user argues that you can't take percentages of anything other than 100 since "percent" comes from the Latin "per centum," so you can't take sales tax from anything that isn't priced at 99 cents or 99 dollars
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14.Hear me out — what about pressing many flax seeds at once? And what if we tried it with something other than our thumb and forefinger?

Screenshot of a social media post questioning the extraction of oil from flax seeds because they tried squeezing one and didn't get any oil, and calling the oil production process fake
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15.I've heard "the Earth is flat" before, but "the sun is a projection" is new to me.

A social media exchange about sun and color theory. The first user suggests the sun is a projection, the second user explains the science behind color dispersion
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16.It doesn't; we don't.

A social media exchange discussing evolution theory, with one user questioning its validity due to conflicts with physics and fossil evidence
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17.And finally, you can always count on TikTok commenters to be aggressively wrong about math.

A meme compares a "This is Dark Souls" achievement at 92.19%, a person wearing a jersey with "79" edit, and funny comments rating the edit as incorrect
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H/T r/confidentlyincorrect