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At the end of 2016, images (often unaccompanied by any explanatory news story) began circulating online suggesting that California's iconic Hollywood sign had been altered to read Hollyweed (presumably as an homage to the state's recent passage of Proposition 64, which legalized recreational use of marijuana beginning in 2018). Owing to the number of humorous digitally created images to be found on the Internet at any given time, a skeptical social media public was unsure if the Hollyweed picture was one of the funny-but-not-real photographs going viral on any given day. But it was true that the sign was briefly altered to read Hollyweed on the night of 31 December 2016, an event that was extensively covered by local news outlets: According to Los Angeles television station KCAL, the prank wasn't the first time the sign had been altered (nor the first incidence of its being changed to Hollyweed): Images of the prank were rife on social networks: Likewise, documentation of the sign's restoration was reported contemporaneously: Unlike most other cleverly edited images, the Hollyweed sign was one that was shared in numerous versions showing it from multiple angles and at many resolutions concurrently. Although digitally edited images sometimes come in sets, the number of variants appearing at the time of this vandalism incident was another indicator that the photographs indeed depicted a legitimate event and not merely someone's having fun with image editing software.
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