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On Jan. 10, 2021, an anecdote went viral on Twitter about a street vendor named nah who supposedly told a reporter he was selling $100 sweatshirts to stupid supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump: This is a genuine photograph of two people selling Trump merchandise in Washington, D.C. The displayed caption, however, does not capture a genuine exchange between a journalist and these vendors. The text below the image originated with an article published on Medium in which the editors of the publication Level reimagined captions for various photographs that were taken on the day that a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, Jan. 6, 2021. The editors explained in the article's title and opening paragraph that these captions were not factual: While the viral caption for this picture is not real, the photograph is. It was taken near the U.S. Capitol the day of the insurrection and shows two unidentified vendors selling Trump merchandise. As lamented in the aforementioned article, the real caption on Getty Images does not provide much additional detail about these vendors:
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