This is, of course, in stark contrast to the actual American flag, which features 50 stars and 13 stripes. So what does a nine star flag mean in the U.S.? The American people have some concerns.

History caught up in a surprising way this summer with a fifth-generation descendant of an American ... flag that his ancestor received from Matthew Perry (1794-1858), commodore of the U.S. Navy ...

And as we couldn't help but notice, it was adorned with a graphic of an AI-generated Shiba Innu waving a mangled American flag that featured 11 stripes and a deformed mush of about 37 stars.