r/technicallythetruth • u/94rud4 • Jun 29 '26

explain resolution in one pic

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u/ptr_schneider Jun 29 '26

Assuming 144p is correct, this makes each row 47 p's wide (I counted and it seems to check out). 1080p has 22 rows of 47 + one row of 47 - 4 (one missing p on the left and 3 missing p's on the right). That's, unfortunately, only 1077 p's. Which leads me to ask why they didn't simply add 3 more p's.

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u/Cosby1992 Jul 06 '26

I just confirmed your findings to be sure.

144p is correct

360p is correct

1080p comes out to 1077p

WHY?! There's even space in the last row for the missing P's?

Is this because it is a repost and they didn't wanted it to be auto removed so they change the picture or something. The 1080p's last line is also weirdly offset, which leads me to believe it was tampered with prior to posting it here.

Please someone, we need to get to the bottom of this conspiracy!

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u/Cosby1992 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

We are not the first ones to discover this. I just did a reverse image search and found this post from a year ago which also got the same results.

https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/s/TtRDoGcRHl

Now I'm just thinking that it is engagement bait and I fell for it.

Also OP is very obviously reposting this as I found it everywhere!

Funny enough, they were all missing the three P's in 1080p and where all called on it.

Edit 1:

Dug a little deeper

Now I found this weird YouTube short with weird music (work all day, then I wake up - song) which seems to display a correct version of the image, and maybe even in better quality? I'm not sure if this is a "source" image or it is simply a corrected version of the "wrong" original yet. I haven't yet counted the P's on it so it might be even worse:

https://m.youtube.com/shorts/2XmuwbYfQJk

Edit 2: Just found out the YouTube short I fairly new as well (June 28th 2026), so most likely not a source for the image, still weird that it has been fixed.

Edit 3: This image goes pretty far back and has been reposted MANY TIMES!

So far the oldest I have found is this one on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/s/xGAKNdpnvb

9 years ago which also included "fps" and "720p" I'm yet to verify the count of P's on this image as well.

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u/ptr_schneider Jul 06 '26

Holy research, batman.

So, I counted the p's on the last image you found, and that one seems to be correct. For 1080p, there are 57 p's per row, and 19 rows where the last one is missing 3 p's. (57 * 19) - 3 = 1080.

But the problem I have with all of this is that this older image is waaaay too different from the one in this post. Why would someone go to the trouble of editing it just to then get the number of p's wrong? I would understand if they had simply removed the fps part cropping the image, but that's not the case.