Low-Stakes Fakery. or is it?

Stumbled across this on the Facebooks this morning:

Sure, sure. The Idaho Potato Museum does exist. Its is indeed in Blackfoot.

However . . .

Most of what's in this photo is fake.

First of all, I don't believe this actual intersection exists, at least not in a location that would have this serious amount of directional signage on it.

Then there's the signage . . .

Blackfoot doesn't have a directional arrow.

US Highway 39 is in the east, specifically Alabama-Tennessee-Kentucky.

Nowhere in the national or state highway code are there red signs indicating states on highways.

Oh, and while there is a Highway 39 in the area, it's a state highway with a very distinct shield:

So this is clearly fake, for clicks. And that's annoying. Low-stakes annoying, yes, but annoying nonetheless. If people accept this kind of low-stakes fakery, how much fakery are we willing to accept?

This kind of fakery?

This one's a little better, but still obviously fakes. The incorrect shield for the state highway really stands out, as does the fake "TOURISM" sign and the wonderfully inconsistent, I guess that's supposed to indicate something about I-15 there? I'm not sure.

The real signage, for those interested:

They didn't steal his photo, but they did steal his text.

These kinds of things aren't hard to verify. But why verify, I can hear you screaming. The museum is real. Blackfoot exists. This is low-stakes.

Yes, it is low stakes. But they ratchet things up, you know. Accept l0w-stakes fakery and pretty soon you're swallowing something fake that's got a lot more import to it.

So beware.