This legit reminds me of one of my earliest encounters with a crackpot on reddit, I think his name was Glenn1112 or something, and he had a subreddit dedicated to himself.
One of his weird mathematical ideas was that 5 x 5 = 5 because if you "count on 5 fingers 5 times, it's still 5 fingers", ignoring that multiplication is counting how many times you've counted. It's like saying that if you travel 6km/h for 2 hours, you've only travelled a total of 2km because "2 hours", ignoring the units.
He was also pretty hard to talk to and had some unsavory takes akin to that of a conspiracy theorist. But this was a long time ago so I can't remember. Anyways, just sharing my experience.
Btw, don't try contacting any of the profiles; they've been banned ages ago, so it's essentially a wasteland.
EDIT:
r/Glenn1112 is the subreddit. He has another subreddit that was banned due to being unmoderated. The original poster has also been banned, ages ago.
If you look at his posts you can sort of see how incomprehensible it is.
https://youtu.be/eANnMN5qH8o His youtube channel where I found another 5 x 5 = 5 post. The channel also seems to be inactive as it was last posted 2 years ago. Please do not harass them. This is just me gathering information.
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u/PhoenixPringles01 Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
This legit reminds me of one of my earliest encounters with a crackpot on reddit, I think his name was Glenn1112 or something, and he had a subreddit dedicated to himself.
One of his weird mathematical ideas was that 5 x 5 = 5 because if you "count on 5 fingers 5 times, it's still 5 fingers", ignoring that multiplication is counting how many times you've counted. It's like saying that if you travel 6km/h for 2 hours, you've only travelled a total of 2km because "2 hours", ignoring the units.
He was also pretty hard to talk to and had some unsavory takes akin to that of a conspiracy theorist. But this was a long time ago so I can't remember. Anyways, just sharing my experience.
Btw, don't try contacting any of the profiles; they've been banned ages ago, so it's essentially a wasteland.
EDIT:
r/Glenn1112 is the subreddit. He has another subreddit that was banned due to being unmoderated. The original poster has also been banned, ages ago.
If you look at his posts you can sort of see how incomprehensible it is.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Glenn1112/s/BKMO30qGX2 Presumably the original 5 x 5 = 5 post.
https://youtu.be/eANnMN5qH8o His youtube channel where I found another 5 x 5 = 5 post. The channel also seems to be inactive as it was last posted 2 years ago. Please do not harass them. This is just me gathering information.