Man, this is the same thing I keep running into at work, at the DMV, everywhere. People don't argue with facts half the time, they argue with the shape of your argument. Give them a wall of text with no receipts and their brain just files you under "loud guy" and moves on. Lead with the document, the screenshot, the number, and suddenly you're a person with a case instead of a person with a take. It's wild how one link does more than three paragraphs of being right ever will.

Something people forget is all the stuff you do not notice you are seeing. A logo on a shirt, the sign on a delivery truck stuck next to you at a light, the wrapper on a granola bar in your own kitchen. Those count too, and your brain filters most of them out before you even register them. I tried this for a day once and gave up by lunch because I kept catching stuff I had already walked past twice. Six thousand sounds high until you start adding in packaging, store signs, and the junk on your own fridge. The number is probably real, we just have no idea how much of it we are actually soaking in.