One Friday afternoon in 2018, a nonprofit organization called the St. Francois County presiding commissioner asking for a copy of the Missouri county’s seal for a publication it was about to print.

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The current St. Francois County seal, designed in 2018 by a county commissioner who says he is "not artistically inclined," was upvoted thousands of times on Reddit's "CrappyDesign" forum.