When viewed upside down, the plate reads “VSSH073”… but flip your head (or your phone), and it spells “VSSHO73”—which, with a little imagination and classic calculator-style letter substitution, reveals the cheeky word: “VSSHOES”… wait—no.
Let’s look again.
Hold the plate upside down, and 370HSSV becomes:
VSSH073 → but if you interpret the numbers as letters (like old-school calculator spelling):
- 3 = E
- 7 = L
- 0 = O
So upside down: 370HSSV → VSSH073 → visually resembles “VSSHO LE”… still not quite.
But here’s the real trick:
When you rotate the entire plate 180 degrees, the characters appear as:
- V → still V (symmetrical)
- S → still S
- S → S
- H → H (also symmetrical)
- 0 → O
- 7 → looks like L or T, depending on font
- 3 → looks like E
So 370HSSV flipped becomes: VSSH073 → which many read as “VSSHOLE”—a crude slang term.
