Because a hashtag is not a symbol, it’s a tag. It’s in the name. #summer and #typography are hashtags (if used in a medium that supports hashtags), # in itself isn’t.I have no problems with social media, it’s misnomers that I can’t stand.I like how you responded in three paragraphs to my considerably shorter outburst, though, making all sorts of assumptions about me. I hope you’ll be delighted to know that I have no qualms about computing terminology.“Clearly”.
Hashmark, or simply hash. Otherwise, yes.