I’ve never seen a footpath marker like this, the submitted location is on a footpath though (in Cambridgeshire, UK). Main and supporting photos are basically the same with different cropping.
Obviously some retouching has been done at the least. The full resolution is 1145 x 1501, so much less than you’d expect from a normal photo and it makes it difficult to see the details. I reported it as fake.
Did you happen to make a note of the location?
I’m also in Cambs and I have never seen a marker like this, it seems to be blurry when the bench is in better focus, also maybe missing a shadow? Looks really out of place and I guess right behind someone’s house.
Were there other footpath markers visible on streetview at the start?
The style looks out of place.
Approximately..
The style is odd, although not being near there means I can’t guarantee the local council didn’t do something different (good that someone from Cambs responded - @KaptainSpikey)
The picture detail itself is highly suspicious
The main photo and supporting photo being the same base photo is suspicious
The lack of an actual PROW at that location is highly suspicious (random paths joining bits of suburbs together do not get turned into PROWs) - I used other sourced as well as the OSM map to confirm that.
Reporting it as fake seems the right thing to have done. It’s one of those where it would be good if someone from the area (Haslingfield, 5 miles SW of Cambridge centre) could keep an eye on what appears in Pokemon Go and physically check it out.
I wouldnt consider that a submittable footpath. If its just a link then that could just be an estate marker for a path. So not necessarily fake but not eligible either.
Is there a pub nearby 
we could all meet up ….but that part of the world is not easy to get to.
There’s going to be a lot of Ingress players nearby in a few weeks. Whether anyone has the time or inclination to travel out from Cambridge…
Bing Maps shows it better..
Looks like the bench is there. I can’t see a footpath marker on either end of this PROW which is basically a cut-through.
It’s always /possible/ that the ‘satellite’ images on bing are slightly too old. Everything else points to this being fake though.
Examining closer, it looks to me like they have cropped the top from one of the taller, thinner field markers that enable them to be seen across open fields more easily. We do have yellow topped posts around here but I haven’t seen this style, maybe a newer more modern version, but still wouldn’t be scaled in this way or used at this sort of location. No need for a marker here at all, maybe at the start of the path but not along the middle of such a short section. Sadly not somewhere I can get to easily, otherwise I would take a trip.
There is some blurriness around the top in particular. Could it be added by AI ??? Could the top portion have ben altered from something else.
It is definitely a reject but beyond that 
Odd little space.
Certainly one to watch for
That village has a good collection of wayspots. Maybe someone wanted a couch stop.
This looks like a bad attempt at a fake photo edit. Honestly, I would temporarily freeze this nominator’s account until they can provide solid proof the marker exists in real life.
Curious about the hidden yet suspicious footpath marker, @shritwod found himself in a journey to find and prove their conclusion of sign marker being fake.
21 days later, they found themselves finding a white fence, wounded by a great deal of green tree and leaf. Surrounded by an endless scroll of grass and a nicely sitting bench, the Wayfinder found themselves both in conviction and confusion, said:
“Bloody fake AI”
I am cringe please help me :((
For extra obsessiveness I will upload a photosphere 
