hawkeye126 on "Phantom 1 showing up before content when trying to add widget area."

Using a plugin to register a widget area to the beginning of content.
This part of my plugin is adding a number 1 to the begining of the content:

if ( is_active_sidebar( 'lowermedia_wp_social_widget' ) ) :
		return dynamic_sidebar('lowermedia_wp_social_widget').$content;
	endif;

I know it's coming from here but just don't understand why, probably because it's returning a positive boolean? I just don't know. Please let me know what you think. Any and all help is appreciated.

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