Fishing for iPhones in the Strait of Hormuz

Cartoon meme in the expanding-brain format, four rows. A masked cartoon fisherman in a tiny wooden skiff on a choppy sea holds up a fish (FISHING FOR FISH), then a sealed white phone box (FISHING FOR IPHONES), then a gold perfume bottle (FISHING FOR FRENCH PERFUME), and finally tows a giant red shipping container behind his smoking little boat (TOWING THE WHOLE CONTAINER HOME). The brain on the right grows from dim to cosmic. Details: an EXE sticker on the boat, an exeindex.com buoy flag, a floating newspaper reading F-35C LANDS ON CVN 79, and @exeindex in the corner. — EXE Index original cartoon · EXE Index original

Satire / Meme. The Telegraph reports hundreds of small boats fished for iPhones and French perfume from the GFS Pride, which sank Oct 14. Singapore's MPA says all 21 crew were safely evacuated with no injuries. Spot the easter egg

What: Fishing for iPhones in the Strait of Hormuz
When: 2026-10-16
Source: The Telegraph
Credit: EXE Index original cartoon
License: EXE Index original

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The Telegraph
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