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About
Strait of Hormuz Bypass Solutions is an exploitable meme made using an AI-generated map that was posted to X /Twitter in March of 2026. Edits of the map quickly spread across social media platforms such as X, Reddit and other sites.
Origin
On March 11th, 2026, X user hvgoenka posted an AI-generated map of the Strait of Hormuz and its surrounding lands, along with a bypass route which uses oil trucks to reach a cargo ship at the other end. The post received over 37 million views and 23,000 likes in six days.
Spread
X users began to mock the post relentlessly. On March 11th, 2026, X user @buckadeath quoted the post, stating: "Bro thinks they can just Mad Max a couple million barrels of crude through the deserts of Oman every day." The post received over 8.7 million views and 258,000 likes within six days.
The same day, X user @TheMaineWonk quoted the original post, commenting: "We live in the dumbest fucking timeline in human history." The post received 7.8 million views and 19,000 likes in six days.
Soon after, the post began to spread to other platforms. On March 11th, 2026, Reddit user u/Hazel_Transport posted their own "solution" to the issue on r/mapporncirclejerk, creating a "Gay of Hormuz" to counter the Strait of Hormuz. The post received about 6,000 upvotes in six days, sparking a trend on the subreddit.
On March 12th, 2026, X user @misterpiyush quoted the original post with a video and caption: "Sir why not this?" The post received 1 million views and 39,000 likes in five days.
Sir why not this? https://t.co/xhA2qKa1DY pic.twitter.com/mvLX4cXJfy
— Piyush Sharma (@misterpiyush) March 12, 2026On March 12th, 2026, the post was once again shared, this time to Instagram, by user memezar, which received over 314,100 likes in five days.
The same day, Reddit user u/Hot_Complaint_6317 also posted a humorous solution to bypassing the Strait of Hormuz to r/mapporncirclejerk, which received about 6,700 upvotes.
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