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Strait of Hormuz Bypass Solutions, also known as Strait of Hormuz Blocked Solutions, is an exploitable meme made using an AI-generated map that was posted to X / Twitter in mid-March 2026. Edits of the map quickly spread across social media platforms such as X, Reddit and other sites as the news of Iran blocking the strait amid the 2026 American-Iranian conflict garnered attention online. Additional memes using other variations of the map or references to absurd ideas to circumnavigate the blockage of the Strait of Hormuz also appeared online at the time.

Origin

On March 11th, 2026, X^[1] / Twitter user hvgoenka posted an AI-generated map of the Strait of Hormuz and its surrounding lands, along with a bypass route that 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 as it garnered attention. On March 11th, 2026, X^[2] 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^[3] 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, Redditor Hazel_Transport posted their own "solution" to the issue on the /r/mapporncirclejerk^[5] subreddit, 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^[4] user @misterpiyush quoted the original post with a video of a Bollywood movie clip of a ship flying into the air and caption, "Sir why not this?" The post received over 1 million views and 39,000 likes in five days.

On March 12th, 2026, the post was once again shared, this time to Instagram^[6] by the meme page memezar, which received over 314,100 likes in five days.

The same day, Redditor Hot_Complaint_6317 also posted a humorous solution to bypassing the Strait of Hormuz to the /r/mapporncirclejerk^[7] subreddit, which received about 6,700 upvotes in five days.

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