GagBase Logo Explore

Who thought travel on a huge tank with thousands of people in deep sea is a great idea?

This image displays a frontal aerial view of the Icon of the Seas, the world's largest operating cruise ship registered in Nassau, sailing on open blue ocean. The massive vessel has dozens of multi-level decks packed with thousands of passengers, and visible on-board amenities include multiple colorful water slides, swimming pools, open-air dining areas, and public lounge spaces. The paired post title poses a sarcastic rhetorical question mocking the counterintuitive nature of transporting thousands of people on a giant ship across deep open sea, referencing widespread public concerns over cruise ship safety, hygiene, and risk of maritime incidents such as the Titanic disaster or other well-documented modern cruise mishaps. The joke highlights the perceived absurdity of large-scale cruise travel even as it remains a popular mainstream leisure option.
Make

Text content

Who thought travel on a huge tank with thousands of people in deep sea is a great idea?

Overview

This image displays a frontal aerial view of the Icon of the Seas, the world's largest operating cruise ship registered in Nassau, sailing on open blue ocean. The massive vessel has dozens of multi-level decks packed with thousands of passengers, and visible on-board amenities include multiple colorful water slides, swimming pools, open-air dining areas, and public lounge spaces. The paired post title poses a sarcastic rhetorical question mocking the counterintuitive nature of transporting thousands of people on a giant ship across deep open sea, referencing widespread public concerns over cruise ship safety, hygiene, and risk of maritime incidents such as the Titanic disaster or other well-documented modern cruise mishaps. The joke highlights the perceived absurdity of large-scale cruise travel even as it remains a popular mainstream leisure option.

Origin notes

This content originates from an RSS feed of 9Gag, a global user-generated content platform focused on humor and memes. The post uses a widely circulated real photograph of the Icon of the Seas, which entered commercial service in early 2024, paired with an original sarcastic caption to create the humorous commentary. The meme began circulating online shortly after the ship's launch alongside widespread viral discussion of its enormous scale.

Similar memes

This meme uses a humorous visual analogy to sum up naval warfare. It features a photograph taken in an indoor swimming pool. In the background, a woman stands in the water with most of her upper body visible above the surface, labeled 'Warships' to represent how surface warships sit mostly above the water. In the foreground, a person stands fully submerged except for a clear plastic container covering their head that sits just above the water line; this figure is labeled 'Submarines', as the container resembles a submarine's conning tower, the only part of a submarine typically visible above the surface when it is surfaced. The joke simplifies the core visual difference between the two types of naval vessels for comedic effect.

Naval warfare in a nutshell

This meme uses a humorous vis…

The image includes a text caption at the top stating that two Japan Coast Guard vessels are "crushing" a Chinese Maritime Militia Vessel that illegally entered Japanese territory near the Senkaku Islands. Below the text, an aerial photograph shows two large, white Japan Coast Guard ships flanking and squeezing a smaller, blue and yellow civilian-style vessel identified as the Chinese militia vessel between them, as all three vessels sail on open ocean with visible white wakes from their movement.

Japan Coast Guard Flanks Chinese Vessel Near Senkaku Islands

The image includes a text cap…

This is a close-up profile photograph of a grey and white tabby cat set against a plain solid white background. The cat has pale green narrowed eyes giving it a judgmental, skeptical expression, and rests one white front paw against its chin, perfectly mimicking the classic human 'thinking' or 'scheming' pose. It is widely used as a reaction image to convey contemplation, doubt, judgment, or plotting in response to something observed off-camera.

Judgy Thinking Tabby Cat Reaction Meme

This is a close-up profile ph…

This meme features a young real seal partially submerged in murky green tinted water, looking up towards the viewer with large, wide, slightly nervous and pleading eyes. White overlaid text on the left side of the image reads 'I can leave if u want', conveying a relatable people-pleasing, overly polite sentiment where someone offers to exit a situation to accommodate others even if they would prefer to stay, often in awkward or uncomfortable social contexts.

Polite Awkward Seal Offers to Leave

This meme features a young re…