CAIRO—It was the ship that launched a thousand memes, with social media users sharing viral images on Thursday of a giant container vessel wedged into the banks of the Suez Canal.
The Evergreen first got stuck across the vital shipping route on Tuesday, with Egyptian authorities still desperately trying to shift the 59-meter-wide and 400-meter-long ship.
Days into the saga, and with no quick solution apparent, Twitter users decided the vessel was the perfect encapsulation of the past two years.
One of the most shared photographs was taken from a ship following the Ever Given, and showed it blocking the canal.
“A pangolin fluttering their eyelashes at a bat,” r…
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