[kinkrtyavimoodh]

Just as a side note, that's such a weird thing to compare against... What intuition does the average reader have about the price of container ships? If anything, I learnt that container ships are less costly than I would have guessed...

[drawnwren]

I now have exactly one conversion of value between Instagram and cargo ships. I'm not sure this cleared anything up for me.

[lostlogin]

It’s probably a misunderstanding of common media units of measure. If an Olympic swimming pool or an Empire State Building are a valid unit of measure, why not a container ship?

[kinkrtyavimoodh]

Those are probably weird too, but most people have some idea of how tall tall buildings are (even if they haven't been to NYC), and likewise have probably been to a pool.

[garmaine]

Well it’s at least visually comparable to the more standard units of measurement : the VW bug and football fields.