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I would suspect some of the watertight (and highly electrical) equipment used to drill/funnel the stuff up to the surface, got damaged in some way, had some sparks happen. Open sparks under high pressure with volatile chemicals....boom.
I actually find that really depressing. Before I'd even HEARD about the incident, I learned about it via that gif. So it's already psychologically downplayed coming out of the gate.
The internet certainly knows how to play fast and loose on what memes are important and which ones aren't or considered old hat. I have nothing against the meme itself, but I figured it was one of those memes that would be forgotten about within two or three years. Just goes to show how powerful it is.
It's fundamental use tends to be similar to rickrolling, in that it gets deployed to taunt people in an slightly obnoxious way. So...it's basically immortal.
