Origin
In December 2020, multiple TikTok videos reignited a long-standing internet debate about an allegedly sunken ship visible on Google Earth in the port of a Japanese Island:
Indeed, the presence of this boat and its alleged sunken status has been debated in various Redditthreads for over a year.
One common assertion is that the image shows the remains of the Ottoman frigate Ertuğrul, which sank off the coast of a Japanese Island named Kii Ōshima in 1890. If you don’t put too much thought into it, you can see why this theory is popular — the sunken ship on Google Earth is seen in a port on an island named Ōshima.