Why Is WoW’s Map Glowing Bright Blue? The Memes Have Theories

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We have some very bright news to cover today. Players have been running into a mysterious bright light covering their world maps recently, and nobody’s quit sure what it is – but the memes are sure ready to explain it!

A Very Bright Blue Map Glitch

A strange thing has been happening to players seemingly at random. When they go to look at the world map, its center is flooded with bright blue light.

There have been a few reports of this, and the general consensus is that it’s GPU-related, but nobody knows for sure. A VRAM issue is the main suspect, possibly related to the actual Overcharged Delve effect, but the main focus of these threads are more… creative explanations of the issue. Starting with some basic first-thought ones:

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To some very timely patch feature-related ones which would actually be cool:

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References aren’t far behind:

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And then there’s the truly creative and funny ones:

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There’s plenty more in the thread below.

Which one do you find most likely/thematic/funny?