The new iPhone 17 is everywhere in blue, black, and orange, but the orange color has become the internet’s camouflage.
Since the release of the iPhone 17, one cannot scroll on social media without seeing a post about the orange iPhone. It has become a huge star just a few weeks after it came out. The pressure around it is huge people are going around faking that they have the latest iPhone. Influencers are desperate to show they have it first. Since it is very expensive, they are using fake pictures.
They use special telephone tricks, called AI, to create photos of themselves holding the orange iPhone. They want their followers to think they are the first to have this new, cool thing. It is a race to look the richest and the most modern. This fake world is creating real problems. In Mexico, a story is spreading about a young man named Ricardo. He was so in love with his girlfriend that he wanted to prove his love by buying her this special phone.
But the iPhone 17 is very expensive. The story says Ricardo did something extreme,he sold one of his own kidneys to get the money for it. He gave his girlfriend the phone, thinking it would make her happy. But just ten days later, she left him. Her reason was shocking. She said she did not want to be with a man who had no money.
This story, whether true or not, shows the power of this obsession. The desire for this phone is not just about the device. It is about what it represents. In Cameroon, people are also using AI to pretend they have the iPhone 17. They want to feel successful and impress their friends. It is a global fever, a madness for a color.
