If you want a video to explain the concept of whale fracking, here it is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiyc0enBwfk

The reason this is a big deal to the true believers that spent a lot of money: previously, the aforementioned internet spaceship was only available to people that bought a twenty five thousand dollar completionist internet spaceship package as a followup to a ten thousand dollar internet spaceship package. That was supposed to be a matter of pride and achievement, as the fellow grifters at EA once put it. But now a silly loot drop (that is trivially easy to find, apparently) unlocks the ability to buy the aforementioned internet spaceship for only a few hundred dollars.

The whales have been fracked. 🛢 🐳 🛢