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Heres some internet history for the 25th anniversary of 9/11. One of the earliest memes posted online about the attack. Often called "9/11 what if they'd missed" or "9/11 the happy ending."

There's were other versions of it I remember that had the towers bending in multiple directions as other planes attempt to fly into them but they seem to be lost media, aka the Matrix bullet dodging trope.

It was a bit harder to find than I'd assume it'd be. Someone had saved it on youtube and I've converted it to gif for posterities sake. The original was probably in Flash which is why it's so difficult to find these days.

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[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

It's been a bit funny seeing the shift. 9/11 jokes were fairly common amongst edgy doofuses for decades, but now they're considered slightly more uncouth for some reason. Not sure what the deal is. The typical joke formula flipped. Time+tragedy=irreverance? Glad for the people affected by 9/11, but it's perplexing

[-] socsa@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Pearl clutching from right wingers who want us to forget they were whining about masks while 4000 people were dying from Covid every fucking day for months

[-] SirLeToet@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's because of the 22,3 year rule. Tragedies become funny to joke about without shockhumor after about 22,3 years. Like aids became socially funny ~20 years ago and 9/11 became socially acceptable to joke about just shortly after COVID.

It's uncanning how accurate Matt and Trey's documentary was. As usual.

[-] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I mean to be fair people were joking about 9/11 way before that time, even South Park made fun of 9/11 a few years later when they made that 9/11 conspiracy episode.

[-] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes, but South Park always makes edgy, socially unacceptable jokes. Making fun of 9/11 is more or less socially acceptable now.

[-] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

I thought the younger generations were even more radical about 9/11 jokes?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago

It might be a reaction to that, in that case. These generation wars are such exhausting nonsense.

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We didn’t take covid deaths seriously, so why should we care about 9/11?

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Fuck Covid deaths. All my homies hate covid deaths

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