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.
Happy 9 November to all those celebrating
9/11 jokes aren’t funny. The other two are good though.
Fun fact: In Spain 9/11 is called “11S” and in Poland simply “WTC attacks” (because there’s no fun way to shorten dates in Polish) .
to find old flash player stuff, check out https://flashpointarchive.org/
Paper Will has made some amazing and insightful videos, here is his video on video games about 9/11:
My favorite, The Onion classic.
Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.
From around 2007
My favorite
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
We don’t take covid deaths seriously, so why should we care about 9/11?
Fuck Covid deaths. All my homies hate covid deaths
I thought the younger generations were even more radical about 9/11 jokes?
It might be a reaction to that, in that case. These generation wars are such exhausting nonsense.
Looks like it’s from b3ta.com a British based visual joke making forum.
Some good oldies on that site.
Looks about right. Also spotted this antique of a 9/11 meme while there.
2026 Lemmy edition:
There was an ad campaign for Flexon eyeglass frames that showed a plane flying past a skyscraper while the sky scraper bends out of the way.
My wife had it in her optometry practice on 9/11. She had her staff yank it out and stash it in the back office.
According to Trump he was controlling the towers
Nah. We now have videographic evidence of who was in control of 9/11
lmao i laughed my ass of at this one, idk what makes it so good
