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- memes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
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.
I remember this edited photo of a tourist on top of the towers that went viral. My favorite edit of it was the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.

Yup this is an oldie. Of course no one was on the observation deck that morning since it hadn’t opened yet. I do believe some of the staff of the businesses on the observation floor were already there and died. I seem to recall hearing a Sabaro’s employee died (there were a few NYC style eateries on the observation floor.)
Yeah, this picture was taken in 1997 and the guy in it did the editing. He just did it as a joke for his friends and didn’t expect it to go viral.
For guidance on 9/11 jokes, I refer to Gilbert Gottfried, Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson, and Seth MacFarlane.
Fun fact, this was the Garfield comic on 9/10.

Garfield orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in history
So they knew about it the day before and it still happened? Incompetence!
Also Kermit was involved
Well, well, well…

–Tim Kreider, The Pain Comics
I have it on good authority that after the towers collapsed Trump tower became the tallest building in NYC. In fact, Trump called into a news broadcast to proclaim that hours after they’d fallen.

jesus christ it all makes sense now

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This comment section is pure comedy gold.
Happy 9 November to all those celebrating
That would be Kristallnacht, the original 9/11
looking at Germany rn there might be some people there actually celebrating Kristallnacht …
9/11 jokes aren’t funny. The other two are good though.
Get the fuck over it.
lol
Would you like the joke explained to you?

My favorite, The Onion classic.

Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.
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) .
Yeah I’ve heard most countries flip the month and day around so it’d be 11/9 so 9/11 sounds strange to them since it’d be implying November 9th rather than September 11th.
Have you more fun 9/11 facts?
I only have two.
And a half.


Ouch, a valentines days 9/11 card