Meme history: One of the earliest 9/11 jokes posted online.
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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I've probably had this .gif for 20 years, and I finally have a reason to share it!
Fun fact, this was the Garfield comic on 9/10.
Sir, a second Garfield has hit the Tower
Garfield orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in history
So they knew about it the day before and it still happened? Incompetence!
Worst? Seems like it worked pretty fucking well.
Also Kermit was involved
My favorite, The Onion classic.
Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.
If you remember those times you're probably thinking of a version of subway that was at least partially edible.
I'm pretty sure I remember their sandwiches tasted like they were made of food at one point.
$5 foot longs are now $10 and have never been a foot long.
It’s funny in two ways because, like Subway, it’s tasteless!
9/11 jokes aren't funny. The other two are good though.
Get the fuck over it.
Would you like the joke explained to you?
lol
9/11 jokes are plane wrong
No planes in this one. In fact, you have to have lived through Duhbya's presidency or be very knowledgable of it to understand the humor this subtle 20-oughts meme.
jesus christ it all makes sense now
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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 ...
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.
https://youtu.be/E_nJDD2xaEs
My favorite
Ouch, a valentines days 9/11 card
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.
From around 2007
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.
According to this Wikipedia list, if we exclude everything built after 2001, the Trump World Tower would be #6 just in NYC (after the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, 70 Pine St, 40 Wall St, and Citigroup Center). But it does note that the Trump Tower was the tallest residential building in the world from 2000-2003, a ranking that would not have been affected by the fall of the WTC.
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.
For guidance on 9/11 jokes, I refer to Gilbert Gottfried, Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson, and Seth MacFarlane.
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
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
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.
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.
Yes, but South Park always makes edgy, socially unacceptable jokes. Making fun of 9/11 is more or less socially acceptable now.
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.
We didn’t take covid deaths seriously, so why should we care about 9/11?
Fuck Covid deaths. All my homies hate covid deaths
This comment section is pure comedy gold.
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
As someone chronically online, it’s surprising (and not) how many of these I’ve seen for the first time.
Looks like it's from b3ta.com a British based visual joke making forum.
MutantMonty used to post a lot of gifs there before he went onto becoming cyriak of Cows Cows Cows fame.
Looks about right. Also spotted this antique of a 9/11 meme while there.
2026 Lemmy edition:
Some good oldies on that site.
9/11 tetris
to find old flash player stuff, check out https://flashpointarchive.org/
Oh shit that is the most fantastic unrelated thing! Thanks!
See also https://ruffle.rs/ -- full, from-the-ground-up reimplementation of Flash Player entirely within HTML5, so you can play Flash games in modern browsers. Available both as a script that webmasters can embed on websites and as a browser extension that you can install to make your browser "have Flash player" again.
Paper Will has made some amazing and insightful videos, here is his video on video games about 9/11:
https://youtu.be/D5GQCHjtimg
Oh man the cringe pathetic pompous stuff I've seen today.
Can they get over it now?
During the summer of 2007 I was volunteering at a children's daycare at my church. There was this one kid, probably about 8 and kind of a rascal. Me and my assistant watch him grab these cardboard building blocks and stack them up into two parallel towers. He then grabs a toy airplane and yells to the other kids "hey, let's play 9/11!" We immediately put a stop to this, but then me and my assistant have to take turns going around a corner to laugh our asses off.
https://youtu.be/kZqfcEhBQ2c