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My favorite, The Onion classic.

9/11 jokes are plane wrong
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.
Fun fact, this was the Garfield comic on 9/10.

Garfield orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in history
9/11 jokes aren't funny. The other two are good though.
Happy 9 November to all those celebrating
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) .
According to Trump he was controlling the towers
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.)
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.
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.
I've probably had this .gif for 20 years, and I finally have a reason to share it!

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
I thought the younger generations were even more radical about 9/11 jokes?
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.
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
We didn’t take covid deaths seriously, so why should we care about 9/11?
Paper Will has made some amazing and insightful videos, here is his video on video games about 9/11:
As someone chronically online, it’s surprising (and not) how many of these I’ve seen for the first time.
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.










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