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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[–] 83 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

My favorite, The Onion classic.

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.

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  • [–] 61 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    9/11 jokes are plane wrong

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  • [–] 49 points 1 month ago

    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

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  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Fun fact, this was the Garfield comic on 9/10.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Garfield orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in history

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    9/11 jokes aren't funny. The other two are good though.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago

    My favorite

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    [–] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Happy 9 November to all those celebrating

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    [–] [S] 22 points 1 month ago

    From around 2007

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    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) .

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    According to Trump he was controlling the towers

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.)

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago* (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Well, well, well...

    --Tim Kreider, The Pain Comics

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    I've probably had this .gif for 20 years, and I finally have a reason to share it!

    E2xOa5Br7fR1SUQ.gif

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago

    For guidance on 9/11 jokes, I refer to Gilbert Gottfried, Jimmy Carr, Pete Davidson, and Seth MacFarlane.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (8 children)

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Paper Will has made some amazing and insightful videos, here is his video on video games about 9/11:

    https://youtu.be/D5GQCHjtimg

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    As someone chronically online, it’s surprising (and not) how many of these I’ve seen for the first time.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    Oh man the cringe pathetic pompous stuff I've seen today.
    Can they get over it now?

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    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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