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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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[–] Varesti@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 minutes ago
[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 1 points 34 minutes ago

to find old flash player stuff, check out https://flashpointarchive.org/

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 29 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

My favorite, The Onion classic.

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

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

https://youtu.be/D5GQCHjtimg

[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 hours ago
[–] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 50 points 5 hours ago
[–] jambudz@lemmy.zip 16 points 4 hours ago

My favorite

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 17 points 5 hours 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

[–] superduperpirate@lemmy.world 32 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

9/11 jokes are plane wrong

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

From around 2007

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 hours ago (2 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

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I thought the younger generations were even more radical about 9/11 jokes?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

It might be a reaction to that, in that case. These generation wars are such exhausting nonsense.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

We didn’t take covid deaths seriously, so why should we care about 9/11?

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

Fuck Covid deaths. All my homies hate covid deaths

[–] huppakee@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

According to Trump he was controlling the towers

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Nah. We now have videographic evidence of who was in control of 9/11

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 2 points 24 minutes ago

lmao i laughed my ass of at this one, idk what makes it so good

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 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.

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Looks about right. Also spotted this antique of a 9/11 meme while there.

[–] antonim@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago

2026 Lemmy edition:

[–] cardboardboxfort@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

Some good oldies on that site.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago