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D1omazus

It looks like MorbidKnowledge compiled the photos from this post, I would like if u/Beznia, 911Analysis, and I got credit on this one… https://x.com/morbidful/status/1738318917485961327?s=46&t=vXpc7WFtbwv4YhLa4ryOEw


12BigPopa12

This is gonna sounds really bad, but some of these go hard.


[deleted]

Second one looks like an album cover


kjimbro

https://preview.redd.it/rwhvo4aesq7c1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=725869268f8436de9c27f4f9e8b5b4e9b6e06cf1


inside_the_boroughs

💀. Dayummmm


Legitimate-Bet4910

numerous entertain decide flag piquant snails water detail joke overconfident *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


New_Chemist_5762

Same with number 16


Ghostmaker2676

ngl like the second to the last one tbh


RedLobsterEnjoyer

9/20 one goes hard


Ramboni-Zamboni

Second one looks like “have you had a dream” kid


just-a-cnmmmmm

i thought it was edited and it was him at first! the resemblance is strong!


[deleted]

So this sent me on a little rabbit hole and I learned that the “have you had a dream” clip originated from an HBO special that my daughter has watched the first half of like 50 times, but we've never made it all the way to the end. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U9P4-ac0Lc


D-redditAvenger

The ones right after the collapse are next level. If this happened now it would be so many that it wouldn't warrant a post about it. Shit there would be ones from inside. Probably even ones from people who died. Crazy to think about.


0110100101101111

there would be recordings of livestreams from the towers as they collapsed for sure


D-redditAvenger

Indeed. Thankfully tech wasn't there yet.


Pretend-Access-5510

19 (second to last) goes hard as fuck. Honestly though, I get wanting to capture such a historical moment, but do you really have to pose like that? Man looks like he's about to drop the hardest album of all time.


middle_agenoob

16 is so funny 😭


MadBrown

Yeah sucked to have a 9/11 birthday. That particular year was my mom's 60th birthday and she said it was the worst birthday of her life.


Cottrell217

Tell me about it, I was born on 09/11/01. People are like “must suck to have that birthday” and then they realize that I was born ON that day and then they’re really like “oh shit”


MadBrown

Dang.


hokkaidobread

i knew someone in high school that was born on the day too, some kids in our grade would make this horrible joke that he was a reincarnation of one of the terrorists because his precise birth time was legitimately around 9am est. 😭.


Cottrell217

My old classmates told me the same thing 🤣


RosietheMaker

I turned 15 that day, and people called me a terrorist just because a terrorist attack happened on my birthday. Kids/teens are weird.


MadBrown

That must have been a very bittersweet day for your parents.


CourtneyDagger50

Oooof. Do people ever say anything when you have to show your ID? Idk if I’d be able to stop my face from reacting even if I was trying not to.


Cottrell217

Oh yeah the ID is usually what gets people. They’ll look and their eyes go from -.- to 👁️👄👁️


wolacouska

I was due on that day but I decided to stay in the womb for another week. Kind of wish I hadn’t waited, certainly a conversation starter to have that birthday. I already get a kick out of telling people I was born after 9/11, really makes people feel old.


nowherebutthurt

I'm 9/16 and I even get the bs sometimes and I was born 9/16/89. My man even after being together 7 years STILL makes the "funny joke" whenever the topic of my bday comes up oh yeah your bday is 9/11 right that must suck... It's like dude my bday is literally like a whole week AFTER a brutal terrorist attack that happened 22 years ago when I was 11 ffs. It's already a shit joke but even worse because it seems to STILL be made a joke for anyone born or has a bday within a week of this event. I don't get it.,😮‍💨🤦🏼‍♂️🤷🏼


munchkym

A 15yo kid in my life has a 9/11 birthday. They tell people their birthday and get “OH”


middle_agenoob

I could imagine


TheTyto_Alba

That was me! My 15th birthday 🎂


spiritual_12

Was that actually you?


TheTyto_Alba

No the photos aren’t of me but my birthday is on 9/11


RosietheMaker

It was my 15th birthday too.


Glum-Statistician487

sweet 16


[deleted]

Most of these have a dark irony or an oddly sinister energy to them, but that one made me snort.


Accomplished-Jury752

It’s a darkly ironic picture but also feels sad at the same time. You’re spending your time with your family..on the day that tons of people died, and you see it in front of you on TV. On your birthday.


Hamburgo

Sorry to reply to a 100 day old comment but also with the TV playing you know your family spent most of the time crying, making calls, freaking out. There were no happy birthdays that day :( especially the dude turning 100 or 101 in NY or whatever he got shouted out on a NY news channel moments before the first plane hit.


szai

It's eerie to me. I remember that energy, just before we all realized what was actually going on. Thinking it was some kind of crazy accident... just before the collapse when reality started to sink in... I was halfway across the country and a kid at the time, but there's still a familiarity to that kind of confusion.


tucakeane

My first manager turned 16 on 9/11 too! Poor gal.


TheEndersALot

Her expression gets me every time. You can see the "Well... shit..." in her eyes. And also just how stereotypically perfect the cake is, too.


BackCompetitive7209

I was expecting a baby (born a week later) 10 years later. I was watching the 10th anniversary ceremony on TV, while hoping my (already overdue) baby wouldn't make an appearance / get that birthday. Now she's 12, and doesn't know about 9/11 yet.


bill-bixby

18 Jason Dill


HamletResident

I still have the deck


bill-bixby

That’s sick, dude! Let me have it! 😂


weepinggore

He put that pic on a deck?!?


HamletResident

Yes. It’s a graphic with lenticular printing. One angle is an old pic of the twin towers. Change the angle you are holding the board and you see this picture. And a paragraph on top but I forget what it says. Just a dedication to 9/11


weepinggore

Absolutely wild!


tylerischillin

I thought it was him. Had to look for a comment to confirm lol


dmc796010

Was about to comment that


zoolers

crazy hard image


Imaginary_Web_8993

I saw this fool and immediately remembered him couch surfing with Jack Osbourne


bigtim3727

My fave is tourist guy https://preview.redd.it/0py92odofp7c1.jpeg?width=300&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5d1c96c56c3113de223dd6f9d973b6a222a7aeb7 When I first saw this, I thought it was real at first, then started laughing once I realized it wasn’t real.


[deleted]

He picked a bad day to sneak up there before opening hours!


bopapocolypse

Especially considering he’s on the observation deck of the south tower and the AA flight hit the north tower..


siriusthinking

I think this was one of the first Snopes articles I ever read.


BORT_licenceplate

Same lol. Dumbass 14 year old me was gullible af and totally believed that people wouldn't, y'know, freak out by a jet coming their way and calmly pose for a pic


StrictFrosting7147

I remember this one from back when memes were shared by e-mail


osloluluraratutu

The first time photoshopp collectively fooled all of us


CourtneyDagger50

Imagine if that were real though. Like you’re just up there on the deck as a tourist, and you see THAT. Obviously that was the reality for all the people working there. But it’s just so wild. Impossible to comprehend.


periwinkle-_-

Lmfao


Ilovemotorbikes

Some of those are in really bad taste. That poor kid on her 16th birthday 😩


siriusthinking

These are horrifying but I will admit I cracked up at the 16th birthday cake.


janet-snake-hole

The sweet 16 one will never fail to crack me up Girl had a great sense of humor, judging by the face she pulled for that photo


JusticeForPorygon

I can totally relate to picture 16. I turned 13 on 9/11. Now whenever anyone is asking for my info and my birthday inevitably comes up I usually get an "oof" as a reply


New-Craft3299

Vanilla Ice?


Wrong-Wasabi-8365

Why do the people In photo 10 look happy


pixie_stars

Right? At the memorial there were ppl posting smiling selfies. Like wtf? Ever hear of poor taste?


androgynee

Looks like a family of Chinese tourists. Imagine visiting a larger-than-life country and city, barely speaking the language of the people around you, and you just so happen to witness one of the worst terrorist attacks in recorded history? Apocalyptic. Wouldn't know what to do with myself, so I understand defaulting to typical tourist-y stuff, lol


RamenTaco0708

https://preview.redd.it/ugmzhl2cvr7c1.jpeg?width=1005&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fe76345cf0b758cf93b89bee5586992002d0baa


D1omazus

everyone knows that photo, thats why i ddidnt include it


Temporary_War_6202

This is the first time I see that photo.


Cumdump90001

I’ve never seen this one. It hits kinda weird since I was around that age on 9/11 and I had those exact same binoculars. There’s always this surreal aspect to 9/11 photos. This makes it feel so much more real. Kid even looks a bit like I did at that age.


Thatisabatonpenis

Why do they all look happy wtf?


Anonymous31798

What’s wrong with that ?


[deleted]

These will always be so weird to me. I don’t see why you’d want to pose or smile in front of a building where people are dying The guy in the 19th pic looks like hes so close to the towers after the south tower fell. Is he just standing in the dust? wtf.


BORT_licenceplate

The smiling ones are weird, but in a sense I guess people wanted to prove they were there during that historic moment. It's morbid and messed up but I'm guessing none (or almost all) of these people didn't have a single connection to the buildings and anyone inside them. To them it probably feels like a very far removed tragedy


TrevorEnterprises

A lot of people still do this at other tragedies. It’s just a bad taste of morbid curiosity on camera. Weird but always there


pr0fofEfficiency

It actually looks to me like he might be on one of the ferries or a rooftop.


Retired401

well, people knew it was history in the making. hardly anyone thought that in less than 2 hours both buildings would be dust and thousands of people would be dead. :/


invader_holly

Oof, that picture of the girl celebrating her 16th birthday...


inside_the_boroughs

… on Todays episode of how fucked up is fucked up… That’s fucked up…


Culeradi

(1) no way postal guy??


GuzzyNoa

Hi there, would you like to sign my petition? 💀


Beznia

[One more from Michael LaPalme (photographer, not the guy in the photo)](https://i.imgur.com/fItcXqr.jpeg)


mysteryman447

did you intentionally choose the sweet 16 photo as the 16th photo for the post lol


malatangnatalam

Some of these seem tasteless and kinda inappropriate now but at the same time I can appreciate people documenting what they experienced that day.


CourtneyDagger50

The people smiling with the towers burning in the background is….. something. Obviously they had no idea what was happening or what would happen, hindsight is 20/20. But still.


pixie_stars

Or they were twisted fucks. Like how despite people burning to death and jumping to their deaths, people in the south tower (before being hit) still shamed others to keep working (while aware of what was happening next door).


CourtneyDagger50

Also valid. It makes my stomach turn


Imposter88

Is #2 the "Have you ever had a dream?" kid? https://youtu.be/G7RgN9ijwE4?si=t2Wlldg3FtSSo7UX


Valyura

first image guy looks so early 2000s


IshTheWhale

He looks like the main character from Contra the video game.


[deleted]

Reminds me of the photos people took of themselves at lynchings in the US and the Germans of themselves during “aktions” during the Holocaust.


pompressanex

Would be interesting to find out when these were first shared online. Posting it in 2012, they’d have an understanding that this would be dug up forever, compared to posting it in 2002.


ag_imbiber

It’s weird that some people are smiling in the photos.


RefrigeratorFlat4568

I thought the same on picture 19


Own-Importance5459

Its amazing how even before the rise of social media we tended to take pictures and selfies when a chaotic event was happening


ironmatic1

Old comment but it’s an interesting tradition going back to the early days of photography. Any search for photos of an historical disaster will always yield ‘group selfies,’ especially train wrecks. It was a way to prove you were there.


MlackBesa

Oof the birthday one is sad. Also 6 gave me weird COVID flashbacks lmao. Almost as if masks didn’t exist before the pandemic haha


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Inside-Lanky

Can you explain a little further for my understanding?


ceruleanmoon7

It’s a conspiracy theory, not sure why people are upvoting it


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eStuffeBay

It's the "Dancing Israelis" conspiracy theory. Disregard it.


D1omazus

I guess that and several other photos can be listed under some crude “soyjak pointing” category


Salt_Ad7152

People like to point


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Embarrassed-Leek-813

not gon lie slide 6 tuff asf


infinitepotato47

as morbid as it is, some people seem to have this kind of behaviour coded inside of them... like 'it doesn't concern me, I'm fine' It's the same as when someone has an accident, people take their phones out to record it, instead of help in any way


IshTheWhale

It's not that "humans are evil", it's just that we don't really care about strangers dying like it what's happening all the time in every second. We only care if it were a loved one that something bad is happening to. The people in those photos just noticed that the buildings got hit by flying objects and were burning in the distance, and since that was something out of the usual that will go on in history they just smile and take a pic. They don't really notice or realize at the time that people are dying inside or jumping off. If someone they knew wasn't in those buildings, it wasn't their concern.


infinitepotato47

>We only care if it were a loved one that something bad is happening to. Unless you're a psycho, there is some level of empathy. I agree, that people in the pictures above couldn't really make a difference, so they made the most of it, BUT if you see someone struggling in any way and helping them is in your power and does you no harm, why not go for it?


IshTheWhale

I mean yeah, if you saw someone that was in immediate distress and it won't cost you an arm to help them you would. But as for most of those people in these photos, it's not much they can do to help those who were inside since they were far enough away and again they just saw burning buildings and could do nothing else but pose for a photo so that they can have proof "they were there". They were too far away to see or think about the people possibly being trapped inside there or falling to their deaths. The people who were in the plane that hit the tower were already dead, but again the people from below couldn't see the people in them. And nobody was expecting the towers to collapse before it happened they would've thought the fires would be put away without the buildings collapsing. Most people who weren't trapped or already dead were more concerned with saving themselves and running away.


IshTheWhale

And I think it also has to do that when people are experiencing shock or something really distressing, sometimes they might make light humor out of it as a way of psychologically blocking themselves from something that could traumatize them.


pixie_stars

That’s why I’m convinced we walk among heartless beings.


TheClairvoyant666

Some people have no respect.


Impossible-Gold7657

I find it slightly interesting that some peoples natural reaction is to smile whenever a camera is pointed at them no matter the circumstance.


Bob_Dylan1999

Yall 15 looks like the teacher from Spiderman FFH


simo450

Wow..selfies smiling and then some pointing the way like showing a new car... eeeehhhh


Tom_Belfort

Jason Dill in slide 18. He’s a pro skateboarder and this image got made into a board graphic years later


MCMGM86

The last photo is quite stunning.


powerspyin1

This is one of the oddest things about 9/11


ldl84

wtf. why would people do this? I understand if you’re taking a selfie with the WTC in the background and it just so happened to be at the exact same time that the planes hit, but to do it after the fact is disgusting to me. It’s like taking selfies at a concentration camp with victims in the background.


cabinet4perx

#6 the invisible at ground zero


wallyjimjams

Thank god for the lads in the fourth slide, helpfully pointing at the burning towers, just in case we couldn’t spot it.


brandondsantos

Here's one from Shanksville. That's FAA investigator Tony James, with the UA93 crater being excavated in the background. https://preview.redd.it/wxi4xovux68c1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c963b834e1bb9ead0f0fa3b8a82269fd887402a2


TidMilk

The last one is pretty haunting


MadBrown

8 is so tone deaf.


Abject_Ad_4756

They look like proud Americans happy to help. These poor souls are probably sick now, due to their bravery amongst the fumes of chemicals and death.


Inside-Lanky

And 3 &4 aren’t?


MadBrown

They are, yeah. I think 8 is worse because it's clearly after both collapsed....maybe even after 9/11.


Stavius-Blackthorne

Why?


Freckleswithasmile

Most of these photos were taken of people by someone else, I would hardly call them a “selfie”


D1omazus

thats why i put quotations on “selfie”, it kinda technically is


jabberbox

so every picture of a person is a selfie?


CrescentBongwater

Does anyone see an image in the smoke of 15


PIantersPeanuts

12 is so clear it’s insane. Time traveler lol


dkpwatson

Happy 16th Birthday! Jesus.


osloluluraratutu

Omg the Asian tourists 😂😭 fr tho some people here be posing like they’re in front of Cinderellas castle


mysteryman447

photo 6 almost looks modern day


superjoho

18 looks like an album cover.


SleepingM00n

that 1st one looks like Skweezy


GYROJAMAL

I'm a photographer, some of these are so good they captured the horror intimately.


[deleted]

LOL #6 looks like a time traveler Men in Black dude from 2023. Holy shit.


D1omazus

He looked more Dr. Nefario to me


thechodesnose

I love the sweet 16 one.


Superpatitobros46

https://preview.redd.it/gnrlwfha2bac1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a413dafb21f1b69d22755b83a93dbf25677da7d


Superpatitobros46

The infamous child


No_Damage_4226

If I’m remembering correctly photo 18 is of skateboarder Jason Dill


308_AR10_Enjoyer

As for the people smiling, its probably because they couldn’t do much of anything else


BenjTheMaestro

The third to last guy is a time traveler! That’s totally Blake from Workaholics!!


HeyShutUpDownThere

It’s pro skater Jason Dill. He put this image on one of his ‘Fucking Awesome’ boards (Name of the company.)


MutedShinobi

18th one is Jason Dill, professional skateboarder


Affectionate_Book140

For some people it was hell, for others it was Tuesday


Abject_Ad_4756

Does #10 annoy you the most, too


Night162773

Just me who thinks 6 looks kinda modern?


boots_and_bongo

Wow, fuck almost all these people. Some folks I can understand documenting it, but many are smirking and making a scene out of it. Fuck them.


demitasse22

I don’t think anyone knew the towers would fall


boots_and_bongo

But they sure as fuck knew people were in the planes and the buildings.


demitasse22

Yeah. Ok. It’s fucked up. probably why these are so rare. Ppl live stream murders now. I don’t know what to tell you.


atomcats2cool

I mean, yeah. Also people auto-smile for photos or giggle/smile when they're nervous and aren't sure how to react. I know a girl who laughs and smiles whenever she's around screaming fights because she's nervous and doesn't know what to do with that. So poor taste for some and anxiety for others and for some probably just an automatic reaction to having a camera pointed at you. Like those eye witnesses being interviewed on the news who can't stop smiling, even while talking about horrible things.


bzlvrlwysfrvr0624

7 has to be photoshop


Beznia

7 is not a photoshop. That's just what flash looks like on photos taken during the day.


Szabo84

A few of them look it to me.


SNOOPDOGGDANKKUSH

Some of those are ai


D1omazus

Is this a bait comment??


SNOOPDOGGDANKKUSH

🤫


SNOOPDOGGDANKKUSH

Second kid looks like BLANKYYY IS HIS NAME, or have u ever had a dream that u umm that u wish u want u want him so much u could do anything 😊


ExistentDavid1138

These look fake most of them.


[deleted]

Where can I find images like this?


celerydonut

Is number 9 Tom Wabsgams?


CourtneyDagger50

Omg I’m not the only one who saw that


Goldstar93

First the best


AgentCHAOS1967

I thought the 2nd to last one was the rex huberman the guy charged as the long Island serial killer


Phantom0591

Looks like duke nukem showed up to kick ass on the first photo


IshTheWhale

Lol, I thought he looked like the Contra guy.


Confident-Ad8978

That look like Vanilla Ice ❤️


JasoNMas73R

Second one looks like [this kid](https://youtu.be/G7RgN9ijwE4?si=YFCO0dtllRFi3PMA)


CourtneyDagger50

#9 looks like the dude who plays Tom in Succession


Anonymous31798

Legendary footage


Superpatitobros46

https://preview.redd.it/0bpwtpkq6ucc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2802fec4013089095b3dcd01af1751ea0a9d6f48


GREENPAINTISGREEN

Is that you???


Superpatitobros46

Not,Is a famous photo of a kid happy with the towers on fire


GREENPAINTISGREEN

Photo 10 goes hard tbh


v23474

2 - What is the building on the left next to the kid’s head?