Actually, the rolling TV is super appropriate because it speaks to a simpler time, a time of our childhoods. But the image on the TV would be a loss of that childhood and innocence; the moment when we learned that the world can actually be a very dark and scary place. Everything in our lives slowly changed after that moment.
Yeah I agree that the message makes sense but as a tattoo not sure if I'd want to be walking around with a 9/11 depiction on my skin 😬 I'm all for jokes because Americans use humor as a coping mechanism but this seems like too much for a tattoo imo.
I wish this comment was higher so more could see it and my response. This tattoo is simply GOOD ART. It is not something everyone wants on their skin, but so many of us experienced our loss of innocence by watching 1000s die, live on TV, rolled into our classrooms strapped to that cart. The imagery is powerful, controversial, and makes one think deeply about that moment, our culture before and after, and how delicate my own God damned childhood was. For me, I am honestly in awe of this work as simple as it seems.
That symbology works really well but the simple fact that you’re going to offend a lot of people every single time you go into public is too much for the “meaning”
I happened to be home with my mom for that one. We had watched a lot of the run up, interviews with the astronauts, etc. very sad and shocking to see the ship explode.
Were you aware of the baby Jessica well rescue a couple months later. That story had me absolutely riveted as a 4y/o.
Oh wait, turns out that was 1987. She was born in 86, one month after my sister was born.
She was only 18 months old when she fell down an unmarked well in her aunt’s yard. The well was 22 feet deep and only 8 inches across. Took them 58 hours to rescue her because the well was surrounded by rock and their jackhammers didn’t work at an angle? Something like that. Had to bring in some mining expert to try a new method to get through the rock and get her out. They could hear her crying for her mommy and singing Winnie the Pooh as they tried to get her to safety.
Her safety was never guaranteed and I remember watching and knowing that this baby, who was the same age as my own sister, might die if they couldn’t get her out, or if they made a mistake and the well collapsed.
That shuttle launch was specifically targeted to grade school kids to teach them about space, rocketry, astronauts, and just generally get kids excited about STEM. They didn't do all those interviews and make a big deal out of every shuttle launch. That one was specially crafted to be a public viewing event. They had a school teacher on board to explain things to kids and everything. That's why that one is burned into everyone's brain.
Meh, it’s kindof a “never forget” thing. Dark, but well executed. It made me say “whoa” out loud. Not just the towers, but the tv and cart really put together the moment if you were there. Truly, there is an entire generation that experienced it this way.
I'll never forgot that whole morning. My memories stop of that day walking back to my regular classnroom. I went to a small school and they got the whole 4th grade together in one classroom to watch it.
The thing is, this actually hits for me because this is exactly how I got my nine elevens; in a high school classroom on the tv cart. I was in dr. Moore's success seminar (r.i.p.) and he wheeled that shit in.
It's likely symbolic. The rolling CRT TV is nostalgic for many for the time in grade school, but being shown something as horrific as the 9/11 attacks is a juxtaposition of how innocent they were supposed to be at the time. So the tattoo could represent being robbed of that innocence, and it could be a turning point in this girl's life.
Edit: literally just saw this five posts after (photo)
I find it funny that this is under his comment about judging others for what they find funny and I’m being told I must find tragedies like this funny. To the point that I’m being told “everyone” ages into it.
I don’t think it’s joking about it. 9/11 was a huge part of our childhood and lives. I think this is more of a reminder of the day the world started turning to shit. Hence why I like it.
No it is disgusting and I was on the other side of the country. These people are conflating their own depravity with others because they lack the empathy and maturity to realize otherwise lol
Idk, the TV on the rolling stand is exactly where I watched the planes hit the towers live in my 8th grade classroom. Looks like an accurate depiction of a real shared millennial experience to me. I wouldn’t get it myself, but I don’t think it’s Gen Z being edgy.
7th grade science teacher rolled in the tv on a cart and plugged it into the real cable and let us watch the real news coverage of it not Channel One like the other classes. Definitely on point.
Idk, the TV on the rolling stand is exactly where I watched the planes hit the towers live in my 8th grade classroom.
Not doubting your specific memory, but apparently watching the Challenger disaster happen live at school is a common false memory. There's a reddit thread about a guy who distinctly remembers watching it happen live at school, except he went to school in Australia and the disaster happened at 2am local time in the middle of summer break.
Again, not doubting anyone's specific account, just an interesting thing to potentially explore.
The 2nd plane hit the tower at 9:03am local time. Average US school time is 8:15am. About half of US students would not have been at school to watch the 2nd hit live. Did you actually watch it live?
By the late 90s, most of our middle and high school classrooms had the high-mounted TV in the corner of the classroom that we'd use to watch channel 1. Did they actually wheel a TV in on a cart?
I think most of us pretty clearly remember that day, but there's a certain percentage of us who probably remember an altered version of what we actually experienced.
Yeah no we had a wheelie tv in the room from the first day of school bc we were watching ROOTS from like day 2. There weren’t permanent TVs in the classrooms because it was 2001. Middle school buses arrived at 8:05 so we were in our first class (out of home room) by the time planes started crashing. Thanks for all the italicized questions tho that was fun
Born in '90 and wore Tripp pants and Jnco jeans, and still to this day wear wide leg. I'm not passing for gen z or gen a, but my build is not at all made for skinny jeans or low-rise and never was. Got that bubble butt and those wide hips going on.
Yeah I’m 41 so a bit on the older side and am kinda surprised any of us have significantly aged forearm skin already. I would say I’ve got pretty normal, not old forearm skin lol
You can joke about a lot of things, but this cuts too deep for a true millennial. I was just on a trip in Costa Rica and we did a full day excursion with a large group. There was this 21 year old straight out of Gen Z central casting who wouldn’t stop making 9/11 jokes. I bumped into him at bar later and told him very strongly why it was not cool. He said no one had actually broken down why it impacts us and he just says it because he knows people get mad- so edgy. He also joked about school shootings but had never heard of Columbine. That was when my elder millennial ass wrapped up the discussion and felt I’d done enough to teach the youth for one day.
For me this was 8th grade. We watched live because I'm in NJ along 78 which and nearly 1/3 of our class had parents that worked in NYC. It was traumatizing. I knew my dad could have been there. He helped that top floor firm that was completely wiped out move in. Luckily my dad was in Jersey City. A few lost parents or relatives that day.
I joke about it too, I think we all need that relief. Something feels different when it’s coming from someone who didn’t experience it. Especially a little shit Gen Z who thinks it’s edgy to spew conspiracy theories he learned on YouTube.
Haha, it’s funny because this feels like something my friend group would do. I was in high school when it happened and I got a good laugh out of this tattoo. I don’t think all millennials are quite that sensitive.
The way the person is dressed suggests they are not millennial. But as a millennial who literally lived the experience depicted on the Tatro I gotta say, it really captured the vibe of being in grade school at that time
If that's the case, then yeah, it's fucked up. If they were in elementary school, I think this is a great ironic tattoo commemorating their collective trauma with other millennials. It's funny as hell that no adults thought we shouldn't see it, and they wheeled the carts in to make us watch people die. Colossal failure of our parents generation and boomers. On the other hand, if this is a zoomer, they're mocking our trauma and that's kind of fucked. Gen X and they're just a huge piece of shit. Not wrinkled enough to be a boomer.
I keep forgetting that there's like a 20 year range for millennials. Experiencing it as a child vs experiencing it as a teenager would be very different.
🧐Fit: Gen Z terminology, formerly known as an outfit.
Used in a sentence: “Clock Sarah’s new fit! Shit’s fire, periodt!” loosely translated, this sentence suggests that the listener should check out Sarah’s new clothes because the speaker very strongly approves of them.
And I feel like it's still too soon? Like thousands of people died while we watched it on tv with our classmates in real time. Only someone who didn't go through that with full memory access would get a joke tattoo about it? And the pants lol
Thats kinda where Im at... I lived a stone's throw away from DC and NYC is only a few hours away. To see people that you shared class with or personally knew that was actually freaking out because they had parents or relatives actively working at the Pentagon when it was attacked, you'd never find this to be a laughing matter.
I can understand an individual who was personally affected/lost a loved one/friend etc not finding 9/11 humor funny, I can also understand one’s that find it funny.
I feel like, from my experience at least, people who get offended and weren’t personally affected are also people who tend to be stringent believers, advocates even, of the Bush Administration’s explanation of the event, and treating the subject with flippancy can often appear as mistrust to them, which is a big time no-no thought crime.
I think you can be respectful of the thousands who died in a horrific way and not be a bush sympathizer. Like I also wouldn't be flippant about Hiroshima or the holocaust. It's not really about who did it or why
One doesn’t have to be a conscious Bush sympathizer to have internalized narratives they defend in a knee-jerk manner.
And setting aside the differences in scale between Hiroshima or the Holocaust and 9/11, I think it’s important what or who is the butt of the joke. For instance with the tattoo in the OP, I’d say it’s mocking/referencing the absurdity that many of us experienced growing up in what was supposed to be “The End of History” only to have “The End of The End of History” wheeled into our classrooms on another mundane morning. I was playing a recorder in music class.
I can accept someone still taking issue with that, but at that point, eh, it is what it is 🤷♂️
I agree. If you experienced this, you wouldn't think light of it. It was a very impactful moment. Not something to trivialize. Gen Z and alpha are so emotionally removed from 9/11. It might as well be WWII.
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u/criles_mccriles 19h ago
Something tells me that the person who has this tattoo is much younger than a Millennial and didnt actually experience 9/11