Don't worry, I won't do it. I was thrown off by the 9/11 memes, thinking it was okay. Sorry if I offended you, and sorry for your loss.
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First off let’s put it this way. It’s never okay to, it is highly offensive buddy. when such horrific things already happened back in September 2001. I was 3 years old when that happened. My family told me back in the day where I watched over the news with them where shit went downhill over there. Yeah of course I was a little toddler i didn’t even know what the hell was going on or what life was back on those days. As I got really older enough to know exactly what went wrong, life has changed way to much. Nowadays it’s all about the killings, the school shootings, racisms, robbing, Suicides and all kinds of other terrible situations. Now talking about your marketing to your game, do not use 9/11. the planes crashed through both buildings, people who worked at the twin towers were often too scared, trapped inside, buildings were getting ready to collapse in a matter of seconds either they were killed or survived through those crashes and full of ashes too. Stuff like meme jokes or video games on any websites should never have been created on the internet in the first place. People and firefighters died in there man. Those people who had families and kids suffered through hell what they’ve lost everyday. And forever. So please, have respect to those who couldn’t make it out and to those people who had survived from the downfall of the Twin Towers.
You might have missed that part where op already said, that using 911 for marketing the game would not be done.
But by the logic of tragic events, there would be a lot of things that could have no media being associated with them. No movies, no games, no books. And what is the reality? There will be a movie being made shortly after any catastrophe about the exact catastrophe - in addition to the regular desaster movies. Real and fictional tragedies are a way to tell drama. And many books are written by survivors of tragedies. It is popular media.
For 9/11 there are so many movies made, that there are click bait list articles about them. The x movies about 9/11 that have attribute y.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=movies+about+911&ia=web
A game where you can shoot down planes before they crash into buildings is by far the most harmless thing that you will see done in games about the topic. But we all here agree that using 911 as a marketing ploy is not a good thing.