I remember the aftermath of 9/11. TV shows and movies with the twin towers in them were cancelled, some had the towers edited out. Studios wanted to avoid seen as being in poor taste over a recent tragedy.
Fast forward to 2020/21 and if anything studios are chomping at the bit to capitalise on covid. TV shows like Sweet Tooth, movies like Songbird. Hell, I even saw a board game about surviving a pandemic at my local Target today, haha what fun.
Does anyone else find this kind of fucked up? Here we have a tragedy that has a death toll far, far greater than 9/11 and rising. A tragedy that is still continuing today. Many people, especially in places like America and India, have had family and friends killed by covid or at least know someone who has lost a loved one.
Does anyone else find it disrespectful that people are capitalising on something very real and traumatic? I mean Jesus Christ, at least wait until the bodies are cold.
9/11 is an event seared into the brain of a lot of people, almost everyone I know my self included can remember exactly where they were when it happened. While covid has had a massively higher death toll for many people it hasn't been a really tragic event, just a long shitty life experience. It's it going to leave us all traumatized? Absolutely. But a pandemic is now a cultural event that everyone can relate too that can be capitalized on with out triggering enough people to cause a backlash big enough to effect profits.
Also what everyone else said about 9/11 effecting rich dudes while covid only effects the dirty poor's.