Once covid deaths hit a 9/11 per day in the United States without radical action being taken to stop the spread, it really sunk in for me on a visceral level that Americans in general do not actually give a solitary shit about any of the people that died on 9/11. It was a tragedy not for the large loss of life, but simply because it was an attack on the United States that hurt national pride.
Remember those commemorative coin commercials where you could buy coins supposedly made from the steel of the collapsed building? Yeaahhh that was way worse than these tattoos.
I could see something a little more abstract too. Like the whole “building is a different color behind smoke” thing is neat and may work better with really simple colors and minimal shading. But this is really the worst of both worlds.