2,996 people died in the attack on Sept 11th 2001, of those some 372 were foreign nationals. Victims ranged from Argentina to Venezuela via the Dominican Republic, Bermuda and the United Kingdom. Claiming it's just some "thing that only new yorkers" should give a shit about is entirely insulting (deliberately so) and insensitive to a degree I am honestly disgusted by. if anything it shows a grossly american ownership that seems epidemic amongst the supposedly "woke and caring about minorities" crowd.
I remember at the (I think) 5 year aniversarry that someone declared "Once, the fall of the Berlin Wall was seen as the end of History. September 11th was History restarting."
Call them all back to their home planet and have them die on the way there like Poochie.
Nah, just send in Deadpool to murder them all as graphically as humanly possible. You could at least have him make a Boffa Deez Nuts remark as he puts two .50 rounds into Squirrel Girl's head.
The closest I can think of to a "ground zero" is/was Comics Alliance, since they were basically the place Marvel was hiring people from - Kate Leth had her comic there, Erica Henderson was a frequently freatured artist, one of the journalists who worked for CA went on to be a editor for pretty much all the SJW titles, the list of nepotism that was bred there goes on - but even then CA was only able to become this because of the writers & editors who didn't mind cozying up to those journalists before cutting out the middle man and hiring straight from Twitter.
"Well the Chart Says...." seems to play into this again.
As the internet really got under way webcomics suddenly became a thing, and when those guys are willing to give you their shit for free and it amuses you, you're less likely to spend $3 on a paper comic, you know it updates regularly and some stories became super popular.
So "The Chart Says Webcomic authors are now popular" translates into "We need webcomic authors". In turn, Marvel still can't quite get itself into the idea of just hiring this person off of the street. So instead they look for a group or some group that
looks professional. Cue some newish person who knows people at a "good group" by the name of Comics Alliance and thus the infestation begins.
Now there are ways Marvel could've gone down this online route, moving everyone over in one go is likely to be impractical, but putting a few "big" lines up there on a regular, weekday update schedule or even chancing new ideas and comics up on a webportal for free to judge the reaction from audiences and such would have been
far cheaper for them and eventually morphed into a kind of Steam-For-Marvel where you could buy each issue for cheaper (don't got to pay for physical print copies after all) or an all access pass for people at like $15 a month (Buy more than 5 comics a month? Why not save!) and they'd have been quids in.
But, alas, as we know, this is not the route they took. The chart said they needed people from the internet and oh boy did they pick some doozies.
It took less than 24 hours for the purity tests to begin.