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A photo of a couple wearing Twin Towers costumes at Atlanta's Dragon Con over Labor Day weekend is drawing the ire of people on social media.

The pop culture convention brought more than 70,000 guests to the city, including one couple who dressed as flaming buildings with unclothed Barbie dolls falling out of the windows — an apparent depiction of a gruesome scene from the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.

Sunday marks the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks that left nearly 3,000 people dead and 6,000 more injured.

Social media users took to Reddit, Twitter and Facebook to react to the photo, many calling the costume choice "horrible" and "distasteful."

Dragon Con officials released a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution about the costume controversy, claiming they did not believe the cosplayers were members of the convention.

Read the full statement below:

We share the concerns of everyone who was upset by these costumes. Their costumes were offensive, distasteful, and completely inappropriate.

We became aware of these individuals in the evening and dispatched both Dragon Con and hotel security to find them, pull their badges, and escort them from the property for violating convention policies. They had apparently left the Dragon Con convention area shortly after the photographs were taken.

Based on other photographs we have seen, we do not believe that these individuals were members of Dragon Con, meaning that they had not purchased badges that would have allowed them to enter the convention.

Efforts by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution to identify and contact the costume-wearing couple have so far been unsuccessful.

BIG-DICK-BUTT-gently caress posted:

I have been Triggered.

natetimm posted:

That's some grade-A trolling, Weird Ginger Girl and Greasy Unwashed Caveman.

Kuato posted:

Their stupid douchey loving faces fills me with a murderious rage FYI. Consider Kuato TRIGGERED

Fire Barrel posted:

First thing I noticed about the picture was how rough that guy looks.

Either way, silly to get mad about something so innocuous. Do that many people really care about it though?

KennyLoggins posted:

Nucleic Acids posted:

"Disgrace to cosplay"

Nucleic Acids posted:

"Disgrace to cosplay"

Earwicker posted:

what are their usernames?

Nucleic Acids posted:

"Disgrace to cosplay"

Alan Smithee posted:

youve gotta have balls of loving steel to wear a 9/11 costume as a brown dude in the south

a bone to pick posted:

Of course no one is asking the right question: Where is building 7?

KennyLoggins posted:

Alan Smithee posted:

youve gotta have balls of loving steel to wear a 9/11 costume as a brown dude in the south

Nucleic Acids posted:

"Disgrace to cosplay"