#Bonegate: A Grave-Robbing Witch Is Tearing Tumblr Apart
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A Grave-Robbing Witch Is Tearing Tumblr Apart
What might be the biggest Tumblr meme of 2015 started as a post on a closed Facebook group for witches offering to sell human remains for the purposes of witchcraft. What's more disturbing is that the seller claims that these bones came from the remains of "poor" people, which they freely take on a monthly basis out of local cemetery near New Orleans.
It was quickly determined that the Facebook poster was also Tumblr user little****inmonster (since deleted1). While the laws around disturbance of graves and the trade or sale2 of human remains are hazy and determined at a state level, what struck many Tumblr users was the immorality of it.
The issue bridged over to Tumblr in the form of a callout post — a staple of the often hyper-corrective Tumblr community which seeks to course correct the behavior of groups or users who might be acting insensitively.