visited the site, a 2-year-old boy was playing atop the pillarstrying to climb from one to the next as his mother calmly gripped his hand." A 2016 controversy occurred with the app Pokémon Go. "The Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe told The Local that the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin has been reported as a site where people could find and catch Pokemon creatures through the augmented reality game". This caused anger among many people who felt that it was desecrating the site. "This is a memorial space for the six million Jews who were murdered and it is inappropriate for this kind of game," said foundation spokeswoman Sarah Friedrich, adding that she hoped the company would remove the memorial as a possible location. In early 2017, an Israeli artist, Shahak Shapira, after noticing numerous instances on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Tinder and Grindr of mostly young people posting smiling selfies with the memorial as a backdrop, or photos of themselves doing yoga or otherwise jumping or dancing on the memorial's stone slabs, began an online art project juxtaposing those found images with archival pictures of Nazi death camps, to ironically point out the jarring disconnect of taking such inappropriately cheerful pictures in so somber a setting, calling it "Yolocaust". In January 2013, the blog Totem and Taboo posted a collection of profile pictures from the gay dating app Grindr, taken at the memorial. The emerging trend met with mixed responses: while Grindr's then CEO Joel Simkhai, himself Jewish and gay, asserted that he was "deeply moved" that his app members "take part in the memory of the holocaust", there was international criticism of use of the memorial as a backdrop for hook up profiles, which was held to be disrespectful. See also Culture of Remembrance Holocaust memorial landscapes in Germany Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists Shoes on the Danube Bank Memorial built in Budapest in 2005 Soviet War Memorial (Treptower Park) United States Holocaust Memorial Museum References Notes Bibliography External links The Fundraising Group for the Memorial Buildings and structures in Mitte Holocaust memorials in Germany Jews and Judaism in Berlin Jewish German history Monuments and memorials to the victims of Nazism in Berlin Peter Eisenman buildings and structures Museums in Berlin Holocaust museums Vandalized works of art Outdoor sculptures in Berlin