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Što te nema (Why are you not here?) stands for a travelling participatory memorial constructed out of 8,372 Bosnian coffee cups (hbs. fildžani) to remember mainly Bosniak Muslim men and boys killed during the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. The memorial is imagined as a coffee ritual, which gathers the Bosnian and global community participants to remember Srebrenica’s victims and survivors on July 11, announced Srebrenica Memorial Day. Besides remembering Srebrenica only onsite, Što te nema initiator artivist Aida Šehović and her team created #ŠtoTeNema hashtag to commemorate Srebrenica online in order to provide even more comprehensive access to this space of memory and suffering, which remains limited for political reasons. In addition, #ŠtoTeNema raises awareness of the genocide, which continues being denied by perpetrators, Republika Srpska’s and Serbia’s authorities. In this paper, I am interested in how #ŠtoTeNema and memorial’s engaging visuality are being (mis)used for a type of reconciliation. How wide (and transnational) is have been spread on social media? And what is its relation to other hashtags like #Srebrenica #Genocide #DontForgetSrebrenica #July11, etc.?