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12-Foot Tall Home Depot Skeleton refers to a massive skeleton lawn ornament one can purchase from home goods store Home Depot. The product drew the attention of social media users in September of 2020, appearing in jokes and posts from people expressing their desire for it.

Origin

While it's unclear when Home Depot added the giant skeleton to their stock, it began to generate attention in early September of 2020. On September 7th, Popsugar^[1] ran a piece about the massive skeleton. It retails for $299.

Spread

Towards the latter half of September, the skeleton began gaining more attention. On September 23rd, Twitter user @dysdandy^[2] tweeted, "cannot stop thinking abt the giant skeleton at home depot and the 12 ft void I have in my life without him," gaining over 80 retweets and 270 likes (shown below, left). On September 26th, user @carbsley^[3] tweeted, "apparently this is a home depot skeleton you can buy and now it’s my only goal of 2020 to have my very own skelly," gaining over 70 retweets and 460 likes (shown below, right).

Others made fan art and parodies of the giant skeleton. For example, user @shardofblue^[4] posted art which made the skeleton look like a Home Depot employee, gaining over 100 retweets and 350 likes (shown below, left). User @JohnnyBerchtold^[5] posted a parody which made the skeleton tower over a town, gaining over 400 retweets and 5,000 likes (shown below, right).

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