Pedobear

WARNING: PROUD TRANNY PEDOPHILE(S)
You can help by notifying Chris Hansen, and also by ordering 'za to xer house

Pedo-meter: 3000 ▲

All fun out of the pool for oldfag swim! "*sip* Yep, FYAD, now THAT was a board"

Well-known depiction of Pedobear

Pedobear is a 4chan meme, depicting a pedophilic bear.

Origin and history

The bear character originates from the popular textboard website 2channel in Japan, where it was introduced, in the form of Shift_JIS art, as クマー (Kumā), a made-up interjection based on the Japanese word for bear, kuma. Unlike Pedobear, Kumā is simply a Japanese character that reads as "extinguish" above its head. A mirror of the first ever 2channel thread with Kuma can be found here.

Various posts modified it until reaching the final form as this ASCII.

      ∩＿＿＿∩
     |ノ      ヽ
    /   ●    ● | クマ──！！
   |     (_●_) ミ
  彡､     |∪|  ､｀＼
/ ＿＿    ヽノ /´>   )
(＿＿＿）     /  (_／
  |        /
  |   ／＼  ＼
  | /     )   )
   ∪     （   ＼
           ＼＿)

Kuma was eventually adopted by English-speaking anons and evolved into something completely different, in most cases pedobear was used to mock and troll pedophiles. Nowadays the meme has largely died out