This image was then mistakenly used by other media, most notably the Polish newspaper Gazeta Olsztyńska for a 4 February 2010 front-page story about the Olympics in Vancouver.
One is based on the official art, and the other is based on fanart created by Angela Melick. Barrick created two composite images depicting Pedobear grouped together with the mascots of 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. On 3 July 2009, Canadian artist Michael R.
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Another common use of the character was to mock or otherwise signal the posting of borderline child erotica content, sometimes with references to the FBI or Chris Hansen, the host of the TV show To Catch a Predator.Īrtist and media researcher Johannes Grenzfurthner and Pedobear at ROFLcon 2010 Soon it gained its representation as an image rather than text art, and started being superimposed in pictures depicting children (especially if these pictures could be interpreted as sexually suggestive, such as when involving swimsuits, underwear or child beauty pageants). On 2ch, Kuma was often depicted in images sleeping with children, and this was promptly exploited on 4chan to create the Pedobear persona.
The Kuma character was adopted by 4chan and quickly became a meme there, especially on the /b/ board. Various posts modified it until reaching the final form as multi-line art:Įventually, posting Kuma Shift_JIS art evolved into a response to "fishing" posts submitted as "bait" to attract people (fishing for attention), which is why the bear is depicted as literally running into the forum to get the bait. Unlike Pedobear, Kumā has no sexual connotations, pedophilic or otherwise.Īlthough initially appearing as a single line: 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), an interjection of the word 熊 ( Kuma) meaning bear in Japanese. The bear image has been likened to bait used to lure children or as a mascot for pedophiles. It is a concept used to mock child sex offenders or people who have any sexual interest in children or " jailbait". As the name suggests ("pedo" being short for " pedophile"), it is portrayed as a pedophilic cartoon bear. Pedobear is an Internet meme that became popular through the imageboard 4chan.
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