Pedobear or also Pædobear aka Roy Harms is one of the more famous and long running 4chan memes. He actually originated from 2channel (2ちゃんねる, ni channeru, 2ch for short), Japanese Internet forum, where he was called Kuma (クマー), literally "Bear". Some argue the Japanese omitted the "Pedo-" prefix to avoid redundancy since most anything churned out in Japan is assumed to promote pedophilia.posted by pracowity at 10:27 PM on June 12, 2010
While Kuma was generally lecherous, Pedobear became the mascot for 4chan's legion of knuckle-dragging pedophiles, targeting prepubescent girls, or "loli". Like King Leonidas and each subsequent wave of Lolcats, Pedobear is the subject of many bad photoshoppings, usually pasted into whatever piece of child pornography b-tards get their filthy paws on.
I have this horrible feeling that 4Chan is what normal discourse will look like 10 years from now.I have this feeling that 4chan is what normal discourse looked like mumble years ago. Now it's simply online and searchable.
I have this horrible feeling that 4Chan is what normal discourse will look like 10 years from now. It seems to be oozing into our mental spaces like some horrible sweary racist ichor.Okay so a couple of years ago before I'd ever heard of 4chan I'd heard of 2Ch because of the whole ORLY owl and stuff like that. There was a MeFi thread about it and one of the Posters who reads japanese said that while a lot of the stuff that 2Ch put out was funny he felt that 2Ch was somehow causing damage to Japanese culture as a whole. That really seemed over the top at the time.
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Yeah, right.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:14 PM on June 12, 2010