Pedobear or also Pædobear aka Roy Harms is one of the more famous and long running 4chan memes. He actually originated from 2channel, Japanese Internet forum, where he was called Kuma, 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.

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.

Pedobear has become so popular  newfags and 12 y olds alike flock to /b/ under the impression that that they can find more “funny” Pedobear pictures. This is similar to the popularity brought on by the previously mentioned lolcats. Sadly some poorly informed Anonymous refer to him as Pedrobear believing that to be his real name.