Guess who wasn't in the Epstein files...

https://lemmy.world/post/42750055

… pedobear as a meme does actually significantly predate /pol/.

However…

A thing that a lot of people don’t seem to know is that 4chan exists because m00t / Chris Poole got banned from Something Awful for posting way way way too much hentai, including loli.

4chan exists primarily because m00t grabbed a number of his hentai/loli loving friends from SA, and made his own forum/board, with black jack and hookers.

TIL

I updated my comment with a lot more info.

For the record, I was a stupid kid who primarily wanted to talk about video games … I noped the fuck out pretty hard after I realized how truly deranged most of the people/content on 4chan was.