… 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.

Fellow meme connoisseur/scholar.

… I would like to think I consider myself retired at this point.

I am in fact, too old for this shit.

Fellow meme historian!!
(Or more like eyewitness of the great meme events of 3000 years ago.)