Sober Thal said:
I don't get it, care to explain?
"Pedobear" is a 4chan meme that came from an older 2chan meme which originally had nothing to do with pedophiles.
The whole point of the meme is that Pedobear is a pedo. He shows up in imagery basically to decry that image as inherently perverse or pedo. That's it. That's whole entire joke.
And that's really all it is, a joke.
So you're saying pedophiles have nothing to do with this pedobear?
Nothing whatsoever. Modern pedophiles (as opposed to, say, ancient Greek pedophiles, better known as 'ancient Greeks') do not, generally speaking, use imagery that is labeled in such a way as to reveal their proclivities.
To put this into perspective;
It would be pretty much
exactly the same as if communist sympathizers in America at the height of McCarthyism all decorated their clothing with pins of 'Commie Koala', a grinning Koala with a huge hammer and sickle in his hands.
The only thing it would do would be to let their own hunters know exactly who they should be looking for.
I remember this newscast, it was resoundingly mocked on the internet and then immediately forgotten as YET ANOTHER time the televised news media attempted to garner a tiny scrap of viewership with a LOUD (sensationalist) FEVERISH REPORT ON (a very slow news day) YOUR CHILDREN AT RISK.