Pedobear is Vancouver Olympic’s 4th Mascot
Spaceman-Spiff February 9th, 2010
The News
Polish newspaper claims ‘Pedobear’ is 2010 Vancouver Olympic mascot
A Polish newspaper mistakenly identified “Pedobear“, a notorious internet meme, as one of the mascots of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.
The Gazeta Olsztynska published an image showing the bear alongside genuine Olympic mascots Quatchi, Sumi, Miga and Mukmuk to illustrate a feature about the Games.
It appears that the newspaper lifted the picture from Google Images, unaware that it had been created as a prank by Michael Barrick, a Canadian artist and graphic designer
Source: telegraph.co.uk
The History
It all started from this guy’s blog: Michael R. Barrick – New Mascot Added to the Vancouver 2010 Team
Michael photoshopped Pedobear into the Vancouver Mascot team drawing. It’s a pretty good and believeable Photoshop work:
Some of the blog’s visitors also participated and made more photoshopped images and pictures:
I for one, welcome Pedobear as our 4th mascot.