>>1996309The bear character originates from the popular bulletin board system (BBS) website 2channel in Japan, where it was introduced, in the form of Shift_JIS art, as クマー (Kumā), an interjection of the word 熊 (Kuma) meaning bear in Japanese. Unlike Pedobear, Kumā has no sexual connotations, pedophilic or otherwise.
Although initially appearing as a single line:
くまくま━━━━━━ヽ( ・(ｪ)・ )ノ━━━━━━ !!!
various posts modified it until reaching the final form as multi-line art:
∩＿＿＿∩
|ノ ヽ
/ ● ● | クマ──!!
| (_●_) ミ
彡､ |∪| ､｀＼
/ ＿＿ ヽノ /´> )
(＿＿＿) / (_/
| /
| /＼ ＼
| / ) )
∪ ( ＼
＼＿)
