>>1476684the Bogdanoff twins were already being widely ridiculed in France and beyond, mostly in Europe, in the 1990's
... many years before 4chan or Plebbit even existed.
OP's request was primarily for a higher resolution image, rather than the default thumbnail in the greentext screenshot.
I provided that higher resolution image.
As a secondary request, OP simply asked
> "... Was he ever a meme? " ;not "was that screenshot ever a meme".
The Bogdanoff's probably became a recognised meme, on 4chan, both individually and as a pair of twins some time after moot jacked his hand in as Admin - perhaps in 2015 or 2016 after Hiroyuki Nishimura had bought 4chan.
As I recall it, the Bogdanoff meme, per se, became established with the repetitive requests for a "quick rundown" on them,
that appeared both as opening posts starting new threads,
for example
https://archived.moe/b/thread/848635455 as a pair of twins ; or
https://archived.moe/b/thread/805290554 as an individual.
Also, as one off, off-topic replies, within other threads that were initially nothing to do with the Bogdanoffs:
e.g.
https://archived.moe/b/thread/848619446/#848635403 The fact that one of them happened to appear as an archetypal ridiculous individual in a greentext post, that was subsequently screenshot into other threads later on
does not preclude the FACT that they eventually became a recognised 4chan meme later on.
