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Went looking to see how this character came to be, as I too, haven't seem them in like a literal decade.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/pedobear
Turns out it came from 2channel to warn about attention seekers and trolls. 4chan turned it into a pedophilia mascot. Of course they did.
As is tradition with 4chan.