Corsa_Quadz
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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.
Pedobear, who is on the far right of the picture, was originally devised by members of the anarchic 4chan message board as a way of mocking users who expressed a sexual interest in young people.
Since then a tasteless internet trend – or meme – has emerged in which users insert the bear into other photos in a contest to create the most inappropriate composite image.
On his blog yesterday Mr Barrick wrote that online amusement about the newspaper's error had sparked a surge of interest in his artwork, and hinted that the financial burden of the Games on Canadian taxpayers was the motivation for his mischievous creation.
He wrote: "There seems to be a Tweet about this coming up every minute or two. The day before this started I was amused by the 27,000 hits I got in January. Yesterday alone I got 120,000 (with about one third coming from Poland) and today is looking like it will top that by at least double."
He added: "Maybe I'll just keep the money to help cover the price gouging, raised taxes, disappearing arts funding, and all the other "benefits" we Vancouverites are getting from the games that are kicking me in the back pocket."
The four genuine mascots of the Vancouver Olympics and Paralympics were inspired by traditional native creatures.
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ic-mascot.html
Fucking LOL
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Gareth F
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amazing 
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DannyB
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Wow, that is a fail of epic proportions 
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All Torque
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Thats just fantastic
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Budgie
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that was on 4chan the other night i just thought it was shop'd or something
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Rich H
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Just saw this on ed's FB so thought it may be on here too.
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Ace
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Corsa_Quadz
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I lol'd when i saw it just had to post it
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Daimo B
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Peodbear gets off the internet and goes publically world famous
Excellent
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Originally posted by Rich H
Just saw this on ed's FB so thought it may be on here too.
Drives supercharged Tec with torque  
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Ellis
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That's epic
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Nath
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Holy shit
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Cosmo
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If only it was for the youth games
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mega lol
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