Library science

Gene

False accusation

Context (archaeology)

Character (mathematics)

Biology

Social psychology

Insider

Archaeology

Transgressive

Biochemistry

Taboo

Computer science

Anthropology

Paleontology

Reading (process)

White (mutation)

Structural basin

Digital media

Aesthetics

Psychology

Mathematics

Political science

Sociology

Geometry

Chemistry

Subject (documents)

Sedimentary depositional environment

Media studies

History

First Monday

The paper consists of an interdisciplinary close reading analysis of the 4chan character of Pedobear as an example of transgressive humour surrounding traumatic subjects in interactive online media. The character and its various applications, from simple knock-knock style jokes, pranks against an ignorant outsider public, countercultural consumption and even as an accusation of real-world abuse, are examined here. The close reading study locates the subject within a broader context of the insider currency of the shocking and taboo subject for white, masculinist, North American youth culture communities both online and off.

The memetic molester: Creating and characterising the child sex abuser through digital humour and transgressive media through a close reading analysis of Pedobear