About

Fefe is a scorpion character with a human-like face who is often associated with shitposting on the /s4s/ (shit 4chan says) and /r9k/ (robot 9000) boards on 4chan.

Origin

On April 3rd, 2015, a poorly drawn illustration of a female frog with the message "allo, my name es fefe" was submitted to the /r9k/ board on 4chan (shown below).





On the following day, an illustration of a red-and-yellow scorpion with an anthropomorphic face was posted to 4chan's /s4s/ board, where the character was referred to as a "new 4chan meme" named "fefe" (shown below).





Spread

On April 5th, Redditor awilddandyappeared submitted a screenshot of the scorpion 4chan post to the /r/4chan subreddit. The same day, FunnyJunk user chokinandtokin reposted the screenshot to the 4chan channel. In the first 48 hours, the Reddit post gained over 4,700 votes (95% upvoted) and the FunnyJunk post received more than 1,400 upvotes. On April 6th, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a post titled "Fefe is love, Fefe is life" to /r9k/, featuring an illustration of a "kawaii" version of the Fefe character (shown below). That day, Redditor wee/a/boo submitted a screenshot of the post to /r/4chan, where it gathered upwards of 740 votes (89% upvoted) in the next 20 hours. Also on April 6th, FunnyJunk user urgey posted a compilation of Fefe illustrations.





Various Examples





Search Interest

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