Fefe

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Published August 20, 2026

Fefe is a crude MS Paint scorpion character with a human-like face that spawned as a self-declared 4chan meme in April 2015. The character bounced between /s4s/ and /r9k/ shitposts, then jumped to Reddit and FunnyJunk within 48 hours.

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Overview

Fefe is a deliberately ugly MS Paint drawing of a red and yellow scorpion topped with a lumpy anthropomorphic face1. The character got treated as an artificial "new meme" by anons on 4chan's /s4s/ (shit4chansays) and /r9k/ (robot 9000) boards, who spammed and remixed it on purpose2.

Beyond the base image, Fefe posts often paired the scorpion with broken phonetic English like "allo, my name es fefe," and later spawned a "kawaii" redraw plus a "Fefe is love, Fefe is life" riff on older 4chan copypasta3. The name itself is unrelated to prior Urban Dictionary entries for "fefe," which cover prison slang and pet nicknames6.

Origin & Background

Platform
4chan (/s4s/ and /r9k/)
Creator
Anonymous 4chan users
Date
2015

The first post using the fefe name was actually a frog, not a scorpion. On April 3, 2015, an anon on /r9k/ uploaded a poorly drawn female frog captioned "allo, my name es fefe"3. One day later, on April 4, a separate /s4s/ post swapped the frog for the red and yellow scorpion drawing and openly labeled it a "new 4chan meme" named fefe2.

How It Spread

On April 5, 2015, Redditor awilddandyappeared crossposted a screenshot of the /s4s/ scorpion thread to r/4chan1. Inside 48 hours the post pulled over 4,700 upvotes at a 95% ratio, and FunnyJunk user chokinandtokin mirrored the same screenshot on the site's 4chan channel for more than 1,400 upvotes3.

The next day the joke escalated. On April 6, an anonymous /r9k/ poster dropped "Fefe is love, Fefe is life," pairing the scorpion with a kawaii redraw2. Redditor wee/a/boo screenshotted that thread to r/4chan and pulled around 740 upvotes at 89% positive in the next twenty hours5. Later that day, FunnyJunk user urgey uploaded a compilation of Fefe fan art4.

How to Use This Meme

Fefe images typically pair the crude scorpion drawing with broken phonetic captions like "allo, my name es fefe." Common variants swap the ugly original for the kawaii redraw or drop the character into "is love, is life" copypasta lifted from earlier /r9k/ threads2.

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