Nestlé Clarifies: Pedobear Is Not Our New Advertising Mascot

Company pulls Instagram photo from Facebook

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The only thing creepier than the context surrounding Pedobear is the amount of times he shows up in otherwise legitimate products and services. This time it's Nestlé, which had to pull its first official Instagram photo (left) from its Facebook page after people observed that the bear in it looks a lot like Pedobear (right). "The picture is not Pedobear," a rep says. "We had never heard of Pedobear. But when the possibility of its similarity to the so-called 'Pedobear' was raised with us, we immediately removed it."

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