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    <dramatica>http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Brian_peppers</dramatica>
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  <created-at type="datetime">2009-04-10T18:25:24-06:00</created-at>
  <origin>Ohio Sex Offender Database</origin>
  <origin-year type="integer">2005</origin-year>
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  <tags>image, hard to believe, exploitables, copy &amp; paste, YTMND, photoshop</tags>
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  <title>Brian Peppers</title>
  <content>&lt;h2&gt;About&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brian Peppers&lt;/strong&gt; was a sex offender from Ohio whose hard-to-believe photo was widely circulated on the Internet in 2005.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://knowyourmeme.com/icons/138/original/Picture_2.png?1239409522&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While it was initially suspected to be fake, online sleuths &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.snopes.com/photos/people/peppers.asp&quot;&gt;Snopes.com&lt;/a&gt; were able to confirm the photo&amp;#8217;s authenticity with Ohio authorities. Snopes even managed to dig up some photos of &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.encyclopediadramatica.com/images/6/6c/Growing_up_with_peppers.jpg&quot;&gt;Brian in highschool&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Snopes also suggests that Peppers&amp;#8217; unusual appearance may be due to &amp;#8220;malformation of the cranium caused by a branchial arch condition such as Apert syndrome or Crouzon syndrome.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Spread&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The photo of B-Peps followed a typical memetic path of photoshoppery, &amp;#8220;&lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OMG&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;WTF&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;stop being so mean,&amp;#8221; culminating in Jimbo Wales &lt;em&gt;banning&lt;/em&gt; Brian Peppers from Wikipedia. On &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;YTMND&lt;/span&gt; we would see numerous excellent pages for the fad, and the infamous &lt;a href=&quot;http://allenpeppers.ytmnd.com/&quot;&gt;&amp;#8216;Allen Peppers incident&amp;#8217;&lt;/a&gt;, which turned out to be fake.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Notable links&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/brian_peppers/&quot;&gt;&amp;#8216;WE &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;LOVE&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;SEX&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;OFFENDER&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;BRIAN&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;PEPPERS&lt;/span&gt;&amp;#8217; community on LiveJournal&lt;/a&gt; (still reasonably active)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://brianpeppers.ytmnd.com/&quot;&gt;first Brian Peppers &lt;span class=&quot;caps&quot;&gt;YTMND&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (March 28, 2005)&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;sadly, many notable sources for B-Pepe photoshops are now offline&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brian Peppers would set the bar high for sex-offender memes to come (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;/memes/pedobear&quot;&gt;Pedobear&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Crimes&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Peppers was sentenced to 30 days in jail with 5 years probation in 1998 for the crime of &amp;#8220;Gross Sexual Imposition.&amp;#8221; Allegedly he groped a nurse on at least 2 occasions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Search Trending&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;#8220;brian peppers&amp;#8221;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.google.com/trends/viz?q=brian+peppers&amp;amp;graph=weekly_img&amp;amp;sa=N&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content>
  <updated-at type="datetime">2009-10-24T16:33:41-06:00</updated-at>
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