About
Apu Apustaja (“Help Helper” in English) is a poorly drawn variation of Pepe the Frog created in the style of "Spurdo Spärde ":http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spurdo-sparde. While originally popularized on the Finnish image board Ylilauta, the character is also frequently posted on 4chan where he is referred to as “help helper.”
Origin
The character is rumored to have originated from the Finnish image board Ylilauta. [Researching]
Spread
On March 25th, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a poorly drawn version of Pepe captioned with a misspelled sentence about a “food help helper” to the /b/ (random) board (shown below, left).[1] The following day, a similar thread was submitted to /b/ in which the character complains that his “food help helper” was missing (shown below, right).
On October 2nd, 2016, an illustration of the character was submitted alongside Pepe the Frog-themed parody lyrics for the theme song from the science fiction television show Firefly to 4chan. The following day, a screenshot of the post reached the front page of the /r/4chan subreddit.[3]
Search Interest
External References
[1]Archive.is – hi all mi food help helper
[2]Archive.is – "":http://4archive.org/board/b/thread/675962015
[3]Reddit – /pol/tard writes a poem