GREY — the derivative artwork has no attribution, and the record needed to find one is gone. Know Your Meme rates Apu's origin as *rumoured*: Ylilauta around January 2016, evidenced only by Google search records because NO ARCHIVED THREADS EXIST. Every documented early post is by an anonymous 4chan user. Checked 31 August 2026 at the index owner's request. ⚠️ It is also further from Furie than it looks, so do not fall back on the Pepe lineage to rule it in: Apu is drawn in the style of Spurdo Spärde, itself an anonymous Kuvalauta character from late 2008 derived from the Pedobear sprite. Three layers of unattributed redraw, and no author of record at any of them. Same finding as Wojak, reached by a longer route.