I know that beanis became popular here because of the badposting comm, but did the badposting community invent beanis? There are a few comments from a long time ago mentioning beanis, but beanis posting seems to have started in badposting, and what I am more curious about is the emoji 
Was the emoji created by hexbear or somewhere else? Because I'm pretty sure I saw beanis out in the wild, on instagram, not too long ago. If I remember correctly, it was a screenshot of a twitter post that had something to do with beans and the avatar was literally :beanis: and I can't figure out where this originated from.
Are we talking about this guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx_Dormoy ? He seems pretty cool, I don't think I could summon the courage to talk to him. If he was alive today then that would mean that he survived his house being bombed, so that would make an interesting topic of conversation. Maybe there is something we could learn from this Marx guy.
Thank you so much for answering, this explains everything. Also I found the twitter account that had :beanis: on it, apparently it's from like 2018 or so. https://nitter.poast.org/goodbeanjokes