According to Business Insider, in early 2014, Redditor /u/CarlPeligro made a comment on a photo of a raccoon: "Raccoons = trash pandas."That description stuck and the use of the term, along with ...

"Trash Panda has obviously been around on the internet for quite some time," he said. "People are going to be disappointed to hear I wasn't thinking of Guardians of the Galaxy when I named the team.