Alt. Hunk Flag (2024, isobug)
Subcultural Pride Flag ·
A hunk flag made to stand on its own rather than as an inversion of the twink flag, published by the Tumblr flag-maker isobug at 03:10 UTC on 30 June 2024. Six stripes run slate purple through white to brown and dark gray, the last two taken from the International Bear Brotherhood Flag for body hair, tanning and inclusion, under an optional dumbbell built from a Flaticon icon by Becris. isobug made it after people said they wanted a hunk flag with its own format, built a twunk flag on it 46 minutes later, and reissued both the symbol-bearing and the plain version at 5000 by 3000 pixels on DeviantArt a week afterwards. [1][2][3][4]
Key facts
- Designer
- isobug
- Created
- First published
- Documented circulation
- Creator publication on Tumblr 30 June 2024, reissue on DeviantArt 7 July 2024, and reblogs within Tumblr flag-coining and archival networks
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5
- Ratio Notes
- isobug’s DeviantArt uploads of the same artwork are 5000 by 3000 pixels, an exact 5:3 width to height, which is 3:5 in the archive’s height-to-length convention. The copy first published through Tumblr is a rescaled 2048 by 1229 delivery derivative of that proportion, off an exact 3:5 by less than a pixel. isobug has published no ratio in words. [1][3][4]
- Stripes
- 6
- Represented Identity
- hunk
Archive categories Subculture Pride Flags
Overview
To give hunks a flag whose format was not derived from the twink flag.
isobug made the flag in answer to people who wanted a hunk flag that was not built out of the twink flag. The hunk flag isobug had been using, by Reddit user u/disneyfan1413, takes the twink flag's layout and inverts its colours; isobug reports "a few people commenting on about how they'd like a Hunk flag which has it's own unique format". [1] The LGBTQIA+ Wiki puts the reasoning the same way, adding that hunks "do not all consider themselves to be twunks or twink-adjacent". [2]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- hunk
- Subcommunity
- men-loving-men communities
The LGBTQIA+ Wiki defines a hunk as "an attractive and well-built man" and, citing Merriam-Webster, dates the word to circa 1813, from the Dutch dialect hunke, "a large piece of something". This flag exists because that identity was being represented through a borrowed format: the wiki records it as made "to have a unique format separate from the twink flag, as hunks are a distinct gay category from twinks and do not all consider themselves to be twunks or twink-adjacent". [2]
Creators
The Creator
isobug
Designer
isobug, whose Tumblr sidebar uses the name Bug, is a Tumblr-based flag maker who also posts the same designs to DeviantArt. The blog identifies itself as “LIOMOGAI - est. 2022” and its pinned profile states that isobug uses no pronouns. [5] No geographic location is publicly documented.
This is my personal take on that! It does take some inspo from the Bear flag with the bottom stripes standing for body hair, the fact that some hunks love to tan, and inclusion.
Publishing the design.
Free for anyone to use anywhere as always!
The designer's own terms, given on the post.
Free for anyone to use and I don't claim to have made the original Hunk flag!
Reposting the 2023 sensory-friendly edit of disneyfan1413's hunk flag to DeviantArt, six months before this design.
Attribution notes
isobug published the flag on Tumblr on 30 June 2024, opening with the reason for it: "So I've seen a few people commenting on about how they'd like a Hunk flag which has it's own unique format when I use this Hunk flag by Reddit user u/disneyfan1413, because it's colors are meant to be an inverse of the Twink flag." The design followed: "This is my personal take on that! It does take some inspo from the Bear flag with the bottom stripes standing for body hair, the fact that some hunks love to tan, and inclusion." [1] isobug states no pronouns on the blog profile, so no pronoun is used here. [5]
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Yes
Published online, on Tumblr. No place of origin is documented. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- First published
- Documented circulation
- Creator publication on Tumblr 30 June 2024, reissue on DeviantArt 7 July 2024, and reblogs within Tumblr flag-coining and archival networks
- Creation Bounds
- Created by 30 June 2024; no earlier date is documented, and isobug does not say when the drawing was finished. Tumblr’s embedded publication timestamp for the post is 2024-06-30T03:10:14Z, preserved in an Internet Archive capture of 5 August 2024. [1] isobug published a twunk flag built on this design 46 minutes later the same morning, at 03:56:21Z. [6] The LGBTQIA+ Wiki dates the flag to 29 June 2024; no location or timezone is documented for isobug, so the post’s own UTC timestamp is used here. [2] isobug reissued the artwork on DeviantArt on 7 July 2024, the symbol-bearing version at 10:52:26 UTC and the plain version a minute later. [3][4]
A descendant followed the same morning. At 03:56:21Z on 30 June 2024, 46 minutes after this post, isobug published a twunk flag combining it with the twink flag, under a device merging this flag’s dumbbell with the twink flag’s double-Mars sign. That twunk flag carries four of this flag’s six stripe colours unchanged. [6] isobug had made an earlier twunk flag on the older hunk parent the previous day; both remain posted. [6]
On 7 July 2024 isobug reposted the design to DeviantArt at 5000 by 3000 pixels, the symbol-bearing version at 10:52:26 UTC and the plain version at 10:53:28, each linking back to the Tumblr post. Those uploads are the largest surviving creator-published files. [3][4]
Lineage
- Indirect influences
- International Bear Brotherhood Flag
- Direct children
- Twunk Combo Flag (2024, isobug)
An alternative to a flag, not a revision of one, and not built from it. isobug names disneyfan1413’s hunk flag of 4 June 2020 as the design this one answers, and kept using that flag rather than replacing it: the phrasing is “this Hunk flag by Reddit user u/disneyfan1413”, a flag isobug had already reissued in a sensory-friendly, higher-definition version on 22 November 2023 and reposted to DeviantArt on 15 January 2024 with the line “Free for anyone to use and I don’t claim to have made the original Hunk flag!” None of disneyfan1413’s green, white and blue reaches this design, so the 2020 flag stands as the earlier hunk flag in the identity rather than a graphic parent of this one. [1][2][7]
The visual borrowing runs in a different direction. The two bottom stripes come from the International Bear Brotherhood Flag, which is where the brown and the dark gray enter, and isobug assigns their meanings to the pair collectively: “It does take some inspo from the Bear flag with the bottom stripes standing for body hair, the fact that some hunks love to tan, and inclusion.” The borrowing stops at those two stripes: the bear flag’s seven-band construction, the rest of its palette and its paw emblem are not carried over. [1]
One descendant is recorded: isobug’s twunk combo flag of 30 June 2024, published 46 minutes after this one, which keeps this flag’s stripes one, four, five and six unchanged and substitutes the twink flag’s pink and pale yellow for its mid purple and pale lavender. [6]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.
- This record
- Alt. Hunk Flag (2024, isobug)
- Children
- Twunk Combo Flag (2024, isobug)
Colors & Symbolism
Two of the six stripes carry stated meanings and the rest do not. The dumbbell is optional, and isobug published a version without it. [1]
| Colour | Hex | Meaning | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brown | #B37130 | Body hair, tanning and inclusion, the meanings isobug gives for the two bottom stripes together. Both are taken from the bear brotherhood flag, which isobug names as the inspiration for them. [1][2] | Stripe 5. Measured from isobug’s published artwork; taken from the bear brotherhood flag. [1] |
| Dark grey | #3E3E3E | The second of the two bottom stripes isobug takes from the bear brotherhood flag, carrying the same three meanings: body hair, tanning and inclusion. No meaning is stated for either stripe separately. [1][2] | Stripe 6. Measured from isobug’s published artwork; taken from the bear brotherhood flag. [1] |
| Slate purple | #6C6CA5 | — | Stripe 1. Measured from isobug’s published artwork. [1] |
| Mid purple | #9191C1 | — | Stripe 2. Measured from isobug’s published artwork. [1] |
| Pale lavender | #CECEEA | — | Stripe 3. Measured from isobug’s published artwork. [1] |
| White | #FFFFFF | — | Stripe 4. Measured from isobug’s published artwork. [1] |
- A hand gripping a dumbbell, in black, at the upper hoist
- A gym icon by Becris at Flaticon, which isobug credits on the post with its source link and states is "completely optional". A version without it was published alongside.
isobug gives meanings for the two bottom stripes only. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki records the same three as "body hair, the practice of tanning within the hunk community, and general inclusion of all hunks". No meaning is stated for the purple, lavender or white stripes. [1][2]
Values measured down a column clear of the emblem on the 2048 by 1229 pixel PNG isobug published on Tumblr, and unchanged on isobug’s DeviantArt upload of the 5000 by 3000 pixel artwork, whose largest available delivery copy returns the same six values within the rounding of its JPEG encoding. No colour specification has been published by the designer, so these describe the artwork rather than a stated palette. The plain version carries the same six values as the version with the dumbbell, and stripes one, four, five and six are identical to those of isobug’s twunk combo flag of 46 minutes later. [1][3][4][6]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5
- Ratio Notes
- isobug’s DeviantArt uploads of the same artwork are 5000 by 3000 pixels, an exact 5:3 width to height, which is 3:5 in the archive’s height-to-length convention. The copy first published through Tumblr is a rescaled 2048 by 1229 delivery derivative of that proportion, off an exact 3:5 by less than a pixel. isobug has published no ratio in words. [1][3][4]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 6
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Slate purple, Mid purple, Pale lavender, White, Brown, Dark grey
- Additional Symbols
- A hand gripping a dumbbell, in black, at the upper hoist
Six horizontal stripes of equal depth, shading from slate purple down through pale lavender to white, then brown and dark grey. Measured down a column clear of the emblem on the 2048 by 1229 pixel copy, the six bands run 205, 203, 205, 202, 206 and 203 pixels, equal within the rounding of that file, with single-pixel blended rows at the boundaries. On the version carrying it, a black gym icon sits at the upper hoist, spanning the first three stripes and reaching about a quarter of the way across. [1]
Six horizontal stripes, slate purple, mid purple, pale lavender, white, brown and dark grey, with an optional black dumbbell at the upper hoist. [1]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- Published by its designer on Tumblr, 30 June 2024. [1], Reblogged by presentationflag-archive, obscurian, everythingarchive, liomall, radiomogai and others, and onward from radiomogai by liomangel. [1], Reissued by its designer on DeviantArt, 7 July 2024, in both the symbol-bearing and the plain version. [3][4], Carried by the LGBTQIA+ Wiki, which reproduces it beside the two earlier hunk flags. [2]
- Current Status
- unknown
The design circulated through isobug’s Tumblr network, archival and reblog accounts, LGBTQIA+ Wiki documentation and isobug’s own DeviantArt repost. Broader physical or organizational use has not been established in the sources used here. [1][2][3]
Image Archive
The flag it answers
The two versions published together
What was made from it
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 7 sources
- 1. Social media Alt. Hunk flag. isobug. Tumblr (2024-06-30). Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
The post publishing this design, carrying the reason for it, the stripe meanings, the Flaticon credit and the terms. Tumblr’s embedded publication timestamp is 2024-06-30T03:10:14Z, preserved in the Internet Archive capture of 5 August 2024 cited here.
- 2. Encyclopedias & Reference Hunk. LGBTQIA+ Wiki (2025-09-14). Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
Describes this flag, its purpose and its stripe meanings, citing isobug's post, and reproduces it beside the two earlier hunk flags. Dates it to 29 June 2024. Community-edited and unsigned; the site carries a standing notice that many of its pages predate its sourcing requirement. Date shown is the page's last edit. CC BY-SA 4.0.
- 3. Image file page Hunk flag. isobug. DeviantArt (2024-07-07). Accessed 2026-08-16
isobug's repost of the symbol-bearing version, published 2024-07-07T10:52:26Z. Gives the artwork at 5000 by 3000 pixels, repeats the Tumblr text, links back to the original post and points to the plain version. Carries DeviantArt's default copyright line, "© 2024 - 2026 isobug".
- 4. Image file page Hunk flag ( plain ). isobug. DeviantArt (2024-07-07). Accessed 2026-08-16
isobug's repost of the version without the gym icon, published 2024-07-07T10:53:28Z, a minute after the symbol-bearing version. Also 5000 by 3000 pixels: "The plain / symbol-less version of this Hunk flag I made!"
- 5. Social media isobug, blog profile. isobug. Tumblr. Accessed 2026-08-11
Cited for the designer's stated absence of pronouns, the blog's founding line and the avatar.
- 6. Social media Twunk combo flag. isobug. Tumblr (2024-06-30). Accessed 2026-08-11
The twunk combo flag isobug built on this one, published 46 minutes later the same morning. Tumblr’s embedded publication timestamp is 2024-06-30T03:56:21Z.
- 7. Image file page Hunk flag ( Sensory friendly edit ). isobug. DeviantArt (2024-01-15). Accessed 2026-08-16
isobug's repost of the 2023 sensory-friendly edit of disneyfan1413's hunk flag, published 2024-01-15T14:14:08Z. Credits disneyfan1413 as the original designer, gives the reason for the edit and states "I don't claim to have made the original Hunk flag!"
Image Sources
- Rendering
- isobug’s published artwork, shown here through Tumblr’s 2048 by 1229 delivery copy
- The flag artwork, symbol-bearing version. · Credit: isobug · Tumblrisobug’s stated terms for the flag are "Free for anyone to use anywhere as always!" [1]Rights Creator-granted broad reuse permission; no named licence.
- The gym icon used as the dumbbell, on the symbol-bearing version only. · Credit: Becris, via Flaticon · Flaticonisobug credits the icon on the post and supplies its attribution link. Its terms are Flaticon’s own and stand separately from isobug’s permission for the flag; the plain version contains no third-party component. [1]Rights Third-party component under Flaticon's own terms.
- The hunk flag this one answers: disneyfan1413's design of 4 June 2020, the twink flag's layout with its colours inverted. No part of it is carried into isobug's design. [2] · Credit: disneyfan1413 · Reddit, r/QueerVexillology
- isobug's sensory-friendly edit of disneyfan1413's hunk flag, first posted 22 November 2023 and reposted to DeviantArt on 15 January 2024: "I wanted to use less bright colours because the original gave me eyestrain issues. Free for anyone to use and I don't claim to have made the original Hunk flag!" This is the flag isobug was using when the alternative was made. [2][7] · Credit: isobug, after disneyfan1413 · Tumblr
- The symbol-bearing version, published 30 June 2024 and reissued on DeviantArt on 7 July 2024 at 5000 by 3000 pixels. The dumbbell is a gym icon by Becris, which isobug credits and calls "completely optional". [1][3] · Credit: isobug; gym icon by Becris, via Flaticon · TumblrRights isobug states free use of the flag; the Becris icon carries Flaticon’s own terms.
- The version without the gym icon, published in the same post: isobug credits the icon "on the first flag", which is the version carrying it, and calls it "completely optional". It was reissued on DeviantArt a minute after the symbol-bearing version, also at 5000 by 3000 pixels, as "The plain / symbol-less version of this Hunk flag I made!" [1][4] · Credit: isobug · Tumblr
- isobug's twunk combo flag, published 46 minutes after this flag on 30 June 2024, combining it with the twink flag. Stripes one, four, five and six are unchanged from this design. [6] · Credit: isobug; gym icon by Becris, via Flaticon · Tumblr
Archive Notes
The design, its reasoning, its stripe meanings and its terms all come from isobug’s own post, whose publication timestamp of 30 June 2024 at 03:10:14 UTC survives in an Internet Archive capture. isobug’s DeviantArt reposts of 7 July 2024 give the artwork at 5000 by 3000 pixels and confirm the proportion and the palette. The LGBTQIA+ Wiki independently describes the flag; its date of 29 June 2024 is superseded by the post’s own timestamp.