Twunk Flag (isobug, 29 June 2024)
Subcultural Pride Flag ·
The first of two twunk flags by the Tumblr flag-maker isobug, published on 29 June 2024 and made for a stated reason: "I made it for a friend who couldn't find a ( non-joke ) Twunk flag he liked." Five stripes set the twink flag's pink and pale yellow between the green and navy of isobug's sensory-friendly edit of u/disneyfan1413's hunk flag, under the twink flag's double-Mars symbol. The second design followed a day later. [1]
Key facts
- Designer
- isobug
- Created
- Published by the designer
- Documented
- 29 June 2024 to the present
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the renderings published on Tumblr, both 2048 by 1229 pixels, which is within a pixel of 5:3. That is an observation of the artifact; isobug has published no ratio. [1]
- Stripes
- 5
- Represented Identity
- twunk
Archive categories Subculture Pride Flags
Overview
Made for a friend who could not find a non-joke twunk flag he liked.
isobug made the flag for a friend who could not find a twunk flag he liked that was not a joke, and said so on the post: "I have no idea if this is similar to other flags but I made it for a friend who couldn't find a ( non-joke ) Twunk flag he liked." [1]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- twunk
- Subcommunity
- men-loving-men communities
Twunk is the combination of twink and hunk. The design follows the word literally: the twink flag's colours occupy the middle of the flag and the hunk flag's enclose them, with the twink flag's symbol carried over unchanged. [1]
Creators
The Creator
isobug
Designer
A Tumblr flag-maker posting as isobug, who tags the work mogai and liom. The blog states no pronouns, so none is used for isobug anywhere in this entry. [2]
I made it for a friend who couldn't find a ( non-joke ) Twunk flag he liked.
The reason for the design, given on the post.
Free for everyone to use anywhere!
The designer's own terms, given on the post.
Attribution notes
isobug published the design on Tumblr, describing it as a "Twunk flag but it's a combo of the Twink flag by by Wikipedia user kaisuteknon and my sensory friendly edit of the Hunk flag by by Reddit user u/disneyfan1413", and gave the reason for it: "I have no idea if this is similar to other flags but I made it for a friend who couldn't find a ( non-joke ) Twunk flag he liked." [1] The blog states no pronouns, so none is used here. [2]
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Yes
Published online, on Tumblr. No place of origin is documented. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Exact date
- Published by the designer
- Documented
- 29 June 2024 to the present
- Creation Bounds
- isobug published the flag on Tumblr on 29 June 2024 at 03:00:37 UTC. [1] The post's own record carries the timestamp twice, as a formatted date and as the Unix value 1719630037, and the archived copy carries it a third time as JSON-LD. The second twunk design followed the next day, 30 June 2024 at 03:56:21 UTC, a little under twenty-five hours later. [3] The design cannot precede its own hunk parent, isobug's sensory-friendly edit of 22 November 2023 at 15:18:09 UTC, which the post links as its source. [4]
isobug made a second, different twunk flag afterwards, on 30 June 2024, built on isobug's own Alt. Hunk flag rather than on the hunk flag used here. It has the brown and dark grey stripes of the bear brotherhood flag and a device combining a dumbbell with the double-Mars sign, and shares none of this design's green or navy. Both remain posted and neither supersedes the other. [3]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Twink Pride Flag (2009, Kaisuteknon)
- Indirect influences
- Hunk Flag (2020, disneyfan1413)
- Related flags
- Alt. Hunk Flag (2024, isobug)
A combination of two flags, stated as such by its designer, who names both: "a combo of the Twink flag by by Wikipedia user kaisuteknon and my sensory friendly edit of the Hunk flag by by Reddit user u/disneyfan1413". The doubled "by by" is isobug's. [1]
The hunk component is not u/disneyfan1413's flag directly. It is isobug's own sensory-friendly edit of 22 November 2023, which darkens the original because its colours caused eyestrain, and which the post links. The measurements bear this out: the green and navy in this design, #04724D and #072A6C, are the values of isobug's edit rather than of the 2020 original. [4][1] u/disneyfan1413's flag is therefore the ancestor of this design through that edit, not the artwork it sampled.
The second twunk flag, published the following day on a different hunk parent, is a counterpart by the same designer rather than a revision or a replacement of this one. Neither post describes either flag as superseding the other. [3]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.
- This record
- Twunk Flag (isobug, 29 June 2024)
Colors & Symbolism
The design carries the two flags it joins and adds nothing. No statement of colour meanings has been located. [1]
| Colour | Hex | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Green | #04724D | Stripe 1, from the hunk parent. Sampled from the published rendering. [1] |
| Pale yellow | #FDF5B1 | Stripe 2, from the twink flag. Sampled from the published rendering. [1] |
| White | #FFFFFF | Stripe 3, shared by both parents. [1] |
| Pink | #FEB7EF | Stripe 4, from the twink flag. Sampled from the published rendering. [1] |
| Navy | #072A6C | Stripe 5, from the hunk parent. Sampled from the published rendering. [1] |
- Interlocking double-Mars symbol
- Carried over from the twink flag unchanged, in the same central position on the white stripe.
No colour meanings are stated by the designer or by any source read. [1]
Values sampled from the 2048 by 1229 pixel PNG isobug published, down a column clear of the emblem, and identical in both published versions. No colour specification has been published by the designer, so these describe the file rather than a palette. The pink and the pale yellow are byte-identical to those of isobug's later twunk flag. [1][3]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the renderings published on Tumblr, both 2048 by 1229 pixels, which is within a pixel of 5:3. That is an observation of the artifact; isobug has published no ratio. [1]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 5
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Green, Pale yellow, White, Pink, Navy
- Center Symbol
- Interlocking double-Mars symbol in black, centred on the white stripe
Five horizontal stripes, green over pale yellow over white over pink over navy, with a black interlocking double-Mars symbol centred on the white stripe. Two versions were published. In the one shown here the white stripe is three times the depth of the other four, which is the twink flag's own proportion, and the symbol is correspondingly large; in the other the five stripes are equal and the symbol smaller. Read from the 2048 by 1229 pixel renderings. [1]
Five horizontal stripes, green, pale yellow, white, pink and navy, with a black interlocking double-Mars symbol centred on the white stripe. [1]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- Published by its designer on Tumblr, 29 notes. [1]
- Current Status
- unknown
One documented user, the designer. The archived copy of the post renders nineteen of its twenty-nine notes: four reblogs by other blogs and one by isobug, the rest likes. Two of the four, radiomogai and revenant-coining, are the blogs isobug tagged in the post's own taglist, so they are the designer's own circulation rather than independent uptake; a third, everythingarchive, is an archive blog, which this database does not count as use. The friend the flag was made for is named only as a friend. No use outside the Tumblr flag-coining community has been located, and unlike the second design this one has no located repost off Tumblr. [1][3]
Image Archive
Ancestry
The flags it combines
isobug's other twunk flag
The two versions published together
In-text images
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
- Not to be confused with isobug's other twunk flag of 30 June 2024, which is built on isobug's own Alt. Hunk flag and carries brown and dark grey stripes and a dumbbell. [3]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 5 sources
Social media
- 1. Twunk flag but it's a combo of the Twink flag. isobug. Tumblr (2024-06-29). Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
The post publishing this design, carrying both parents, the reason for the flag and the terms. 29 notes. Undated on its face.
- 2. isobug, blog profile. isobug. Tumblr. Accessed 2026-08-16
Cited for the designer's stated absence of pronouns, the blog's founding line and the avatar.
- 3. Twunk combo flag. isobug. Tumblr (2024-06-30). Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
isobug's other twunk flag, on a different hunk parent. 18 notes. Cited to distinguish the two and to bound this post's date.
- 4. Hunk flag ( Sensory-friendly edit ). isobug. Tumblr (2023-11-22). Accessed 2026-08-16
The hunk parent, in the designer's own words and with its own timestamp of 22 November 2023 at 15:18:09 UTC: the statement that its colours are "meant to be an inverse of the Twink flag" and that the edit was made because the original caused eyestrain.
Encyclopedias & Reference
- 5. Hunk. LGBTQIA+ Wiki (2025-09-14). Accessed 2026-08-11
Dates isobug's sensory-friendly edit of the hunk flag to 22 November 2023 and u/disneyfan1413's original to 4 June 2020, citing both posts. Community-edited and unsigned; the site carries a standing notice that many of its pages predate its sourcing requirement. CC BY-SA 4.0.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- The version with the deepened white stripe, 2048 by 1229 pixels
- The published renderings. isobug's stated terms are "Free for everyone to use anywhere!" [1]
- u/disneyfan1413's hunk flag of 4 June 2020, the design behind isobug's edit. It is this flag's ancestor rather than the artwork it combines. [5] · Credit: disneyfan1413 · Reddit, r/QueerVexillology
- isobug's sensory-friendly edit of the hunk flag, published 22 November 2023. This is the hunk component the designer names, and the source of this flag's green #04724D and navy #072A6C. The underlying design is u/disneyfan1413's; isobug darkened it because the original caused eyestrain. [4] · Credit: Edit by isobug; underlying hunk flag by u/disneyfan1413 · Tumblr · No named licence. The post sets no terms for the edit.
- isobug's other twunk flag, published 30 June 2024 on a different hunk parent. A separate design, not a revision of this one. [3] · Credit: isobug; gym icon by Becris, Flaticon · Tumblr
- The same design in five equal stripes, with a smaller symbol. Both versions were published together and their colour values are identical. [1] · Credit: isobug · Tumblr
Archive Notes
The design's date and authorship are fixed by the source post's own timestamp. What is not documented is any use of the flag beyond its publication and reblogs.