AI Bears and Their Creatures

June 27, 2025
HANK ORSO

AI Bears and Their Creatures

Let's talk digital, AI, hairy guys. Yer boy Hank here doesn't follow a lot on the socials, but when something hot, or should I say "hawt", catches my eye, whoa doggie look out. I'm gonna ingest that like I'm starving. And what have I been ingesting lately? Digitally-created, AI art of big hairy bear dudes. Yes, I think I'm falling in love with what are essentially cartoons.

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Now if you're of a certain age, and were gay, and liked the beefier, hirsute guys, even as a youngster, you were lucky enough to grow up with the likes of Blaque Jaques Shellaque from Looney Tunes, or Popeye's nemesis Bluto, or that ginger daddy adventurer, Yukon Cornelius, from the 1961 Rudolf Christmas Special. Hey, don't judge. In the times before the internet and VHS tapes, you took what you could get! So this infatuation with not-exactly-actual male representation has a firm establishment from my youth.

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One particular Instagram page I'm admiring is digitalbeardudes, a collection of AI art revolving around the various attributes and portrayals of the various gents that make up the Bear community taxonomy. Some are anime-style, flat cartoons, while some are hyperrealistic photo-quality that, quite frankly, have me doubting what I'm seeing.

There are different themes the artist uses, and for now, I wanna focus on the men and their creatures. Depicted in fantasy-like surroundings with unreal animals, they fuel the fantasies we've created in our heads of valor, virility, and communion with nature and its inhabitants. Also, if they feel a bit sexy, well, they're not real, so enjoy the fantasy.

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I mean, c'mon! Your land is being threatened by Godzilla, who do you wanna be saved by? Some team of nerdy scientists, or this gorgeous powerhouse of manhood?

Or it's a late night and you're taking a midnight stroll with your favorite lusty animal. It's downright romantic!

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What you imagine these two doing in that dark wood, well, that's between you and your god.

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I really like the one above for several reasons. First, the dude is hot AF! That thick body bursting out of his shorts and shirt, with his bushy beard flowing down his neck. ARGH! Too delicious. But I also like it because I don't know what the fuck is going on with that giant bird thing, so it plays with humor and adventure. Part of me sees this as two misfits who have created a necessary bond to get each other out of those woods, and part of me sees a story here where as a lad, he aquired and raised his companion from an egg. or maybe this is a much sexier version of Harry Potter's Haggrid and one of his animals.

And that's what's great about some of these pics, the variety of stories you can bring to it, if you need an explanation.

Then you have images in which the man becomes the creature:

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Hey, I say it's all good in the woodsy hood! Can you imagine wandering lost in the forest and one of those guys comes to your rescue? Would you run and hide, or accept their lending hand? Yeah. I thought so.