It's definitely not AI. We've had that logo since the website was created in 2020 which was before public AI image generators were any good. As to who the author is, I'm willing to bet it was someone who was in the OG lifeboat discord server when /r/chapotraphouse was banned. They're probably not around anymore under the same name.
this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2025
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I figured so, but it's a shame we don't have a name, I hope that'll come up.
Until then Juan Guaidó will be declared interim creator of the Hexbear logo. 
We had the logo before the name change to hexbear so its probably from either the discord lifeboat or the original admins
Now im curious for the hexbear backstory. What was the discord lifeboat?
Ok so the timeline was like this
first we have the subreddit chapotraphouse about the podcast of the same name and it becomes a general leftist subreddit
after it gets really big (like over 150k people) reddit bans it over the "slaveowners should be killed" posts
a little before that a discord gets made refered to it as the lifeboat where part of the community joins
then there was a time were the original admins search for a new forum to migrate to and they choose lemmy
the site is originally called chapo.chat and has the hexbear logo
later its decided to change name to one that isnt tied to the podcast and Hexbear is chosen
finally after some time we decide to update the site to the newest lemmy vesion to enable federation and that were we are currently
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this one's asking too many questions. Where did we get the logo from anyway?
also I'm not seeing any first and last names on the Github accounts contributing to Hexbear, as well as security numbers, can we have an update on that?
Lol, obviously I meant a pseudonym or account name.
Just kidding, welcome back 
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~~Pretty sure @[email protected] made it if not~~ it was either an admin or dev that is likely no longer a part of the project, gave permission to use, and does not want credit for opsec reasons