Jason (@jbenjamin) • Collective gay friends app

Jason @jbenjamin

Queer surrealist heavily inspired by Rhythm Heaven and Warioware.

Lovely @lorena atop tasteful nudes of @reubx and @taylornowak Y’all are works of art!

This photo is only about my new glasses!!

Narrator on gay nature doc: Sensing their doom, the gay man removes his shirt and exposes his abdomen for the tribe to admire. For a brief, blissful moment, their existential dread vanishes.

Procreate says I spent over 40 hours on this self portrait and while I love staring at myself for long stretches at a time, I’m ready to be done with this one, despite it being a little uncanny valley 😅

You’re welcome 🫧

It’s hot 🥵

Where’s everyone getting their short shorts from these days?

From the archives. [Ancient chase, 2024]

Maybe you three could form a band? You’ve got the aesthetic down. Good luck @gael_sf, @antikatarza, and @thotanist!

Who’s joining me? 👀

Let’s be Mario Kart World friends

Shaved 👨🏼‍🦱

Hopefully the people I’m drawing still use this app... someone let @durra, @alejos, and @chasechaisson know they’ve got portraits ready.

Runyon Canyon [LA, 2025]

I was gonna edit out the poppy seed in my teeth but I did the BRAVE and VULNERABLE thing and left it in. You’re welcome.

Highlight of pride month was traveling to LA, looking across the bar and catching the eye of a cute boy, and realizing it was @philipbuoy from Collective. The app works, everyone!! Thanks, @cal.

Humans love repetiton, but what humans really love is repetition.

Did this “__ + proud” dog collection for pride month in 2019. Maybe this one resonates?

Y’all gotta stop being so pretty. It’s really testing my artistic abilities!!! @and3rs @jacquessle @cauecruz

Sometimes you gotta do it for the plot.

If AI ever comes to Collective: “Would you like me to like all the thirst traps, comment ‘cutie!’, and reply to all DMs in your voice so you don’t have to open this app anymore?”

The rest of you are having the same “What if everyone I know is AI?” feelings I’m having, right?

f r e s h c u t

Starring not-an-AI-scam @hanginwithmr.cooper, Daddy’s Little Meatball @travelingtom, and a pantsless @paulofamerica 🫡

I’m gonna keep drawing y’all but in the meantime...

Gonna tell my kids these were the power rangers.

Little splash of color for these Collectors. @stefanngrigore @olegs @geeknstereo

Three months in and I’m still not tired of the thirst traps. Keep it up, everyone.

It’s fun doing three at a time. Three random strangers here together on my page. Like some sort of Collective. @bernard.azar @karololszewski @restlessmind