the bear community is laced with insecurity
Understatement of the year. The bear community is
built on insecurity, and is pretty much rotten to the core as a whole.
The majority of bears were the fat unpopular faggot from school. They found this "accepting, loving" scene that suddenly told them that all the things that they used to get teased for (being fat hairy and unattractive) are super hot and 'woofy' and that now they're sex symbols.
The effect of this is like pouring gasoline on an open flame. Their egos erupt with conceitedness and arrogance. Add in some basic catty gay bitchiness that they learned from RuPaul's Drag Race and a lot of them are deeply shitty individuals.
There's an interesting observable effect of all this though - individuals never go anywhere without other bears. They live inside this 'bear bubble' where being a fat neckbeard with backhair is deemed super hot - but outside the bubble they're still fat unattractive losers. They hate being reminded of this, so many of them go out of their way to avoid that reality.
Another interesting thing to note is the effect of the internet on the bear scene. So much now comes down to how good you look in photos - and shorter guys photograph with 'stockier' (more ideal) proportions to taller guys. So, weirdly now - the guys that become well-known globally are generally fuckin' midgets.
The bear scene has been around for a good 30 years or so now and it's evolved a lot. Steroid use is now rife and endemic. "Musclebears" changed the scene so that the purely fat guys were no longer at the top of the tree, and so they all jumped on the juice. But the ideal is very much the 'powerlifter' look as exemplified by Dylan's pack of pups - because it still takes effort to lose the flab, and they just want a pill.
Also, the scene has also been giving itself a hard time of late due to the fact that it's overwhelmingly white. If you really want to annoy a bear who's PC (this is most of them) - just point out that there are no 'people of color' in that event he went to. Heh.
All of this kinda points to creating Dylan.