‘Looks like a bearded dude’

They sure are taking the OK out of Oklahoma!

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife started getting mocked so often because its official shield looks a bearded guy in an orange cap, that officials had to release a statement urging folks to quit ripping them for “the little dude.”

“WE ARE AWARE THE LOGO LOOKS LIKE A BEARDED DUDE IN AN ORANGE HAT —YOU DO NOT NEED TO KEEP POINTING THAT OUT EVERY SINGLE DAY,” the conservation group tweeted Thursday with clapping emojis throughout for emphasis.

The emblem features a bird flying above a deer and a fish, under an orange section that reads Oklahoma Department of Wildlife and Conservation.

But from far away, and in Twitter scale on phones, the logo looks like exactly the kind of guy you’d find in the great outdoors —sporting a scraggly beard and beanie while squinting down at, say, a fishing rod.

Observers couldn’t keep a straight face over the optical illusion-sparked online feud.

“Have you named him tho?” one user quipped on Twitter. “[He] looks like a Barnaby to me.”

Others said that they,  “thought that was intentional….”  and legitimately assumed “HE WAS LIKE A MASCOT OR SOMETHING.”

As an apparent tribute, some bearded men in orange hats even began posting images of themselves and pals in the comments section.

“Now I can’t unsee it,” Reddit’s official account tweeted — to which the conservation group replied “r/it’sacutallynotalittledude.”

The group  manages and protects fishing and wildlife along with their habitats “while also growing a community of hunters & anglers,” according to its online biography.