# Milk Ape Chocolate Gorilla Melting Milk Ape, also known as Chocolate Gorilla Melting, is a four-panel image macro built from a 2017 photo of a chocolate gorilla figurine dissolving in a pot of hot milk on a stovetop. The format took off on Reddit and Twitter in summer 2020, usually paired with a character trying to share a secret before he melts away. ## Overview Milk Ape, also called Chocolate Gorilla Melting, is a four-panel image macro built around a small chocolate gorilla figurine slowly dissolving in a pot of hot milk on a stovetop[1]. The joke works by showing the ape trying to whisper something urgent to the viewer while his body shrinks away panel by panel, so the secret is never fully delivered[4]. The base object in the photo is a real Japanese novelty confection called Zoology Chocolate Gorilla, sold by Sugoi Mart, where a buyer review notes hating to see "the relaxed ape fade away into the milk"[1]. Fans built an elaborate side-mythology around the character, treating him as the captive king of a fictional realm called Jungle Thick[8]. ## How It Spread The picture drifted quietly for over a year before Imgur user procrastinator9 reposted a reaction-image version on March 23rd, 2019 under the title "Can relate," which pulled more than 115,000 views and 3,100 upvotes[4]. Growth stayed slow until summer 2020, when Redditor Milk-Jug1737 posted a Milk Ape variant to r/dankmemes on June 12th, 2020 that hit roughly 55,500 upvotes in about a month[5]. On August 2nd, 2020, u/Dank_Memerman followed with another example on r/memes that pulled over 80,000 upvotes, 1,100 comments, and several Reddit awards[6]. The format really broke out when the @ApeMiIk Twitter account, active since December 2018 and sitting at around 47,200 followers, posted a chocolate gorilla edit on August 17th, 2020 that gathered over 175,000 likes and 32,000 retweets in under 48 hours[7]. Around the same time, the Jungle Thick Milk Ape Wiki on Fandom, created in April 2019, filled out the lore that fans on r/ape and r/okbuddyretard kept referencing, casting Milk Ape as king of Jungle Thick alongside characters like Stink Monky, Baboon Jim, and John Deere Monkey Small[8]. ## How to Use The format typically stretches across four panels of the melting ape. Panel one opens with the ape leaning toward the camera to set up something urgent, often paired with a variant of "Listen, kid, I don't have much time"[4]. Each following panel shows him losing more of his body to the milk, and the punchline lands in panel four when only chocolate milk is left in the pot and the secret is never delivered. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Milk Ape Chocolate Gorilla Melting? It is a four-panel image macro built from a photo of a Zoology Chocolate Gorilla figurine melting in a pot of hot milk on a stovetop[1]. ### Where did Milk Ape Chocolate Gorilla Melting come from? The source photo was uploaded to Imgur by user green1 on October 14th, 2017 under the title "I'll be back"[2]. ### What does Milk Ape Chocolate Gorilla Melting mean? The gag frames the ape as a character trying to tell the viewer a secret, with his physical disappearance into the milk cutting off the punchline before he can finish[4]. ### How do you use Milk Ape Chocolate Gorilla Melting? People typically pair the four melting panels with a setup line like "Listen, kid, I don't have much time" and let the ape shrink away without finishing what he was saying[4]. ### Is Milk Ape Chocolate Gorilla Melting still popular? The format hit its peak on Reddit and Twitter in August 2020 and is treated as a classic dank meme template today, with lore-heavy references still circulating on r/ape and r/okbuddyretard[7][8]. ## References 1. [https://sugoimart.com/products/zoology-gorilla-chocolate]() 2. [https://imgur.com/gallery/ill-be-back]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/Accounting/comments/76z9j1/how_busy_season_feels/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/milk-ape-chocolate-gorilla-melting]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/h054el/]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/i2p8uw/]() 7. [https://twitter.com/ApeMiIk/status/1295342078960201729]() 8. [https://milk-ape.fandom.com/wiki/Milk_Ape]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/milk-ape-chocolate-gorilla-melting Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library