Two-panel meme showing the Oh No Monkey chimpanzee with a shocked expression superimposed on a living room scene and a hospital bed scene, with humorous

Oh No Monkey

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Published November 10, 2026

Oh No Monkey, also known as Planet of the Apes' 'Oh No!' Monkey, is a video exploitable using a clip from the 2017 film War for the Planet of the Apes, in which the character Bad Ape yelps 'Oh no! Nono no no no!' while rejecting a plan. TikTok creators ran with the clip in late May 2024 for POV sketches about bad news, with a hospital-room edit by @bushesareprettycool topping four million plays in three days.

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Overview

Edits layer the Bad Ape clip over a static background using a green screen cutout, so the panicking chimp appears to react to whatever caption the creator writes above him1. The captions almost always use a POV setup about bad news or an unwelcome reveal, with the audio timed so Bad Ape's 'Oh no!' lands on the punchline5.

Typical posts stage scenarios like a weekend ruined by a work email or Batman showing up with a PS5 after a bad diagnosis23. Humor comes from the gap between the sincere terror of Bad Ape's performance in War for the Planet of the Apes and the trivial misfortunes attached to it in the edits.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (source clip) / TikTok (viral spread)
Date
2024

The source footage was uploaded on July 12th, 2017, when the official Planet of the Apes YouTube channel posted a clip called 'Bad Ape and Maurice' from War for the Planet of the Apes, in which Bad Ape refuses a request from Maurice by stammering 'Oh no! Nono no no no!'1. By 2024, the upload had passed 928,000 views4. A green screen cutout uploaded by user Its3adwy to the template site CreatorSet on April 24th, 2023 recorded 322 downloads before TikTok creators found it5.

How It Spread

Virality hit on May 26th, 2024, when TikTok user @whyattttt pasted Bad Ape into a living room with the caption 'When work calls on your relaxing day off,' earning more than 681,000 plays and 47,000 likes in four days2. The next day, @bushesareprettycool published the hospital edit captioned 'POV the doctor said it was just a bump, but Batman pulls up with a PS5,' which passed four million plays and 645,000 likes in three days3.

Follow-up Oh No Monkey TikToks stayed on bad news reveals. Accounts @luvz2hug and @viktoforuk posted their own takes within days, using Bad Ape as a reaction to being blindsided67. KYM documented the format at the end of May 2024, placing it alongside ironic 'Make-A-Wish volunteer' POV jokes already active on the app4.

Timeline

2017-07-12

The official Planet of the Apes YouTube channel uploads the 'Bad Ape and Maurice' clip from War for the Planet of the Apes.

2023-04-24

User Its3adwy uploads a green screen version of the clip to CreatorSet, making it remixable without editing skills.

2024-05-26

TikTok user @whyattttt posts an edit captioned 'When work calls on your relaxing day off,' pulling over 681,000 plays.

2024-05-27

TikTok user @bushesareprettycool posts the hospital POV edit, which reaches over four million plays in three days.

How to Use This Meme

Making an Oh No Monkey edit typically means placing the green screen cutout of Bad Ape over a chosen background image or video, then adding a POV caption that triggers his 'Oh no!' as the reveal of bad news5. Timing the clip so Bad Ape's panic hits on the punchline is the common approach.

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