The (admittedly very cute) monkey's doofy grin was plastered on what seemed like every website in the world and even made the rounds on a number of national news programs.
This week, the grinning monkey selfie returned to the news when Wikimedia, the nonprofit organization behind Wikipedia, refused Slater's request to take the photos down from Wikimedia Commons, an online repository of free images.
Alice is a hot-headed soul who knits ferociously, wears "a child's blue monkey barrettes" and grins after leaning down to chomp on the hand of a piano-playing friend.
Public Knowledge has received an email from photographer David Slater criticising its blog post about the image, as well as its use of the picture – taken by a grinning monkey in 2011.
Wikimedia's position on this was clear: in the licensing conditions found at the bottom of the grinning monkey selfie, they write, "This file is in the public domain because as the work of a non-human animal, it has no human author in whom copyright is vested".
To a monkey, a big toothy grin means a challenge.
But Matt Stopera at Buzzfeed won by asking 22 creationists to grin like monkeys and pose what they presumably thought was a zinger of a challenge to science.
Mr. O'Shaughnessy - whos office is pretty bare, aside from a freezer filled with ice cream and a grinning, stuffed monkey, a remnant of last year's April Fools' Day promotion - says the company is expanding to meet its targets for this year.
It was the selfie seen around the world; a toothy snap taken inadvertently by a grinning macaque monkey.
His shellacked paintings of flying sandwiches and grinning monkeys – executed by an army of assistants in a studio with more than 100 workers – look even worse than usual as a backdrop to his major three-dimensional work, with none of the ambiguity and strangeness that make his sculptures fly.
