https://www.themarysue.com/punch-monkey-viral-stuffed-animal-meme-explained/

One monkey ground the Internet to a halt by being too cute. This weekend, Punch the macaque and his stuffed orangutan companion have dominated social media.

Punch is a little under a year old and was abandoned by his mother. It’s an unfortunate reality of life in the animal kingdom. Luckily for the small monkey, he was raised at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan. One of the caretakers gave him this stuffed buddy because Punch has had a hard time bonding with the other primates. He’s got a ton of followers he has no idea about now though.