Potato Jesus, also known as 'Beast Jesus' or 'Ecce Mono,' refers to the infamously botched restoration of a 1930s fresco by artist Elías García Martínez. In 2012, Cecilia Giménez, an elderly parishioner in Borja, Spain, took it upon herself to restore the aging mural. The result was a distorted, monkey-like face that bore little resemblance to the original depiction of Christ. While the art world was initially shocked, the internet immediately fell in love with the image. It quickly became a global sensation, serving as the quintessential visual metaphor for well-intentioned failures, DIY disasters, and the hilariously wide gap between high expectations and catastrophic reality.