A Chinese collection of non-fungible token cartoon monkeys is accused of plagiarising Bored Ape Yacht Club, one of the world’s most popular NFT projects, but the creator insists that his works are original.

The project, named Bored Wukong, features hundreds of 2D and 3D avatars of Sun Wukong, or Monkey King – a legendary character featured in the classical Chinese novel Journey to the West. Similar to most NFT avatar projects around the world, the monkeys from Bored Wukong come in different styles, including one dressed as painter Vincent van Gogh and another dressed as an Egyptian pharaoh.