# Hello Kitty On November 27, 2019, Reddit artist brunorust posted a four-panel furry comic in which a corgi greets a black cat, realizes he is in Japan, and switches to a Japanese good-morning. Within two days, r/furry_irl users were swapping the second panel for their own country, state, or city, turning the gag into one of the subreddit's most-copied templates of late 2019[1][2]. ## Origin Reddit user brunorust published the original comic, titled "living in Japan in a nutshell," to r/furry on November 27, 2019. It picked up more than 3,500 upvotes at 91% approval and about 70 comments inside a week[1]. A crosspost to the furry meme subreddit r/furry_irl appeared the same week and pulled over 1,100 upvotes at 99% approval, which is where the exploitable chain actually started[2][10]. - **Platform:** Reddit (r/furry origin, r/furry_irl viral spread) - **Creator:** brunorust - **Date:** 2019 ## Overview Hello Kitty / Oh Yeah, I'm in Japan is a four-panel exploitable in which an anthropomorphic corgi greets a passing black cat in English, catches himself with "Oh wait… I'm in Japan…" in the second panel, then redoes the greeting in romanized Japanese. The cat answers in the final panel with a sideways V sign, a wink, and a "Nyaaa…" emoticon[1]. Edits keep the double-take structure and swap the location text in panel two, along with the slang, visuals, and sometimes props in the bottom half of the comic. Entries for Australia, Michigan, Britain, and Alberta each redrew backgrounds with regional landmarks or paraphernalia so the joke landed on local in-group humor rather than language play[3][4][5]. The template works because the beat is portable: any culture with a distinctive greeting, dialect, or stereotype fits the second-panel correction. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Hello Kitty / Oh Yeah I'm in Japan? It is a four-panel exploitable furry webcomic by Reddit artist brunorust in which a corgi greets a black cat, realizes he is in Japan, and switches to a Japanese greeting[1]. ### Where did Hello Kitty / Oh Yeah I'm in Japan come from? brunorust posted it to r/furry on November 27, 2019, under the title "living in Japan in a nutshell"[1], and it went viral after a crosspost to r/furry_irl[2]. ### What does the Hello Kitty comic mean? The joke is a double-take: panel two has the corgi catch himself and redo his greeting to match the local culture, so edits swap in whichever country, state, or city the poster wants to mock or celebrate[3][10]. ### How do you use the Hello Kitty format? People typically keep the four-panel structure, rewrite panel two to name their own location, and change the bottom panels to show regional slang, visuals, or paraphernalia such as the ones in Australia_irl and michigan_irl[3][4]. ### Is the Hello Kitty meme still popular? The bulk of its activity was a late-November 2019 run on r/furry_irl, where commenters were already predicting a "deadhorselist" ban within two days of the first edits[7][10]. ## References 1. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/e2lfbj/living_in_japan_in_a_nutshell/]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e2ngfc/japan_irl/]() 3. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e2x1ej/australia_irl/]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e325sj/michigan_irl/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e359sl/britian_irl/]() 6. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e3en72/albertairl/]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e3a60h/furry_irl/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e3dnaw/memes_irl/]() 9. [https://www.reddit.com/r/furry_irl/comments/e3d71z/loss_irl/]() 10. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hello-kitty-oh-yeah-im-in-japan]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/hello-kitty-oh-yeah-im-in-japan Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library