Me Perdonas

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Me Perdonas is a Spanish-language shitpost image macro of an Abyssinian kitten's face pasted into a photo of London's skyline, paired with a garbled apology caption and lyrics from Chayanne's ballad Un Siglo Sin Ti. It took off across Latin American YouTube and Facebook in 2018 as a running joke about asking forgiveness in the most absurd way possible.

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Overview

Me Perdonas, often stylized as "Meperd0n as¿" or "meper d0nas?", is a Spanish-language shitpost built around a photo of a kitten's face floating above the London skyline, usually captioned with a chunk of the chorus from Chayanne's 2000 ballad "Un Siglo Sin Ti"1. The joke is that the giant sky-cat is begging forgiveness in the most melodramatic way imaginable, and posters use the image to mock-apologize for trivial or ridiculous offenses3.

The Abyssinian kitten in the picture was originally photographed for a UK cattery listing, while the backdrop is a real photo of the Millennium Wheel, Westminster Abbey, and Big Ben taken by a Berkeley computer science professor2. The name "Me Perdonas" is also used to refer to the cat itself as if it were a distinct character, sometimes framed as a god-like entity in derivative jokes3.

How It Spread

Me Perdonas broke containment on March 13th, 2018, when YouTuber "my name :V" posted a high-pitched text-to-speech clip of the "Un Siglo Sin Ti" chorus over the sky-cat image3. A March 29th repost by user Buizel pulled in more than 3.7 million views in under three years3. Follow-up uploads kept the format alive: a June 7th, 2018 "full version" from the channel meperd0n as¿, and a December 7th reupload by Fans_cats_gatos that gathered around 1.9 million views3.

The format then bled into Facebook. On December 8th, 2018, the page Humor Mas posted a Loquendo-narrated video titled "TEORIA Que pasaria si no perdonan a meper d0nas?" ("THEORY What would happen if you don't forgive meper d0nas?", translated from Spanish) that recast the cat as a god-like being created by Nanachi from Made in Abyss3. It racked up more than 927,000 views by late 20203. A December 16th, 2018 compilation of reaction videos by Jamonzito went even bigger at 6.1 million views3, and the sky-cat's kitten variant, posted August 3rd, 2019 by the page Gatitos que curan tu depresión, pulled another 34,000 reactions3.

The audio clip also crossed into livestreaming and gaming. Mexican Twitch streamer QuackityHQ ran the "Me Perdonas" voice line as a donation alert throughout 2019 and 20201. Around the same time, Latin American League of Legends fans latched onto the newly announced cat champion Yuumi and petitioned Riot on the LATAM boards to give her a "Me Perdonas?" voice line for kill-stealing3. Riot Games LATAM ran with it, holding a Twitter poll on May 14th, 2019 to pick which take of the voice actress's line to ship3.

Me Perdonas

2006image macroclassic

Me Perdonas is a Spanish-language shitpost image macro of an Abyssinian kitten's face pasted into a photo of London's skyline, paired with a garbled apology caption and lyrics from Chayanne's ballad Un Siglo Sin Ti. It took off across Latin American YouTube and Facebook in 2018 as a running joke about asking forgiveness in the most absurd way possible.

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Overview

Me Perdonas, often stylized as "Meperd0n as¿" or "meper d0nas?", is a Spanish-language shitpost built around a photo of a kitten's face floating above the London skyline, usually captioned with a chunk of the chorus from Chayanne's 2000 ballad "Un Siglo Sin Ti"1. The joke is that the giant sky-cat is begging forgiveness in the most melodramatic way imaginable, and posters use the image to mock-apologize for trivial or ridiculous offenses3.

The Abyssinian kitten in the picture was originally photographed for a UK cattery listing, while the backdrop is a real photo of the Millennium Wheel, Westminster Abbey, and Big Ben taken by a Berkeley computer science professor2. The name "Me Perdonas" is also used to refer to the cat itself as if it were a distinct character, sometimes framed as a god-like entity in derivative jokes3.

How It Spread

Me Perdonas broke containment on March 13th, 2018, when YouTuber "my name :V" posted a high-pitched text-to-speech clip of the "Un Siglo Sin Ti" chorus over the sky-cat image3. A March 29th repost by user Buizel pulled in more than 3.7 million views in under three years3. Follow-up uploads kept the format alive: a June 7th, 2018 "full version" from the channel meperd0n as¿, and a December 7th reupload by Fans_cats_gatos that gathered around 1.9 million views3.

The format then bled into Facebook. On December 8th, 2018, the page Humor Mas posted a Loquendo-narrated video titled "TEORIA Que pasaria si no perdonan a meper d0nas?" ("THEORY What would happen if you don't forgive meper d0nas?", translated from Spanish) that recast the cat as a god-like being created by Nanachi from Made in Abyss3. It racked up more than 927,000 views by late 20203. A December 16th, 2018 compilation of reaction videos by Jamonzito went even bigger at 6.1 million views3, and the sky-cat's kitten variant, posted August 3rd, 2019 by the page Gatitos que curan tu depresión, pulled another 34,000 reactions3.

The audio clip also crossed into livestreaming and gaming. Mexican Twitch streamer QuackityHQ ran the "Me Perdonas" voice line as a donation alert throughout 2019 and 20201. Around the same time, Latin American League of Legends fans latched onto the newly announced cat champion Yuumi and petitioned Riot on the LATAM boards to give her a "Me Perdonas?" voice line for kill-stealing3. Riot Games LATAM ran with it, holding a Twitter poll on May 14th, 2019 to pick which take of the voice actress's line to ship3.