About
Me perdonas? and its misspelled forms (meperd0n as¿ or meper d0nas?) refer to a shitpost image macro of a cat’s face edited into the sky of London that is used to apologize to other online users. The image is usually accompanied by the phrase “Meperd0n as¿” and a copypasta from the chorus of the song “Un Siglo Sin Ti” by Chayanne. The name “Me Perdonas” is also used to refer to the cat edit as a character.
Willyouf0rgive me¿
If I’ve failed you, I ask for forgiveness in the only way I know how: by opening the doors of my heart for when you decide to return. I just want your friendship.
Origin
Cat and City Original Images
The earliest available upload of the original photo of the kitten was posted on December 19th, 2006, on jelloslug.com under the name kitten_amber_big_head.jpg, (shown below) which can be accessed through the site’s index page. However, since that date is preceded by further edits of the picture, the initial origin remains inconclusive.
On February 23rd, 2000, Computer Science professor Eric Brewer from the University of California, Berley took photos of London’s skyline during a trip to the city. The album features many views of the city, the Millenium Wheel, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben (shown below).
Sky Kitten
On May 5th, 2006, game designer Mata Haggis posted an edit of the kitten’s face to his blog The Matazone (shown below, left). Thirteen years later, Mata confirmed his authorship in a comment under the same blog entry, and through a Facebook post on March 19th, 2019. The mashup would also be used later as cover art for the music album Giant Kitten released on March 6th, 2009, by Carrie Dalby (shown below, right).
Meperd0n as¿
On February 7th, 2018, YouTuber Nathan Cormac / Joel uploaded a video using the image of the cat and the caption “Meperd0n as¿” which received nearly 25,000 views, 190 likes, 380 dislikes and 70 comments in almost three years (shown below). Some recounts credit the origin of the image macro to the Latin American Facebook shitpost community Curiosidades Feas (aka, “Curiosos feos” or “Curifeos”), but Joel has asserted to have created the meme.
Spread
On March 13th, 2018, YouTuber my name :V posted a video of the still image accompanied by a high-pitched speech synthesis program reading the chorus of Chayanne’s song. The video was reposted on March 29th by user Buizel (shown below, left) and gained over 3.7 million views in less than three years. On June 7th, YouTube channel meperd0n as¿ uploaded a longer version claiming it to be the original one, and on December 7th, a reupload by user Fans_cats _gatos (shown below, right) gained over 1.9 million views in the same time period.
On December 8th, 2018, the Facebook page Humor Mas posted a Loquendo video called “TEORIA Que pasaria si no perdonan a meper d0nas?” (which translates to “THEORY What would happen if you don’t forgive meper d0nas?”) that claims Me Perdonas is a god-like entity created by Nanachi from Made in Abyss, who can only be defeated by Chinese Homer (shown below, left). The video has collected over 927,000 views, 25,000 reactions and 15,000 comments as of November 2020. On December 16th, 2018, Jamonzito posted a compilation of video responses to the original image (shown below, right). The video gathered over 6.1 million views as of November 2020.
On August 3rd, 2019, the Facebook page Gatitos que curan tu depresión posted a picture of cat and its kitten with the caption “Aquí con el meper donas¿” (which translates to “Here with the meper d0nas¿” — shown below). The post accumulated over 34,000 reactions, 1,900 comments and 9,000 shares in two years.
The “Me Perdonas” voice clip was also used by Mexican streamer QuackityHQ as a donation sound for his Twitch channel during 2019 and 2020 (example, shown below).
Yuumi’s League of Legends Voice Line
Following the announcement of the new League of Legends heroine Yuumi. Fans from the Latin American community started associating the feline heroine with the Me Perdonas meme (examples shown below).
On May 5th, 2019, users of the North and South Latinamerican LoL board forums requested the addition of a new voice line so that whenever a player steals a kill using Yuumi, she would ask “Me Perdonas?” On May 14th, 2019, League of Legends LATAM announced the addition of the phrase through a tweet and held a poll to choose between five different audios of her voice actress (shown below).
Various Examples
Search Interest
Know Your Meme Store
External References
Source: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/me-perdonas