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.
Origin
The source image dates back to May 5th, 2006, when British game designer Mata Haggis-Burridge posted the sky-kitten edit to his blog The Matazone under the title "NOOOO! THE SKY KITTEN HAS RETURNED!"[4]. The kitten photo itself came from the crystalcats.co.uk cattery, which had uploaded pictures of a two-week-old Abyssinian named Ron on August 13th, 2003[5], and the London skyline plate came from a February 2000 travel album by Berkeley professor Eric Brewer[2]. Haggis-Burridge later confirmed his authorship of the composite in a Facebook post on March 19th, 2019[3]. The image was reused as the cover art for Carrie Dalby's 2009 album Giant Kitty before it ever became a meme[6].
The Spanish-language "Meperd0n as¿" format took off more than a decade later. On February 7th, 2018, YouTuber Nathan Cormac (also known as Joel) uploaded a video pairing the sky-cat with the misspelled apology caption, and he has publicly claimed authorship of the meme[7], though some accounts credit the Latin American Facebook shitpost community Curiosidades Feas[3].
- Platform: The Matazone blog (source image) / YouTube and Facebook (viral spread)
- Creator: Mata Haggis-Burridge (sky-cat image, 2006); Nathan Cormac aka Joel (Meperd0nas caption format, 2018)
- Date: 2006
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 offenses[3].
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 professor[2]. 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 jokes[3].
