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
On August 13th, 2003 the cat breeder site crystalcats.co.uk uploaded the photo of a 2 weeks old Abyssinian kitten named Ron (shown below) as part of an album about a new born litter.
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 the Millenium Wheel, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben (shown below).
Sky Kitten
On May 5th, 2006, game designer Mata Haggis-Burridge 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 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 high-pitched text-to-speech video of the chorus of «Un Siglo Sin Ti» with the image macro. On March 29th, user Buizel reposted it (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) which 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
External References
el gusto por lo bello
a taste for beautiful things;
no me gusta lo picante
I don’t like spicy things
quiero lo justo
subimos a lo más alto del edificio
we went right to the top of the building;
lo difícil fue convencerla
the difficult part was convincing her;
lo difícil es que …
the difficult thing is that …;
yo defiendo lo mío
I defend what is mine;
la física no es lo mío
physics isn’t my thing;
en vista de lo ocurrido
in view of what has happened;
sufre lo indecible
she suffers terribly;
lo insospechado del caso
what was unsuspected about the matter;
lo totalmente inesperado del descubrimiento
the completely unexpected nature of the discovery;
ven lo más pronto posible
come as soon as you possibly can;
es de lo más divertido
it’s so o really funny;
es de lo mejor que hay en el mercado
it’s among the best you can get;
lo mejor/peor de la película
the best/worst thing about the film;
lo peor fue que no pudimos entrar
the worst thing was we couldn’t get in
Una palabra más rotunda que otra
No me otorga ni un gramo de verdad
Seguro que solo quería demostrar
Esta inseguridad que me devora
Aquí, ahora, de nuevo, otra vez
He vuelto a sobre pasar el limite
Que puedes soportar
Y de esta no salgo vivo
Si me perdonas y me das otra oportunidad, amor
Prometo escribirte una canción
Diciendo que ahora acepto la derrota
Pero solo si me perdonas
Te he pedido demasiada atención
Y tienes cosas en que pensar
Solo te quería recordar que
Sin ti yo no soy nadie
Tengo un plan que no me puede fallar
Y no hay tiempo que perder
Para poner de nuevo en pie
Los escombros que nos restan
Si me perdonas y me das otra oportunidad amor
Prometo escribirte una canción
Diciendo que acepto la derrota
Pero solo si me perdonas
Si me perdonas y me das otra oportunidad amor
Prometo escribirte una canción
Diciendo que acepto la derrota
Pero solo si me perdonas
No me extraña que seas asi pues yo se siempre van de la mano
la hermosura y la vanidad, lo del alma tu lo haces a un lado
y me ignoras sintiendote asi con derecho de verme hacia abajo
por no ser mi apariencia mejor que la de un iluso y pobre diablo
Pero me perdonas
tan rojo es tu corazon como lo es el mio
solo que mi corazon aun esta tan frio
pues no lo ha hechado a perder una cara bonita
Pero me perdonas
el tiempo hara su labor seremos iguales
tan vieja tu como yo, ya sin vanidades
y eso a ti te va a doler mucho mas que a mi
La balanza hoy esta a tu favor tu decides un si o rechazarme
corazones como el que te ofrezco no hallaras de esos ya no se hacen
Pero me perdonas
tan rojo es tu corazon como lo es el mio
solo que mi corazon aun esta tan frio
pues no lo ha hechado a perder una cara bonita
Pero me perdonas
el tiempo hara su labor seremos iguales
tan vieja tu como yo, ya sin vanidades
y eso a ti te va a doler mucho mas que a mi
