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What Color Is The Sky? Ay Mi Amor Cat Meme refers to a trend set to a sped-up version of "Un Poco Loco" from the 2017 animated Disney film Coco in which one person sends another image macros of photoshopped cats (including El Gato), each one captioned with lyrics from the song. The trend became popularized on TikTok in October 2022 and inspired video slideshows of cat memes set to the audio in the following months.

Origin

In November 2017, Coco was released in the United States. The movie features a song titled "Un Poco Loco," which was uploaded to YouTube^[1] by DisneyMusicVEVO on December 21st, 2017, gaining over 178 million views in five years (shown below, left). On May 14th, 2022, YouTuber^[2] Void1 then posted a sped-up version of the song, garnering over 269,000 views in seven months (shown below, right).

On October 15th, 2022, TikToker^[3] @catfurr_ posted a video set to the sped-up version of the song where they text another person the lyrics to the song written on image macros of cats one string at a time, garnering over 1.3 million views in two months (shown below).

Spread

On October 15th, 2022, TikToker^[4] @waddles450 posted a video to the sound cropping all the cat images, garnering over 130,000 views in two months. On October 23rd, TikToker^[5] @xoxoluvj4zz posted a video following the texting trend, garnering over 1.2 million views in two months (shown below, left). On November 6th, TikToker^[6] @yagmurrmasal posted a video slideshow set to the sound consisting of different images of cats, garnering over 3 million views in a month (shown below, right).

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