Turn Your Pet Into the Snow Leopard Meme

The snow leopard meme is a photo of a real snow leopard whose eyes and face were edited with AI to look like Mei Mei, a cat famous for her huge glossy eyes, so the big cat looks like a pleading kitten. It’s usually captioned “*paws at you*” plus a clingy or playful line, very often an invite to play a video game. The earliest known AI edit was posted on X on October 23, 2026, and AI videos of the leopard pawing at the camera soon followed on TikTok.

There’s no free trial and no sign-up credits, but you can earn credits by inviting friends: +1 credit for each friend who signs up with Google through your link (up to 50), and +10 more when that friend makes a first purchase. Otherwise the smallest pack is $9.90 for 20 credits, enough for one 15-second video or three 6-second ones. Credits never expire, and every video comes without a watermark.

A failed render is retried once automatically for free, and if it fails again, the credits go back to your balance on their own. Photos the AI model refuses get their credits back automatically too. If a finished video has a problem, email support@snowleopardai.org and we refund the credits that video used, in money, to your original payment method; if you used only part of a pack, the credits you haven’t used yet are refunded in money too.

Only you can see it in your account: photos and videos are private, and we don’t publish them or use them to advertise. Your photo is sent to the AI model only to make your video, the AI provider doesn’t keep it, and we delete it automatically 30 days after upload. Videos stay in your account until you delete them or ask us to.

It’s an old furry and roleplay phrase: the asterisks mark an action, the way you’d type what your character does in a chat. In the snow leopard meme it’s the leopard reaching for you with a paw before it asks for something, as in “*paws at you* hop online”. Your video acts it out, with the paw pads pressing against the lens and tapping it twice.

Both are real. Mei Mei, also known as Tole Tole Cat, is a cat that went viral in 2023 for her huge glossy eyes, and her owner posts as @toletole_meimei on TikTok. The snow leopard is Himmel from Ishikawa Zoo in Nomi, Japan, in a photo @black03_white03 posted on X on May 25, 2024; AI edits later changed its eyes and face to look like Mei Mei.

Yes. A cat, a dog or another pet all work, and each is made to keep its own breed, face and ear shape under the snow leopard coat. A person keeps their own face, hair and skin tone and gets the same big glossy eyes, a fluffy snow leopard hood with small round ears and padded paw mittens. Use your own pet, yourself or an adult who agreed; no public figures and no minors.

Yes. The sound is made together with the video: soft wind chimes, a light breeze in the grass and gentle paw taps on the lens. It’s ambient sound only, with no vocals and no song. If you want a trending sound, add it from the sound library in TikTok or Instagram when you post.