Condorito is a long-running Chilean comic-strip character created by René Ríos, known as Pepo, and first published in 1949. The character, a poor and good-natured man-bird, lives in the fictional town of Cumpeo and became a familiar cultural figure across Chile and Latin America through comics, jokes and later screen adaptations. Online, his name and hometown are now used as shorthand for Chilean humour and nostalgia, which is why a short clip named for his town circulates as a meme reference rather than as a piece of the original comic story.