Talking Ben is the gruff dog from Outfit7's Talking Ben the Dog app, a virtual pet game where players chat with Ben and he repeats or answers them in his distinctive voice. The character became a huge internet meme after streamer IShowSpeed played with the app on stream, with clips of his chaotic calls to Ben spreading across TikTok and YouTube. Fans began reusing Ben's shortest lines as reaction sounds, and this simple self-introduction stuck because it captures the whole joke in just over a second.