Talking Ben comes from Talking Ben the Dog, an interactive app by Outfit7 released in 2011 as part of the Talking Tom and Friends series. In the app, Ben the dog repeats speech, reads newspapers and reacts to pokes and potions, which made his voice easy to record and remix. Short clips of his reactions later circulated on YouTube, TikTok and soundboards, detached from the app itself. The na na na chant survived because it needs no context, works as a universal tease in any language, and fits brief reaction videos and gaming edits.