Talking Ben comes from Talking Ben the Dog, the 2011 Outfit7 app in the Talking Tom and Friends series, where Ben is a grumpy retired chemistry professor who repeats speech, reads newspapers and reacts with short grunts, laughs and teases. Clips of Ben resurfaced widely on TikTok, YouTube and Discord in the early 2020s, turning his yes, no and mocking noises into standalone reaction sounds. This taunt survived because it is brief, characterful and understood instantly, even without the app context, as playful mockery rather than genuine insult.