Talking Ben comes from Talking Ben the Dog, a mobile app released by Outfit7 in 2011 as part of the Talking Tom and Friends series. Ben is a retired chemistry professor dog who sips coffee, reads the newspaper and answers in short phrases like yes and no. The app resurfaced on TikTok and YouTube in the early 2020s, when creators filmed fake calls and Q and A sessions with him. His blunt answers became reaction clips, and the extended yes turned into a standalone meme sound.