Mr Oizo is the stage name of French electronic musician and filmmaker Quentin Dupieux, best known for the 1999 hit Flat Beat. The line 'vous êtes des animaux' — 'you are animals' — circulates as a short meme sound clipped from his spoken material, tagged by uploaders under his name with the French word for animals. It spread through meme pages and soundboards as a reaction clip for chaotic footage, and it endures because the deadpan French delivery makes any rowdy scene funnier.
About this sound
A short French voice clip of Mr Oizo saying 'vous êtes des animaux' — you are animals. Meme editors use it over chaotic fails, rowdy crowds and pet clips.
The clip captures Mr Oizo's dry, deadpan voice delivering the French line 'vous êtes des animaux' — 'you are animals' — in a flat, almost scolding tone. The delivery is blunt and rhythmic, with a slight electronic edge that makes it cut through background noise. Hearing it feels like being called out by an unimpressed observer, which is exactly why it lands so well. Dropped over footage of people or pets behaving chaotically, it turns ordinary mayhem into a punchline, giving the viewer a smug narrator who states the obvious with total confidence.