Talking Ben the Dog is a virtual pet app released by Outfit7 in 2011 as part of the Talking Tom and Friends franchise, where players poke and prod a grumpy retired professor dog to get deadpan reactions. Clips of Ben answering the phone with dry 'yes' and 'ho ho ho' lines became a massive meme format on YouTube and TikTok around 2021 to 2022. Editors ripped his one-off noises, including this quick wet fart, into meme soundboards for gross-out punchlines. Its sub-second length keeps it useful for fast-paced edits.