Talking Ben the Dog was released by Outfit7 in 2011 as part of the Talking Tom and Friends series, following the success of Talking Tom Cat. Ben, a retired chemistry professor dog who answers calls and repeats speech, became a meme again in the early 2020s when clips of his dry responses and laughs circulated on TikTok and YouTube. Soundboard users isolated this laugh as a standalone reaction, and its brevity keeps it popular for edits where a longer laugh would kill the timing.