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F Students Are Inventors refers to a viral video posted by business and fitness influencer Ben Azoulay on his TikTok account (@kingazoulay) in which he states that students who receive F grades are the inventors in society. He further calls them "creative." Azoulay's seen in the clip with a long brown beard and wearing a black tank top.

The original video was posted to TikTok and Instagram Reels in mid-April 2025. It gained memes in the following weeks, peaking in early May 2025. Many used the TikTok sound or referenced the catchphrase "F Students Are Inventors" to showcase overly dumb inventions or innovations for ironic effect, mostly at the expense of Hustle Culture and Sigma Grindset content. The meme became intertwined with the Chromebook Durability Test TikTok trend that spread online during the same timeframe as well. An F Students Are Inventors copypasta also surfaced, which used the script of the original video.

Origin

On April 15th, 2025, TikToker^[1] Ben Azoulay @kingazoulay posted a video of himself delivering a monologue with stock footage. In it, he talked about "F students" being the "inventors" in society. His message aimed to make F students feel optimistic about their futures. He spoke over the instrumental of the rap song "Remember the Name" by Fort Minor.^[7] In a month, the video received over 116,200 likes (shown below).

He also posted the video to his Instagram^[8] account @king_azoulay on April 15th, where it received over 236,700 likes in a month.

Copypasta

If you’re a young boy and you’re in a situation where you’re an F student, let me tell you something, you got a bright future, buddy. You see, an A student is the perfect employee. He works for me and he does his job perfectly. A B student, that’s my manager. The C students, those are business owners. Then, you got the D. D is between a business owner and an inventor. It’s someone that owns a business, but truly wants to invent something. He just doesn’t know how to do it. And then you got the F students. The F students are inventors. They’re so fucking creative that they couldn’t sit in class because whatever people were trying to put in their head, they knew it was fucking bullshit.

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Multiple top comments on the video were posted on April 15th, 2025, like one that read, "What bro sends me after failing," which received over 23,900 likes in a month.

The meme didn't take off until early May 2025 when multiple TikTokers shared videos on May 6th, which either used the original video's TikTok sound^[2] or referenced Azoulay's quote. It's unclear which creator posted their video first on that day.

For instance, on May 6th, TikToker^[3] @sabrinas.lovely posted a video of a kid rolling around on a gym floor, using Azoulay's sound and writing, "F students are inventors," with the Dead Rose Emoji in text overlay. Over two days, the video received roughly 405,600 likes (shown below).

Also on May 6th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @jaydynflippen5 shared a video with the F Students Are Inventors sound, showing someone overflowing a public toilet. Over two days, the video amassed over 199,000 likes (shown below).

That same day, YouTuber^[5] kracc bacc posted an F Students Are Inventors edit, which combined other then-trending memes like the Blue Shirt Guy Dancing the Salsa, someone doing the Chromebook Lead Trick of sticking mechanical pencil graphite into a Google Chromebook's charging port and the phrase "0.5 GPA Activities." Over two days, it gained over 110,000 views and 8,000 likes (shown below).

On May 7th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @maxmi032 shared a brainrot edit of the original video, adding flame explosion effects and affecting the speed of Ben Azoulay's monologue. In a day, the video received roughly 22,900 likes (shown below).

By May 8th, 2025, the meme's primary TikTok sound^[2] had amassed over 6,800 posts.

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