Feyd-Rautha's "What Do We Do"

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Feyd-Rautha's "What Do We Do" is a line said by Dune character Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen (played by actor Austin Butler) in the 2024 film Dune: Part Two. In April 2024, the clip of Feyd-Rautha saying the quote gained virality as a video caption format and reaction.

Origin

On March 1st, 2024, the epic science fiction film Dune: Part Two premiered in the United States.^[1] In one scene of the film, as Emperor Shaddam IV's ship arrives to Arrakis, the character Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen asks his uncle Baron Harkonnen about their course of action.

- What is he doing here? I brought spice production under control! What do we do?

On April 10th, 2024, X^[2] / Twitter user @seanjetravers posted the clip, captioning the video, "Seconds after the card game rules are explained." The post (shown below) received over 13,000 reposts and 107,000 likes in two days.

Spread

In the following days, the clip achieved popularity as a caption format on X^[3] / Twitter as users paired the video with humorous captions. For example, on April 10th, 2024, X user @thyknife posted a meme that received over 1,200 reposts and 17,000 likes in two days (shown below).

On April 11th, 2024, X^[4] user @iVoreGraves quoted the original meme, commenting on this and other Feyd-Rautha meme formats, with the post gaining over 840 reposts and 19,000 likes in one day (shown below).

More posts based on the format were posted on X / Twitter in mid-April 2024.