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You Be Profen, also known as You Be What? You Be Profen? is a quote from an animation by DiEM (DiemArchive) in which the character Ragebait Goblin is granted a wish from a genie and chooses to change the word "gooning" to "profen." He then makes the genie read "Ibuprofen," the over-the-counter pain medication, which sounds like "I be profen." The goblin then laughs with his tongue out and middle finger up and says, "You be what? You be profen?" with the joke being that "profen" now means "gooning." The animation was originally posted to YouTube, Instagram and TikTok in August 2025, inspiring animation memes and other jokes over the following months.

Origin

On August 14th, 2025, DiEM, also known as DiemArchive, uploaded an animation to YouTube,^[1] titled "He be Profen his Geenie." In the video, a character called "Ragebait Goblin" ragebaits a genie by wishing for the word "gooning" to be changed to "profen." The goblin then asks the genie to read, "Ibuprofen," off a bottle, which sounds like "I be profen" when orated. The goblin then laughs with his tongue out and middle finger up and says, "You be what? You be profen?" Over two months, the video received roughly 274,800 views and 17,000 likes.

DiEM also posted the video to their Instagram^[2] account @diemarchive on August 14th, where it received over 14.7 million views and 1.3 million likes in two months.

The animation was also posted to DiEM's TikTok^[3] account @diemarchive on that same day, gaining over 11 million plays and 1.8 million likes over the same timeframe.

Spread

On August 20th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @mika.meow_meow shared an animation meme, which used the audio of the original TikTok video. It showed characters from Arcane: League of Legends reenacting the skit. Over two months, the video received roughly 3,500 likes.

On September 6th, TikToker^[5] @goat_vibez_in_cornfieldz shared their own animated version, showing characters from the web series Bigtop Burger. The video received roughly 46,200 likes in a month.

On September 14th, 2025, TikToker^[6] @slickwillie1747 shared a video of himself with a text overlay caption, reading, "When they have a headache and I say 'Ibuprofen?' Then they say 'You be what?'" receiving over 269,300 likes in a month.

On October 9th, TikToker^[7] @_gloomara shared an animation of a character with a headache asking, "What do I have?" The character first holds up a package of Tylonel with U.S. Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the Autism Creature shown in the background, referencing the Tylonel Autism Announcement. Then, the character is shown holding up Ibuprofen with the Raigebait Goblin shown in the background. Over one week, the video received roughly 109,100 likes.

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