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I'm A Dude Man, also known as I'm The Dude Man or Dudeman, refers to a series of exploitable TikTok memes featuring a scene from the animated children's movie Hotel Transylvania 2 in which the character Dracula mocks his son-in-law Johnny by saying, "I'm dude-man! I'm a dude-man!" The scene came to be used in niche community TikTok memes in September 2025, with internet users remixing the clip and inserting it into montages of other memes.

Origin

The film Hotel Transylvania 2 was released on September 25th, 2015, and followed Dracula as he deals with his half-human, half-vampire grandson. At one point in the film, Dracula is shown alone in his room putting on his pajamas and stressing about his daughter Mavin wanting to move his grandson Dennis somewhere "safer."

Dracula mocked her voice by saying, "Dad, it's not a fang! Dad, I don't know if it's the right place for Dennis!" and then mocks his son-in-law Johnny by saying, "Hey, dude-man! I’m a dude-man!"

The scene was uploaded to YouTube^[1] on July 5th, 2016, by Arozura, where it gathered over 180,000 views in nine years.

The earliest known TikTok video featuring the meme was posted on April 21st, 2023, when TikToker^[2] @liv4tmr_63 reposted the clip with the caption, "Complaining about my problems." The video gathered over 500,000 plays and 30,000 likes in two years.

Spread

Several internet users began sharing "I'm a Dude Man" memes in September 2025, as seen in a September 10th, 2025, upload by TikToker^[3] @nologick__ that gathered over 700,000 plays and 160,000 likes in three days.

On September 12th, 2025, TikToker^[4] @benji_gaming22 posted a version of the "I'm a Dude Man" meme that also featured W Speed memes, gathering over 200,000 plays and 45,000 likes in two days.

On September 13th, TikToker^[5] @pupi_75_ posted a remixed version of the meme that gathered over 170,000 plays and 35,000 likes in a day.

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