The fight-week interview clip in which Nina-Marie Daniele, the UFC's roving interviewer known online as Nina Drama, wishes Dricus du Plessis a happy Black History Month and asks him about it. Du Plessis, the white South African middleweight champion, answers with a straight face, and Daniele ends the exchange crying with laughter. Posted in February 2025 around UFC 312, the clip went round TikTok, YouTube Shorts and X within days and now comes back every 1 February as a reaction video, a sound and a reply. On file as a video because the two faces, not the sentence, are the meme.
I watched it six times in a row on the first night and I still cannot tell whether he understood the question. That uncertainty is the whole clip.
For the record: the interviewer is Nina-Marie Daniele, who works as Nina Drama, and the fighter is Dricus du Plessis, then UFC middleweight champion, from Hatfield, Pretoria. It is a fight-week interview, not a stunt; the joke was hers and he played it deadpan.
Seen at midnight on 1 February, one year on: the du Plessis clip reposted as the official start of the month by accounts that do not follow the UFC and could not name his weight class. The sound alone did the rounds on TikTok all day.
Two people carry it: Nina Drama, who asks the question knowing exactly what she is doing, and Dricus du Plessis, who answers it like a man reading the terms and conditions. The laugh at the end is hers and it is the part everyone clips.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
