[dotancohen]

  > products be endlessly repackaged

I don't speak English at home either, so I hope this helps. It's "products are", not "products be".

[satvikpendem]

It's ebonics, a slang or dialect version of using "are."

[sheept]

Linguistically it's particularly interesting since it marks the habitual aspect, and standard English has no grammatical equivalent.[0]

[0]: https://ygdp.yale.edu/phenomena/invariant-be#who-says-this

[frollogaston]

And it's more like "are being" here (present imperfect)

[dotancohen]

Ebonics, from the root ebony, meaning black-speak? I can't believe that's still acceptable.

[navane]

sometimes it do be like that

[ishouldstayaway]

a) This was probably just a typo for "being".

b) Hey but at least you can learn something today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be

[dotancohen]

Thank you.

[johanyc]

Isn't it just slang? Foobar be like ...

[pmarreck]

i’m thinking it’s an intentional turn of phrase

so for example in native English, if someone upset some people, you might say, just to be creatively different:

“oh boy. people be big mad”

it is an idiom, not necessarily officially part of the language. just saying things in a silly way to be different

“now you’ve done it… People be cryin’!”

I think it might also be an echo of pidgin English/Creole/caribbean English? Would be an interesting language dive. Ask an AI!