History Music / ThatPoppy

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->''[[https://youtu.be/fpCXxqiTjqE "I'm Poppy."]]''
->--Poppy

That Poppy is a teenage pop singer from LA. [[MindScrew Or so it would seem.]]

In reality, "That Poppy" is the name of a musical art project produced by Titanic Sinclair (Corey Mixter) with Moriah Pereira, an adult pop musician who doubles as a [=YouTuber=]. The project involves Moriah enacting a living musical art piece--a character of sorts--named Poppy. She enacts this piece through online channels and (more and more frequently) [[BecomingTheMask offline in public, too]]. Her music is, as described by her, music that makes you want to [[TakeOverTheWorld rule the world]]. Her persona and work serves as a repackaging of the standard teen/bubblegum pop star under a... [[StrangeGirl more]] [[CreepyCute unique]] branding (with added [[JPop J-pop]] elements), and is interpreted by many as a kind of meta take on many aspects on pop culture. Something very notable about her is her abstract promotional videos, which show her being a bit ... weird. Her videos are vlogs which show her doing such strange things as teaching you how to load a pistol, spinning around for three minutes, interviewing a plant, and listing the names of famous people.

Though some sources claim that she was born in Nashville, Tennessee, she only moved there when she was 13, and she spent her early life in Boston, Massachusetts. She grew up with an interest in dancing and becoming a Rockette for roughly 11 years. Shortly after she moved to Nashville, she began writing music on the regular. During this time, she was largely known as "Moriah Poppy" (though she did use "That Poppy" as a handle online also) and gained a small following on YouTube by making/performing many covers of well-known songs, as well as a few original songs and music videos (many of which can still be found on the web if you look hard enough). A few years after, she teamed up with Titanic Sinclair, and they worked on revamping her image to become the Poppy we know today. Her [=YouTube=] channel was changed to fit the new image, and all her old videos were set to private (which is why you'll notice that her YouTube channel opened in 2011, but the earliest video you can see is from 2014).

Her music videos and promotional videos, directed by Titanic Sinclair, are intentionally strange and difficult to understand, just like Poppy herself. Titanic describes the promotional videos as "a combination of Andy Warhol's pop accessibility, David Lynch's creepiness, and Tim Burton's zany comedic tone." The videos, purposefully uncomfortable and other-worldly in feeling, are intended to be his response to an oversaturation of generic, uninteresting media, particularly on [=YouTube=] (especially vloggers). Though a lot of them are overtly comedic/sarcastic, the videos are on some level intended to elicit confusion or a general feeling of unfamiliarity, and Titanic has stated that the videos are intended to be the "strangest part of your day." And while some of the promotional videos seem like they have some obvious message behind them, others don't seem to, which has sparked a community trying to decode/figure out each video, [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory whether there's something actually there or not]]. The best way to categorize the videos would be to place them in a kind of Warhol-esque "post-irony," where ironic intents and sincere intents become mixed and hard to tell apart. Additionally, motifs of [[MindManipulation mind manipulation]], cults, and the occult abound. Because of all these factors, Poppy has gained a following of sorts. Though her music videos are the creative work of Titanic Sinclair, most of her lyrics are written by herself and share personal stories and attitudes. Poppy draws musical influence from many musical artists such as Cyndi Lauper and Elvis Presley, and aesthetic influence from J-pop artists. She also plays the guitar and piano. Her video channel is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/thatPoppyTV here.]] Her Vevo channel is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/ThatPoppyVEVO here.]]

Work:

* "Everybody Wants to Be Poppy" (2015)
* ''Bubblebath (EP)'' (2016)
** "Lowlife"
** "Money"
* ''3:36 (Music to Sleep To)'' (2016)
* "Adored" (2016)
* ''Poppy.Computer'' (2017)
** "I'm Poppy"
** "Computer Boy"
** "Let's Make a Video"
** "Interweb"
** "My Style" (feat. Charlotte)

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!!That Poppy provides examples of:
* AllLovingHero: She describes Poppy as someone who loves everything that crosses her path, because "the world needs that right now." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjJhXTUpfPQ "Transmission"]] seems to imply that [[{{Deconstruction}} this is backfiring for her]].
* {{Ambient}}: ''3:36 (Music to Sleep To)'', in stark contrast to the rest of Poppy's discography, but also doubles as the soundtrack to her promotional videos.
* ArcNumber: 3:36 is first shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lXvrQzUhj4 "3:36"]]. It shows up again at the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIRgXDuRIkg "What Percentage Am I?"]] Immediately following that video, Poppy has referenced the numbers (in the forms of "3 + 3 = 6", "3:36", and "336") ''much'' more frequently in her merch and on social media. ''3:36 (Music To Sleep To)'' is the name of her ambient album. What the number itself means remains to be seen, but it has been proposed that it's merely an inside joke.
* ArcSymbol: Eyes. Poppy seems fond of eyes, putting them on her clothes and even fingernails. Flying eyeballs with bat wings are seen in the "Money" music video. Her gloves are covered in eyes in "Where Is It" and she wears an eyeball hair dec in "A Microphone."
* AudienceParticipation: Poppy went on Website/FourChan's /b/ board (yes, you read that right) to decide one of her promotional video's titles. The thread is [[http://thebarchive.com/b/thread/699684809/ here (potentially NSFW).]] As a result, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4pnlOGrZsU this video.]]
* AudienceSurrogate: Charlotte kind of serves this role in the 4th interview, where she expresses confusion over the videos and talks to Poppy like any regular viewer would, questioning her constantly and acknowledging her strange behavior.
%%** She also somewhat serves this role in "I CAN BE WAY MORE FAMOUS THAN POPPY", this time representing the people who don't like (at least the newer) videos.
* AutoTune: Used to eerie effect in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VA4NiEQUm5o Freedom Song]]", where Poppy sings the American national anthem with a heavy amount of Autotune on her voice. It doesn't make her voice sound much better.
* AwfulTruth:
-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZUMKCe9iY Charlotte]]:''' Poppy, will you please tell me what is going on?\\
'''Poppy:''' I'd love to tell you, but you aren't ready for the truth.
* BeYourself: The message behind her single "Everybody Wants to be Poppy" which lambasts the notion of people idolizing pop stars to the point of carving their identities after them.
-->''Everybody wants to be someone else!''
-->''All you need to do is just be you''
* BecomingTheMask: Poppy is basically her persona ''all the time'' (at least in public), to the point where it's becoming harder to determine what is part of the "act" and what isn't. An example of the extent of this is that she follows Tide on Twitter. Some fans have allegedly reported that she even does this ''in person.'' Why any of this, you ask?
-->'''Titanic Sinclair:''' Everyone at the end of the day knows that Creator/JohnnyDepp isn't the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' guy, but he's more fun when he is. I like living in a world where you can have superheroes. It just makes life so much more exciting.
** Straight from the horse's mouth: [[{{Understatement}} "As you probably know, I am a very serious artist."]]
** In a more recent interview, Poppy has stated that she and her "persona" might as well be the same person now.
* BiblicalMotifs: {{Satan}} makes an appearance in the music video for "Lowlife," and she has two videos of herself reading out loud from the Literature/{{Bible}}. Titanic Sinclair, Poppy's director, uploaded a video in which he says a string of sentences, the first letters of which spell out "P-O-P-P-Y I-S G-O-D."
* BloodFromTheMouth: In "Oh No!", Poppy watches another Poppy materialize out of thin air next to her. The original Poppy smiles, but then blood starts running out of her mouth and dripping down her chin. The cloned Poppy says "Oh, no!", [[TitleDrop hence the title]].
* BreakTheCutie: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjJhXTUpfPQ Transmission]]" seems to showcase a breaking point in Poppy, where the feeling of being unloved finally penetrates her.
-->"I'm only human."
* TheCameo: She's appeared in-character in, of all things, WebVideo/TheNeedleDrop [[https://youtu.be/iB6zYoD0ZhY?t=28 in the beginning of the Sept. 2016 episode of GREAT ALBUMS.]] She even appeared on the Meme Review on Anthony Fantano's now-defunct alternate channel "thatistheplan", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4JfkBHzrKc saying "Meme reviews are the future."]]
* CaptainObvious: Poppy sometimes says truisms as a way of letting you know she is strange and detached.
-->'''Poppy:''' Everyone was a baby once. We are living on a planet.
** "This is a pink outfit. This outfit is not orange or blue, it is pink. [[OverlyLongGag This pink outfit is a pink outfit.]]"
* CatchPhrase: "I'm Poppy." Interestingly, this seems to have been her catch phrase even before she met Titanic.
* CentralTheme: Here are some running themes in Poppy's promotional videos and music (they show up in a lot of it, not all of it):
** Cleaning (''Bubblebath'', Tide, Mr. Clean, cotton swabs).
** The exponentially growing influence of technology, namely the need to feel validated on the internet and social media, as well as its consequences in changing humanity in the future.
** The entertainment world in general, and the pros and cons of it all, including the obsession people have with celebrities and glamorizing celebrity culture.
** Poppy herself [[UnreliableNarrator claims]]:
--->"Well, sometimes [my videos] are about my childhood and sometimes they're about the things in my life that I desire most."
* CharacterBlog: [[https://twitter.com/charlottequin?lang=en Charlotte has her own Twitter account.]]
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In earlier videos Poppy used to smile and emote more naturally, compare this to the wooden and dull emoting she has now.
* CharacterShill: Done ironically. Poppy spends an entire video talking about how awesome Tide is, and the video title is simply [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qG4mS3G0K0 "Tide commercial"]]. Done again in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-GpCwzcuH0 "The beginning of infinity"]] when Poppy blurts out that the episode was sponsored by Mr. Clean magic eraser. Also done sincerely, though in an overly on-the-nose manner that can come off as humorous--done because the character ''really'' likes money.
* {{Chiptune}}: Some of her songs like "I'm Poppy" and "Software Upgrade" contain elements of this.
* ClickbaitGag: Satirized in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_XJJcl0Q0s "young girl makes crazy video on Youtube"]].
-->"Young girl makes crazy video on [=YouTube=]! What happens next, you won't believe your eyes!"
* ClingyJealousGirl: The spoken word bridge to "Computer Boy" heavily implies this regarding her "computer boy":
--> ''Don't ever leave me! Don't go to sleep without me!''\\
''Please stay by my side forever and never talk to anyone else.''
* {{Corpsing}}:
** See FreezeFrameBonus below.
** Poppy's first video, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnIlXxb0eoc "Poppy Eats Cotton Candy"]], ends with a few seconds of her genuinely laughing.
* CoverVersion: Did a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9PVGYf_haE cover]] of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIuBcb2T55Q My Kind of Woman]]" by Mac [=DeMarco=].
* CreepyDoll: Charlotte is an inanimate mannequin who speaks in an electronic voice that appears a lot in promotional videos. She started off as just someone who held interviews with Poppy, but later on she started becoming more involved with... whatever is going on with Poppy.
* {{Cult}}: With her almost charismatic nature, her soothing tone of voice, and her hypnotic cadences, Poppy almost seems like a cult leader at times, especially in conjunction with the mind control motifs. Commenters on her videos often say they feel like they're being brainwashed. It's highly likely that this is because of Titanic Sinclair's interest in how people often treat celebrities like gods. Further corroborated by the "Poppy is God" thing (see BiblicalMotifs). Titanic also likely took notice of viewers' responses and let the cult motifs run wild in later vids, making it overtly apparent starting with "They Have Taken Control". And now she has [[http://impoppy.bandcamp.com/merch/poppy-official-membership-ring membership rings]]. [[http://impoppy.bandcamp.com/merch/poppy-official-membership-pin And pins.]] [[https://twitter.com/thatPoppy/status/806016236807016448 And now she's straight up using the C-word.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: Poppy "sold her soul to [[TheMan the man]] with a handshake" (lyrics from "American Kids") at age fifteen.
* DespairEventHorizon: Seemingly crosses this in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX-ohrHBNhk "I Can't Do This Anymore"]], [[spoiler:then [[SubvertedTrope subverts]] it at the very end]].
* DemBones: A live skeleton shows up in a couple of her promotional videos. Why? Who knows.
* DoNotCallMePaul: When mentioning "Moriah Rose Pereira", Poppy will usually respond with [[BlatantLies "I don't know who that is."]]
* DoubleEntendre: Some of the lyrics in [[LyricalDissonance the otherwise straightforward pop track]] "Computer Boy" are strangely suggestive, one of the most notable being:
-->''When you glow on my face you make me come alive,''\\
''I want your floppy disk to be my hard drive.''
* DroneOfDread: Many of her non-musical videos have this as the soundtrack.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: If you go back to her earliest videos, you can see that Poppy's voice was originally a bit deeper and closer to Moriah's natural voice before she consolidated the high-pitched voice she uses now.
* EnforcedPlug: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oieo-5V7qk "Pajamas"]] when Poppy "subtly" plugs Tide by holding up a box of Tide and saying "My pajamas feel so soft..."
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: The end of [[https://youtu.be/NQJ22gPt1QE?t=2m54s "Everybody Wants to Be Poppy" episode 3.]]
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnIlXxb0eoc "Poppy Eats Cotton Candy"]].
* FakeInteractivity: Poppy will sometimes ask the viewers a question, then continue talking as if they had given an answer. This creates a mock-kids'-show feel. An example with fake audience sound effects can be found in [[https://youtu.be/rLase1Jd20I "Poppy's Line Dance"]].
-->'''Poppy:''' Would you like to take a selfie with me? ''({{beat}})'' Okay, let's do it! ''({{beat}}, [[StrangeGirl stares]])''
** Done in a slightly more unsettling way in "Step 1." And again in "Step 2."
--->'''Poppy:''' Are you ready for step 1? ''(beat)'' Good. Look directly into the center of your screen. ''(mind control sounds)''
** Done again in "A Microphone."
* {{Fan Community Nickname|s}}: Invoked. She calls her fans "Popsisters" or "Poppy seeds."
* FingerTenting: Poppy's handler does this when he's first shown.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: As of "They have taken control", Poppy's threats of mind control on her viewers have moved from subtle to very direct indeed.
-->''[[AC:You will pledge your allegiance to Poppy. You will do anything Poppy says.]]''
-->''[[AC:Prepare yourself for Programming Sequence 2. ... [[ParanoiaFuel Programming complete.]]]]''
* FreezeFrameBonus: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K2OtWSyDD0 "How to Load a Gun"]], there's a very short bit in the video around 18 seconds in where Poppy notably flinches and grins as she slides the magazine into the gun. Many see this as a rare out-of-character moment, which may be why the video is unlisted.
* GirlsWithGuns: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K2OtWSyDD0 "How to Load a Gun"]].
* GirlyGirl: Poppy is ''not'' a tomboy. She likes princesses, unicorns, diamonds, cupcakes, [[PinkMeansFeminine the color pink]], and all things girly.
* GratuitousJapanese: Some of Poppy's aesthetic borrows from JapanesePopMusic and its culture, so it's inevitable. She once called herself a "[[UsefulNotes/{{Kawaisa}} kawaii]], pop-guitar, Barbie-doll princess", and she has the J-Pop-inspired song "Moshi Moshi" (a general "telephone hello").
* HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight: She has [[https://twitter.com/thatPoppy/status/748008791208255492 a]] [[https://youtu.be/vBXdKhLXcX4?t=3s love]]-[[https://youtu.be/oQMZ1yItXng?t=23s hate]] [[https://twitter.com/thatPoppy/status/770675869157175296 relationship]] with music. But she 100% loves being loved and expressing herself via art and the internet. [[MoneyDearBoy Oh yeah, and the money]].
* IdolSinger: Poppy is one, and a pastiche of the culture surrounding them.
* IJustWantToBeLoved: Central theme of "Adored".
* TheIlluminati: Poppy's producer, Titanic Sinclair, drew influence from Illuminati mythos in directing the "Lowlife" video. This is explained in more detail in WebVideo/NightMind's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmXQKMjEC8E "Who Is Poppy?" video]]. Lots of triangle and eye motifs appear in her videos, too.
* IndecisiveParody:
** Due to [[MindScrew the nature of Poppy's videos]], it's occasionally unclear as to what she's supposed to be satirizing; is it shallow image-obsessed pop music, shallow MindScrew conceptual art projects, or nothing in particular? [[TropesAreTools Of course, it seems Poppy and Titanic Sinclair are aware of this]], and part of the fun can be picking out [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory what's actually supposed to be commentary]] and what's just meant to be creepy.
** This also bleeds into her music, with some tracks hinting a lot more about [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Poppy's character]] than others. ''Poppy.Computer'' in particular has just as many tracks that make a comment satirizing pop music/celebrity culture/technology as there are pop tracks that completely play it straight.
* TheIngenue: To an extent.
* {{Irony}}: The irony is laid on ''thick'', but figuring out the extent of irony vs the extent of sincerity is part of the puzzle. Here is an example of verbal irony:
-->'''Charlotte:''' Poppy, what inspires you as an artist?\\
'''Poppy:''' [[StockPhrases What an interesting and remarkable question]] [[LampshadeHanging that no one's ever asked me before.]]
** A bit of situational irony is presented in the video of Charlotte's fourth interview with Poppy, in which Charlotte--a mannequin--behaves in a saner and more human manner than Poppy--a human--does.
* LeaveTheCameraRunning: There are lots of unsettling pauses between Poppy's lines in her videos, as well as scenes that go on for far longer than they should.
** A good example is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n0EPit53yE "Do you ever think about God"]], where Poppy asks the question of the video title and then stares at the camera silently for ''53 seconds'' before saying something else.
** At the end of the music video for "Computer Boy", the song ends, she kisses the screen of the supposed "computer boy", the body-suited men take it away... [[NothingIsScarier and Poppy continues to smile and stare at the camera for a good 15 seconds in complete silence.]]
* MadnessMantra: "I'm Poppy", "Famous People", and "Why Won't They Listen?" come off as this, for their length and repetition.
* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords: One has to wonder whether this is a major case of this. Of course a lot of the videos have some meaning behind them, but others, just ''seem'' meaningful but aren't. Sometimes her language is so cryptic and unspecific that it might as well be meaningless without more information.
-->'''Poppy:''' It's following you. It's following you. Is it following you? ''({{beat}})'' I think it is. I think it is following you.
** "If you think about it long enough, time isn't exactly linear. It's more of a transparent cube with light shining through it."
* MindScrew: Often, [[BecomingTheMask the line between Poppy and Poppy the character gets a bit blurred]]. Adding to the fact that the character is utterly bizarre.
-->'''Poppy:''' I don't even exist. You're imagining me right now.
* MinimalistCast: The Poppy videos mostly feature her alone, the only prominent recurring character is Charlotte the mannequin. Sometimes a talking plant, skeleton or Charlotte's son show up. Her music video for Lowlife is the only video where there are multiple people present.
* MultipleChoicePast: Much like the VagueAge setup this was done intentionally.
** Official sources say she comes from Boston, Massachusetts but moved to Nashville, Tennessee when she was 13.
** In her song "Money" she says she wanted Diamonds and Pearls as a litte girl and with 15 she moved out of her parents home and lived a short time alone.
** She says in her video "My Past" that she has done some bad things as well that when she is thinking about it, it feels foggy and it doesn't exist. Similar to the Trope Namer.
* MyCountryTisOfTheeThatISting: Many have interpreted "Freedom Song" as this, since it consists of Poppy singing the American national anthem with her voice densely autotuned so that it deliberately sounds off-key and artificial. People see the fakeness in Poppy's modified voice as akin to the fakeness of America's freedom.
* MythologyGag: Several sketches are references to songs from Titanic Sinclair's previous project, Mars Argo. Some of them are even outright remakes, such as Mars and Poppy both having several videos where they bleed out of the nose or mouth for no good reason.
* NumberOfTheBeast: Poppy says her favorite thing about Monster Energy Drink is the logo, making a not-so-subtle reference to the drink's logo's association with the Hebrew representation of the number 666.
* ObfuscatingInsanity: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8XSVlDkhPQ&t=43s No, she's not]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCsjixvRv0&t=28s actually insane.]] It's just a behavior for That Poppy's image.
* OlderThanSheLooks: Poppy is actually an adult, but seems way younger, even by the way she sounds. In her promotional videos, her voice is likely electronically pitched up; her real voice is fuller, deeper, and more sultry. ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYjyX0bDUOc Watch this video to hear her real speaking voice.]]) This is all, of course, intentional.
* OminousVisualGlitch:
** A subtle one used to show Poppy's SanitySlippage in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n06FqMYa3eI&t=33s "Gravity."]]
** Another one appears in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohsnD7eBB3I "Do you believe in the Internet".]]
* TheOner: The latter half of the "Lowlife" music video is shot in one take.
* PinkMeansFeminine: Poppy's (the "character's") favorite color is pink. In an old vlog she listed off her true favorite colors, none of which were pink; so the pink obsession is unique to the current Poppy brand.
* PrecisionFStrike: In the chorus of "Lowlife":
-->''Take a shitty day and make it alright''
* ProductPlacement:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWAiFndkfoM One time, Poppy made the strangest Mr. Clean ad ever.]]
** See EnforcedPlug above.
** This intentionally awkward line from "young girl makes crazy video on Youtube".
--->"I like to use the website Website/{{Facebook}} and also my Facebook app on my Apple [=iPhone=]."
* PropagandaPiece: Invoked ironically. Motifs of mind-control, cult-like indoctrination, and psychological persuasion show up from time to time. Sometimes Poppy will suddenly say something along the lines of "Will you do anything I say?" This reaches new heights in the video "They have taken control." In Poppy's concerts, images of [[https://youtu.be/hTDF6-Yx8GQ hypnosis spirals]] and the like are sometimes used.
* QuietCryForHelp: The capitalised letters in the description of "I Will Apply The Makeup" spell out HELP ME PLEASE.
* {{Retraux}}: "Altar" is essentially an 80's pop song. As is "Adored."
* SanitySlippage: After "Why Won't They Listen?" and "Am I okay?", Poppy seems decidedly less chipper.
* {{Satan}}:
** Makes an appearance in the "Lowlife" music video.
** Poppy refers to Satan when testing her microphone in "A Microphone."
-->'''Poppy:''' [[FakeInteractivity What else should we say?]] ''({{beat}})'' [[FakeInteractivity Oh, I like that!]] ...[[SurpriseCreepy The devil.]]
* SingingVoiceDissonance: Poppy speaks in a quiet, high voice, but she has a pretty strong range when she's singing.
* TheSingularity: It has been theorized, due to Titanic's past work/interviews (where he discusses how he thinks humanity will one day "plug in" to the Internet with our minds) and the prominence of mentions of the {{Internet}} and TheFuture in Poppy's videos ("What do you think the people are gonna say about Twitter in the future?", "The internet is the future", "I just can't wait for the future", "Hi, I'm Poppy, and I'm from the future" "Feel the pulse of the Internet as we become one", etc.), that Poppy lives in or comes from a universe where this has happened or will happen to humanity, or at least, the videos represent the idea.
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j61mWvtCKBI "Where Did Everyone Go?"]] is radically and notably different than all the other promotional videos. First, it [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]], and shows Poppy walking around the set. Second, it shows Poppy ''leaving'' the set. Third, it has a tense and suspenseful tone, akin to a horror movie.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsV2wjeMZBo "He Loves Me Not",]] rather than being unsettling, weird, eccentric, creepy-cute, or comedic like all the other videos, is unequivocally sincere and emotional.
** The "Everybody Wants to Be Poppy" series is unique in that it's animated.
** ''3:36 (Music to Sleep To)'' ''drastically'' stands out from the rest of Poppy's pop discography, as it's a full-blown ambient album.
** Most of her songs have hints of parody or are just plain creepy in context, but Pop Music is a sincere ode to, well, pop music and how even though it can be annoying, you can't help but appreciate it.
* SpellingSong: The chorus to "I'm Poppy". Naturally, this takes a creepy implication, especially when put next to the lead-in lines:
-->[[MachineMonotone (But Poppy, how do I live in your future paradise?)]]\\
All you have to do is follow these steps! Saaaaayyy...\\
''P-O-P-P-Y, I'm Poppy!''\\
''P-O-P-P-Y, I'm Poppy!''\\
''P-O-P-P-Y, I'm Poppy!''\\
''P-O-P-P-Y, that's me!''
* StartMyOwn: Charlotte, annoyed that she finds Poppy's newer videos to be not quite as good yet still gaining more and more popularity for Poppy, decides to start her ''own'' vlog in hopes of becoming more famous.
* StepfordSmiler: Poppy, big time. Whatever was done to make her pop-star material left her a bit off. For example: she posted [[https://www.reddit.com/r/that_Poppy/comments/4orwbp/please_help_me/ this on her subreddit.]] And now [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZZUMKCe9iY even Charlotte is noticing something is strange.]]
* SubvertedCatchPhrase: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hq_KllfEAWc "Oh"]] is an eerie example, as she can only barely say "Hi, I'm-" before cutting herself off for whatever reason multiple times.
* SurpriseCreepy:
** Too many moments to count, and probably many more that are YMMV. One of the most infamous examples is when Poppy's nose starts to bleed as she stares into the camera at the very end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4nHLHDtyVA "Am I okay?".]]
** This also sometimes affects her music, which often plays as innocent-sounding before briefly dipping into something creepy and strange, then suddenly going back to normal like nothing happened. Take these lyrics from the gentle-sounding "Bleach Blonde Baby" for instance:
-->''I'm softer than a daisy,''\\
''If you cut me I'll bleed pink.''\\
''I'm bleach blonde, baby,''\\
''That's how God made me.''
* SymbolicBlood: Poppy signs her autographs with a single stroke of red paint.
* TakeThat: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_XJJcl0Q0s "young girl makes crazy video on Youtube"]] satirizes the culture of [=YouTubers=] and social media.
* TakeThatAudience: Some videos on the channel, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDJjDZ_PuPY "Poppy is Over"]] have been interpreted as representations of the craze of Youtubers who take the channel too literally and claim to have "solved" or "debunked" a mystery behind it.
* TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat: Inverted in [[{{WebVideo/React}} "Poppy Reacts to Kids React to Poppy"]]. For her reaction, she starts speaking in unison with the recorded Poppy in the videos the kids reacted to, which is weird, but not unthinkable, because they're her videos. Things get weird in the middle, though, when she speaks in unison with ''one of the kids'', despite never seeing their reaction before. The question she syncs up with? "Poppy, are you a robot?"
* ThemeTune: It seems strange for a musician to have one, but "Everybody Wants to Be Poppy" seems to serve this role. She confirmed in an interview that she does consider it her "theme song."
* ThirdPersonPerson: [[{{Downplayed}} Only sometimes.]] She will say "Poppy" when referring to herself. Note that she'll do this when in character and not just when Moriah is describing the character.
-->'''Poppy:''' Is it hot in here, or is it just Poppy?
* ThousandYardStare: In her promotional videos, when she's not locking eyes with the viewer, Poppy stares into the distance off-screen.
* TinFoilHat: A [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0EWEbItLp0 tin-foil]] ''[[ExaggeratedTrope poncho]]''.
* TookALevelInJerkass: Charlotte, at first, was just a mannequin who parodied online interviewers, then her jealousy and hatred towards Poppy gets the better off her. Now she even takes drugs.
* {{Troll}}: Titanic has discussed whether his content is something akin to trolling (designed purely to get a reaction, though in this case a weirded-out reaction), and has settled that it's a grey area, further cementing the idea that the videos are post-irony.
** "I Can't Do This Anymore" initially seems like something of a DespairEventHorizon crossing for Poppy, with her gazing into the distance in noticeable despair...[[spoiler:until she turns to the camera, says "Just kidding", and smiles smugly]].
* UnpluggedVersion: She has stripped-down, acoustic recordings of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjCSH2e-cOo "Everybody Wants to be Poppy"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3nrzRbJOm8 "Lowlife."]]
* VagueAge: Intentionally. She doesn't make her real legal age public, and according to one of her videos, the character ''forgot'' how old she is. Some sources say the character is fifteen, which falls in line with the lyrics of "American Kids" and "Money", as well as the date (01/01/01) given in [[https://youtu.be/cCeZl0XR42k "Happy Birthday to Poppy"]], but Moriah is actually 23, being in fact born on 01/01/1995. Probably.
-->'''Poppy:''' Poppy does not identify with an age.
* WhiteMaskOfDoom: Poppy's handler wears one at the end of [[https://youtu.be/pRKVEKo3vFg "Sunglasses"]].
* WhiteVoidRoom: All of her promotional videos, and even some of her official music videos take place in completely featureless white rooms, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness though earlier videos usually tinged them in soft pastel colors.]]
* WidgetSeries:
** She has a three-episode series [[https://youtu.be/-PTVaWj-yuE "Everybody Wants to Be Poppy"]]
** And she's a Widget Pop Star. She Has a JPop tinge to her. She's self-described as a "UsefulNotes/{{Kawai|sa}}i Franchise/{{Barbie}} princess." Her Twitter account is peppered with tweets in Japanese.
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-->[-[[TheStinger I BELIEVE POPPY]]\\
[[LoonyFan I BELIEVE POPPY]]\\
[[MadnessMantra I BELIEVE POPPY]]\\
[[RoomFullOfCrazy I BELIEVE POPPY]]\\
[[http://web.archive.org/web/20160723101407/http://www.ibelievepoppy.com:80/ I BELIEVE POPPY]]-]

* DroneOfDread: Many of her non-musical videos have this as the soundtrack.

* VagueAge: Intentionally. She doesn't make her real legal age public, and according to one of her videos, the character ''forgot'' how old she is. Some sources say the character is fifteen, which falls in line with the lyrics of "American Kids" and "Money", as well as the date (01/01/01) given in [[https://youtu.be/cCeZl0XR42k "Happy Birthday to Poppy"]], but Moriah is actually 22, being in fact born on 01/01/1995. Probably.