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Jack Stauber is well known for his lighthearted songs such as Buttercup, but the rest can get pretty disturbing.beware of unmarked spoilers
Micropops & Album Songs
- "Cupid"
is arguably if not the scariest music video Jack has made. It features a... thing crawling out of Jack's ear and singing about an unrequited love he has. Then the creature gets shot in the face and falls down Jack's ear canal. There's a reason why it's the picture for this page. - Shattered Molars is Surreal Horror incarnate, with faceless, motionless CGI people, screeching, incomprehensible lyrics, and Jack straight-up murdering somebody.
- New Normal heavily features animations of people rotting, complete with lots of glitching.
- Pumpkin Song starts as a typical Halloween-type song... until the Pumpkin causes the Kid to lose his teeth and become blind so it can feed the kid to his cat. While the Kid can only scream in terror.
- Lima Bean Man features a tiny man paranoid that his wife is dying on the moon while his wife's face slowly dissolves in front of him. The man sounds more frantic and disturbed the more the song continues as his pleas turn to screams.
- The farmer from Able certainly qualifies. Aside from them presumably shooting the cow with a bolt gun at the end, there's also their off-putting, corpse-like face and realistic mouth.
- The ending to "Mirror Mirror" is pretty normal and tame... until you get to the Jump Scare of a screaming man drowning at the end.
- Bumblebees are out has theme of child abuse. Combined with the unsettling singing, the girl getting hives from getting stung over and over again, and the disturbing design of the father, it can send chills down your spine.
- Good Morning Blondie is heavily implied to be about Domestic Abuse, and it shows Jack's (fictional) Girlfriend/Wife with an unhinged jaw that stretches out. It's no wonder why Jack seemed unnerved by her in the music video.
- "Will" has a man suffer a very realistic panic attack in a room full of Sensory Abuse onscreen complete with hyperventilating.
- The man's robotic voice from "view" can be unnerving at times.
- "Pavlov" can be a jump scare for some people because of the lyrics screamed harshly.
- "Richter" is pretty much a creepy song due to the instrumentals and the vocals.
- Some theories about the song suggest that it’s about someone committing suicide, which makes it all the more disturbing.
- "The End" has the message that no matter what, the end is never a happy one.REST IS COMFORTEASE IS COMFORTBOTH BORN FROM EFFORT
- "Back" is an unnerving song about what Jack was like as a child and the things he liked to do. The whole song is very unsettling due to the echo-y sounding singing and the uncanny design given to Child!Jack.
- "Mirror Mirror" is a pretty average video by Jack's standards, but near the end of the video, it becomes a very still and quiet aquatic setting... and then a drowning man's head emerges out of the water screaming before quickly submerging back into the water.
- “Baby Son Adoring Us” is about a baby suffering from birth defects (heavily implied to be brain-related) and the baby in question is shown with a contorted face as he experiences severe pain. The video ends with the baby dying and flying off as his parents look away.
- "video man" seems like an odd, yet non-scary song by Jack, but once you re-watch the video, the truth finally hits you that the man in the video is fully aware that he's trapped in the video, unable to say anything besides what he always says. This new view on the situation causes some of the stranger lyrics to become a LOT more horrifying to think about.The Video Man: I am so jealous of you, because you get to walk away...
- Another thing that's unsettling about the song is that in the background there's an odd thumping sound, with some fans speculating that it's supposed to represent footsteps or possibly even gunshots, which get louder as the video goes on.
- While "Eating on the Go" is one of Jack's tamer works, the first half of the music video features a man and his (presumably) wife driving down the road. His face is pretty jarring to look at.
OPAL
- There are a number of reasons why OPAL is deemed one of his most terrifying works:
- The art style is disturbing for a lot of people (and this was likely intentional). Special mention goes to Opal's family at the beginning, with their large beady eyes that are always staring at Opal.
- In a Jump Scare kind of way, Opal/Claire quickly switching from a somewhat neutral expression to an extremely happy one can catch some viewers off-guard, with her ridiculously wide mouth and large pupils.
- The face of Claire's father is never seen in its entirety except for a single Freeze-Frame Bonus. It's not pretty◊.
- At the end of the short, Opal finally makes it up to the attic where she hears the cries from. But when she gets there, there's nobody there. Then she looks out the window... and sees a billboard for ''OPAL'S BURGERS'' where her family's house was. And she realizes that she was Claire all along, and that she gets abused and neglected by her real family regularly. All the poor kid can do after this is have a Freak Out and retreat into her fantasy world as "Opal" and stay there with her fake family while her real family bangs on the door trying to get her.
Misc
- Jack's claymation style seen in some of his videos can be this for some people, due to their exaggerated facial features and expressions going into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley.
- The fact that Jack uses realistic teeth (and in some cases, actual human teeth) in his videos can be disturbing to some.
- While "vlc record 2018 01 25 07h40m19s0huuhu" (yes, it's the actual title,) is a calm song, the thumbnail for it is very odd and disturbing, with the image being a dead fish getting its blood drunk by butterflies, which is apparently something butterflies actually do.
