Jack Stauber

About

Jack Stauber (born April 6, 1996) is an American musician, animator, filmmaker, and internet personality based in Pittsburgh. He is recognized for his VHS-aesthetic live action, stop motion, and computer animated music videos which have been featured in internet memes.
He has released the albums Finite Form (2013), Viator (2015), Reviator (2017) Pop Food (2017), HiLo (2018), and Opal (2020). The first two tracks of Pop Food, Buttercup and Oh Klahoma, went viral on TikTok. In 2020, he won the Shorty Award in the Best in Weird category.

Stauber majored in marketing and minored in studio arts at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh. He fronted the band Joose. While he was a college senior, he joined Zaki, a band, as its lead singer and they released a self-titled album in 2018.
“Buttercup” was the first song released on his 2017 album “Pop Food”. The song, along with remixes and covers of it, became a popular internet meme, especially on TikTok, contributing substantially to its success. The song has 470 million Spotify streams as of March 2026, with its sound being described as “bubbly, dramatic pop with Panda Bear-esque vocals”. “Oh Klahoma”, the second track from…