Jack Stauber

Jack Stauber is an American musician, animator, and filmmaker based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, known for a genre-blurring body of work that spans folk, pop, rock, and lo-fi electronic experimentation. He first built a following through his self-produced music and later gained wider attention when clips of his surreal, oddball animated shorts began circulating widely online, driven partly by his own YouTube channel with its deliberately degraded, VHS-tape aesthetic.

His catalog is defined by short, hook-heavy, often deliberately unfinished-sounding songs, ranging from warm acoustic melancholy to jarring, glitchy electronic bursts. Albums like Viator and Pop Food showcase this range, pairing catchy, almost childlike melodies with unsettling lyrical undertones and abrupt tonal shifts. Songs such as «Buttercup» and «Oh Klahoma» became widely shared online years after their original release, introducing his music to audiences who discovered him through video and meme culture rather than traditional promotion.

Beyond music, Stauber is also a visual artist, animating his own videos and contributing short surreal films to Adult Swim's late-night programming block. This dual identity as both a musician and an animator has made him a distinctive figure whose work resists easy categorization, appealing to fans of independent pop as much as to fans of experimental online animation.