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Pentagram Singer Bobby Liebling Staring During "The Ghoul," also known as Old Man Staring Wide-Eyed During Metal Concert, refers to a series of memes inspired by a viral video of Bobby Liebling, the lead singer of the doom metal band Pentagram, on stage, silently staring wide-eyed at the audience as his white hair is blown upward by a fan during a performance of their song "The Ghoul." The video went viral on Instagram and X / Twitter in late February 2025 alongside the caption, "Hardest stage presence I’ve ever seen," inspiring memes using the clip and screenshots of Liebling as he appears in the video, along with memes comparing Liebling's appearance to a variety of characters.

Origin

On February 26th, 2025, TikToker^[1] @rapper_holics posted a video from a Pentagram show at Brick by Brick in California that shows the lead singer, Bobby Liebling, performing "The Ghoul." In the video, he stares wide-eyed around the audience while the band plays, a fan blowing his hair upward. The video gained over 443,000 views in five days. The post's caption reads, "Got the chance to see Pentagram at Brick by Brick again the other night after probably ten years. You can always expect a badass show if they're on the bill."

The video was also posted to the user's Instagram^[2] page, aloe_boa, garnering over 2.9 million likes in the same span of time.

Spread

On February 27th, 2025, the X^[3] gimmick account @vidsthatgohard reposted the video, writing, "Hardest stage presence I’ve ever seen," garnering over 225,000 likes and 25,000 reposts in four days.

Later that day, X^[4] user @Myd0de quoted the post, writing, "He looks like he would be a villain in a regular show episode," garnering over 485,000 likes in three days.

On the night of February 27th, X^[5] user @juneauxbaby quoted the post and said, "hit my pen too hard and this is scaring the fuck out of me," garnering over 59,000 likes in the same span of time.

That same day, Instagram^[6] user itz_boosta posted a version of the video captioned, "TRYNA REMEMBER IF YOU TURNED THE STOVE OFF," garnering over 1,200 likes in four three days.

On February 28th, X^[7] user @celesitial quoted the post by @vidsthatgohard, writing, "this some shit flapjack would see after he drank all that ocean water," garnering over 204,000 likes in three days.

On March 1st, 2025, X^[8] user @thekittensneeze posted a drawing based on the video, writing, "Everywhere I look I see him so I finally drew him," garnering over 92,000 likes in two days.

On March 2nd, a screenshot of the video was posted to the subreddit /r/DoomMetal^[9] that gained over 2,800 upvotes in a day.

On March 3rd, 2025, X^[10] user @weirddalle posted a meme using the video captioned, "How Mfs in primary would look at you when your name was in a question," garnering over 6,500 likes in under a day.

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