People Are Realizing Sabrina Carpenter’s Music Videos Are Basically A Running Series Of Dudes Getting Killed

The internet has discovered a very funny trend in the cinematic universe of Sabrina Carpenter:

If you are a man in one of her music videos, there is a decent chance you are not making it to the end credits.

A compilation that’s blowing up online shows clips from several of her recent videos where male characters meet… let’s call them extremely inconvenient endings. Falling off things, crashing things, drowning, disappearing — the whole deal.

The clips come mostly from visuals tied to her 2025 album Short n' Sweet, which leaned heavily into cinematic, dark-comedy storylines about toxic relationships.

And honestly, if you’ve watched the videos, the theme is pretty clear: the guys are usually terrible, and then something very bad happens to them.

The compilation making the rounds includes moments from videos like:

Espresso

Please Please Please

“Tears”

Across the clips, men end up meeting various cartoonishly dramatic fates — falls, drownings, crashes — basically the type of stylized chaos you’d expect in a dark pop music video.

But the video kicked off a huge debate online because of one comment that summed up what a lot of people were thinking.

One user wrote:

“Imagine if a male artist made a music video showing women getting deleted and beaten up. He would be cancelled in a day. But a woman artist can literally delete men, and nobody cares.”

And just like that, the internet was off to the races arguing about double standards in pop culture.

Because historically, male artists have absolutely gotten roasted for violent imagery involving women. The most famous example people keep bringing up is Eminem, who spent basically the entire early 2000s getting dragged for controversial lyrics and video themes.

Meanwhile Carpenter’s videos are generally framed as satirical revenge fantasy — exaggerated storytelling about messy relationships where the bad boyfriend gets what’s coming to him.

Which is why most mainstream coverage treated the deaths as an artistic gag rather than anything serious. A bunch of pop culture outlets even ranked the various “boyfriend deaths” like they were Easter eggs in a Marvel movie.

But critics online say the whole thing taps into a broader cultural trend where violence toward men is treated more like comedy than controversy.

Some people even started citing research from the American Psychological Association about how repeated media tropes can normalize certain biases depending on how they’re portrayed.

Of course, the other half of the internet thinks the backlash is ridiculous.

Their argument is simple: they’re music videos, not documentaries, and the whole point is exaggerated storytelling about terrible boyfriends.

Also worth noting: the men in the videos are usually written as absolute disasters. We’re talking cheating, lying, chaotic boyfriend archetypes that exist purely to make the revenge punchline land.

So where does that leave us?

Basically with the most predictable internet culture war imaginable:

One side says it’s proof of a cultural double standard.

The other side says people need to relax because it’s a pop star making campy revenge videos.

Either way, one thing is clear.

If you’re cast as the boyfriend in a Sabrina Carpenter music video, you might want to read the script very carefully.

Because statistically speaking…you’re probably not surviving the third act.