The CREEPY Origins of Coraline's Button Eyes
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There’s no doubt about it - the thought of sewing buttons on top of your eyes is… really creepy and, if you’re squeamish, nauseating! And there may be a really deep-seated reason (well, a few reasons, and beyond even Coraline's Other Mother) that buttons seem so creepy! From the Other Mother sewing dolls, to asking Coraline to sew buttons on her own eyes, the movie and book “Coraline” bring these plastic disks front and center. WHY does this little fastener cause so much of a stir? If you’ve seen or read “Coraline,” you may have more than an inkling, so we're going back in time (To Hades, Persephone, and Charon on the River Styx) to see what creepy connection button eyes have with THE BEYOND!
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Here's what I think:
When I first saw the button eyes in the trailer, it gave me the uncanny feeling like the other mother and other inhabitants were like playthings come to life from a little girl's imagination.
When the other parents insisted on Coraline sewing buttons on her eyes, it felt like their intention was to make her THEIR plaything
That! Is why the button eyes scared me...
That's a really good theory!
Nice nice
I haven't trusted dolls since I watched Coraline with my aunt one late night during my childhood.
I agree with that but also, eyes are the window to the soul, so it also could mean she traps their soul
Excellent analogy 👍
I don’t even skip the sponsor. Her voice is simply relaxing yet mysterious and creepy
She'd fit right in with Wednesday and Lydia.
Gosh darn it. How a comment with a mistake got this amount of likes.
I meant *didn’t*
The more I read this the more mistakes I find
@@caramelo8795 (*hush* you can edit your comment ya know *hush*)
@____
Yes
Yep, yes
one of the best theories i've seen for coraline is the way the other mother consumes her victims is the same way she takes apart the doll at the beginning.
mannerisms for her art of creating dolls would make sense to translate into her mealtime. She would rip the clothes, take out the hair, the eyes, the mouth, before "getting rid/eating" the insides of the doll and then turning it inside out.
She'd eat a child in the same way, it's like a preference of eating veggies from your plate first and leaving the best stuff for last, except much more morbid
Thats really interseting, i feel like that would be interesting to see how that translates to the other parts of thr beldams life
That's really unsettling
😦 well that's a horrifying image
I didn't need to think about someone getting shucked
T-taking of clothes?? Uhhhh
Me: sees Coraline Me: CliCK
omg thank you no much for all of the likes! ⟟ never thought it would get this much attention...
Same xd
*I see it, I C L I C C IT-*
SAME
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Yagami Yato
I know the needle was straight in the movie, but I feel like a curved needle would work better for sewing buttons to your eyes.
i think its to show precision . But good point
It is better because it would be able to curve in and then out of the eye, while a straight needle would need an outside part to curve it manually.
surgical needles are curved, so you're correct.
dunno gimme a sec ill try it with both types of needles brb
true, dollneedles are curved and just from a prakticability standpoint, a curved one would make way more sense. I feel like they really did not think all to close about how it would work, but straight needles are the ones everyone knowes . . .
So, Ya gonna make another Coraline season? *turns off lights and grabs snacks* (I fixed it for ya, TheKiller2013lol)
Yes pls
*coraline
You tried.
Yes😳
Thekiller2013lol bro, nobody cares.
Ooh, I have buttons on my dress, i wonder if yours blink like mine do
Me: looks over at a dress with buttons
Also Me: thinks of this comment
SharZar Sterling oh damn, this is an amazing horror sentence
@@xxbanana_breadxx480 tysm
I thought only mine did lol
@@Ikss2 intriguing
And there I was, sewing up the sleeves on my ten year old hoodie, when a notification arrived.
The content? A video about sewing buttons on to eyes.
*looks at buttons in the box with the rest of my sewing supplies and violently closes lid*
All is well with the world.
*that voice in your head quietly saying "do it"*
@@995cool nuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!
😁
i was sewing while watching this video too haha
Are you a child who learned to sew at a young age too?
I've recently started reading Coraline's book and all I can think of is how agonizing it would be for the kids. Imagine they gave their souls to the other mother, and she begins the... process. They'd be sitting there, screaming, crying, begging for her to stop and she'd just keep on sewing...
I- what happens to then
But I don’t know if any of the kids actually did that, I mean perhaps they had to for her to get their souls. But it makes more sense that they got stuck there and she took their souls over time. It just doesn’t sound like any of them would happily agree to have buttons sewn onto their eyes. If she did take their eyes I feel they were probably already dead by that point
@@shirin9452 In the movie the ghosts literally said “so we let her sew the buttons”
@@everskiess7639 yeah maybe in the movie but I was really talking about the books lol
@@shirin9452 As much as I know, the tall ghost girl looks so terrified bc that was the last face she made while getting the buttons on.
If I remember correctly, the kids allowed her to do so. Being allowed to sew the buttons on was the premise that she (the Beldam) would give them even more of what they wanted.
So ... I am a dollmaker, and I can confirm that sewing the buttons is the most exciting thing in the whole process ... Yes, it's like the doll comes alive
That is so cute!
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Does anybody else remember those La La Loopsy dolls that came out around the same time as the Coraline movie, as in within a few years? The commercials for those gave me shivers.
Oh my gosh those stuck around a while after 09 then because I remember those from elementary school (I turned 4 at the end of 09) and yeah they're super creepy
I used to own one and I thought it was so babyish and freaky, I wrapped it in an old blanket, stuffed it into a drawer, and never spoke of it again.
I used to have one i thought it was really cute, amd i still do, but i also think it's creepy. I wish i still had it
I have never actually seen Coraline but I knew enough about it that I've been making the link before I ever read the book. They're cute in a way, but yikes, way too close to horror territory.
I hated them
Cross my heart and hope to die
Stick a needle in my eye
Buttons go on tight all around
Free will removed without a sound
SPOOKS TIME IS ALMOST HERE YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Hey... Was It a parody from Nicotine from Panic At The Disco???
@@majimena6659 no
edit: in fact, the two lines you're probably referring to occur in a lot of songs
I think your pfp is going to give me nightmares soon...... *I love it*
@@mikumujs lmao me too 😂
**screaming my lungs out** ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER!!! OOOOOOHHH OOH! ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER!!!
I think I'd go for purple buttons too, it's such a pretty color
I'd go with green tbh
@@savannahhicks5862 that could be cool aswell, depending what shade of green it is
I'll go with teal
I'll probably come with red or black
Light blue for me
When I first saw Coraline, I ripped off a lot of buttons from my shower curtain because I got spooked by buttons. The Other Mother scared me as a kid
Saaame. I had a bunch of homemade dolls and I BEGGED my mum to throw them out but "not let them know" because Coraline scared me so much.
same lol
i'm still scared that every doll/stuffed toys are watching my every move
I knoww I am simply terrified of Coraline! The movie is cool but when I whatched it a year or two ago and I couldn't sleep for countless nights!
Name one person she didn't scare.
I distinctly remember the reasoning given in the narration for how Coraline knew that they were lying when they said the sewing of the buttons "won't hurt." She's heard that line before, and it's never true. I always liked to imagine she was thinking of all the times that she went to the doctor's office to get her jabs.
A quick little theory of mine:
The reason the buttons are an opaque black is that it is meant to hide the real world. To stop you from seeing the light and or truth. When done, you will be blinded from the real world, locking yourself into a world of darkness.
It's not the best and I know it was kind of talked about in the video...
And also would that mean that clear glass or plastic buttons might be a loophole?
WAIT I LIKE UR THEORY
But they say that she could pick whatever color....though i do like the idea of the glass buttons
@@ong2347 I guess whatever color she picked would be fine as long as they are opaque?
@That one Bread KSBSKDNSK YES
”I’m gonna do what’s called a pro-gamer move”
Eyes are the windows to the soul. The othermother takes the eyes of children and replaces them with buttons. She takes the souls of children.
And consumes their flesh which gives her strength.
@@DANIELLE_BREANNA_LACY in a story I read about the pioneer girl’s backstory, she suffered for a while behind the mirror while she was still alive and she got weaker and weaker as if something (the Beldam) was draining her life
Licensed funeral director here! The spiky plastic that holds eyes shut during viewings/services are called eye caps. They are the flesh and white coloured discs that you showed. Some times they fail when the skin is too dry from improper moisturizing post embalming and the eye will open. Depending on the funeral home, they will still glue the eye shut to prevent the eye accidentally opening slightly. They are cut down to size most of the time because they are used for everyone from children to the elderly. The clear plastic with spikes shown at 5:28 is actually a mouth former. It will help keep the mouth closed and push out the lips to make them look less sunken in post embalming. They will also use cotton to fill out the cheeks to help form the face better. The lips also get glued shut to help achieve a more natural position. These are usually inserted during the dressing/cosmetize process before casketing.
Mummification with the expectation of decay 🤔
i love learnng random information about morticians at 03:45 in the morning
Spooky Season is officially here 🥰
Spooky season never left 👉👈
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I start celebrating when winter ends and stop when it starts because of how much I love the winter. Besides that and St. Patrick's Day (I'm a ginger so no surprise there) I celebrate Halloween all year round 💜
The one thing I still see them do in movies/shows which I hate is how people close the eyelids with the flick of a hand when someone dies. As someone who has had to clean dead bodies before, I know from experience how you have to hold the eyelids shut till rigger mortis sets in and it’s really unnerving!
I had never heard of that, thanks for the cool fact!
Oh my gosh really? I actually wanna be a mortician when i grow up. Is there any other fun facts you have about the dead?
@@lavenderbeesuwu396 Whether your cheesing or not, you'll never think the same way about death the instant you feel a persons soul leave. That feeling is one of the creepiest, quietest experiences.
That’s not how that works... eyes are kept closed with plastic ‘eye caps’ that keep the eyelids shut. ‘Rigger mortis’ happens over many stages, with full rigor setting in after 12; with the body becoming flaccid again sometime after 36 hours after death. Don’t spread misinformation
@@cinnabon60 Thank you.
*"but here's a button that is not creepy: the subscribe button"*
*Yeah, that's what she said.*
Indigo Gollum that was so clever I had to subscribe to her
I THOUGHT THIS SAID SUICIDE BUTTON FOR A HOT SEC-
Flawless segue
Shameless plug
Did the other mother's wardrobe
JUST TURN INTO A BUG?
the like button is also nice
If I had to sew buttons to my eyes I'd choose green like my actual eyes.
Yeah. Hazel/light brown buttons ftw.
Rainbow buttons
Red eyes for my sharingan
Blue
I'd choose orange or bright green
Frank kind of looks like coraline
I'm very thankful I'm not the only one who thought of that. Her talking about button eyes while having button-like eyes was a very weird experience. I can't stop looking at her then back to the buttons, over and over again throughout the entire video. 😭
Like, ma'am are you referring to yourself???
Iana Isabelle Enghog
What if Coraline never got out and she’s trying to tell us as subtly as possible?
I don’t know what this “thing” was, but when I was very young (before kindergarten) I used to see a little ghost w/ black button eyes. Had no previous exposure to scary things because my parents didn’t let me watch horror movies. The ghost was child-sized, a floating sheet, like in the Charlie Brown Halloween tv show. The sheet had a pattern like a real bed sheet would, but I have never seen the pattern before or since. No mouth or nose and of course black button eyes. I have a memory of it approaching me quickly and I could see the sheet bottom floating rapidly like fabric in the wind. Wonder if it was really a Gray Alien and my brain changed it to something less scary...?
oh that's right halloween is coming up...when abitfrank is at her STRONGEST'
*sees Coraline video posted by anyone*
Me: *click*
Girl, when I see anything from you about Coraline my day is instantly way better
I may not be first, I may not be last, but when Frank uploads, I click fast.
Hi just so u know ur comment has 101 likes
@@lyx8039 Holy cow I forgot I commented this-
Probably been said but I believe that the other mother chose buttons because like you said, dolls would sometimes have button eyes. This could mean that the others that have button eyes are just her playthings, they move and follow her will, what she wants them to do they do. This however brings up another question, why does the other mother have button eyes then? Was she herself made to follow another's whims and wishes? If not was she made/born with button eyes or did she sew them on herself? What would be the point of this and why is the other mother's true form metal, deformed, and so tall?
People who think buttons are cute:AWWWW THEY'RE SO PRECIOUS
People who are scared of buttons probably due to coraline:get them AWAY from me
Me when I see buttons:*immediately thinks of coraline*NOICE
(Also I'd definitely go with pink buttons)
Pink button eyes sound pretty cute ngl
I’d go with classic black button eyes 😌
I actually collect different kinds of buttons.
I had never seen coraline or heard of it till last week,
I just really like buttons.
I'd probably go with traditional!
@@nessa6909 same
You know, I've been thinking about the Beldam-spider thing. Just like a spider, she makes a web that is barely visible for her victims, it looks like a clear space(at first, coraline gets to choose whether she goes to the other world or not), but when they get inside the web(decide to stay and sew the buttons) there is no way out and the spider devours their victim
"The pear drum" was one of neil gaiman's sources of inspiration for coraline. In "the pear drum" two girls are abandoned by their mother and a new one comes to them, one who has glass orbs for eyes. I always figured the button eyes in coraline may be, atleast in part, a nod to this story element. Having inhuman, artifical eyes really plays up the unnerving nature of their presence in both stories.
That's terrifying
0:19
Me: I haven’t seen a button in year- *looks over my room to see my blazer for school
Also me:..... Ignore that.
_you are ignoring them but they will not ignore you_
Everything with the branding and sealing one's fate I agree with, but what also makes buttons (on dolls specifically) creepy is that they are in "the horror of wrongness" field. They look like eyes, but they're perfectly shaped and their single color makes them look soulless and emotionless, a lot like the "black eyed children" in ghost stories. In addition, knowing what buttons are, and using them not for that purpose (to hold fabric together), gives off the feeling that their owner isn't really what it looks like; it's all fake but it tries to mimic something real, but it obviously isn't (much like the uncanny valley). So, like, the Other World is mimicking the Real World, but it's all fake (in a sense).
Welp. I had almost forgotten this shiver inducing movie. *Sigh* Now I have to go watch it again. Darn it.
Eyes are truly the windows to the soul. I know for a fact that I make immediate eye contact with people and I can usually tell how they are feeling through eyes. I feel like other mother found and took over this other world.
I believe all of the people she has control over in the world really are in pain.
She has found children are the easiest catch but she knows that they tell how they are in pain and are very open about how they feel even without their eyes. So she sewed Wybies mouth shut so he couldn't tell Coraline anything.
All of the people she does have are trapped in this hell scape I believe may be her family. Like her children and her husband who were always eager to follow mother.
I believe you are correct about Coraline only being able to see when the other mother wants her to see. Buttons are the perfect example, because coins are solid but buttons have holes. That way Coraline wouldn't be completely blind but she would have a harder time seeing things for what they are. The buttons would narrow her vision
No one:
Me every time I see a doll or buttons: ...
Me: kill it with fire
I wasn't afraid of buttons
Well... Until
I watched coralline 0-0
And this video .-.
in the sewing world, there is in fact a 'penny button' where you take a coin and wrap it in a round cloth (typically made of the same material the outfit its going to don is made of) and cinch the cloth closed to then sew onto garments. so having 'buttons' on the eyes may be a more modern telling of coins. it also isn't very hard to turn actual coins into buttons for garb and fashion. either by drilling holes or affixing a loop on the back.
"Why does this little fastener cause so much of a stir?" Because the sewing the holes that they go through on clothing by hand makes me want to cry
Another Coraline vid!! You KNOW this one's about to rake in the views, we love to see it
I was just watching Coraline then I got the notification this is scares me
You sound like "Coraline's mom"
It's calming but creepy..
The doll was her eyes into coralines world, my theory is that what she creates she can see through and control but when she kills she has no need to see through their eyes or control them so she just forgets about them
If no one's mentioned it, Buttons would also hold the threads, in place, inside her eyes. Meaning the actual substance of the Other Mother, was woven -into- the eyes,and held in place, meaning a part of her was always inside the child's eyes, held in place, secured with finality. Instead of just sewing the eyes shut, both replacing the eyes with new "windows to the soul", that have the thread biting into the eye,through it, and holding the buttons in place.
That Napstablook makes me happy.
Love me a little Coraline as we approach the spooky season 😍😍🧵
Happy Spooky Season!
So the other mother literally wanted to "take coralines soul" by taking her eyes. Oh and id choose red! Red is a rad color!
Honestly this is now one of my new favorite channels. Spooky subjects, an amazing relaxing voice, what’s not to love! Happy to have subscribed and I plan to binge watch as many of this channels videos as possible!
It's so crazy how her voice can go from a cheerful intro to her scary voice talking about sewing buttons into childrens eyes
It made me pay more attention to the song of the other dad because he describes her as a peach, meaning sweet, maybe for eating? Not describing her sweet for her personality.
im reading coraline right now its realy goood
Reading? oh god thats more scary than the tv one..good luck brave soul!
Definitely purple ones but I am like you I would not go through with it in the first place I would be hightailing it out of there like Coraline
same i would just run
Yesss another Coraline video
Girl I love your voice, soft with really nice annunciation
Omg I discovered you with one of your coraline videos, I'm so glad you're making some again! Yeah pointless comment but I just wanted to show my support lol
I always thought she took out their eyeballs and replaced them with the buttons.
3:50
Napstablook, is that you?
When you mentioned the idea of seeing through others eyes I'm reminded of how Hurin in JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion is cursed by Morgoth to watch the downfall of his family through Morgoth's eyes.
I freaking love this movie, I literally spent $100 on a doll that is a replica of the actual Coraline doll. Also, I'd pick black cause it right reflects light nicely.
I always thought they got rid of the real eyes and replaced them with buttons. Turns out they just sew buttons on top of them. Oops
Fun fact. Around the 13th century of medieval Europe, buttons became such a popular symbol of "luxury" that some sumptuary laws were passed.
Nevertheless, down the ages, the popularity and value of button's continued to grow with countries proceeding to make them out of bone/jewels/gold/silver/ceramics/etc.
So in a way it makes even more sense of the theory of connecting the practice of putting coins on a dead's eyes, to putting buttons instead. Throughout several points in history, buttons became so valuable that they were held around the same level as actual currency.
I'm picking Emerald Green if I had to. I've always wanted "Emerald Eyes" and when I saw coraline, when the button scene came on and they showed the green, I said, AND I QUOTE REGRETTINGLY. "I would accept that! Beautiful color AND a fun world!"
Are you German? Because i saw in the shark VPN: Frankfurt
I LOVE SPOOKY SEASON THANK YOU FRANK
this is completely unrelated
BUT
at 1:47
I absolutely loved the way u drew that eye
You've brought up some interesting points that I've known about (sewing the eyes shut, coins on eyes to keep them closed), and made connections in my brain that I never would have considered or put together (buttons vs death/limbo), and even taught me a few things I didn't know about (the "ghost coins")! :D
I love your videos and all your content! Thanks so much for the video, and excellent work as always 👌
I swear this was a video before. Mandela effect? Coffee Deficiency in my blood causing hallucinations?
She’s made other Coraline videos. You’re probably just confusing this with them.
The ghost on the hey ride thing at 3:50 is that nabstiblok from undertale?
Edit : also the button color I would choose would be one red and one black
Napstablook
This is creeping me out, my dog ripped my teddy's eyes out and I replaced them with buttons but now.....its staring at me
The art style in these videos make me really happy.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSS
OMG YAY
edit: I finished watching the video and I feel like I would like having blue buttons!
3:50 i love that you pit nabstablook in the cart thing as a easter egg. I love undertale
I really can't answer the button color without making myself sound like a psychopath XD
I thought they just use buttons for cucumbers and my sister has a button nose
Hahah her nose stop downloading at 1 persent
What-
I've seen the cucumbers over the eyes thing as a relaxation spa service type deal.
To take that and make it unsettling seems interesting.
Woooo
That sewist themed skull and crossbones is making my little crafter's heart so happy
I've always hated buttons for some reason
Great Content, Keep it up
Ah Thanks!
Hi
When I was 2 or 3 I had a teddy bear with button eyes. Our cat would sneak into my room at night and pull them off, so my mom would repeatedly have to sew them back on.
Purple is a great color- some dark purple ones would be awesome!
Mint green, if I have to lose my eyes, I’m losing them to something that’s my favorite color
I would have going with pink like flamingo pink
Idk how I found you but I am so glad I did. I love the way you tell your theories and stories, your edits. The whole lot! Its so good and honestly, one of my new favourite channels! Keep up the amazing work
I remember playing with dolls and my grandma had an old button collection she gave up on and I pretended the buttons were currency, making the more holes in the button, the more the value.
Soo nostalgic
Her section on closed eyes during viewings is a little off, lots of the time eyes can be closed with little trouble but in cases where eyelids are stubborn they will be closed with the aid of a contact lense or other aids. The death industry has many ways of making the bodies ready and pleasant for the viewings and there are many different options for you to choose from before you die. The way your body is prepared after death is slightly different from funeral home to funeral home but they all use similar practices and follow almost all the same procedures. There is nothing scary or strange about how they prepare bodies their job is to make sure this person looks just as they are remembered, and their job should not label them as creepy or strange peoples just as much as their practices should be not be called gross and scary. Death is a wonderful thing and the people who prepare our dead are doing a great service
Love your voice and drawings. Buttons on the eyes are creepy but I like large jars of buttons (usually older people have them) because they are all different and interesting to look at. I also like the button isle of a craft store. But in an old antique shop, buttons can be cool or creepy. And definitely creepy for doll eyes, usually. So I guess I'm on the fence about buttons. Wow, I didn't think this video would make me go in to deep thought about buttons, but I'm not mad at it. 😊
When she started talking about the Greek mythology stuff I knew exactly what she meant and already guessed what she was gonna talk about. And this is when my knowledge of Greek mythology comes in handy
I'm early enough that the views are 2 and the likes are 24
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you my dear are the 3rd
You are the best part of spooky season but let’s be real here...
You’re great for every season and I love you 🥺🖤🤍
ok, i just want to thank you for all of your videos, because they menage to be spooky but still let me sleep at night, and you must do so much research and you're so smart and your voice is really calming and your animations are brilliant? how does this much amazing fit in one person??
I’ve heard sewn under your mouth shut but on eyes takes it to another level
Honestly I never subscribe after only seeing just one video from someone, but your voice is so soothing and your art is so intriguing that I just feel so compelled to subscribe
So and I know this is years late. The other mother is essentially like a vampire. She can't force Coraline to put the buttons on, the child has to do it themselves. Did I understand this right?
I literally rewatched your coraline video yesterday, I was looking for new coraline videos and you have blessed me thank you
I’m glad I got the notification for this video! I needed to order some antique buttons for my toys.