“I hate it. Great work.”

The “Slack-o-latern” designed to jumpscare neighbors with notification dings terrified the web—however it might have been worse.

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Guy Dupont designed the Slack-o-lantern to terrify his tech employee neighbors. The pumpkin’s face is carved with the Slack brand and rigged with a movement sensor and speaker that emits the Slack notification sound when somebody walks previous.

The TikTok creator confirmed off the pumpkin in a video shared on October 20, 2025. Dupont defined, “They’ll be walking by, thinking they’re done for the day, and then…” He waved his hand over the movement sensor, inflicting the carved Slack brand to gentle up, “Bam, they’re back on their phones.”

The Slack-o-lantern put up garnered 3.1 million views on TikTok, eliciting reactions from commenters who mentioned they enter fight-or-flight mode upon hearing the tiny notification noise. The pumpkin frightened social media customers who use digital collaboration instruments at their jobs, and many individuals responding to the put up argued that the Microsoft Teams notification sound is even scarier.

One commenter mentioned, “I was like, thank God it wasn’t Teams.”

The pumpkin that scares tech employees 

Dupont launched the Slack-o-lantern to TikTok. He mentioned, “I’m calling this the Slack-o-lantern, which is specifically designed to terrify my neighbors who work in tech.”

He identified the movement sensor and speaker and waved his hand throughout the slack brand carved into the pumpkin’s face to make it gentle up and play the notification ding. “I don’t know about you guys, but this really gets the dread going for me,” Dupont mentioned.

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“I hate it. Great work.”

“The notification sound is a jumpscare.”

“This activated my fight or flight.”

“This is the scariest pumpkin you could possibly carve.”

At least it wasn’t Teams…

Commenters who use digital distant collaboration instruments at their jobs mentioned Microsoft Teams is means scarier than Slack.

While “Teams-o-lantern” doesn’t evoke Jack-o-lantern the way in which Slack-o-lantern does, loads of laptop computer employees urged Dupont to design a pumpkin that makes use of notification sounds from the dreaded Teams app. “I’ve worked in both a Slack and a Teams company before, and honestly, the Teams sounds are all way more terrifying.”

“I’ve worked in both a Slack and a Teams company before, and honestly, the Teams sounds are all way more terrifying.”

“A Teams pumpkin would really scare the shit out of me.”

“RIP Slack-o-lantern.”

Dupont’s viral tech pumpkin elicited a significant response, prompting the TikTok creator to smash the slack-o-lantern in a video shared someday afterward October 21, 2025. He defined, “It seems like we all need a little bit of cathartic release, so I’m gonna smash it.” 

@guy_dupont

RIP Slack-o-lantern

♬ authentic sound – Guy Dupont

The obvious Slack apologist added, “Don’t blame Slack; blame your coworkers… It’s your coworkers. It’s not the app,” earlier than placing his foot by way of the pumpkin.

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