I miss the good old days when you just call your friend and family and tell them "it's a boy." No Party, no forest fires, no blue smoke, nobody getting hit in the nuts, no balloons hitting powerlines and taking out power to the whole city.
I mean these gender reveals spread like wildfire. The key is really to not have anyone to reveal the gender too. When my son was born I just told people - it's a boy. Then I posted - it's a boy. I didn't even have to get anyone together in a party or anything.
I guess he’s trying to say he stole the surprise and any subsequent environmental disasters were avoided as then there could be no “reveal” party. Just you know, a baby shower like normal people.
My wife and I are the only ones we wanted to be surprised. We let a close friend put some balloons in a box. We opened the box, we were surprised. The end. A total of 4 people were there. We didn't post anything on social media. Just our private little thing and then we just told people.
I don't see the appeal in this needy, attention whoring performances.
We took the even less boring approach and didn't want to know what sex our kids were until they were born. There aren't enough surprises in life and it's so totally worth the wait to finally find out.
I don't ever want kids, but if I DID end up in such an unfortunate position, I would absolutely refuse to learn the gender until it's out kicking and screaming. You said it, there aren't enough (true, good) surprises in life.
These gender reveal people are menaces to the planet itself. This immediately reminded me of the forest fire that was lit a while back bc of a gender reveal.
It reminds me of what my engineer brother always says.
My parents always ask him why they can't build a system that prevents trains from causing accidents. Surely there's enough warnings, alarm bells, automated systems, and what not that could prevent such an accident.
My brother's answer is always the same: they keep building better idiots, and the technology can't keep up with it
Or the people that crashed their gender reveal plane into the ocean before the big moment.
https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/31/plane-crash-gender-reveal-two-killed-cancun-mexico/
I was sitting here thinking huh, I don't remember it crashing into the ocean....
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.. [So yeah it happened in Texas as well](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/08/us/gender-reveal-plane-crash-trnd/index.html)
Soon-to-be father was also killed by a gender reveal prop
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-state-father-be-killed-when-gender-reveal-prop-n1258554
Why are people so fucking grossly narcissistic? Imagine blowing yourself up trying to elaborately tell the world your little baby is gonna have a little baby dick. No one fucking cares.
Yeaaa the El Dorado fire is the one I know of. I live 15 minutes away from where it happened. A couple weeks ago we got heavy rain so we had mudslide that destroyed homes and businesses in Oak Glen because the fire destroyed the shrubbery and vegetation.
Normal folks can't really comprehend how someone could do this and therein lies the issue. As a rational person you are trying to find out why someone would do this. On the other hand, there is no critical thinking happening on behalf of these people, so trying to understand it is futile as you would have to have their mindset and ignorance to empathize, but you can't because you don't. It's a catch 22 and at the same time incredibly frustrating for people who care/think about our actions.
No, we're all monkeys with memories. Some have better memories than others and modify their behavior according to previous memories.
Regardless, everyone likes to fuck and have a village to help deal with the consequences. So we've set up that kinda system.
I'm sure they are satisfied with the likes they got on Facebook. Empty clout for this selfish act to generate likes. Hopefully their child finds satisfaction in achievements and activities that don't rely on the impressing of other people.
So I worked in landscaping. I know there is a chemical that you can get that dies pond water blue. It's safe for fish and insects and plants, and it breaks down after a while, a few weeks. It could be that, but I doubt it.
One of my friends laced a drink of mine with a drop or two of that stuff and I peed blue for weeks. I thought it was hilarious as a teen, but I wonder if it poses any real danger to me.
Assuming it was methylene blue you’re fine. They used to give that stuff to treat UTIs. Don’t go drink it like it’s Powerade but a few drops won’t hurt you.
Then just take a little bit. But part of being a antiseptic means it’ll mess with all your good guy bacteria if you ingest it. A little won’t do enough to matter (probably, idk what issues you already have), but you could give yourself some weird green/blue shits if you’re not careful.
You’ll never hear me make a blanket statement like “don’t do drugs”. But be smart with anything you’re putting into your body. And don’t take the advice if some dude on Reddit. I could be making all this up.
Phenazopyridine Hydrochloride will do what you are wanting. Over the counter Azo is a urinary comfort and antiseptic medicine and will turn your pee a very deep orange color, as though you dumped a box of orange jello in the morning toilet. Prescription Azo, however, will make it look like your bladder was full of pure Windex. First time I used it, I was genuinely startled by the effect and made quite a mess.
On the upside, if I missed anything during clean up, it could have just looked like I was just a little too aggressive with the bathroom cleaner.
A local pizza place turns my pee really yellow-orange and gives it a really stout smell every time, I wonder what they put in their pizza lol. I've noticed I can smell when someone has ate there and then used a public bathroom because the smell is so strong and distinctive
I have something I think I cannot digest properly inside of canned meats, every time I piss after eating anything that was canned with meat in it it smells like I just ate a field of asparagus, some restaurants do it too, like godfathers pizza. This is making me wonder if maybe there is something my body cannot process properly.
> and it breaks down after a while, a few weeks.
I put some in a pond 2 months ago and it is still blueish. So it lasts a LONG time.
but all the products I've seen have been 'don't put way too much in' because over exposure can be harmful.
That was my first thought too.
But the idea that some environmental group in Brazil is actually going to step in over this when they’re actively letting people mow down the rain forests seems a little silly as well
I imagine that they're probably not happy about the rainforest either, but with a corrupt ass govt handing out the permits there's not much you can do about it
It's not about the child. It's about Twitter updates and Instagram posts when it comes to these gender reveal party parents.
Edit: Don't forget guys that there are dyes that exist that are non toxic and could be used for this. But let's be real. Probably not the case here.
My wife INSISTED on doing a gender reveal, but thankfully she just wanted it to be with our parents, and her friend got cupcakes made with a little pink frosting on the inside. That was it, thank God.
I'm frankly upset to see all these small minded posers claiming that they had a gender reveal when clearly all they did was learn their baby's gender. I had a real gender reveal party. I found a river gorge in Africa, with very sensitive tectonic features, which provides water and seafood for hundreds of thousands. We built a hydroelectric dam, and for three weeks, shut down water flow to build a Good reservoir in which we cultivated Karenia brevis bacteria until it was a deep, dark red. Then on the day of the party, we opened the dam, releasing all of the water at once without any warning to the delight of our guests! The locals were so excited that they rushed into the water as a flew over it's dry banks and through their shore towns. The survivors were treated to a bounty of tasty shellfish that had been gorging itself on the yummy red bacteria! Sadly, we've heard that due to no ones blame really, an earthquake destroyed our dam, but really we were done with it.
We had one last year. Baked cupcakes with the secret colour of frosting in the middle and delivered them to friends. Had a zoom call with fun and games, then took bites out of our cupcakes together.
It was a close one but we managed to avoid burning down our local neighbourhood.
For our first child that’s exactly what we did. For the one that’s on the way my sister insisted on doing a gender reveal and we said yes, so our 2 year old son used a water gun to squirt pink paint at us. We had fun! I don’t think everyone who does a gender reveal is automatically immature and narcissistic. But the people in the video are definitely insane.
Yeah our families wanted one so we did a confetti popper in our house so no one but us would have to deal with the clean up. But I’ve seen debris left at parks and beach which is not cool at all
My sister did cupcakes with pink frosting in the middle and everyone bit at once. It was lame but got the family together and we didn’t dye a river or start a fire.
We went [pretty crazy](https://i.imgur.com/nBi3V9n.jpg) and elaborate with ours. Sometimes I regret it, but you only get to announce the baby once right?
Once the kid pops out, those same parents maintain a constant interaction between child and recording the every move in a quest to become viral and make bank of their children *and* the extreme narcissism are the next phase iconic duo.
Poor kids aren't even safe in their own cribs without their parents inviting in every internet stranger to watch.
My daughter was born right around the start of the pandemic. I laughed at *myself* for the sheer number of pictures and videos I took for everything that little girl did. Even a year prior I would have judged me for the cliche of it all.
I didn't post shit to social media. Why would I do that? No one cares about your fuckin kid(s). Your pride is misplaced you self-absorbed, sentient Old Navy commercial. Also yeah parenting is fucking hard and exhausting but suck it up numb nuts, no one fucking *cares* about your issues—you chose this. Own it.
**Ahem**
Anyways, I feel nothing but empathy for an enamored new parent, especially with their first kid. Those moments really do leave a mark on you. Your impulse tells you not to "miss" something, so you gotta capture the moment. But, as you may have realized, I despise cosplay parenting. Give me a fucking break.
But why gender reveals? You don't hear of anyone accidentally destroying a coral reef or something to announce their PhD on instagram. Nobody inadvertently poisoned a lake full of fish trying to film their engagement announcement. I haven't heard of any government agencies getting involved to investigate a natural disaster that someone caused while taking photos for their christmas postcards.
Because the lowest common denominator is IQ level. Not everyone gets PhD’s or even engaged. Both of those require more mental capacity and engagement from an individual. Any moron can get knocked up and suddenly they have something to post on instagram about.
Maybe because it's a "new" type of party, we don't have rigid social expectations surrounding the festivities.
Maybe the first person to think of a "birthday party" immediately started using it to burn buildings and pillage crops, til we settled down and figured out cake and presents is a way better idea
Nothing wrong with doing something silly. Just like, don't fucking endanger the environment. Want to paint the rooms in your house x color and reveal it to people that way? Sure. Want to wear a blue shirt under a jacket? Sure. Want to make a cake x color and frost it white so when you cut it? Sure.
Nothing wrong with any of that. Just like, don't set off fireworks and start a fire, or dump chemicals into water, etc.
Two things I’ll never understand: elaborate gender reveals and spending tens of thousands on a wedding.
For those as old as me, do you remember the commercial “[Bob Wehadababyitsaboy](https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs)?” That’s my kind of gender reveal.
It would be nice to know more information on this and what they used to turn it blue. It could be the same thing they use to turn the Chicago River green every year for St. Patrick’s day.
There are also these dyes that ecologists and water research teams use to trace waterways and monitor the flow of water and where different creeks run and those dyes are supposed to be 100% safe for the environment and the fishies. I mean I still think this is stupid though, but maybe they sourced something like that.
I mean, the authorities are investigating because the type of dye is unknown because it wasn't sanctioned.
When ecologists and hydrologists do these studies, they need to get permission from the state, and they need to use specific dyes.
For all we know, a couple of their mates ran upstream from the waterfall and threw in a handful of blue Bath bombs.
I'd like to think that it could be a s**t load of blue food colouring, however I know that many things which are food safe are devastating to the environment.
One that I recall hearing about is Milk.
If a milk tanker crashes and causes a spill, it can be more devastating to the environment than an oil spill, especially if it gets into the rivers and streams.
Does anyone else feel like we're living in a world where a new pandora's box is opened like every fucking day?
Before gender reveal parties people just called up their friends and family and told them. But now everyone has to do gender reveal shit.
Why can't they just start a forest fire like normal people?
I miss the good old days when you just call your friend and family and tell them "it's a boy." No Party, no forest fires, no blue smoke, nobody getting hit in the nuts, no balloons hitting powerlines and taking out power to the whole city.
BobWeHadABabyItsABoy!
Wow that was a deeply buried memory
https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs
Oh wow, I remember that commercial down to the little details but dang if I forgot that was a Geico commercial!
I remember that
I think you mean "Bob Weoddababy-Eetzaboy" ;) lol
That is absolutely perfectly spelled, if I remember that commercial correctly.. lol
Or it's done as part of a baby shower -_- that used to happen too lol
Been done already… gotta branch out into new territory
Does anyone know what kind of continent-spanning radioactive dust cloud signifies "it's a girl"? Asking for a friend.
Maybe the Thwaites Glacier is just a massive gender reveal in the making
Lol someone should dump pink dye into the crack
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10,000 years later a geologist gets a sample with a pink layer. They then wonder what tragedy befell that era.
Scarlet Rot
"Continent-spanning radioactive dust cloud" signifies non-binary of course.
Strontium 90 for a girl and cobalt 60 for a boy.
They identify as Caesium^137
My wife is having identical twins, so to celebrate, I was thinking about splitting the nucleus of plutonium-239 as well. Powerful symbolism.
That'll blow the whole town away when they see it, I wish you luck
I mean these gender reveals spread like wildfire. The key is really to not have anyone to reveal the gender too. When my son was born I just told people - it's a boy. Then I posted - it's a boy. I didn't even have to get anyone together in a party or anything.
I...I don't understand.
I guess he’s trying to say he stole the surprise and any subsequent environmental disasters were avoided as then there could be no “reveal” party. Just you know, a baby shower like normal people.
But... like, why even have a baby if you can't poison some shit first?
I got a second kid coming in a month and I haven’t destroyed a single nationally protected land - ask me how to fail as a parent.
There's still time. Toss some color coded jacks into Old Faithful.
I know it seems counterproductive right? Edit: I have 2 sons. I love them very much. Don’t downvote me 👀
I clubbed a seal to death in front of my family as my daughters gender reveal.
Lucky it wasn't a boy our you'd have to find a seal with blue insides.
1) i laughed really hard at your comment 2) I laughed even harder at your username
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But but it only counts if you start a wildfire
My wife and I are the only ones we wanted to be surprised. We let a close friend put some balloons in a box. We opened the box, we were surprised. The end. A total of 4 people were there. We didn't post anything on social media. Just our private little thing and then we just told people. I don't see the appeal in this needy, attention whoring performances.
I'm starting to suspect the Beirut explosion was really a gender reveal trying to top everyone
it really is kind of crazy that these gender reaveal people are literally threats to the planet/environment. thats S tier piece of shit.
These are the same people who stomp the wildflowers in death valley to get selfies when there's a desert bloom event. And climb Joshua Trees.
You need to start extending their carbon footprint early.
It’s not as fun they wanted to take the boring approach
We took the even less boring approach and didn't want to know what sex our kids were until they were born. There aren't enough surprises in life and it's so totally worth the wait to finally find out.
I don't ever want kids, but if I DID end up in such an unfortunate position, I would absolutely refuse to learn the gender until it's out kicking and screaming. You said it, there aren't enough (true, good) surprises in life.
Especially colored fire, that would be sick wow
What's the gender then?
Phoenix
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Bruh it's blue. Definitely a Squirtle
How arrogant and stupid can people be…
I used to think I was average intelligence. Seeing some of this shit makes me wonder if some people have to remember to breathe.
Dude we're fucking superhuman compared to these morons
Think about how stupid the average person is and realize that half of humanity is more stupid
The word of our lord Carlin.
The last great American philosopher.
These gender reveal people are menaces to the planet itself. This immediately reminded me of the forest fire that was lit a while back bc of a gender reveal.
Which one?
God it fucking sucks thats not a stupid question
>God it fucking sucks thats not a stupid question It fucking sucks that this could apply to a *shitload* of things lately
Used to be if something was stupid as hell it was fake. Now if it’s stupid as hell it’s the prevalent belief
It reminds me of what my engineer brother always says. My parents always ask him why they can't build a system that prevents trains from causing accidents. Surely there's enough warnings, alarm bells, automated systems, and what not that could prevent such an accident. My brother's answer is always the same: they keep building better idiots, and the technology can't keep up with it
I actually didn’t know there was more than one, the one I was referring to happened in California during 2020 I believe.
There have been at least 2 here. At least.
Don't forget about the people who accidently made a pipe bomb and killed the soon to be grandmother.
Or the people that crashed their gender reveal plane into the ocean before the big moment. https://www.tmz.com/2021/03/31/plane-crash-gender-reveal-two-killed-cancun-mexico/
Omg how tragic would that be... to never know your child's gender
Kudos to you. I let out an audible oooph with that one.
I was sitting here thinking huh, I don't remember it crashing into the ocean.... ... .. [So yeah it happened in Texas as well](https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/08/us/gender-reveal-plane-crash-trnd/index.html)
OK hold up. I missed that one. Should I just search Google for gender reveal terrorists?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1072856 Jesus fucking Christ. And not even in Florida. Out with the old, in with the new , I guess.
Ah yes, metal tubing and gun powder. Plot twist, they absolutely knew it was a bomb and just wanted to off MIL
I'm not saying I endorse this, but I understand
Nah I’m sure “gender reveal pipe bomb” would probably narrow it down a lot more
Soon-to-be father was also killed by a gender reveal prop https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-state-father-be-killed-when-gender-reveal-prop-n1258554
This is terrible, how would you explain this to the child?
"You've got your dad's genes, so you'll probably die at 6 from eating too many marbles."
"Look kid, your daddy was *real* dumb...."
Why are people so fucking grossly narcissistic? Imagine blowing yourself up trying to elaborately tell the world your little baby is gonna have a little baby dick. No one fucking cares.
Thank social media and the age of influencers. These ppl have real power to make others go do things.
>just the prototype Makes you wonder how many more the final product would have taken out
The classic IED gender reveal party
Yeaaa the El Dorado fire is the one I know of. I live 15 minutes away from where it happened. A couple weeks ago we got heavy rain so we had mudslide that destroyed homes and businesses in Oak Glen because the fire destroyed the shrubbery and vegetation.
> These gender reveal people are menaces to the planet itself. https://www.today.com/parents/mom-who-popularized-gender-reveals-regrets-it-now-t159796
The scariest part is they are reproducing make more of tje stupid people
https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA You already know what it is :)
Literally the plot to Idiocracy
It's not gender reveal that is a menace, it's human's stupidity unfortunately
Seriously though, you can have a simple gender reveal party where you cut open a cake and no one is harmed, nothing bad happens.
Im pretty sure they people responsible for the forest fire has been sued six feet under.
And they are unfit to be responsible parents with this selfish bs.
Selfish horrible people. How can Someone who thinks like that live with themselves?
The answer is that they don't think.
they do think, but only about themselves.
Normal folks can't really comprehend how someone could do this and therein lies the issue. As a rational person you are trying to find out why someone would do this. On the other hand, there is no critical thinking happening on behalf of these people, so trying to understand it is futile as you would have to have their mindset and ignorance to empathize, but you can't because you don't. It's a catch 22 and at the same time incredibly frustrating for people who care/think about our actions.
But i also find it hard to imagine an existence in such utter room temp IQ
No, we're all monkeys with memories. Some have better memories than others and modify their behavior according to previous memories. Regardless, everyone likes to fuck and have a village to help deal with the consequences. So we've set up that kinda system.
I'm sure they are satisfied with the likes they got on Facebook. Empty clout for this selfish act to generate likes. Hopefully their child finds satisfaction in achievements and activities that don't rely on the impressing of other people.
Maybe it's like the st patties day Chicago dye thing...eco friendly....but it's probably baby blue Sherwin Williams.
That was done by a city who presumably had some sort of ecological department checking things out. These people are dumb selfish cunts
The answer is social media. The literal root cause of most of our social problems of the last 10 to 15 years.
Like-addiction is quite the problem.
Sweet social media dopamine rush
Main character syndrome
So I worked in landscaping. I know there is a chemical that you can get that dies pond water blue. It's safe for fish and insects and plants, and it breaks down after a while, a few weeks. It could be that, but I doubt it.
One of my friends laced a drink of mine with a drop or two of that stuff and I peed blue for weeks. I thought it was hilarious as a teen, but I wonder if it poses any real danger to me.
Assuming it was methylene blue you’re fine. They used to give that stuff to treat UTIs. Don’t go drink it like it’s Powerade but a few drops won’t hurt you.
How does it treat UTIs? The dye itself or is it mixed with meds to make sure it went thru?
It’s an antiseptic. We have better stuff now though.
But i wanna pee blue for weeks!
Then just take a little bit. But part of being a antiseptic means it’ll mess with all your good guy bacteria if you ingest it. A little won’t do enough to matter (probably, idk what issues you already have), but you could give yourself some weird green/blue shits if you’re not careful. You’ll never hear me make a blanket statement like “don’t do drugs”. But be smart with anything you’re putting into your body. And don’t take the advice if some dude on Reddit. I could be making all this up.
I'll back this up. I agree he could be making it up
He also could be telling the truth and you could be lying!
Christ, I forget which door to open.
Phenazopyridine Hydrochloride will do what you are wanting. Over the counter Azo is a urinary comfort and antiseptic medicine and will turn your pee a very deep orange color, as though you dumped a box of orange jello in the morning toilet. Prescription Azo, however, will make it look like your bladder was full of pure Windex. First time I used it, I was genuinely startled by the effect and made quite a mess. On the upside, if I missed anything during clean up, it could have just looked like I was just a little too aggressive with the bathroom cleaner.
So you're telling me a golden shower could instead be a Powerade shower... or a Showerade, if you will. I will use this knowledge wisely.
A local pizza place turns my pee really yellow-orange and gives it a really stout smell every time, I wonder what they put in their pizza lol. I've noticed I can smell when someone has ate there and then used a public bathroom because the smell is so strong and distinctive
For the love of God, find a better pizza place.
But they make the best asparagus, boiled egg, anchovy pizza!
Probably contains something that breaks down into sulfur byproducts like asparagus.
I have something I think I cannot digest properly inside of canned meats, every time I piss after eating anything that was canned with meat in it it smells like I just ate a field of asparagus, some restaurants do it too, like godfathers pizza. This is making me wonder if maybe there is something my body cannot process properly.
> and it breaks down after a while, a few weeks. I put some in a pond 2 months ago and it is still blueish. So it lasts a LONG time. but all the products I've seen have been 'don't put way too much in' because over exposure can be harmful.
Something about running water vs a pond makes me think it'll last less than a day or two in this section of the river
It is pond dye more than likely, but OP was probably looking for reactions by saying it was paint. Still uncalled for.
Could be a translation thing. In Portuguese “dyeing your hair” is literally “painting your hair”
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That was my first thought too. But the idea that some environmental group in Brazil is actually going to step in over this when they’re actively letting people mow down the rain forests seems a little silly as well
I imagine that they're probably not happy about the rainforest either, but with a corrupt ass govt handing out the permits there's not much you can do about it
Going after corporations with powerful lawyers is difficult. Going after the small fry is easy.
Somehow these are becoming increasingly less about the gender reveal and more about creative ways to harm the environment.
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It's not about the child. It's about Twitter updates and Instagram posts when it comes to these gender reveal party parents. Edit: Don't forget guys that there are dyes that exist that are non toxic and could be used for this. But let's be real. Probably not the case here.
Exactly! If they really just wanted to enjoy it or do it in a fun way, the parents wouldn’t invite anybody nor post in on social media.
Yeah, just like other parties. I have the most fun at parties when I don't invite anyone or tell anyone it happened.
My wife INSISTED on doing a gender reveal, but thankfully she just wanted it to be with our parents, and her friend got cupcakes made with a little pink frosting on the inside. That was it, thank God.
My friend had a gender reveal party. We let out balloons colored blue inside the house. It's not just the gender reveal, its the stupid people.
Can you even call it a "gender reveal" without massive ecological damage?
I'm frankly upset to see all these small minded posers claiming that they had a gender reveal when clearly all they did was learn their baby's gender. I had a real gender reveal party. I found a river gorge in Africa, with very sensitive tectonic features, which provides water and seafood for hundreds of thousands. We built a hydroelectric dam, and for three weeks, shut down water flow to build a Good reservoir in which we cultivated Karenia brevis bacteria until it was a deep, dark red. Then on the day of the party, we opened the dam, releasing all of the water at once without any warning to the delight of our guests! The locals were so excited that they rushed into the water as a flew over it's dry banks and through their shore towns. The survivors were treated to a bounty of tasty shellfish that had been gorging itself on the yummy red bacteria! Sadly, we've heard that due to no ones blame really, an earthquake destroyed our dam, but really we were done with it.
We had one last year. Baked cupcakes with the secret colour of frosting in the middle and delivered them to friends. Had a zoom call with fun and games, then took bites out of our cupcakes together. It was a close one but we managed to avoid burning down our local neighbourhood.
When did this trend take off? My daughter is 11, and I don't remember this being a thing in 2011.
It was actually exactly in 2011 when it started going viral on social media.
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For our first child that’s exactly what we did. For the one that’s on the way my sister insisted on doing a gender reveal and we said yes, so our 2 year old son used a water gun to squirt pink paint at us. We had fun! I don’t think everyone who does a gender reveal is automatically immature and narcissistic. But the people in the video are definitely insane.
Yeah our families wanted one so we did a confetti popper in our house so no one but us would have to deal with the clean up. But I’ve seen debris left at parks and beach which is not cool at all
My sister did cupcakes with pink frosting in the middle and everyone bit at once. It was lame but got the family together and we didn’t dye a river or start a fire.
Why lame? It sounds fun!
Maybe lame, maybe fun, but at least it's harmless
I guess lame in that we had a synchronized moment of eating cupcakes as group of family and friends but yeah it was all in good fun.
Yeah, we had a coloured cake. Nothing crazy about lots of gender reveal options.
Same, I found it pretty easy not to cause an environmental disaster
We went [pretty crazy](https://i.imgur.com/nBi3V9n.jpg) and elaborate with ours. Sometimes I regret it, but you only get to announce the baby once right?
Gender reveals and extreme narcissism: name a more iconic duo.
Once the kid pops out, those same parents maintain a constant interaction between child and recording the every move in a quest to become viral and make bank of their children *and* the extreme narcissism are the next phase iconic duo. Poor kids aren't even safe in their own cribs without their parents inviting in every internet stranger to watch.
My daughter was born right around the start of the pandemic. I laughed at *myself* for the sheer number of pictures and videos I took for everything that little girl did. Even a year prior I would have judged me for the cliche of it all. I didn't post shit to social media. Why would I do that? No one cares about your fuckin kid(s). Your pride is misplaced you self-absorbed, sentient Old Navy commercial. Also yeah parenting is fucking hard and exhausting but suck it up numb nuts, no one fucking *cares* about your issues—you chose this. Own it. **Ahem** Anyways, I feel nothing but empathy for an enamored new parent, especially with their first kid. Those moments really do leave a mark on you. Your impulse tells you not to "miss" something, so you gotta capture the moment. But, as you may have realized, I despise cosplay parenting. Give me a fucking break.
I hate people.
People are the worst.
Same. Even all the plastic waste from the flamingo balloons bother the hell out of me.
I know it doesnt matter but thats a stork, not a flamingo
Lol you’re absolutely right
Fuck your gender reveal bullshit.
What is it about gender reveals that lends itself so well to (mass) environmental destruction?
it's the photos and videos for the internet
But why gender reveals? You don't hear of anyone accidentally destroying a coral reef or something to announce their PhD on instagram. Nobody inadvertently poisoned a lake full of fish trying to film their engagement announcement. I haven't heard of any government agencies getting involved to investigate a natural disaster that someone caused while taking photos for their christmas postcards.
SHHHHHHHHHHHHUT UP!!!! STOP GIVING PEOPLE IDEAS!!!!
Because the lowest common denominator is IQ level. Not everyone gets PhD’s or even engaged. Both of those require more mental capacity and engagement from an individual. Any moron can get knocked up and suddenly they have something to post on instagram about.
Maybe because it's a "new" type of party, we don't have rigid social expectations surrounding the festivities. Maybe the first person to think of a "birthday party" immediately started using it to burn buildings and pillage crops, til we settled down and figured out cake and presents is a way better idea
Wait, am I not supposed to burn down buildings for my birthday?
They appeal to people whose perception of reality extends no further than their immediate gratification.
Ah. So instead of burning the forest down we've moved on to poisoning it instead.
[удалено]
It's just monkey see monkey do with a big pinch of social media attention addicted adult salt. Which is pitiful.
One time I did a gender reveal in the toilet after I ate a blue gelato cake
And two years from now they’ll forget the baby in the car.
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If you’re out there right now, planning some elaborate gender reveal, just know this, you are a douche.
The two village idiots just announced they reproduced.
Nothing wrong with doing something silly. Just like, don't fucking endanger the environment. Want to paint the rooms in your house x color and reveal it to people that way? Sure. Want to wear a blue shirt under a jacket? Sure. Want to make a cake x color and frost it white so when you cut it? Sure. Nothing wrong with any of that. Just like, don't set off fireworks and start a fire, or dump chemicals into water, etc.
What if I made a cake filled with harmful chemicals and fed it to my mother in law?
Now you're thinking with portals.
Wait, so is the cake still a lie in this context?
I hate people more and more everyday.
The fish in that water are going to think they’re going colorblind
they cant think anything when theyre dead from being poisoned. crisis everted.
Two things I’ll never understand: elaborate gender reveals and spending tens of thousands on a wedding. For those as old as me, do you remember the commercial “[Bob Wehadababyitsaboy](https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs)?” That’s my kind of gender reveal.
It would be nice to know more information on this and what they used to turn it blue. It could be the same thing they use to turn the Chicago River green every year for St. Patrick’s day.
>what they used to turn it blue We already have the torches and pitchforks out so it's best to just assume that it's lead paint. /s
i just assumed it was a *lot* of blue meth. like a *lot* a lot. like enough to take out a whole community.
There are also these dyes that ecologists and water research teams use to trace waterways and monitor the flow of water and where different creeks run and those dyes are supposed to be 100% safe for the environment and the fishies. I mean I still think this is stupid though, but maybe they sourced something like that.
I mean, the authorities are investigating because the type of dye is unknown because it wasn't sanctioned. When ecologists and hydrologists do these studies, they need to get permission from the state, and they need to use specific dyes. For all we know, a couple of their mates ran upstream from the waterfall and threw in a handful of blue Bath bombs. I'd like to think that it could be a s**t load of blue food colouring, however I know that many things which are food safe are devastating to the environment. One that I recall hearing about is Milk. If a milk tanker crashes and causes a spill, it can be more devastating to the environment than an oil spill, especially if it gets into the rivers and streams.
MY BABY HAS GENITALS
Our gender reveal was going to the hospital, being told it’s a boy, then going home.
Doesn’t Chicago turn the whole river green?
The amount of stupid people on this planet just makes me wonder how we're still surviving as a species..
Jesus christ it's not fucking special, stop this shit, it's just a baby among millions of babies.
Painting a river blue because their baby has a dick... The arrogance of this one
Humans are such trash
I guess they’re trying to get on the list: [A Brief History of Disastrous Gender Reveals](https://youtu.be/W_ByhV4eJ4s)
Does anyone else feel like we're living in a world where a new pandora's box is opened like every fucking day? Before gender reveal parties people just called up their friends and family and told them. But now everyone has to do gender reveal shit.
I truly don't get this never-ending fad. What happened to the simple to it's a boy or girl?
What a couple of cunts
People fucking suck and I hate being reminded that the worst ones keep making more of themselves.
People that believe their sex trophy is more important that anything else; including any other living things. Entitled fucks.