It's hard to tell when they started becoming a thing, but over the past few years, there's a pretty good chance that you or someone you know have been invited to a gender reveal party.
And for whatever reason, it seems that the mystery behind whether a baby on the way will be a boy or a girl has turned into a big enough deal that it warrants elaborate firework displays and arrays of pink or blue light.
And although the bizarre concoction we're talking about today isn't nearly as disastrous as how those fireworks displays can turn out, a lot of people still think it's a bit much.