Gender reveal parties are typically fun, but they’ve become a moment of anxiety these days. It started 13 years ago when a social media star, Jenna Karvunidis, cut into a baby shower cake to reveal pink frosting, meaning she would birth a girl.
The practice has since evolved into a mini games party with guests betting on the unborn child’s gender before the parents reveal the answer. Gender reveal parties are nice when the couple and every guest don’t mind the results, but when they expect an answer and get something else, it becomes a tense situation.
The subreddit People Who Die Inside is agog with reactions from one of such videos. A couple expressed obvious disappointment at their child’s gender during the reveal event.
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The couple went viral for the man’s reaction to learning he was expecting a third girl. When they popped the confetti, which rained pink (meaning a girl was on the way), the mother opened an umbrella to stop it from touching them.
As if the shield wasn’t enough, the father walked out while yelling, “for F**k’s sake,” and the other two girls wanted a brother too.
This viral video caused a stir on the internet when Fulton first posted it, and it’s getting the same reaction on Reddit now that it’s on the Watch People Die Inside subreddit.
Scroll to see what Redditors think of the situation.
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The concept of Gender Reveal parties has become a pandemic, and the reactions are even worse. Redditors agreed that making such a video for virality is insensitive, especially since the child would grow up to realize she was a disappointment long before birth.
Also, the idea of wanting one gender more than the other is morally wrong since every child is as good as the other, and manipulating genetics is expensive, although possible. If the family desperately wants a boy, they could do that without embarrassing their children.
If they leave it to chance and the universe plays a cruel joke by giving them only girls every time, they’ll end up miserable! There’s also the option to adopt, but people hardly consider it.
Now, the lasting effect of the disappointing video is something this couple didn’t account for in their superficiality. Those two girls would grow up knowing their parents wanted a boy.
Their reactions to their mom’s news also hint that they know, which led TikTokers to ask about their mental health in the original video.
