A couple shared a video of their gender reveal party featuring a fireworks show near trees. The footage went viral at the time and the couple was reprimanded by internet users.
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The clip, now deleted, was posted in December 2022. The baby’s parents had set up a panel reading “oh baby,” decorated with blue and pink balloons.
When pink smoke was released into the air, thousands of sparks lit up the sky to announce the arrival of a girl. However, users did not appreciate the couple’s actions.
“Baby announcement or the start of a wildfire?” one user joked. “All those sparks near the trees. Genius,” another criticized. “This could have gone wrong in so many ways,” noted a third.
Others, however, enjoyed the fireworks. “This is the coolest reveal ever. I want one just like it,” someone wrote.
The gender reveal reminded many of an incident that occurred in 2020, when another couple held a party to reveal their baby’s gender and ended up causing a wildfire in California that destroyed over 10,500 acres and killed a firefighter.
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