(all counting) Five,
four, three, two, one... (party poppers popping) (loud explosion) (shouting, hooting) (shouting continues) - Hey guy, gender reveal parties are the
world's stupidest tradition. What probably just started as
an innocent excuse to throw a pregnancy party with your
friends has transformed into this never-ending competition, to try to find the most destructive and dangerous way to announce that your child is gonna have a penis. Now I'm not normally
one to shit on peoples and knock you as hobbies, unless it's pretending to do magic or listening to kids bop, or cutting a bagel Weird. Okay. Maybe I do do that. But in general, if you're doing something
and it's not harming anyone, I'm not going to take up
too much issue with that. And for the most part, I think gender reveal parties
tend to be pretty harmless. Maybe you just eat a pink
cake with your family, or you all huddle around your dog waiting to see what color his shit is, cause you've fed him some food coloring and then everyone cheers when he finally poops, and he's confused, but he likes the attention. I'm sure there are plenty of
ways to celebrate your fetus child that don't involve
the destruction of property. The problem is, like a lot of things that
end up on social media gender reveal parties
have turned into this quest to one up everyone. Whenever an idiotic stunt goes viral, most people probably look at it like, wow, that was dumb that they did that. But some people look at
it as an opportunity. They got a million views
for making a pinata explode, I'm going to set my grandparents on fire. If the smoke is pink, we're having a girl. Don't get me wrong. I love my family. But the only thing more important
to me than their wellbeing is the possibility of becoming a Twitter moment for four hours. Now I'm sure you've already heard about what I'm referencing, but it just makes me so angry, that I had to come on
here and talk about it. There is a wildfire in California, is not was, because so far they've only been able to contain like 7% of it. That's burned about 10,000
acres and forced the people to evacuate their homes. All because someone set off a
pyrotechnic device at a gender reveal party in the middle of the woods. Because everyone knows the best place to set off fireworks
is next to a bunch of trees. According to a surveillance video, the family could be seen
afterwards scrambling and grabbing water bottles, which believe it or not was
not enough to put it out. I am continually shocked by
people who underestimate how quickly a fire can start and immediately become out of control. Especially in California
during a heat wave, the air is as dry as it can be. You're surrounded by foliage, what did you think would happened? I'm sure the family will try
to plead that this was an accident, but I don't know
if this even counts as well. - I am upset. The people are stupid. - As idiotic and as
preventable as this was, this wasn't even the first time
a giant fire was caused by a gender reveal party. A couple of years ago, an off-duty border patrol agent shot a target he made
that said boy, girl on it. And because it was filled
with an explosive illegal substance and placed right
next to the world's most flammable plant, things
went a little South. It took over two weeks to
extinguish the fire and cost the city about 8 million in damages. But the good news is it's a boy! I was curious what ended
up happening to this guy. So I did a little bit more digging. Turns out he got off really easily. He didn't get arrested and
was only fine to $200,000, which is a lot of money of course, but a pretty insignificant fraction of the damage that he caused. Like almost nothing in the
grand scheme of things. Now, I don't feel bad for this guy at all, but apparently someone did
because they started a GoFundMe for him, help border patrol, agent dad. He said it was the worst day of his life. - (crowd) Oow... Man I... I hadn't even considered that. - Order in the court. All right. I'll give the defendant one
last chance to plead his case before I sentence him to
a hundred years in prison. - Oh, well, one thing I forgot to say was, I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to steal the school bus and run over all those people. I was just having a bad day. - I can't stay mad at you. All right. I'll give you a 45 minutes of
house arrest in this coupon to bath and body works. Court dismissed. I don't know if you guys
have noticed this or not, but there's actually a lot
of fires going on already. It's just kind of one of those
things that happens now where every summer, the entire West coast of America
has a different color sky than the rest of it. Do you know what we don't need right now? More fires? What was it that the bear
used to always say... only you care about the
gender of your baby, Please put down the explosive device. It's just so infuriating to me, all of this unnecessary
destruction of wildlife. So much damage that is caused by the selfish actions of one person. Now you might be thinking, well, at least no one died, right? Well, you wouldn't even be right
about that last year. If someone actually did die
at a gender reveal party, because they didn't realize how powerful the bomb they made would be. - Marion County. Sheriff Jason San Holt describes the device
designed to explode colored powder into a puff of smoke, revealing the gender of the baby. - You were right. It's a girl. Hey, so grandma's funeral is this weekend. - (man) The horrible accident, something that's really
just terrible, terrible, who can expect such a
terrible loss to happen, when somebody is trying to, to
celebrate and welcome a life. - Tragedy, what happened? They did everything right too
detonate a homemade pipe bomb. We're not that far away. You don't expect no one's
head to come flying off, but I guess crazier things
have happened, right? Why this ain't going on? TV is this. - That means in 2019, at least one person was killed
by a gender reveal party. I was doing some research. You know how many people were
killed by dinosaurs in 2019? Zero. And they're giant monsters, gender reveal parties are
statistically more dangerous than dinosaur. Anyway, so this happened in Iowa and it was pretty big news at the time, but apparently not big enough
because the very next day in a town, 20 miles away, someone else almost died
at a gender reveal party. What the fuck is going on? Now if you're like me, you might be wondering how are
so many people getting access to explosives? What is there like a website you can go to where you can just order one for yourself? Yes, there is. For the low price of just $99, you too can order your very own Tanneria gender reveal boombox. It shouldn't be this easy, no wonder this keeps happening. You can't trust the average
person with this kind of power. Most people can't even
handle a party popper. How do you expect them to
handle real explosives? Knowing this I'm actually
surprised more people haven't died at gender reveal parties. Apparently last year, shortly
after these instances, a plane crashed at one, after a pilot drops 350
gallons of pink water. Miraculously, both
people on board survived with very minimal injuries. I guess they're invincible. And I haven't even shown you
guys the gator reveals yet. (pop sound) (crowd cheering) - Can you guess what
state this happened in... That's right, the one where I live. I think this last one really
sums up the attitude that people have about these kinds of things. - Gender reveal party in
Board man leads to a call. The police officers were called
to the Applebee's restaurant Monday night for a fight that broke out between staff at our
large group of customers. A manager told officers a
group of 20 people came to the restaurant with confetti poppers, and she asked them to go outside so they wouldn't disturb other guests. The manager says they left a mess behind. And when she asked them to clean it up, a fight broke out and menus were thrown. The incident tonight
remains under investigation. - What do you mean I have to clean up all this blue confetti, that
I shot on private property? I'll kick your ass! I feel like this is so indicative of the problem that
America is having right now where people are just so self-absorbed that their celebration is more important than your convenience or
even worse, your safety. Sorry I burned down your house, Debra. Can't you just be excited
We found out about the genitals on my baby? Again, I'm not here to
stand in the way of your weird little tradition. If you want to pop a balloon to see what color smoke comes out, so you can start imposing a
personality on your unborn child, then do it. I guess. But if you knowingly take
part in something that has the potential to put other people
in harm's way and you still do it because it's kind of fun for you, you are selfish, and you suck. I think I would attribute some, but not all of the blame
to family Vloggers who, when they're having their
own gender reveal parties probably feel this obligation
as content creators to make it as extravagant as possible. For them, the gender reveal party is just one of the many pieces of content you get to milk out of every pregnancy. When most people find out
they're pregnant, it's like, Oh shit, we're going to have
to spend a lot more money. But when family bloggers
find out they're pregnant, it's like, Oh shit, we're
about to make a lot more money. As example, here is just one family's
pregnancy content journey. Moms pregnant, moms still
pregnant, looking at the baby, guessing the gender, gender
reveal, gender reveal part two, baby training, another gender reveal, baby named, baby doctor, baby
doctor again, baby name again, baby got feet, side note. This is some extremely ominous click bait, belly getting big, belly at
the doctor, belly on the bed, the baby's coming out,
baby shower, baby hurting, the official baby mama at
dance, and labor labor, labor birth baby, baby, baby,
baby, baby, baby, baby, baby, you get the idea. No shade to this family,
they're just living their lives. I'm not saying that they're
having babies just to get content out of them. That would require, an almost impressive amount of commitment. All I'm saying is it probably
doesn't hurt knowing that every positive pregnancy test
comes with four videos and about 20 million views focused solely on whether it's a boy or a girl. And this is why, in spite of the destruction
that often gets caused, I think gender reveal parties are not going away anytime soon. For content creators,
it's money in the bank, and for everyone else, it's the spectacle of it. If we're trying to get a video
that people are going to go crazy for and share with their friends, a little bit of confetti,
just ain't going to cut it. So honey, grab the camera, grandma, you light the fuse and
everybody else buckle up, cause we're getting Facebook feuds. So I guess that's pretty much it. With everything going on in the world, I decided to donate the Ad
Sense money from this video to that one guys go fund me. I think he really needs our help. Just kidding. I'm gonna try to find some
relief fund for the wildfires that are going on on the West coast, I'm not sure which one
yet, but when I do I'll, I'll put the description in the link. Put the description in the link!! I'll put the link to the description, and if you have any recommendations, comment those down below. Although now that I think about it, this video probably won't
be monetized because YouTube doesn't seem to like it, when
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watching today's video guy. I do want to say if you're having a baby, that is absolutely something to celebrate. I'm very happy for you,
congrats on becoming a parent. That's a big deal. My whole life I've been looking
forward to becoming a dad. Even when I was a kid,
I'd be like, you know, I suck at everything, but you
know what I would be good at being a dad. I can't wait for that day. And when it happens, you better believe I'm going
to be just as excited as every single one of these people. But all I'm saying is, you know, maybe channel that
excitement into something that isn't arson. That's all. Well, anyway, thanks for sticking around
until the end of the video, you have a great attention span. I will see you back here. First thing tomorrow morning
for a brand new video, where I teach you how to
remove your fingerprints and put them on your toes. All right, bye.
This is actually funny.
Thanks for the video!