While some viewers celebrated the extravagance of the announcement, others were quick to condemn the couple for igniting fireworks in close proximity to trees, noting that a similar affair has been blamed for starting a California wildfire.
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DAD TO BE SEES PINK, THROWS A FIT AT GENDER REVEAL PARTY
"NEXT TO TREES?!?" one user wrote.
"This could have been gone wrong in so many levels," another person responded.
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"Like couldn't u just get an email or smt?" quipped a third.
DAD BLASTED IN CROTCH WHEN GENDER REVEAL GOES WRONG
"Right underneath the very nonflammable eucalyptus trees," another pointed out.
A fifth user dubbed it "Forest fire aesthetic," while another responded, "I’m never going to understand this,"
"Baby announcement or forest fire," a user asked.
Gender reveal videos have become popular in recent years as expectant parents embrace different methods to provide an exciting and social media-worthy experience for their guests and followers.
But the over-the-top nature of some gender reveals were put into focus in 2020 when a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device set off a deadly wildfire in California that resulted in multiple fatalities and over 10,000 acres of scorched land.
In this Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, file photo, a helicopter prepares to drop water at a wildfire in Yucaipa, Calif. A couple’s plan to reveal their baby’s gender at a party went up in smoke Saturday at El Rancho Dorado Park in Yucaipa, when a pyrotechnical device they used sparked a wildfire that has burned thousands of acres. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File)
The El Dorado wildfire was the second wildfire to be sparked by gender reveal pyrotechnics. In 2018, a gender reveal gone wrong was blamed for sparking a 45,000-acre wildfire in Arizona and causing $8 million in damage.