Life is full of special occasions that might call for celebration. But one, particularly modern trend is to create a lot of fanfare about announcing the gender of one’s unborn child. It seems like not even a whole month goes by without fire, injuries, or a combination of the two.
We’ve gathered perhaps the worst examples of gender reveal parties where something went horribly wrong. From too much enthusiasm mixed with too little safety to terrible ideas with even worse execution, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites, and be sure to share your own thoughts and experiences below.
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There Was An Attempt To Have A Gender Reveal
“I was expecting a chubby jellybean and was given a minion of darkness”
Boy. girl?….doesn’t matter now, you’re all homeless!……people..please think things through!🤨
My Friend Had A Gender Reveal Party... I Hope
I'm surprised there's even a gender to reveal if everyone keeps going round the back
I sense a lot more gender reveal parties are going to be occurring after this one
In all fairness to this one - these stupid things *are* about the biological sex of the baby, not their gender
When You Order The Gender Reveal Cake From The Babushka At The Russian Bakery
I know I'm not the only one reading this in a thick, male russian accent. It is girl, comrade.
While they remain relatively popular, we are at the point where many people associate gender reveal parties with nothing but chaos, accidents, and disaster. At best, they are often tacky, somewhat unnecessary, and contain the most blatant “gendered” examples of things you have ever seen, from "Guns or Glitter" to "Pistols or Pearls."
At worst, the list goes on and on and on. For example, one 2017 gender reveal party gone wrong in Arizona caused a 46,991-acre wildfire. For whatever reason, the expecting parents wanted to celebrate sharing their child’s gender using explosives.
My Dad Thought My Brother’s Gender Reveal Party Was Him Coming Out As Transgender
He seems like a good dad, he was going to support it regardless and doesn't seem judgmental <33
i love the way he phrased it! "I used to think i was a man, but i know that i am a woman now"
Load More Replies...I made the same mistake when I first heard about "gender reveal parties". Up until that point I thought they just did it the old fashion way, picked up the phone/sent an email/text, whatever. So, I did think this was "coming out". Then again, I'm old enough that my parent's "gender reveal" was announced at the same time as the birth.
Anything for a party. Anything for more gifts. Just because you choose to have a baby, love them all, doesn't mean I'm dropping the money to help finance your choice. Same with all the wedding showers, parties, bachelor, ete as well. Geez, I work hard to pay my way.
Congrats! It's A Girl
Chocolate: Boy, Strawberry: Girl. There Is Only One Baby And I See Two Flavors
It's a postmodern deconstructed non-revealing reveal as a commentary on the state of society in general and social media in particular.
Only thing bothering me with this picture is the fact there appears to be more frosting than there is cake....
Hos can this bother you? Frosting is delicious! ;o)
Load More Replies...Bakery failed. 4 months later, wife delivered 1 baby boy. (I checked his Instagram)
A key issue is people going overboard. In general, it can be thoughtful to do something special for those unique life experiences, even if your plan isn’t the best formulated out there. But for one reason or another, gender reveal parties seem to come with a sort of arms race among parents who want to outdo each other.
According To This Gender-Reveal Lasagna, The Baby's Gone Bad
Every single one of my Italian brethren would like to have a word with you in private.
How Wrong Could A Gender Reveal Go?
If they got hit in the part, it reveals that their gender, just saying, haha
We Found Out At Our 32-Week Growth Scan That Our Little Girl Was Actually A Little Boy
And he will continue pranking you guys for the rest of your fun-filled lives!
My grandmother for some reason was CONVINCED she was having a girl. Then my uncle was born and was brought home to a closet full of little dresses.
Even worse, this destruction and injuries aren’t necessarily limited to the participants. The aforementioned Arizona fire isn’t even the sole gender-reveal-party-wildfire. The El Dorado Fire that destroyed parts of San Bernardino and Riverside in California was caused by, you guessed it, a smoke bomb lighting dry grass on fire.
So This Was Supposed To Be The Gender Reveal, But Somehow The "Gender Reveal" Part Got Left Out, And Typical For My Husband, He Ate The Cupcake Whole Not Even Noticing The Pink Cream Center
I'm with the husband on this one. Just give me cupcakes without imposing weird gender stereotypes on the unborn
Boy and girl are weird stereotypes now? I've always thought that they're "sex reveal" parties anyway but I guess people are uncomfortable calling it that.
Load More Replies...maybe he is just happy to be a future father and doesn't care about the gender :)
Pshaw! You aren't supposed to enjoy enjoyable things the way YOU enjoy them, you're supposed to enjoy enjoyable things because they are sometimes enjoyable for different enjoyable reasons! Enjoy them MY way!
wait about 6 hours, and maybe he'll find out on his own... on the toilet paper... maybe.. maybe.
Everybody Makes Mistakes
Yeah not having the 'right' gender warrants a funeral-type sadness ceremony. We call our house Camp Wedontwantcha.
A mother in the same "mum group" as me was excitingly expecting her second child, a girl. Her first was a boy, so maybe that's why she got so obsessed and got all new babyclothes and everything else in pink!! When the baby was born, they saw the little n*b the ultrasound scanner didn't manage to see... 😬 She was so disappointed that she cried. I guess a lot of new clothes and stuff, washed, unpacked and ready to go, does that to you. Almost everything was not refundable. So good thing this mum atleast got the real results when they could do something about it. (But who am I kidding? I think sunny and happy yellow is the best baby color ❤️)
My sister had 3 different US throughout her first pregnancy that all the techs and doctors said girl. Then 1 day before she gave birth...nope, definitely a boy. Her doctor said "see, this is why I told you what I tell all my patients. Never rely on US results for that. Too many times it's wrong."
Load More Replies...I hate gender reveal parties but something like this, with close family members, seems kind of sweet. I actually feel bad for them, having it be screwed up.
generally these things are sold in pairs, 1 blue, 1 pink. this would be the fault of the person who bought them and not paying attention to the one they are grabbing.
Gender Reveal Surprise
Being woken up with a cake to face is in my top 10 worst ways to be woken up. Confused and messy.
I once woke my bf up by laying a kitten on his chest. Never seen a face so confused and happy at the same time 😻😁
Load More Replies...Unfortunately, these are hardly the only cases of death and destruction from a gender reveal party. Like some sort of ritual, where the old must be torn down to allow the new to come into existence, other parties have ended up with deaths and even plane crashes. All to announce what amounts to the results of an ultrasound.
Let's Do The Reveal Inside. What's The Worst That Can Happen? The Aftermath Was Crazy
23 people dead of asphyxiation, lungs found to be bright pink upon autopsy despite the fact all of them had to be heavy smokers to think this a good idea. Edit: sorry, sorry. Didn't mean to cause a panic. Was just a joke, all of them are unharmed. Just pink.
My Friend's Family Wore The Colors Of The Gender They Preferred For The New Baby
Agree. I don't understand people. Imagine it being a girl and she grows up seeing this picture all the time in the photo album -- my parents didn't really want me. Feels the same as bridezillas who care more about the wedding than the marriage. Let's prioritize the well being of the kid over ... whatever this is.
Load More Replies...I bet the girl just cries because one balloon escaped or a dog pooped when she could see it. Kids that age don't really comprehend much beyond what affects them right now.
Load More Replies...I don't own any pink or blue clothing other than a very ugly t-shirt I got the last time I donated blood. Guess I'm showing up naked, just like the baby will.
regardless of the gender, thank you for donating blood!
Load More Replies...The kiddo will come to terms with having a brother. I doubt she'll remember this at all. Heck, years ago siblings found out if they had a brother or sister when the baby was born (what a novel idea!).
When I was only a few years old my sister was born. I was really upset because I thought she would die cause she didn't have a penis to go to the bathroom. We were always close growing up
Load More Replies...Kind of cruel letting the little girl dress up and think she's getting the sister she wants.
The parents:"Yay! we are going to have a gentlemen in the family!" The little girl:"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!"
Gender Reveal Cake Fail
My first baby came out blue. Luckily the midwives were quick to clear his airways and give him some oxygen so he quickly turned pink. Scariest 3 minutes of my life!
I think it's supposed to be blue, but blue coloring is notoriously tricky to bake. Too much and it becomes brown, too little and it practically vanishes, as it did in the sponge cake here. Red coloring is much easier to work with and would have shown.
Now, the cake lettering says "Is Baby". Short and to the point.
As far as I'm concerned, for the next 11-12 years it's a child, and then we'll talk.
All this risk, over a pretty tacky and needlessly gendered party. There is nothing wrong with being in a celebrity mood when you are expecting a child, but it’s perhaps worth considering exactly what you want to celebrate. Announcing the name, for example, seems like a much better bet than random blue or pink items.
Gender Reveal Epic Win Or Fail?
Gotta love how these brilliant people decided to stand in front of a window to batter up.
"Mommy, where's daddy?" "Oh daddy is right now at the hospital because he has a concussion"
He Or She? We Don’t Know Either. Mislabeled Streamers Lead To A Confusing Gender Reveal! This Is Something We Won’t Forget. It’s A Girl
I'd love it if the fates were correct and this kid is actually bigender
Having seen the video - it's all confusion, everyone is confused.
Load More Replies...This Was Supposed To Be My Gender Reveal For The Grandparents. Total Flop, Should Read "It's A Boy", But Domino's Apparently Doesn't Know How To Place Pepperonis Close Together
It's a Bot! That's great news, did you know your baby can make $7,000 a month with one simple trick...
wow, way better. normal babies just s**t their pants and googoogaga
Load More Replies...You ever make a pizza from scratch? It doesn't matter how close together you put the pepperoni - it *will* shrink in the oven as the fat cooks out and gaps *will* appear. I'm willing to bet these were either touching, or very close together before it was baked.
chances are they were close together, and probably something you don't know (apparently) is food shrinks when it cooks. how did you think this was a good idea to reveal to your family, or friends, that you are having a boy. Surely there was another option to reveal, and just order pizza to eat... no?
Cara And I Are So Excited To Announce Another Workman Boy Is On The Way. He Will Be Here In September And We Can’t Wait To Meet Him. Epic Gender Reveal Fail Caught. Treat Yourselves
'Sergeant, he's fallen!' ' Don't worry, there's another on the way!'
Gender Reveal Parties In The South
To be honest sex is a safer bet as it's biological fact. In this day and age it's hard to imagine why anyone would want to call the gender.
My Wife And I Cut Into Our Gender Reveal Cake Today. The Baby Is?
I Just Came For The Cake
The Gender Reveal Balloon Was Missed
Now the baby will be genderless and shunned by the community, as is tradition. This is the way.
Load More Replies...Now the balloon becomes litter somewhere, trashing up the earth, like the Happy Birthday mylar balloon I found this morning in my yard or the others I've found in my woods. Not funny. Don't let balloons go flying away. Dispose of them properly.
2 days later, a random couple eating breakfast on their patio breaks up when the balloon drifts into their yard and seemingly confirms suspicions of infidelity...
It's both hilarious and sad that the potential for that scenario is so great.
Load More Replies...I'm Not Sure If I Was More Shocked To See A Blank Gender Reveal Cake Or That I’m Going To Be An All-Boy Mom. Fail On Bakery, Have Receipt That Says "Blue Icing"
Seems like a nicer gender reveal party, nothing crazy and nothing dumb just a family enjoying some cake.
Which was what the first gender reveal party was. The woman credited for inventing the gender reveal regrets that it ever went viral.
Load More Replies...I don't get it. That cake is smothered in blue icing. The kid's stuffing his face with a blue icing balloon. The message looks pretty darn clear to me!
Before Finding Out He Was Getting A Baby Sister And After. Hopefully, We Will Get Him To Warm Up To The Idea Before She Gets Here
Just read lots of cool big brother stories to him, and Astrid Lindgren. Lots of children's books available. Then he will learn that a sister is a sibling like any other.
"1984" from George Orwell is a very good big brother story.
Load More Replies...I was hoping for a sister but when my dad called me at home the morning after my brother was born to let me and the grandparents know I was only unhappy for a minute. He sounded so happy! And when I met the baby later that day, well, I was a very proud big sister. He was ridiculously cute after all. I bet this kid’ll be fine. (Nobody knew what he’d be. This was 1984 so ultrasound existed but wasn’t anything as routine as nowadays.)
Sister Had A Gender Reveal At A Club. I Can't Tell If They're Just Dumb Or Screwed-Up And Didn't Bother To Fix It
Ok I'm a bit slow rn, what's wrong aside from the spelling?
Load More Replies...It's Supposed To Be A Pumpkin For A Gender Reveal
I don't know much about American Cuisine, but do pumpkins normally have little chicken wings?
I thinks those are supposed to be leaves. Unless some farmer is crossbreeding a chicken with a pumpkin.
Load More Replies...Gender Reveal Fail. It Went For The Camera
It's a warranty claim on your Canon/Nikon/GoPro!! Congrats 🥰🥳
Sorry Folks
not done in the wrong yard, the post explains the wind sent everything to the neighbor’s garden
I was wondering about that, thank you. I was like, "So, if it had been the right yard they would have left the confetti on the ground? And why did the set up in the wrong yard anyway??" Wind makes a lot more sense.
Load More Replies...All those saying "at least they cleaned" - that's the very least they should do.
Well, It Was An Epic Gender Reveal, That's For Sure. This One Will Go Down In Family Story Books And Will Be Retold For Years To Come. It Was Almost Like "Tractors Or Bows"
Our Baby Gender Reveal Fail. It Popped Right In The Nuts
Gender Reveal Gone Wrong. We Ordered A Strawberry Cake, Just Like We Did For My First Daughter's Reveal. This One Was White
Gender Reveal Fireworks Fail Sends People Screaming
Did they learn nothing from that couple fined millions of dollars for setting that huge fire?
No. Nobody learns anything, ever, apparently.
Load More Replies...There was one time that someone made their own gender reveal fireworks and the grandmother ended up getting killed by it. :( So not worth it.
My Toddler Stuck Her Finger In The Cake So We Could See The Color Inside
English is not my main but I thought a toddler meant a small child that just learned or in the process of learning how to walk? This little girl looks like 4, is she called a toddler in the USA then? Curious...
Anytime someone in the US acts like a 1 or 2 year old, they're called a toddler no matter how old they are.
Load More Replies...After they hit 2 yrs.old, it feels weird to call them toddlers. I'd usually say "I have a three/four year old" until they went to school.
YES! A toddler, by definition, toddles. When they can walk properly, they're not a toddler any more
Load More Replies...I Had A Welt On My Leg For Most Of The Pregnancy
They had to find the right end for something for the kid to be conceived
Load More Replies...So...you injured your pregnant body because you insisted on making your child's gender into a show? Oy.
Husband Surprised Me With Pity Party Gender Reveal. Cake Makes Everything Better
If your mind is set on having a boy or a girl, that's not the time to be having a baby. You should be happy about having a baby, regardless of the type.
Well, Actually, It's A Girl
...and this is exactly why gender reveal parties are just dumb bull*t that celebrate stupid stereotypes (fun fact: well into the 20th century, pink was the color for boys). Just wait until the baby is born and love your child just as much if it happens to be trans. (How f*d up to show a trans person pictures of "their" party...)
Gender Reveal Lasagna
That looks like the most disgusting, tepid, flavourless vile slop I have ever seen - and i'm not even talking about the blue! Where is the cheese crust? Where is the tomato and mince layer? You couldn't pay me to eat that sh*t! Sorry I come from a long line of proud lasagne makers my mothers recipe is now cooked by not just our whole extended family but many families linked to my partner and friends, even his Italian step dad was impressed and admitted it being better than his, so to me this is a travesty.
I agree with everything you just said. This is an abomination.
Load More Replies...It Didn't Pop
That's probably for the best considering all the other cannon mishaps!
Well and one might question the wisdom of firing a projectile against your pregnant belly?
Load More Replies...At That Moment, I Almost Started Crying
The hair. The dress. The backdrop. All that prep for the perfect photo opp. I can just hear the loving words that flew out of her mouth when that balloon made its get away.
Load More Replies...She has narcissism written all over her. I fear for the baby, it will be a prop for her insta posts nothing more.
I think I get downvoted a lot, but gender reveal parties are among the stupidest things ever...
you get my upvote. Really really really don't get it. fight for equality and on the other side assign colors on unborn babies.
Load More Replies...Top of the list is the expletives in Southern California who set off fireworks in a park during high fire danger season, killing 2, destroying I don't remember how many homes and acres of open land. I had ashes, the next town has ashes snowing, and the town after that was preparing to evacuate with volunteers coming with trailers for animals. If it had come to that, the only highway to Palm Springs would have closed, turning a 50 minute trip into 2 hours for the many who work down there and live near Joshua Tree National Park.
For my baby’s gender reveal, the sonographer said “You’re having a healthy girl”, and my husband and I said “Great!” and we moved on with our day, happy that our baby was healthy regardless of sex.
Same!!! 20 week anatomy scan, ultrasound tech says, it's a boy (2019) and it's a girl! (2021) My husband and I said "yay!" End of gender reveal party.
Load More Replies...Nobody and nothing can convice me that gender reveals are a good thing. Just don't.
So much attention seeking main character syndrome people. This is so cringe.
Having an entire party dedicated to what your baby has between their legs is just weird and stupid as hell. Especially if the baby grows up and comes out as trans.
All the pics of disappointed parents are disgusting. You're bringing a person into the world, not a toy, people
Load More Replies...I still don't understand why it has to be an event. What happened to picking up the phone and just telling people "Oh, by the way, it's a boy/girl"?
That's how we did it. Told our families after we found out but only told friends if they asked.
Load More Replies...Gender reveals are not a thing here and I hope it stays this way. It seems cringy and stupid, even if things don't go wrong and bakery send the right cake. And it's pretty sad, seeing men who act angry or dissapointed when kid is a girl.
Gender reveals are annoying. Anything that involves confetti or smoke or fireworks in public should be banned. If you're in your own home with a cake, then it's fine, just cringy. Popping confetti and glitter in a restaurant and leaving it for employees to clean up, or spraying paint or smoke residue and dumping paper in public parks etc, is just environmental pollution.
And all the plastic balloons that just wreck the environment I just don't understand the obsession with balloons nowadays
Load More Replies...Apart from a medical reason, why not wait until the baby is born? It's just a lovely surprise.
Before the rise of sonography as a standard practice, that was how it worked. Even until fairly recently (about 30ish years ago), parents would ask that they not be told their child's sex unless it was some sort of emergency related to that. I don't know what's changed, but I wish it hadn't. It's led to a situation where people are now obsessed with the genitals of infants.
Load More Replies...I think I get downvoted a lot, but gender reveal parties are among the stupidest things ever...
you get my upvote. Really really really don't get it. fight for equality and on the other side assign colors on unborn babies.
Load More Replies...Top of the list is the expletives in Southern California who set off fireworks in a park during high fire danger season, killing 2, destroying I don't remember how many homes and acres of open land. I had ashes, the next town has ashes snowing, and the town after that was preparing to evacuate with volunteers coming with trailers for animals. If it had come to that, the only highway to Palm Springs would have closed, turning a 50 minute trip into 2 hours for the many who work down there and live near Joshua Tree National Park.
For my baby’s gender reveal, the sonographer said “You’re having a healthy girl”, and my husband and I said “Great!” and we moved on with our day, happy that our baby was healthy regardless of sex.
Same!!! 20 week anatomy scan, ultrasound tech says, it's a boy (2019) and it's a girl! (2021) My husband and I said "yay!" End of gender reveal party.
Load More Replies...Nobody and nothing can convice me that gender reveals are a good thing. Just don't.
So much attention seeking main character syndrome people. This is so cringe.
Having an entire party dedicated to what your baby has between their legs is just weird and stupid as hell. Especially if the baby grows up and comes out as trans.
All the pics of disappointed parents are disgusting. You're bringing a person into the world, not a toy, people
Load More Replies...I still don't understand why it has to be an event. What happened to picking up the phone and just telling people "Oh, by the way, it's a boy/girl"?
That's how we did it. Told our families after we found out but only told friends if they asked.
Load More Replies...Gender reveals are not a thing here and I hope it stays this way. It seems cringy and stupid, even if things don't go wrong and bakery send the right cake. And it's pretty sad, seeing men who act angry or dissapointed when kid is a girl.
Gender reveals are annoying. Anything that involves confetti or smoke or fireworks in public should be banned. If you're in your own home with a cake, then it's fine, just cringy. Popping confetti and glitter in a restaurant and leaving it for employees to clean up, or spraying paint or smoke residue and dumping paper in public parks etc, is just environmental pollution.
And all the plastic balloons that just wreck the environment I just don't understand the obsession with balloons nowadays
Load More Replies...Apart from a medical reason, why not wait until the baby is born? It's just a lovely surprise.
Before the rise of sonography as a standard practice, that was how it worked. Even until fairly recently (about 30ish years ago), parents would ask that they not be told their child's sex unless it was some sort of emergency related to that. I don't know what's changed, but I wish it hadn't. It's led to a situation where people are now obsessed with the genitals of infants.
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