TikTokers Chime In On Recent Gender Reveal Tragedy: 'Enough Is Enough'

A gender reveal party in Mexico over the weekend turned tragic when the plane hired to drop pink or blue smoke crashed and the pilot was killed.

With the trend of bigger and more extravagant ways of finding out the gender of an unborn baby growing, many are talking on TikTok and want to know when enough is enough.

Is bigger always better? Not according to many who are talking on social media about over-the-top gender reveal parties. TikTokers are chiming in on the growing trend of extravagant gender reveals after the recent plane crash that claimed the life of 32-year-old pilot Luis Angel.

"The pilot of that plane, Luis Angel, died in that crash. The craziest part is that's not the first time that's happened with a crop duster trying to participate in a gender reveal party," a TikToker who goes by TizzyEnt explained.

"In fact, it's not even the first time it happened in Mexico. Back in 2021, two died when the crop duster did the thing and then ended up crashing in the ocean. Not only did he lose his life, it could have been much worse, that was in a residential area, and it's not the fault of the people doing the gender reveal party, but let's be real for a moment. Some of y'all are doing way too much with this stuff. This goes far beyond just wanting to celebrate you're soon to be born child."

He continued by explaining that over-the-top gender reveals appear to be for views to go viral, and that's not worth someone's life. Many of his followers also shared their thoughts in the comment section.

"It's the fact the person filming literally watched it happen and said nothing," one person said about the fact that partygoers and the parents were oblivious to what was happening with the plane.

"That part you said at the end reminds me of the couple that literally ruined a water supply to dye a waterfall blue for theirs.. I hate gender reveals," another person wrote.

One viewer brought up the fact that these gender reveals are not something the kid talks about later in life.

"Ya know, when growing up, have you ever actually heard a kid ask ONCE to their parent like 'Hey parents, what did you do for my gender reveal party?'"

Another TikTok creator who goes by Rynnstar on the app also shared her thoughts about the trend of over-the-top gender reveal parties.

"I'm just kind of flabbergasted that everyone kept cheering, like, the plane obviously f***ing crashed," she said. "It literally folded in half and went down and everyone's just like wow."

She then posed the question, "What is going on? When did gender reveals become this f***ing nuts?"

She continued to explain that this isn't the only fatality due to extravagant gender reveal stunts. Her followers left some thoughts in the comment section.

"Meanwhile, the whole idea of a gender reveal is weird and itself and now we’re taking people's lives naw," one person wrote. Another added, "Is it really so bad to cut a cake and have colored M&Ms fall out, or bite into a cupcake? Nobody dies when it’s a cupcake."

Jenna Karvunidis is credited with creating the gender reveal party phenomenon back in 2008. If she knew then what she knows now about how far people will take her idea, she may have thought twice.

"There's an audience for this, the social media audience is hungry for these clicks, they're hungry for these spectacles," she said, according to NewsNation.

The tragedy in Mexico over the weekend is not the first time a gender reveal went wrong and someone lost a life.

In 2020, a California wildfire began during a gender reveal. The couple used pyrotechnics to announce if they are expecting a girl or boy. The El Dorado fire took the life of a firefighter, as well as destroyed five houses and 15 other buildings.

An Iowa soon-to-be grandmother was killed during a gender reveal when the family accidentally created a "pipe bomb" to make their baby's gender announcement.

Tragic stories such as these has made Karvunidis feel the trend she started is just not worth it.

"I wouldn't have had it," she said. "And actually, I had two more children after my gender reveal party, and never had another gender reveal party."