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To hate seeing children pranked with Christmas presents on video?

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Soubriquet · 13/12/2021 06:40

These videos keep coming up on fb as “hilarious”.

Children are opening their presents to see a most wanted present such as a PS5. They dance around excited and you can literally feel happiness radiating off them. Then the parents tell them to open the box and it’s bricks or something equally stupid inside

The children are heartbroken and gutted whilst the parents are sitting there in hysterics and laughing like crazy.

I hate seeing those sort of things and think it’s cruel.

So is it cruel or am I being a spoilsport?

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ThesecondLEM · 13/12/2021 06:42

It's abusive and horrible. Why would you do that

cantbeforeal · 13/12/2021 06:43

Yeah it's absolutely disgusting behaviour

CuteOrangeElephant · 13/12/2021 06:45

It's only nice when it's the other way around

Darbs76 · 13/12/2021 06:46

It’s awful and I can’t believe anyone would be so cruel.

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Soubriquet · 13/12/2021 06:46

@CuteOrangeElephant

It's only nice when it's the other way around
Yes

It’s lovely to see a child opening a present that their parents say they couldn’t get and then seeing that perfect joy.

I really don’t see how deliberately upsetting your child is a funny thing

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ComDummings · 13/12/2021 06:47

Yeah I hate stuff like that, it’s so abusive

Glentheredbeakbattleostrich · 13/12/2021 06:49

I hope those parents realise that their kids will be picking their care homes in years to come. It is an absolutely disgusting thing to do to someone you claim to love.

Siameasy · 13/12/2021 06:50

It’s not my kind of humour at all. It seems really basic

OmgIThinkILikeYou · 13/12/2021 06:54

I think it depends on the actual prank. I got given an empty ps1 box as a child, it was all wrapped up under the tree. After the initial 5 or 10 seconds of me wondering why it was empty, my dad showed me it was all set up in the TV case. It was probably funny for a few moments as they knew it was real and I was confused why the box was empty.

If its just a box, it's cruel and it shouldn't go on too long either. I also don't get the 'let's film it and put it on fb' mentalitly.

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Soubriquet · 13/12/2021 06:56

All set up and ready to go is completely different yes.

The one I’ve seen doesn’t. It was literally the box and then bricks inside and the parents couldn’t stop laughing at the disappointment on their child’s face

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GoBrookeYourself · 13/12/2021 07:00

That is awful, those poor poor kids. What kind of person finds a child’s disappointment even remotely amusing?!

CheesyFootballsAreEvil · 13/12/2021 07:05

That's disgusting and worse to film it and share it for entertainment. It's low life scummy behaviour and I hope social services have them on their radar.

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Soubriquet · 13/12/2021 07:06

link

That is the one I’m on about but it was part of many

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ForeverSinging · 13/12/2021 07:06

I absolutely hate these videos. I can't watch them and can't begin to imagine I'd ever be in a place where I'd want to devastate and humiliate a child. Awful.

GnomeyGnome · 13/12/2021 07:07

I hate stuff like that. I really don't find upsetting children hilarious. I'm probably a bit of a grump when it comes to any sort of prank though. I just don't like them. There's another one I see a lot where the parent asks the child to pass them some loo roll when they're on the toilet and then they get "poo" (chocolate spread) on the childs hand. Mostly the children cry but I've seen ones when the child actually throws up and the parent is hysterically laughing. I just don't see how causing distress to your child, even if only for a few minutes, is funny.

Aroundtheworldin80moves · 13/12/2021 07:08

A joke is only funny when both people are laughing.

BlueFlavour · 13/12/2021 07:08

I agree. What kind of person does that? So sad.

ponkydonkey · 13/12/2021 07:08

Yes absolutely hate it, I saw one last week giving their son chilli and finding it hilarious made my stomach turn! Poor kid if Trey film that what the hell are the doing e when not filming.

And you can't turn off those clips on Instagram either!?

SilverPeacock · 13/12/2021 07:09

Yes it's abusive and no it's not funny.

SimpsonsXmasBoogie · 13/12/2021 07:09

It makes you wonder what else they do to their children, if they think that is funny and are stupid enough to put it up on social media.

Angel2702 · 13/12/2021 07:09

Yes a joke is funny, this isn’t funny at all just cruel and nasty. Who would do that to someone else.

Only times it happened to us as kids was parents wrapping up accessories to go with main present and saying sorry the item is out of Stock, before showing it to us fully set up.

Motheroftigers · 13/12/2021 07:15

My mum and dad used to do shit like this - all the time.

Big massive box with smaller boxes in side all wrapped with a packet of penguins _ which I disliked at the bottom. Buying me a fucking doll when I was 14 telling me the they couldn't afford the present I asked for but then bringing it out a couple of hours later. Birthdays and Christmas they would do this shit.

SilverPeacock · 13/12/2021 07:16

@SimpsonsXmasBoogie

It makes you wonder what else they do to their children, if they think that is funny and are stupid enough to put it up on social media.
Exactly and given some of the recent cases - there is another imminent verdict due in a case where they have been filming abusive things and sending to each other laughing about it - this is the thin end of the wedge for child abuse and I don't think should be tolerated.
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Soubriquet · 13/12/2021 07:23

I really don’t see how parents can think this is funny

I’m so excited to give my dc their presents to see their excitement.

I would feel shit if a prank I pulled on them left completely gutted. I couldn’t do it

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Porcupineintherough · 13/12/2021 07:35

@Motheroftigers wtf? Do they have personality disorders?

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