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        <title><![CDATA[YouTubers ripped for ill-timed ‘biggest gender reveal’ at world’s tallest building]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They&#8217;re expecting — a whole lot of internet rage.</p><p>A YouTube-famous family is receiving the wrath of social media for pulling off what they claim was the biggest gender reveal ever. Their stunt couldn&#8217;t have come at a worse time, as many — including the trend&#8217;s creator — have agreed that the gimmick should be canceled after <strong>one that went awry caused a devastating wildfire</strong> in Southern California.</p><p>Vlogger Anas Marwah and wife Asala, known as the Anasala family <strong>to their 7.72 million YouTube subscribers</strong>, broadcast their elaborate gender reveal, where they lit up the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world&#8217;s tallest building. The color of the lights turn blue, indicating that their second-born will be a boy. The family cheers with joy, tears streaming down their faces, upon learning what type of genitals their child will have. <strong>They released</strong> a 15-minute video documenting the behind-the-scenes logistics and the moment of the big reveal.</p><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been waiting for this day for two months now,&#8221; Asala says in Arabic in the video. &#8220;We wanna do something special but also memorable so that [the] family will look back at it and see what we built and created,&#8221; Anas adds.</p><figure id="attachment_16282391"  class="wp-caption aligncenter"><strong><noscript><img data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/worlds-biggest-gender-reveal-dubai.jpg" class="lazyload" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" /><noscript><img  data-src="/uploads/2020/09/worlds-biggest-gender-reveal-dubai.jpg" /></noscript></noscript><img class="lazyload" src='data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=%22http://www.w3.org/2000/svg%22%20viewBox=%220%200%20210%20140%22%3E%3C/svg%3E' data- data-src="/uploads/2020/09/worlds-biggest-gender-reveal-dubai.jpg" /></strong><figcaption class="wp-caption-text"><span>Anas Marwah and his wife outraged the internet by creating the &#8220;biggest&#8221; baby gender reveal on the world&#8217;s tallest building.</span><span class="credit">YouTube</span></figcaption></figure><p>&#8220;Today is the day, guys, where we will reveal the gender of the baby for Anasala&#8217;s family on the tower of the Burj Khalifa,&#8221; Anas goes on in the video, which had more than 16 million views as of Friday afternoon. &#8220;Oh, my God, I have goosebumps,&#8221; his wife says.</p><p>The couple also note that they&#8217;re planning to move to California — hitting the whole situation almost <em>too</em> on the nose. In their future home state, wildfires of historic magnitude are devastating towns and beloved national parks.</p><p>Mixed in with congratulations for the couple, some comments honed in on the poor timing of the display — not to mention the potential cost of it, <a href="https://twitter.com/crowngaurav/status/1304039159871537152?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">which one commenter speculated was around $95,000 USD</a>.</p><p>Among the fires currently ravaging the west coast is <strong>the El Dorado wildfire</strong>, which was started after a pyrotechnics display for a gender reveal went horribly awry on Saturday. By Friday, the fire in the San Bernardino National Forest had <strong>torched nearly 14,000 acres</strong> and was still only 31% contained.</p><p>&#8220;People spending insane amounts of money on a gender reveal party, right after a gender reveal party set half of America on fire, is like the most Dubai thing I&#8217;ve ever seen,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/Saladmonkey/status/1304116717904441347?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote one Twitter critic</a>.</p><p>&#8220;In a week of stiff competition, that is pretty much the worst thing I’ve seen on here in quite some time,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamBalfourLang/status/1304320700224868352?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">another wrote.</a></p><p>The comments echo <strong>the resounding sentiments of the internet at large</strong> on the canceled nature of gender-reveal parties — even the inventor of the awful trend piled on. Jenna Karvunidis — the online influencer recognized for making the first gender-reveal parties go viral — <strong>took to Facebook on Labor Day to once again express her deep regret.</strong></p><p>“For the love of God, stop burning things down to tell everyone about your kid’s penis. No one cares but you,” the parenting blogger wrote.</p><p>“It was 116 degrees in Pasadena yesterday and this tool thought it would be smart to light a fire about his kid’s d&#8211;k. Toxic masculinity is men thinking they need to explode something because simply enjoying a baby party is for sissies,” said Karvunidis, whose original gender bash in 2008 involved cake with a pink icing surprise inside — a low-key <em>voilà</em> by today’s standards.</p><p>“Excuse me for having a cake for my family in 2008. Just because I’m the gEnDeR rEvEaL iNVeNtoR doesn’t mean I think people should burn down their communities. STOP.”</p>]]></content:encoded>
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