There is no doubt that gender reveal parties, in which couples who are sweetly waiting for their baby find out if they will have a boy or a girl, are here to stay and are today, since the Internet has made us participate in more than one of those cute and tender celebrations.
While they don’t always work out for the best, the gender reveal parties that have gone viral on TikTok have given us epic moments, like the couple who hired dancers from pole dancing or the grandmother who was upset to learn that her great-grandchild would be a boy. The story that we present to you below is no exception, since this couple had the idea of painting the water of a waterfall blue and unleashed fury and criticism on social networks.
It turns out that on September 25, the family of a Brazilian couple waiting for their baby decided that the ideal place to hold the gender reveal party was at the Queima-PE waterfall, in Mato Grosso, Brazil. For this reason, they decorated the place with balloons of the typical blue and pink colors and even had smoke bombs ready for the big moment.
Everything seemed to be going great until they announced that they were expecting a boy, because while the bombs released blue smoke, a liquid began to fall from the waterfall’s water in a color according to the moment, so immediately got that coloration.
▶️ HOW BARBARIAN | 😰
😱A couple decided to dye the water of a waterfall blue, in a gender reveal ceremony for the woman who is pregnant.🤰
⚠️The Brazilian Ministry of the Environment intervened in the case. pic.twitter.com/HwAI683Vi7
— DELPY 📱🎬 (@delpynews) September 27, 2022
The epic moment in which the happy couple celebrated the news surrounded by their family was captured in a short video, where, lasting just 15 seconds, you can see the waterfall painted blue while everyone jumps and hugs each other with emotion. However, Internet users did not let this recording pass and the fact of contaminating the water of the place was the focus of a series of criticisms and annoyances by users.
Netizens made the clip go viral, which just one day after it was published reached the eyes of the authorities of the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil, who began the corresponding investigations to check how serious the environmental damage was that the thrown material caused. made to the water
At the moment, the Tangará da Serra Prosecutor’s Office is working on the case. For its part, a local newspaper managed to contact one of the organizers of the celebration, who assured that no chemical product was used that could harm the nature of the waterfall.