Pregnancy pranks aren’t funny, witty, or clever, they’re just unoriginal and pretty shitty. The only reason I can think of him doing it is to court media attention ( which this post is going to contribute too, I know, but statistically the majority will only be reporting on it and not WHY it’s offensive and I had to say something!), but he’s shot himself in the foot as he’s alienated so many of his fans over this. His entire career is media driven, so in this sense he cannot really feign ignorance on the matter. So, with all the awareness out there, Justin Bieber really has no excuse for the posts in question. Baby, baby, baby: Justin Bieber sent fans into a frenzy on April Fools' Day by sharing a sonogram on his Instagram account Medical staff are seen touching her stomach her while she's hooked up to. There have been hundreds of articles and viral posts on Social Media and in the press highlighting this issue. We at created and have been selling this product for many years and are proud to announce new versions and updates 2D & 3D FAKEULTRASOUNDS in Color or Black & White. All that money… and you steal a scan from Google. NEW Now you can choose to have your Fake Ultrasound in a strip of three slightly different Fake Sonogram Photos Welcome to our VERY UNIQUE 'FakeUltrasounds'. ‘Oh lucky me to have been blessed with a baby, something so many people yearn for and break their hearts over – HAHA FOOLED YOU. These prank posts reduce the topic of pregnancy (and thus all related issues) into a trivial topic to be made light of, they undermine what couples go through, and if you’ve just lost a baby/are struggling to have a baby, how SHIT do you think it feels to see that in your newsfeed?! Well – pregnancy itself is a super emotive topic, especially with loss & infertility hanging over you. Why is it offensive though, you may be asking.
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This isn’t some rare issue, or some minor problem, it is a very real and raw experience full of emotions, heartbreak and hardship. Now, with the amount of public awareness there is, it’s clearly in very poor taste and not a ‘snowflake’ thing to be offended about – it’s genuinely immature and makes light of a topic that is actually pretty serious.Īccording to the charity Tommy’s, 1 in 4 pregnancies end in miscarriage, and 1 in 7 couples experience infertility. To be totally honest, before becoming pregnant and a mama myself, and before I was aware of the true impact of baby loss, I thought it was daft but funny. Historically, a minority of people have used pregnancy scans and tests to fool their family and friends into believing they’re expecting on April Fools Day.
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He posted a series of three Instagram posts designed to fool his followers into believing that he and his wife Hailey are expecting a baby… The plonker clearly went to great lengths to achieve this prank, check out the snaps below. The former Atomic Kitten singer deleted the post after being bombarded with furious comments. CNN.Justin Bieber is in the bad books of many after his ill advised April Fools stunt on Instagram. KERRY Katona has angered fans after faking a pregnancy announcement for an April Fools’ Day joke. Some of the greatest April Fools' pranks of all time. READ MORE: 9 Zany April Fools' Day Hoaxes SourcesĪ Brief, Totally Sincere History of April Fools’ Day. Google notoriously hosts an annual April Fools’ Day prank that has included everything from “telepathic search” to the ability to play Pac Man on Google Maps.įor the average trickster, there is always the classic April Fools’ Day prank of covering the toilet with plastic wrap or switching out sugar and salt. In 1998, after Burger King advertised a “Left-Handed Whopper,” scores of clueless customers requested the fake sandwich. In 1996, Taco Bell, the fast-food restaurant chain, duped people when it announced it had agreed to purchase Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell and intended to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell. In 1992, National Public Radio ran a spot with former President Richard Nixon saying he was running for president again… only it was an actor, not Nixon, and the segment was all an April Fools’ Day prank that caught the country by surprise.
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