[Ammi]

...I had no idea this was apparently a ‘trend’ with parents who like to prank their children...if it’s true, it’s appalling....

“TikTok I need your help,” Velasquez said in a video shared on her social media accounts. “This trend where you are pretending to FaceTime someone who is either disabled or is a baby or just some crazy mugshot and you’re showing it to someone to get their reaction to saying, ‘Oh hey, talk to this person’ just to get a quick laugh, this is not funny. This is not a joke.”

She went on to explain that a mother had used her photo to prank a child into thinking that Velasquez would be his teacher for the upcoming school year. “He had a scared reaction on his face,” Velasquez said. “If you are an adult who has a young human in your life, please do not teach them that being scared of someone who does not look like them is okay. Please, everything that these kids need to know about having empathy and being kind to one another starts at home.”

The trend that became popular in late July shows parents recording a fake FaceTime with someone who they claim to be their child’s new teacher in an effort to capture the kid’s response. Velasquez tells Yahoo Life that since seeing it for the first time, she had a feeling she would become involved.

“I knew in my gut my photo was going to be used,” she says. “After dealing with things like this for a while now, I can sense when this might happen.”

...full article...

https://uk.style.yahoo.com/disabilit...211905157.html

[Oliver_W]

Reason #57492485 that social media is cancerous and should be purged.

[Cherie]

the word 'parent' should not be used to describe people who do this, that is as far from parenting as there is

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Cherie

the word 'parent' should not be used to describe people who do this, that is as far from parenting as there is

Roughly what I came on to say.

[Niamh.]

Oh I hadn't heard of that either, how horrible. Basically lets mock the disabled person and make out they are monsters. I really feel for that woman who made video, imagine seeing someone do that with your image. Oliver is not wrong, social media can really bring out the worst in people

[UserSince2005]

these tik toks are hilarious though.
Its the reaction of the people rather than the facetime fake.

[UserSince2005]

Youtube video

[UserSince2005]

And its not about scaring the kids its about their reactions, some are really nice where the kid acts all normal.

This outrage is just a bunch of crybaby liberal losers who dont even know what they are complaining about.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

And its not about scaring the kids its about their reactions, some are really nice where the kid acts all normal.

This outrage is just a bunch of crybaby liberal losers who dont even know what they are complaining about.

Really? You think only "liberal losers" would thinking mocking disabled people or babies is bad?

[UserSince2005]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Really? You think only "liberal losers" would thinking mocking disabled people or babies is bad?

Its a random picture of someone, shown to incite a persons initial reaction for comedy.
The picture could be edited.
The picture could be someone not disabled pulling an ugly face.
The picture could be someone hot.
The picture could be a gorilla.

Its not about the person being disabled or not.
Its about getting someones initial reaction to a picture.

People outraged by this are just looking for issues to complain about.

Lighten up and let people laugh.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

Its a random picture of someone, shown to incite a persons initial reaction for comedy.
The picture could be edited.
The picture could be someone not disabled pulling an ugly face.
The picture could be someone hot.
The picture could be a gorilla.

Its not about the person being disabled or not.
Its about getting someones initial reaction to a picture.

People outraged by this are just looking for issues to complain about.

Lighten up and let people laugh.

I mean the person in the OP is literally a disabled person who was used in one of these things but yeah she should just lighten up and let people laugh at her...........

[UserSince2005]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I mean the person in the OP is literally a disabled person who was used in one of these things but yeah she should just lighten up and let people laugh at her...........

I've never seen one with her in, I think she might just be jumping on the bandwagon and having a good old cry just for attention.

If this is true then she does have a right to be upset about it, but i think it would be more beneficial for herself to learn to accept who she is and not let things like this affect her so much. DON'T POST ANYTHING ONLINE IF YOU CANNOT HANDLE PEOPLE MAKING FUN OF IT.

[UserSince2005]

I prefer the ugly baby prank though

Youtube video

[Babayaro.]

She puts the message across in a mature and admirable way. I can't see why anyone, never mind a parent, would think that's an okay thing to do.

[Barry.]

Working towards a friendlier TIBB


Tell yourself that.

[Cherie]

so its okay to laugh at people, just for a reaction, what a great way to teach a kid respect

[Oliver_W]

Imagine how much different these videos would be if the parents immediately called the kids out on the reactions?

I mean, apart from the kid who said "Dad! She's hot!" That's just good manners.

[Morgan.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

Imagine how much different these videos would be if the parents immediately called the kids out on the reactions?

I mean, apart from the kid who said "Dad! She's hot!" That's just good manners.

Yeah most were disgusting, but I chuckled a little at the girl who said ‘he could teach me a few things’

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Morgan.

Yeah most were disgusting, but I chuckled a little at the girl who said ‘he could teach me a few things’

He was kinda hot, in a chavvy mugshot kinda way even if the innuendo was unintentional and she was just making a polite comment

[UserSince2005]

my favourite is a nanna gasping and shocked for about 20 seconds and then she says "aw shes a cutie"
lol so funny

[UserSince2005]

i will await Nicki Minajs emotional breakdown video

Youtube video

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by UserSince2005

i will await Nicki Minajs emotional breakdown video

Youtube video

That's fair because everything ridiculous about Nicki Minaj is by choice. It's like whatshisface on Big Brother said a while back - mocking bad plastic surgery is the same as mocking bad clothes or dodgy haircuts, because it's a product.