Social media users share photos of a ‘baby shield’ where parents with children in gloves are behind a screen. However, the photos come from a gift box that appears on the outside as if it contains the baby shield but is empty.
The posts (here, here, here) show photos of a protective screen with two holes with rubber gloves, where parents can play with their children behind the protective screen by putting their hands in the rubber gloves. The photos show how this screen protects parents from vomiting and urine. They also show the box in which this item would come, on which the words ‘good clean fun’ were written.
The comments and captions on the posts show that some users take the shield photos seriously: “WTH … they are insane – turning children into robots – no human parental love … babies need skin to skin contact”; “How disgusting”; “FAMILY !!!!!”; “It will creep up on me. No no no. “;” Wth ???? ” (here); and “Disconnect. Disconnect. Destroy. Die” (here).
The Baby Shield is a gift box manufactured by the company Prank-O and is visible here. The photos of the shield in the social media posts were taken from the fake gift box and the other photos available on the Prank-O website. The description says, “Pack your real baby shower in the Baby Shield gift box.” People can put their real gift in the empty gift box (further explanation and videos of the gift boxes that can be opened can be seen on the Prank-O website pranko.com/pages/how-it-works).
The Prank-O website says: “At Prank-O we are dedicated to bringing a little deception and giving a lot of laughs to the gift experience with our practical joke gift boxes. After all, there is no greater gift than laughter … except for one of the remote quadcopter things. ‘
VERDICT
Satire. The baby shield is a gift box manufactured by the company Prank-O.
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