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One would assume that the presence of a dinosaur at a birthday party would be delightful for the kids, but this might not always be the case. A case in point is a now-viral video, which was made by a TikTok user who goes by the user name @fjerry.
The small clip shows a scene from a kid’s birthday party and things suddenly descend into chaos as a man dressed in a dinosaur costume enters the venue.
As the dinosaur man playfully comes towards the kids, they dodge him and start running helter-skelter. Some children can also be heard screaming for help. The text on the video says, “We hired a dinosaur to show up at my son’s birthday party. It didn’t go as planned lol”.
So far, the 15-second video has been viewed over two lakh times on Twitter. While several people joked about the unexpected reaction of the children, a few wondered if it is distasteful to laugh at children’s discomfort.
https://twitter.com/FormallyD/status/1524121286624129026
https://twitter.com/icejr_FrFr/status/1524119364202422273
https://twitter.com/RickyPicky11/status/1524066274967539713
“Isn’t there something deeply sinister in human beings that they, that we, are laughing at expression of fear in children?” asked a Twitter user.
Another Twitter user recalled a similar incident and wrote, “My sister in law asked me to dress as a comic book villain and run into my nephews super hero themed birthday party. The only costume I had was Heath Ledger’s joker. 3 of the kids were so terrified their parents took them home.”
