YouTuber Couple Reveal Baby's Gender On World's Tallest Building

A YouTuber couple have revealed the gender of their second child on the Burj Khalifa. You can watch it here:

Anas and Asala Marwah - who have 7.69 million subscribers on YouTube - took the big reveal to just about the biggest level possible, with the gender of their next child projected onto the tallest building in the world, which towers 829.8 m (2,722 ft) over Dubai.

I mean, shy of projecting a big blue/pink light on the moon you can't really go any bigger.

As the Burj Khalifa Twitter account put it: "The big news just can't get bigger than this as the world's tallest building lights up to reveal the biggest gender reveal ever!

"Congratulations @AnasMarwah and @AsalaMaleh"

In case you give a sh*t, the 'Anasala Family', as they are known on YouTube, are expecting a baby boy, their second child following Mila, who they had in 2018.

Explaining the thought process behind the massive reveal in a YouTube video that has been viewed more than 15.67 million times, Asala said: "We wanted to do something unique and memorable so that we can all look at it in the future and remember what we built as a family."

Anas added: "I ask Asala every day, 'Who are we to be on the Burj Khalifa? Why us and not anyone else?'

"Without you [their fans], none of this would have been made possible."

You can watch the full YouTube video, that goes into some of the month and a half of planning behind the project, here:

So what do we make of the biggest gender reveal party ever - a glorious celebration of new life, or a garish and superfluous exercise in vanity?

For most of human history, parents would consider the birth of a healthy child (and the survival of the mum) the be all and end all.

Then along came ultrasound appointments and sneak gender peaks for expectant parents, and over time that has morphed into parties with pink confetti canons and blue balloons, and here we are now in the present day, with 160 storey high skyscrapers lit up so all of the United Arab Emirates knows whether a pair of YouTubers are expecting a boy or a girl.

As if it matters at all.

Good luck to the Anasala family, though.

Topics: Viral, Dubai, YouTube

Jake Massey

Jake Massey is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from Newcastle University, where he learnt a bit about media and a lot about living without heating. After spending a few years in Australia and New Zealand, Jake secured a role at an obscure radio station in Norwich, inadvertently becoming a real-life Alan Partridge in the process. From there, Jake became a reporter at the Eastern Daily Press. Jake enjoys playing football, listening to music and writing about himself in the third person.

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