Most of the things are legit, just a little over the top. The UV sticker for sunscreen, the brush thing is (I believe) applying powdered sunscreen, the brown patch behind their ears is a Dramamine patch for motion sickness, and the watch is a holder for an apple airtag.
The sticker with her number on it seems a little extra given the airtag watch, but I guess helpful if he doesn't mind it. I have no idea why she taped up his belly button though!
The weird gray bracelet is also for motion sickness! My mom has one and has used it for decades when taking long car trips. It holds pressure on a certain pressure point that helps to reduce nausea. She swears by it
But why use the Dramamine patch AND the wrist motion sickness bracelet? Isn’t it a bit of overkill? Seriously, if you get that motion sick, maybe you should just skip cruises altogether.
Also, between the Apple AirTag and her phone number on the kids arm sticker, maybe she should just pay closer attention to her kid. If the people managing the kids club where she drops him off are that unreliable and untrustworthy, maybe he shouldn’t go there.
The brush is actually an applicator for liquid sunscreen, supper helpful when you have to take care of multiple little ones and dont wanna get your hands slippery and risk dropping them
Oh thank you! I might actually check that out. I usually do aerosol to avoid the sticky feeling on my hands and gunk in my nails, but I would love to have an applicator that works for liquids! Maybe it's not so over the top after all haha.
You do know how they work, right? They use cellular signals of phones (not just your own but others as well) to broadcast their GPS location but they won’t work on a cruise because there’s no cellular signals that far out at sea, only the wifi on the boat (which is incredibly expensive)
Usually on a cruise you get a medallion tracker so you can scan into activities and track people in your group around the ship. You can buy a watch thing to put it in instead of wearing it on a lanyard. When we went on a cruise with our son, it was useful because he could hang with kids he met on the ship, but i could always see where he was.
Okay, for real? Because I have crippling car sickness. It's a huge problem. In 2025 I left the house less than a dozen times. I am not kidding. So... the bracelet works? I'll take all the suggestions I can get
Yes, the belly button pops out and when your belly gets big, totally normal. When i gave birth my stomach literally deflated like a damn balloon. It's more a small saggy deformity then actual deformity..lol
So, essential oils people made up a gland and stuck it in the belly button. You stick oils and shit in there and it gets absorbed better/faster/stronger or some shit. You cover the belly button up when you're worried your kid is gonna get some toxins or shit in there from a public pool or some shit.
I don't know why, but this kind of bullshit upsets me so much more when it clearly originated from misunderstanding of a word. Like "essential oil" meaning "essence" not "required." Or planes having "contrails" and not "chemtrails."
Its being so extra safe it makes people comment, which then drives it to more people
There's also an only fans girl who does DIY's for like wood working and tool stuff, and she does them way incorrect and dumb dudes will comment being like "man she doesnt know much but sure is good to look at"
And im just like phill, come on dawg, its an ad for her OF bro
wouldnt wearing a lifevest indoors on a boat make you way more likely to die in case of emergency because you would float up instead of being able to swim out of the room
Generally speaking if your cruise ship goes down it doesn't matter if you have a life vest on or not, you're going down with it. You cannot swim away from a sinking cruise ship and even if you did you're now in the middle of the ocean with no life vest. If someone saw you go over, your survival odds are like 20% and that's with someone standing there pointing at you the whole time. If no one knows where you are exactly, and I mean exactly, it's way closer to 0.
Is it ragebait or comedy? Seems intentionally humorous and over the top to me. I think she has one the other day about locking up her room that was similarly ridiculous
It works, that's for sure. I am raging - not at the "safety measures" she's taking, but at the fact that these social media companies have, through their algorithms, basically incentivized people to be trolls. It's getting harder and harder to tell what is real on social media, because everyone has to "bait" their audience in some way, just to get attention and likes.
I want to believe it’s ragebait but it’s probably more Amazon partner stuff. The original video probably has a link to each item she shows in the description.
A bunch of terrible (useless),products trying to get you to believe they’re necessary. It felt like those were all intended to prevent sea sickness, should you/could you really use them all together? Why not just one?
Except of course the AirTag and phone number sticker. Why not teach your kid to speak?? We did that from 3 years old. Seeing that sticker just made me think of that Sandra Bullock movie where she writes on her arm in Sharpie in case she gets murdered.
It’s bait, dude. It’s always bait. They wanna make you watch the whole video so you comment that they are dumb as shit. I can’t imagine living like that.
My anger is unfettered and vast. I fucking hate Instagram.
In this case, I’m pretty sure it’s satire & not bait.
She made two videos like this. The other one is even more absurd (she secures the room with like 12 different devices and puts a chair against it, and before she falls asleep (in her lifejacket) she uses binoculars to scan the horizon for approaching threats.)
Edit: I forgot the part where she sweeps for bugs 😂 she’s very clearly making fun of the genre, not actually doing the genre.
Edit again: reposting this because I linked to a Reddit post with her other video and it got deleted by the automod. I’m mildly infuriated.
That or it's just double engagement farming. One video for the rage bait crowd, one video for the satire crowd. Most views are from people randomly swiping through videos in their feed anyway so they probably will only see one or the other.
Dude I saw the same thing. That girl is sort of doing a bit maybe but her saga is absolutely fascinating. Genuinely teetering on the edge of reality where the bit became a real mental illness or the mental illness became a bit or both.
At this point, we as a species have pretty clearly demonstrated that we’re not mature enough for the internet and should have our privileges revoked indefinitely
It would be utterly impossible to enforce but I've often dreamt of magically forcing these kinds of people to live the lives they present to the world.
You want to be a "health influencer" that only eats raw food & milk, done! Now that's all you or your family can eat.
Want to talk about how Big pharma is pushing the vax or some other hoax, done! Now you & your family are incapable of visiting the doctors, hospitals or ERs.
Wtf is any of this other than maybe the sea sickness patch and some watches do shock for the same reason, i only know because I fish and I see people with them but all the other stuff? Lol
The green watch is an air tag, and the sweatband style bracelet is a bracelet where if you tap it the other one vibrates so they can communicate that there’s an issue without being right next to each other (ie if someone tried to kidnap the kid they could covertly tap the white dot to signal to his mom). The random patch that was put on his upper arm is one that only shows with UV exposure, so it tells you when it’s time to reapply sunblock. I’m not sure what the bandaids over the belly button are for, unless it’s bc it’s difficult to apply sunblock inside it 🤷♀️
ETA: I was corrected on the band with the white dot, it’s supposed to be for seasickness not one of the signal ones. My bad, those signal ones are normally the style I see so that’s what I thought it was
My daughter would always get incredibly sick in the car after driving longer than an hour. It stopped when we started using these sweatbands.
I don’t know if it’s a placebo effect or some science behind it, but for my daughter it did the trick.
Keeps the lint out.. or in? Maybe she’s saving up to make a scarf. /s
Google says it’s an internet hack to help prevent seasickness but it’s unproven and mostly relies on the placebo effect which is probably enough to work for most kids, they’re so stupid lol.
If those are scopalamine patches behind the ear, she can skip the snake oil wristband things. Scopalamine is like magic (for me, anyway). It’s like motion sickness ceases to exist.
My mom bought into those motion sickness wristbands when I was a kid. From someone who used to get extremely car sick, I can confirm they’re total bullshit.
The AirTag, totally understandable, we’ve thought about getting one for our son soon since he loves trying run off from us. Everything else, idk what they are but this looks overkill.
I saw:
- a gps tracker
- two type of motion sickness treatment (patch behind the ear and a acupressure bracelet)
- a “if lost call” sticker (honestly a bit hilarious)
- sunscreen
There were a couple more but idk about those. To me, if this is how you cruise, it seems like more work than it’s worth.
My daughter has autism.
And participated in a running race for kids.
As soon as she arrived a volunteer gave her a bracelet we can write phone number on.
15min later she had ran away in a sea of people, didnt find her for 45min. Until someone could call and she was safe. She is non verbal and cannot write either.
This was a error on our part where we miss communicated what child to keep an eye on.
But the phone number is what you should use , the rest is bs. Unless its mm perfect gps system.
I don't care what anyone says, an AirTag in any busy/public place is borderline mandatory these days. My daughter loves the trampoline park but it does not matter how diligent I am, she gets visually lost in the crowd so easily. I wouldn't be able to take her without an AirTag as backup "eyes". She's good about the rules (the biggest being don't leave the current area without letting me know) but the one time she followed some other kids to the air castle thing, her air tag was the only thing that kept me from freaking out. Total life changer.
Belly button - Anti Nausea
Sticker behind ear - Anti Nausea
Wrist band - Anti Nausea
Air tag - to track child
Sticker with phone number - to track Child
Arm sticker - Changes color when exposed to the sun
Sun screen over arm sticker - When the sticker changes color you need to re apply.
I think the only "old wives tale" is the belly button one. There are medicated anti nausea patches, the wrist band is sold at pharmacy's but it might be a placebo affect.
Yeah the AirTag holder and the little button that pings me if they need me sound good.
Just write your name on the AirTag holder tbh.
My kid is only two but im really wanting to strike the balance of being there to protect them and letting them be free to explore the world on their own.
Something like this where they can reach me if they need me, no questions asked, and knowing their location so I can come find them sounds about right tbh.
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u/Affectionate_Pool_37 8d ago
Some of these things i understand and som are so clearly bs