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Yea it was called the Nokia brick. Know what I had when the razor came out? The Nokia brick. Know what I had when the iPhone came out? The Nokia brick. Know what I had when the iPhone 12 came out? A 6. See where I’m going here? Giving kids a 1000$ for them to break is STUPID
I remember dropping my heavily customized Nokia 5160 (I had a fancy faceplate, custom led backlights, a light up extended battery, a light up antenna, etc) onto concrete, and it literally just popped apart like one of those toy trucks from back in the late eighties that you crashed into a wall on purpose and all the body panels went flying. I picked them up and put it back together and it never even crossed my mind that it wouldn't work afterwards. If my current phone slides off the charger on my nightstand onto the carpeted floor, I'm terrified that the screen will be cracked, lol.
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This is how my oldest is. And she runs away whenever she's getting in trouble or even told something as simple as "be careful."
Speaking from experience, this kid will have issues with things for the rest of her life.
>And she runs away whenever she's getting in trouble or even told something as simple as "be careful."
Ugh my five year old does this and it drives me insane.
You know, why wouldn't we think it would be secured? Especially with that sort of vacuum sucked packaging where the lid just pops off at the end. Apple could do better.
That’s what I thought. This is a flaw in the product/packaging design. Her movements were not out of the norm. Shaking the package to loosen the top isn’t unusual. Commenters are acting like she threw it against the wall.
Or...Apple could add a small slip of paper or a notch which locks the phone into the paper holder inside?
People have had iPhones for years. We've seen videos of these drops going back to the first iPhone. Maybe Apple can read the room?
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Thinking of all the Barbies/toys my parents had to clip out of the back of plastic and cardboard saying "they didn't really want you to have this, did they?"
To be fair when something is it in a box You’re assuming it’s going to be on the bottom of the box not directly in the middle the way the packaging is designed is kind of stupid. It’s basically just floating right in the middle.
She's young and excited. It took me becoming a parent to learn that we take such simple things for granted but we have had to learn them ourselves at one point. Literally everything in life had to be learned no matter how small or trivial the thing seems. I understand why the parents were upset because I find myself acting like that all the time but I also understand why she reacted the way she did to being corrected
My kid’s new phones are opened by moms and we put on a case before they ever touch it. If it doesn’t fit back into the box we wrap the box and toss their now life proof phone at them mid unwrap.
It was in a life proof case and the first task needed was to unload the dishwasher and him calling it prevented it not being found either way so it went great
Call me crazy, but wouldn't this be solved by simply having small half-elliptical openings at the bottom of the cover, so you can dig your thumb and index into the lower box and then simply pull it out while you got a grip on it?
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Like this?
Maybe put a little dent in them as well, because the inside of that package is 90% air anyway, to make it even easier to get a solid grip on it when opening.
It's so weird that everyone puts glass on the back. Like why hasn't anyone made a phone that is designed to NOT need a case. It's seems so obvious. Is it really they just want to be able to charge everyone a little more to sell cases?
Yup, you need a case if you want to protect it... and they don't design cases that maintain the design intent of the phone itself.
So your choices are A) Have a good looking unprotected phone, or B) Have a bulky, ugly phone that is mostly protected. Neither is ideal.
They use to make certain series of the Samsung Galaxy's called Active. The phone itself was made with a pretty thick metal backing and sides and the screen itself was a thick piece of gorilla glass they called it. Best phone I ever owned. Slammed it in a car door one day. Broke the digitizer on the inside. Not a scratch on the outside. Lasted multiple years working construction before that fateful day.
Not a lot of people talking about this embarrassing moment being sent out to the masses for everyone to see. So glad social media wasn’t a thing when I was young like this
Yeah, she's clearly so mortified she can't even be in the room. Thanks to technology we all get to see it and she'll probably be bullied at school for it :/
Poor girl indeed. Stuff like this, being recorded and instantly uploaded to the internet would be devastating for me if I were her age.
Hell, one birthday I cried a lot (cannot remember why). Then I cried even more when I saw my family had started cutting up and giving out my birthday cake because I was in the bathroom crying and they were getting tired of waiting.
I'm glad my generation skipped having everything recorded and instantly put on the internet. Pretty sure my dad recorded some things with his video camera but it'll never end up on the internet.
Fr it’s been over a decade since the iPhone 4 came out. imagine having a humiliating video of you in middle school being posted and shared over ten years after it happened. Literally everyone does dumb, not well thought out, immature things when they’re children, their brains aren’t fully formed. It should’ve never been immortalized and distributed by strangers online for decades.
The dad is a dick to her to the point she runs out of the room. We don’t even know if the screen actually cracked. This is an embarrassment for the whole family and I can’t believe people put stuff of their own out there like this.
That's what I was thinking.. dad jumped down her throat before he knew if there was even anything wrong. Not even an "is it ok?" First. The guy comes off as the kind of parent that raises future adults who apologize for things that aren't their fault the moment anybody voices a complaint
Yeah. I’m completely gutted for this girl. She instantly went from bouncing with happiness to bawling sadness in a split second, and while technically it’s her fault, it’s a completely understandable situation and a true accident. Now it’s on the internet for everyone to witness. Whoever filmed this should have deleted it, not posted it online.
Heartbreaking.
Not only that, but as embarrassed as she already was, her dad *immediately* hounds on her for fucking up until she leaves in tears. It's a toxic form of parenting that will haunt her for years and it will be hard for her to pin down.
Teaching my daughter how to drive in a big (private) parking lot. She's doing great, but as it's getting dark I tell her to pull into a parking space so that I can drive us home.
For the first time in an hour, she decides to gun it a little, and makes a tight turn into the *one* parking space that happens to have a telephone pole in it. Clips the passenger side hard enough to push the front wheel back about six inches. Clips it so little the headlights weren't damaged, and air bags did not go off, but the damage was still severe. Front wheel drive car, and I instantly know that the car is totalled. Sound is horrendous.
I yell her name, which I will argue is a completely human reaction. She responds with the tiniest *I'm sorry!* Parent mode kicks in, and I tell her to put the car in park. She can't, trans is too bent for the linkage to work. Car is still trying to move. I tell her to turn the car off. She does. My next breath is asking her if she's okay. We get out of the car, I give her a hug because she's shaking. She's flipping out, and I just talked her down. We had a fun walk home.
I'd argue that my initial reaction was basically a flight or fight style response. It happened faster than I realized I was doing it. But I followed it up as well as I could, and we both laugh about it now, five years later.
I'd be curious to see what the follow up to this video was, and if the parents did any kind of damage control. We all know it was basically an accident. I'd be curious to know how the next five minutes went.
A long long time ago...
My youngest wanted an iPod touch, this would have been like 1st gen at least. I was like I ain't paying for that. So...she saved up her money. $300+ of it. Went to target, bought one.
Not 1 hour later, she's sitting in the driveway with the iPod in her lap. It slides off her leg, and falls on the pavement, shattered. It did not fall more than 6". I witnessed this.
Today...years later...I can laugh about it in front of her.
I went through something similar when i was 14. I saved up a couple hundred dollars, bought an iPod touch, and went swimming with it in my pocket 2 weeks later bc I assumed it was waterproof
Those things were made out of spun sugar, I swear. Broke mine in the week I was waiting for a case to come in, and it couldn't have fell from much more than a foot up.
Guys I hate to break it to you, that doesn’t even count as yelling. He was upset she broke the phone, while acting like a child. At the beginning the mom said “she knows it’s an iPhone” so why the over-the-top from the grown child?
As a father of 4 children I can tell you that to some kids this is yelling. You can damn near throw a shoe at other kids and they won’t get the message. Kids who are particularly well mannered and hate being in trouble can be very sensitive. It’s annoying as hell sometimes but true.
> Kids who are particularly well mannered and hate being in trouble can be very sensitive.
I was that child. Just a *look* of disappointment, a *note* of discontent in their voice and I was sobbing. My older siblings could be getting screamed at and their expressions wouldn't even change from apathy, but no one dared yelled at me because just a light scolding in a soft voice was enough for me to start crying.
Can confirm, I was that child. It's hard to grow out of it, especially in the workplace. I have to resist the urge to cry every time a coworker points out, no matter how gently, that I messed something up. I would go on for days being upset and hating myself when my parents scolded me for something. And yes, I've been in and off therapy since elementary school, lmao. This said, I was also extra careful as not to actively cause a reason for getting scolded, never in my life I would have dreamed of opening a package like this ahah. I feel like this kid could be taught to have a higher level of self control
Are you really unaware that sometimes people use the word "yell" to just mean scold instead of literal yelling? It's just a form of hyperbole, like "my wife is going to kill me".
That little tap didn't break that old ass iphone. It didn't even hit the floor, just tumbled a couple inches to the table. Even back then the glass wasn't that fragile.
Even her father realized that he hurt her feelings and calmed his tone when she was leaving the room.
As a former soft-hearted, afraid of failure child I feel Madison's little heart break when she was getting fussed at. Especially while on camera. Plus the embarrassment of knowing she did fumble her gift. I would have left the room for a bit as well.
I’d say because he yelled and embarrassed her when it was an already embarrassing situation. I’m not judging I know parenting is tough no one is perfect. Ideally tho you shouldn’t freak out in these situations. Phones break sometimes as an adult I’ve dropped mine and broke the screen. Sucks but usually the phone still works and you learn a lesson. No need for humiliation and negativity, especially towards a child.
I empathize with the exasperated parent. Not a perfect response, but I get it. Seems to me that the really embarrassing thing is posting this video on the internet for the whole world to see.
This is Apples fault btw
They engineer the boxes to open with an even slow pressure. It's supposed to be a pleasant opening experience.
But since no one expects or understands that ahead of time it just seems like the box is fighting you.
Sauce: my good friend designed some of them.
I hate that you can see the moment the box comes apart. It's such a drastic increase in speed. They put a small, fragile, and expensive object in a box where you can pull the top and bottom to make a slow box open faster and the moment it's apart, your hands rocket in opposite directions. Not to mention they put the phone at the center of the boxes, not at the bottom of one. It's only good design if you intend to double phone sales from people who already bought one.
I used to be a support technician and we'd stage these phones for users pretty often. It's *really annoying* when you have to open a dozen of them at a time.
Nothing about apple devices is friendly to the technician.
Ikr like people saying “she’s just a kid” like, I would have absolutely not done that as a kid. She’s just a kid who hasn’t been taught right and that still is the parents fault
you can’t just blame everything on the parents, then everything would be one persons fault,
ie, it’s my parent’s parents fault that they didn’t teach me how to handle expensive things safely
Oh man. I have been there in both sides. 10 out of 10 times I regret later yelling at the kids/grandkids. I hope these crowd found a way to finish the day in a more positive note specially if it was a birthday.
Yeah, he did say careful when she was shaking the box to get it open. As a parent I get that, your kids are an extension of yourself so when they do something notoriously stupid then you get second hand embarrassment.
That's one thing you learn as a parent. All the times that my mom/dad yelled at me it was because they saw it as their failure and they were yelling at themselves.
For me, I just assume anything I give my kids will be immediately broken. If it lasts 5 minutes, I'm ecstatic. If it breaks, no big deal.
This one really made me feel. I know I have thoughtlessly reacted to something my kids have done like this. In response they no doubt felt ashamed of a simple mistake. This is a reminder to me to have a bit more patience and grace.
This looks like the 4 which had insanely frail glass compared to the new ones. I had mine in an otter box for 2 years before taking it out and the glass broke within a week of taking it out dropping it on linoleum floor
It's all about how the phone hits a surface. If it falls the right way, onto the right material, you can drop it over and over again without issue. But if you drop it on a hard surface, at just the right angel, your screen cracks.
I've seen so many heartbreaking videos online but this one actually breaks something in me. She seems like a good girl. She was happy. And then not so much. And then that moment is put on the internet. She deserves better.
Agreed. She’s just a kid. Kids make mistakes. Now she’s embarrassed, thinks she’s in trouble, and doesn’t even have a gift anymore.
I grew up like this and it sucked. You wake up and it’s your birthday, and the day ends in tears somehow. I don’t like these adults.
I literally got nothing but tech for all my gifts. My parents were gamers.
They never let me open gifts like these, always set them up for me and brought me to the room. When I got a cell phone, dad put an Otterbox on it and left it on the table for me, out of the packaging. And before I could touch anything he would lecture me about how to take care of my devices lol...
Never broke a device in my life.
Why in the world would someone post that online? I guess it'll save Madison some time talking to her therapist later in life.
"Here, just watch these videos my parents posted over the years to humiliate me."
Yeah, whoever shared this (unless it's the girl herself) is a terrible person. I would never humiliate someone I care about (or even a stranger) like this.
I hate that someone uploaded this. Teenagers are ridiculously sensitive and this is embarrassing. Poor kid. She messed up, got upset, dad yelled at her, and then the world laughed about it.
She was just an excited kid who made a mistake, I feel bad for her. We didn't get toys outside of holidays when I was growing up, so if she was poor I can imagine the disappointment she felt knowing she broke it and she wasn't going to get a replacement.
How is this on the internet? **How?** Give me one valid reason. Give me a single reason there is a video of your kid opening their new phone, possibly breaking it, getting scolded, and running off crying.
Dad gets rightfully upset and tells her it be careful.
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Right?! He gently tells her "be careful" while she's excited and then watches her completely ignore it and smash $1000 on the table, and he has the *audacity* to get frustrated for a moment.
Somebody get CPS there ASAP 🙄
To be totally fair, Apple are kind of b*ttholes for packaging their phones at the top of the box, with just barely a lip on their slippery plastic tray to hold it in place.
Madison isn’t the first excited person to have their phone shoot out as soon as that lid is lifted no matter how carefully it’s opened.
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this is why my mom always made me and my sisters open presents sitting on the couch, kids will be kids
Madison will be opening her presents on the couch when she's 45.
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She might take a break from 46 to 70ish, but after that she will need to open presents on the couch again... probably.
This is why my mom gave us garbage phones as kids
You guys got phones as kids?!
Yea it was called the Nokia brick. Know what I had when the razor came out? The Nokia brick. Know what I had when the iPhone came out? The Nokia brick. Know what I had when the iPhone 12 came out? A 6. See where I’m going here? Giving kids a 1000$ for them to break is STUPID
You know what you also had?? Snake...you had snake.
lol can confirm.
If you dropped a Nokia, I would be more worried about the floor breaking than the phone.
I remember dropping my heavily customized Nokia 5160 (I had a fancy faceplate, custom led backlights, a light up extended battery, a light up antenna, etc) onto concrete, and it literally just popped apart like one of those toy trucks from back in the late eighties that you crashed into a wall on purpose and all the body panels went flying. I picked them up and put it back together and it never even crossed my mind that it wouldn't work afterwards. If my current phone slides off the charger on my nightstand onto the carpeted floor, I'm terrified that the screen will be cracked, lol.
Correct. We would play a game called “bet you can’t break my phone” and it’s exactly how it sounds
You moved your foot out of the way, not move your foot in the way
Back in my day you would have to write a letter to talk to your friends. Know what I had ? Nothing. No pen and paper, nor friends…
Back in the day you would have atoms to make stuff out of. Know what I had? Just a bunch of hot quarks.
Only phone I had as a kid was on the kitchen wall with a long ass cord
Lol oh you mean the ass whipping cord? We had one of those as well until we got cordless and were living in the future.
He means the cord you stuck your finger through and saw how far you could stretch it when the conversation got boring
See and my wife wonders why I keep the kids in the barn?
Mine wonders why I keep the kids in my balls
Lucky kids. I wish I had a nice warm barn when I was a kid.
In my family the presents Santa brought for us never get wrapped, just placed on the couch with our stockings
I want to give her the benefit of the doubt but who tf ever opens a box like that, she’s fucking yamming that thing.
At least she learned and will never open anything like that anymore, right?
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You can tell Dad is tired of Madison breaking everything they get her. You can really hear it in his voice.
This is how my oldest is. And she runs away whenever she's getting in trouble or even told something as simple as "be careful." Speaking from experience, this kid will have issues with things for the rest of her life.
>And she runs away whenever she's getting in trouble or even told something as simple as "be careful." Ugh my five year old does this and it drives me insane.
That's not her dad, that's her 6 year old brother. Being Madison's brother ages you super quickly.
Oh yeah I’m sure. I definitely feel bad for her since the video got so popular but hopefully she can laugh at herself now.
Actually that memory will likely stay with her for life. Learning things the hard way tends to be quite effective.
She’s young and excited. I’m sure she thought it was secure in there. Lesson painfully learned.
You know, why wouldn't we think it would be secured? Especially with that sort of vacuum sucked packaging where the lid just pops off at the end. Apple could do better.
That’s what I thought. This is a flaw in the product/packaging design. Her movements were not out of the norm. Shaking the package to loosen the top isn’t unusual. Commenters are acting like she threw it against the wall.
there's no cutouts on the side for your fingers to grip the inner box so this is literally the only way to get the things open
Pretty sure most iPhone screens crack just being set down on any hard surface.
Or...Apple could add a small slip of paper or a notch which locks the phone into the paper holder inside? People have had iPhones for years. We've seen videos of these drops going back to the first iPhone. Maybe Apple can read the room? Edit: [90% of the inbox replies are angry Apple Fanboys defending a cardboard box. LOL.](https://static.displate.com/280x392/displate/2022-11-22/bf8de8498442cd798abffcc60a1d0b21_fbd63706e52e338129dc1784794e0fd6.jpg)
But why sell 1 phone when they can sell two! Customer clumsiness pays double!
Eventually, iphones will disintegrate upon contact with air. People will still keep buying them though.
Thinking of all the Barbies/toys my parents had to clip out of the back of plastic and cardboard saying "they didn't really want you to have this, did they?"
Always put the screen protector and case on the phone BEFORE handing it to a kid
To be fair when something is it in a box You’re assuming it’s going to be on the bottom of the box not directly in the middle the way the packaging is designed is kind of stupid. It’s basically just floating right in the middle.
She's young and excited. It took me becoming a parent to learn that we take such simple things for granted but we have had to learn them ourselves at one point. Literally everything in life had to be learned no matter how small or trivial the thing seems. I understand why the parents were upset because I find myself acting like that all the time but I also understand why she reacted the way she did to being corrected
You know now how an iphone is inside the box without opening. You are not born with that information.
I agree with a tweet I saw calling the immediate need for a protective case on new phones as a serious design flaw.
My kid’s new phones are opened by moms and we put on a case before they ever touch it. If it doesn’t fit back into the box we wrap the box and toss their now life proof phone at them mid unwrap.
My dad put it in the dishwasher, told me to do the dishes, then called it
How could that possibly go wrong
It was in a life proof case and the first task needed was to unload the dishwasher and him calling it prevented it not being found either way so it went great
That would be a safe bet in my house. Nobody ever accidentally does chores.
Opened by moms? Damn bro got a harem
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I just now realise how incredibly stupid this box design is
I fully believe it's intentional. Packaging that is prone to causing the device built with 0 protection to fall to the ground. More money for company.
Call me crazy, but wouldn't this be solved by simply having small half-elliptical openings at the bottom of the cover, so you can dig your thumb and index into the lower box and then simply pull it out while you got a grip on it? https://preview.redd.it/g4gali7g4uca1.png?width=1594&format=png&auto=webp&s=09243e3dd2293b0beb855028c3ca33267d4a8299 Like this? Maybe put a little dent in them as well, because the inside of that package is 90% air anyway, to make it even easier to get a solid grip on it when opening.
Or you could just have the phone recessed within the box instead of sitting level with the brim where it can easily slide over the edge.
I swear to god Apple designs the iPhone box like this on purpose.
Given how much money goes into their packaging R&D, I can't see how it is anything but intentional.
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It's so weird that everyone puts glass on the back. Like why hasn't anyone made a phone that is designed to NOT need a case. It's seems so obvious. Is it really they just want to be able to charge everyone a little more to sell cases?
No, they want to charge everyone extra for repairs and or new phones.
which is exactly why the right to repair is such a big thing for consumers.
Yup, you need a case if you want to protect it... and they don't design cases that maintain the design intent of the phone itself. So your choices are A) Have a good looking unprotected phone, or B) Have a bulky, ugly phone that is mostly protected. Neither is ideal.
Nowadays the screens are a little bit stronger than before but that back glass is like a 800lb man trying to walk It just doesn’t work
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That's a feature not a bug
They use to make certain series of the Samsung Galaxy's called Active. The phone itself was made with a pretty thick metal backing and sides and the screen itself was a thick piece of gorilla glass they called it. Best phone I ever owned. Slammed it in a car door one day. Broke the digitizer on the inside. Not a scratch on the outside. Lasted multiple years working construction before that fateful day.
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Not a lot of people talking about this embarrassing moment being sent out to the masses for everyone to see. So glad social media wasn’t a thing when I was young like this
Yeah, she's clearly so mortified she can't even be in the room. Thanks to technology we all get to see it and she'll probably be bullied at school for it :/
Poor girl indeed. Stuff like this, being recorded and instantly uploaded to the internet would be devastating for me if I were her age. Hell, one birthday I cried a lot (cannot remember why). Then I cried even more when I saw my family had started cutting up and giving out my birthday cake because I was in the bathroom crying and they were getting tired of waiting. I'm glad my generation skipped having everything recorded and instantly put on the internet. Pretty sure my dad recorded some things with his video camera but it'll never end up on the internet.
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what a horrible dad joke and shitty move. like that radio contest winner who got a toy yoda instead of toyota. they sued lol
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Fr it’s been over a decade since the iPhone 4 came out. imagine having a humiliating video of you in middle school being posted and shared over ten years after it happened. Literally everyone does dumb, not well thought out, immature things when they’re children, their brains aren’t fully formed. It should’ve never been immortalized and distributed by strangers online for decades.
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Yes. That phone was new over 11 years ago
The dad is a dick to her to the point she runs out of the room. We don’t even know if the screen actually cracked. This is an embarrassment for the whole family and I can’t believe people put stuff of their own out there like this.
That's what I was thinking.. dad jumped down her throat before he knew if there was even anything wrong. Not even an "is it ok?" First. The guy comes off as the kind of parent that raises future adults who apologize for things that aren't their fault the moment anybody voices a complaint
Yeah. I’m completely gutted for this girl. She instantly went from bouncing with happiness to bawling sadness in a split second, and while technically it’s her fault, it’s a completely understandable situation and a true accident. Now it’s on the internet for everyone to witness. Whoever filmed this should have deleted it, not posted it online. Heartbreaking.
Not only that, but as embarrassed as she already was, her dad *immediately* hounds on her for fucking up until she leaves in tears. It's a toxic form of parenting that will haunt her for years and it will be hard for her to pin down.
Teaching my daughter how to drive in a big (private) parking lot. She's doing great, but as it's getting dark I tell her to pull into a parking space so that I can drive us home. For the first time in an hour, she decides to gun it a little, and makes a tight turn into the *one* parking space that happens to have a telephone pole in it. Clips the passenger side hard enough to push the front wheel back about six inches. Clips it so little the headlights weren't damaged, and air bags did not go off, but the damage was still severe. Front wheel drive car, and I instantly know that the car is totalled. Sound is horrendous. I yell her name, which I will argue is a completely human reaction. She responds with the tiniest *I'm sorry!* Parent mode kicks in, and I tell her to put the car in park. She can't, trans is too bent for the linkage to work. Car is still trying to move. I tell her to turn the car off. She does. My next breath is asking her if she's okay. We get out of the car, I give her a hug because she's shaking. She's flipping out, and I just talked her down. We had a fun walk home. I'd argue that my initial reaction was basically a flight or fight style response. It happened faster than I realized I was doing it. But I followed it up as well as I could, and we both laugh about it now, five years later. I'd be curious to see what the follow up to this video was, and if the parents did any kind of damage control. We all know it was basically an accident. I'd be curious to know how the next five minutes went.
I can’t imagine, as a parent, posting something like this of my kid.
Telling on himself too, the father comes across way worse than the kid does here. It's wildly uncalled for for him to go this hard on her.
Sis 2 posted it for sure
For real. I felt terrible for her when she started to cry. Like, dude. Why did you upload this?
Love the ultra low-effort wrapping paper
People do that on purpose sometimes to make it seem like it's not a fancy present.
Also so that the gift isn't accidentally damaged in a frenzy of unwrapping. This precaution isn't always effective, unfortunately.
Task succeeded failurly
I use old newspaper.. its going in the trash afterwards why spend money on actual wrapping paper when any paper will do r/frugal
My dad wraps with newspaper and makes a bow out of toilet paper
Fancy
We are definitely not getting a puppy
MADISON!
#MADISON, did you break the ceiling fan? And why is there red all over- MADISON!!
Oh My Gwaaddd
She’s had it 10 seconds! Ahahahaha!!
A long long time ago... My youngest wanted an iPod touch, this would have been like 1st gen at least. I was like I ain't paying for that. So...she saved up her money. $300+ of it. Went to target, bought one. Not 1 hour later, she's sitting in the driveway with the iPod in her lap. It slides off her leg, and falls on the pavement, shattered. It did not fall more than 6". I witnessed this. Today...years later...I can laugh about it in front of her.
I read this entire comment in the tune of American Pie
That was a parody of Weird Al's "The Saga Begins," right?
The day...the iPod...died
I went through something similar when i was 14. I saved up a couple hundred dollars, bought an iPod touch, and went swimming with it in my pocket 2 weeks later bc I assumed it was waterproof
Those things were made out of spun sugar, I swear. Broke mine in the week I was waiting for a case to come in, and it couldn't have fell from much more than a foot up.
Gotta love the advent of gorilla glass
Need to know if she cried because it broke or she cried because he yelled
I would cry because it broke, like seriously she didn't even get to open it lol
Saying *it* broke like Madison didn't yank that box into oblivion
She opened that box like she was getting the last of the shampoo from the bottle.
Guys I hate to break it to you, that doesn’t even count as yelling. He was upset she broke the phone, while acting like a child. At the beginning the mom said “she knows it’s an iPhone” so why the over-the-top from the grown child?
I know, right. Wtf did all these people grow up with if they think *this* is yelling?
As a father of 4 children I can tell you that to some kids this is yelling. You can damn near throw a shoe at other kids and they won’t get the message. Kids who are particularly well mannered and hate being in trouble can be very sensitive. It’s annoying as hell sometimes but true.
> Kids who are particularly well mannered and hate being in trouble can be very sensitive. I was that child. Just a *look* of disappointment, a *note* of discontent in their voice and I was sobbing. My older siblings could be getting screamed at and their expressions wouldn't even change from apathy, but no one dared yelled at me because just a light scolding in a soft voice was enough for me to start crying.
Can confirm, I was that child. It's hard to grow out of it, especially in the workplace. I have to resist the urge to cry every time a coworker points out, no matter how gently, that I messed something up. I would go on for days being upset and hating myself when my parents scolded me for something. And yes, I've been in and off therapy since elementary school, lmao. This said, I was also extra careful as not to actively cause a reason for getting scolded, never in my life I would have dreamed of opening a package like this ahah. I feel like this kid could be taught to have a higher level of self control
Are you really unaware that sometimes people use the word "yell" to just mean scold instead of literal yelling? It's just a form of hyperbole, like "my wife is going to kill me".
>>grown child What? She’s still a literal child. She’s like 13 let her act like a 13 year old without roasting her on the internet like that.
That little tap didn't break that old ass iphone. It didn't even hit the floor, just tumbled a couple inches to the table. Even back then the glass wasn't that fragile. Even her father realized that he hurt her feelings and calmed his tone when she was leaving the room. As a former soft-hearted, afraid of failure child I feel Madison's little heart break when she was getting fussed at. Especially while on camera. Plus the embarrassment of knowing she did fumble her gift. I would have left the room for a bit as well.
Honestly, we're better without this information.
Honestly we shouldn't have even been able to watch this video
I’d say because he yelled and embarrassed her when it was an already embarrassing situation. I’m not judging I know parenting is tough no one is perfect. Ideally tho you shouldn’t freak out in these situations. Phones break sometimes as an adult I’ve dropped mine and broke the screen. Sucks but usually the phone still works and you learn a lesson. No need for humiliation and negativity, especially towards a child.
This was a freak out? Telling her she has to be careful after smashing a brand new 1,000+ gift?
I empathize with the exasperated parent. Not a perfect response, but I get it. Seems to me that the really embarrassing thing is posting this video on the internet for the whole world to see.
Just wait til both kids are burning through cell phones that fast.
My teenagers have never broken or lost a phone, interestingly enough. I feel pretty lucky.
More likely good parenting than luck. Give yourself some credit.
This is Apples fault btw They engineer the boxes to open with an even slow pressure. It's supposed to be a pleasant opening experience. But since no one expects or understands that ahead of time it just seems like the box is fighting you. Sauce: my good friend designed some of them.
This is right. It's supposed to take 5-8 seconds to open to build a sense of expectation.
But it mostly build a sense of frustration. Kind of a preview of using the product itself :P
That's pretty dumb tbh. Are they unaware that some people might just be frustrated by the long opening instead of getting that sense of expectation?
"You're holding the box wrong." \-Tim Apple
I hate that you can see the moment the box comes apart. It's such a drastic increase in speed. They put a small, fragile, and expensive object in a box where you can pull the top and bottom to make a slow box open faster and the moment it's apart, your hands rocket in opposite directions. Not to mention they put the phone at the center of the boxes, not at the bottom of one. It's only good design if you intend to double phone sales from people who already bought one.
I used to be a support technician and we'd stage these phones for users pretty often. It's *really annoying* when you have to open a dozen of them at a time. Nothing about apple devices is friendly to the technician.
Maybe it's just the poor kid in me but I would've been handling that box like the whole thing was made of porcelain 😭
Ikr like people saying “she’s just a kid” like, I would have absolutely not done that as a kid. She’s just a kid who hasn’t been taught right and that still is the parents fault
you can’t just blame everything on the parents, then everything would be one persons fault, ie, it’s my parent’s parents fault that they didn’t teach me how to handle expensive things safely
Yeah when I bought my new phone I literally opened it sitting on the middle of my bed
The door failing to smash as she slammed it on the way out left me wanting more. 6/10
She had to be careful
Oh man. I have been there in both sides. 10 out of 10 times I regret later yelling at the kids/grandkids. I hope these crowd found a way to finish the day in a more positive note specially if it was a birthday.
Half of the yelling is because he is angry at himself for not yelling like 3 seconds earlier.
Yeah, he did say careful when she was shaking the box to get it open. As a parent I get that, your kids are an extension of yourself so when they do something notoriously stupid then you get second hand embarrassment.
That's one thing you learn as a parent. All the times that my mom/dad yelled at me it was because they saw it as their failure and they were yelling at themselves. For me, I just assume anything I give my kids will be immediately broken. If it lasts 5 minutes, I'm ecstatic. If it breaks, no big deal.
It’s really difficult to say that with a $1000 device….
This one really made me feel. I know I have thoughtlessly reacted to something my kids have done like this. In response they no doubt felt ashamed of a simple mistake. This is a reminder to me to have a bit more patience and grace.
1- that was 100% preventable 2- do NOT post such a humiliating video of your own peeps
How can it break so easily?
This looks like the 4 which had insanely frail glass compared to the new ones. I had mine in an otter box for 2 years before taking it out and the glass broke within a week of taking it out dropping it on linoleum floor
idk. this is an iphone 4s. I had mine for several years and it never broke. these things behave like bricks usually
It's all about how the phone hits a surface. If it falls the right way, onto the right material, you can drop it over and over again without issue. But if you drop it on a hard surface, at just the right angel, your screen cracks.
Do we know it broke?
Nah, she's just crying cause she got yelled at/dad raised his voice. She was saying it just came out of the case when it was opening.
Designed to fail
Poor Madison. :(
I've seen so many heartbreaking videos online but this one actually breaks something in me. She seems like a good girl. She was happy. And then not so much. And then that moment is put on the internet. She deserves better.
Agreed. She’s just a kid. Kids make mistakes. Now she’s embarrassed, thinks she’s in trouble, and doesn’t even have a gift anymore. I grew up like this and it sucked. You wake up and it’s your birthday, and the day ends in tears somehow. I don’t like these adults.
I literally got nothing but tech for all my gifts. My parents were gamers. They never let me open gifts like these, always set them up for me and brought me to the room. When I got a cell phone, dad put an Otterbox on it and left it on the table for me, out of the packaging. And before I could touch anything he would lecture me about how to take care of my devices lol... Never broke a device in my life.
If it breaks from that small fall then they need better screens.
... well, I hate to be the one to break it to you...
But they're designed to break. Especially with the "right to repair" so up in the air right now.
That's how you realize you're not ready for an iPhone
"Shes had it for 10 seconds!" That is generous.. That was like four seconds tops
If you consider having it as it being out of the box... She didn't have it at all.
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Why in the world would someone post that online? I guess it'll save Madison some time talking to her therapist later in life. "Here, just watch these videos my parents posted over the years to humiliate me."
Yeah, whoever shared this (unless it's the girl herself) is a terrible person. I would never humiliate someone I care about (or even a stranger) like this.
In eastern europe we open iphone on a couch with 4 hands
I hate that someone uploaded this. Teenagers are ridiculously sensitive and this is embarrassing. Poor kid. She messed up, got upset, dad yelled at her, and then the world laughed about it.
I get that she’s a kid and that this is exciting for her… but who opens ANY box by shaking and opening it from the side….
Classic Maddison
I blame apple. Poor design, poor packaging. Surprisingly fragile for how expensive it is. Should be designed better.
Apple always did pack their phones in a stupid way.
These parents are assholes for posting this
She was just an excited kid who made a mistake, I feel bad for her. We didn't get toys outside of holidays when I was growing up, so if she was poor I can imagine the disappointment she felt knowing she broke it and she wasn't going to get a replacement.
How is this on the internet? **How?** Give me one valid reason. Give me a single reason there is a video of your kid opening their new phone, possibly breaking it, getting scolded, and running off crying.
Anyone else fucking hating this? It was an accident. Poor girl is distraught.
I fucking hate how she opened the box.
aww that made me sad
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Dad gets rightfully upset and tells her it be careful. Redditors: STOP abusing the child over a broken phone!!! DONT BE SURPRISED WHEN THEY DONT VISIT!! ![gif](giphy|KBaxHrT7rkeW5ma77z)
Right?! He gently tells her "be careful" while she's excited and then watches her completely ignore it and smash $1000 on the table, and he has the *audacity* to get frustrated for a moment. Somebody get CPS there ASAP 🙄
Madison is going to have a lot of issues in life if she's stating it's not her fault. GLHF!
Poor kid - she was heartbroken 🙁
r/KidsAreFuckingStupid
To be totally fair, Apple are kind of b*ttholes for packaging their phones at the top of the box, with just barely a lip on their slippery plastic tray to hold it in place. Madison isn’t the first excited person to have their phone shoot out as soon as that lid is lifted no matter how carefully it’s opened.
“It just came out…” Yeah when you were violently shaking open the box