Painted pumpkins on baby butts. Is it child pornography?
Photos of kids jumping in the leaves, carving their pumpkins and posing in their spooky or adorable Halloween costumes are soon to grace your social media news feeds – if they have not yet already – thanks to parents using trendy hashtags including #Halloween2017, #fall2017 and #HalloweenCostume.
This is not anything new. In fact, you probably already expect it.
Of course, these are not the photos creating controversy among moms who are sharing their children’s cutest photos online.
However, this controversy does include children. And pumpkins. Oh, and their butts.
Yes, the Halloween trend this year for moms of infants is “#PumpkinButt.”
These parents are painting pumpkins on their bare baby’s butts and taking the photo for not just their family photo album, but for all of social media to see.
Fall photography #pumpkinbutt pic.twitter.com/efosrZN0aP
— Vanessa (@2011teenagemom) September 29, 2017
Some recognize the pumpkin butts are cute, but still not worth it.
I love the whole pumpkin butt thing. It’s adorable. But how about dont post it on social media for any creepy perv to save. Too many weirdo
— Scarlett (@wordofscarlett) October 17, 2017
And others find these pumpkin butts not-so-cute at all.
This is disgusting. You can't just post a picture of a naked baby even if it's for something like this. This can easily be considered child porn. What makes it worse is that you're using the word "Hottest" for this. @BuzzFeed @NYPDnews. When something backfires on over PC people.
— Nick Slayr Music (@NickSlayr) October 17, 2017
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This story was originally published October 23, 2017 at 11:54 AM with the headline "Painted pumpkins on baby butts. Is it child pornography?."