Garette Gee was once known as the Hawaii YouTuber adventurer dad of The Bucket List Family — an influencer who traveled the world exploring and enjoying the glorious ecological diversity our planet has to offer. But as of July 2025, one viral Instagram post of him throwing his son off a cliff into a lake introduced him to a whole new outraged audience as an irresponsible father — and now he’s responded, though not everyone is going to like how he addressed their outrage.
The Instagram post is still up on his page and has now amassed about 105,000 likes from the 5.3M views it has gotten worldwide — so at least some people seem okay with what he did. In the clip, he gives his reportedly 7-year-old son a pep talk before ultimately tossing him into Lake Powell. The video sparked massive criticism, but Gee had somewhat preempted all of it, carefully explaining in the caption that the only reason he tossed his son himself was out of safety concerns about him hitting the cliff if he jumped on his own. Which sounds fair — we’ve certainly seen worse parenting this year.
