I would file this one under “shitty parenting,” per se.

“Oh, hey, I found something my kid doesn’t like. The appropriate response is definitely to laugh at him, do it again, capture it on video, and upload it to the internet so everyone can witness my shitty parenting.” That was OP’s thought process. Your next line will be, “Elne, what are you talking about? It’s just a parent having fun with his child” (I love Joseph Joestar). Allow me to answer before you say it. The fact that something is fun for someone (exempli gratia, bullying) does not mean that it is fun for all parties involved, you see. It is a form of humiliation, id est, child abuse. Yet it has been posted to a forum on the internet to receive mockery, and it has been up-voted… Pathetic.

A nurse at a rehab hospital who worked with brain injuries once told me, “People remember how you make them feel,” and that’s been my experience—with brain injury patients and with little kids. If your modus operandi is to intentionally annoy a kid and then laugh at them for being annoyed, that kid will always remember that feeling. Ipso facto, that kid will always know exactly where you stand on the issues of their dignity and bodily autonomy, ergo showing that you do not really care about him and would rather laugh at him. Quite depressing. And yes, I am cynical, per se, but that is what makes me, me.