Why TikTok's chaotic 'kickbacks' took off with young people starved for company
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"Adrian's kickback," a hashtag that's since been viewed more than 352 million times on TikTok, inspired a slew of copycat parties, most recently in Seattle, where police broke up a gathering on Alki Beach known online as the "Washington kickback."
That's what a 17-year-old named Adrian and his friends were planning for his birthday -- a "kickback," or a casual get-together on Huntington Beach. But once TikTok got hold of the invitation to the beachside, fire-lit party, the kickback devolved into a massive mob of partygoers, some of whom set off fireworks in the streets of southern California or got arrested for unlawful assembly. In other words -- it was the stuff of not-quite-post-pandemic party legend.
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