@omar2on Replying to @Eric #projectx#rave#omar2on#london#birthdayparty
I invited all of TikTok to my birthday party — the cops were not happy
Two’s a party — all of TikTok is a crowd.
A content creator tackled the seemingly impossible fete of inviting every single TikToker to his 21st birthday bash.
Dubbed Project X, for the 2012 film of the same name, the party trend is being fueled by London-based university student Omar Dhadra.
He extended his birthday invitation to his rather small online following of 7,700 people, but scored 2.5 million views on the invite clip alone last month.
“Fk it,” he wrote on the viral video, which included the address of the celebration. “Everyone’s invited to my birthday party.”
“Interesting,” influencer Lauren Alexis wrote in the comments.
“Ah mate ur gonna regret this,” warned one user.
“This is either gonna be good or really bad,” cautioned another.
“The way I’m gonna turn up,” commented an excited user.
“No way lol,” wrote musician Thomas Headon in disbelief.
The Thursday party was supposed to bear resemblance to the real-life story that informed the “Project X” film, which follows a gaggle of high school students hell-bent on throwing the ultimate rager.
“We’re creating what we imagine the perfect night to be,” Dhadra told Vice ahead of the festivities. “We’re not actually making money, to be honest. That’s not what this is all about. It’s more about just having a sick night.”
His epic celebration plans ended up eliciting attention from local law enforcement, which contacted the owner of the bar that was supposed to host the party and requested it be canceled.
Though it threw a wrench in Dhadra’s plans, he moved the bash to a venue just 15 minutes down the road,Vice reports.
Footage from the ticketed event shows sardined 20somethings armed with blue glow sticks tearing up the dance floor under neon lights.
There was even a DJ booth, giving the venue a club-like ambience — vastly different from the tumultuous house parties shown in “Project X.”
“I can’t lie, I expected it to be like ‘Project X,’ as it was advertised,” one partygoer told Vice at the event. “I thought it was going to be some house party. I thought there’d be feds turning up, and it’d be massive. I turned up, and it’s some club [thing], bro, with one floor. It’s kinda dead, I can’t lie.”
“I never want to go to the club,” another party attendee from Dhadra’s 21st told the outlet. “I’d much rather go to a rave or a house party. It’s all about the crowd of people and the vibe of the night. Clubs just don’t do it right.”
Dhadra, on the other hand, told Vice it was the “best birthday ever.”
The Post has contacted him for comment.
Even though it didn’t seem like the legendary blow-out attendees were hoping for, the party has spurred other TikTokers to follow suit with their own promises of Project X.
Musician Ella Eliza — jokingly — invited her followers to “the biggest party I’ve ever thrown” in a clip that boasts over 11 million views. She revealed in a subsequent clip that it’s actually her first headline gig, and the sick invite was merely a marketing ploy.
Other out-of-hand ragers that have made headlines in recent years have drawn comparison to the 2012 high school flick.
In a since-deleted clip obtained by LAD Bible, a TikToker captured a wild house party in South London, showing a colossal sea of young attendees crowding the residential streets, scaling rooftops — and the moments police vehicles arrived.
In 2021, yet another TikToker documented an enormous gathering of thousands in Huntington Beach, California, resulting in the arrests of 121 adults and 28 minors. The party grew to such magnitude due to a viral invite on — you guessed it — TikTok.
Via the hashtag #AdriansKickback, which has over 425 million views, interested partiers caught wind of the major event — which also prompted action from law enforcement.
