Lopezâs friend Yahir Hernandez put this invite on his Snapchat and later, his TikTok, to create additional interest. âTuesday morning was when Yahir made the TikTok,â Lopez commented. âI was on my way to school and it only had like 40 likes, so I ignored it.â But this TikTok âtook offâ via TikTokâs ârecommendation algorithmâ, according to the Times, leading to extensive distribution.
Then users considered internet celebrities made posts about the party. Before the weekend of this event, TikTok videos featuring the hashtag #adrianskickback drew almost 280m views, according to the Times.
Lopez and Hernandez initially found this attention to be fun, swapping private messages with prominent people. Fun was supplanted by fear, however, as people were making posts about traveling from across the US to attend their event. On Friday night â the day before Lopezâs scheduled âkickbackâ, about 1,000 people arrived at Huntington Beach.