A new Hulu documentary about Atlanta’s Freaknik festival in the ’90s has some Gen Xers worried their NSFW footage will resurface
Some Gen Xers are anxious to see if they’ll appear in old VHS footage collected for Hulu’s upcoming documentary, “Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told.”
According to Variety, the streaming service will make a documentary highlighting the rise and fall of Freaknik, an Atlanta-based picnic that transformed into an infamous Spring Break block party in the 1990s. While Freaknik helped cement Atlanta as a cultural hub, it also became known as a rager full of college kids and NSFW antics.
As news of the documentary hit the internet, some former attendees are speculating whether old footage of them letting loose as young adults will make the cut. In one viral video, a TikTok user named Tina started her video by saying, “We might be in trouble.
“I’ve been to several Freakniks — ’94 was one that I attended — so I’m just praying that Jesus be a fence. I’m praying that Jesus will be a big, tall privacy fence,” she joked.
She added that she often avoided cameras while at Freaknik and hopes that will work to her benefit when the documentary premieres.
“If you see your girl in the documentary, hey man, at least all my clothes are on,” she said. “That’s the best I got. Y’all, they ’bout to put our business out in the street. Some of us might be on TV, so get your parental controls together.”
Another TikTok user named Tammie noted in a separate video that Gen X is typically known as “the generation of no receipts” because they did not have social media and the internet didn’t launch until the early 1990s.
“We didn’t ask for this. We don’t want an exposé,” she said, adding that Gen X is not “the TikTok generation.”
While Generation X is reflecting on their younger days, millennials and Gen Z are waiting to see if their parents or family members will pop up in the footage. Social media users are also interested to know if the documentary will touch on the pitfalls of Freaknik, including instances of crime and sexual assault.
