A new Hulu documentary about Atlanta's Freaknik festival in the '90s has some Gen Xers worried their NSFW footage will resurface
- Hulu is developing a documentary about Freaknik, the HBCU picnic-turned-Spring-Break phenomenon.
- Some Gen Xers are nervous over whether footage of them at Freaknik will appear in the documentary.
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."
In a comment to Insider, Tammie added that she's surprised Gen X will be showcased in the documentary because they tend to be "overlooked or pretty much forgotten in conversations." However, she's not worried about anyone she knows appearing in the footage.
"Freaknik was a long time ago and we were young just trying to have fun. But lord have mercy, the '90s were crazy because all of us latchkey kids were suddenly adults after kind of raising ourselves," Tammie told Insider.
"Freaknik was a bit of a reflection of that," she added.
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.
Nika Watkins, a woman who attended Freaknik from 1995 to 1997, told Complex that some women faced sexual harassment at the festival.
"Walking thru Lenox Square might cause you to get violated — your ass smacked or a boob grabbed. I don't want to say all dudes were like that, but there were some overly aggressive hounds lurking around down there," she told the outlet in April 2013. "I heard stories about women being raped which is really upsetting to hear about. That's really sad to me that things went that far."
A release date for "Freaknik: The Wildest Party Never Told" has not been set by Hulu. Representatives for Hulu did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.