A group of young male TikTok and Youtube creators who moved into a Bel Air mansion together have been wreaking havoc on their quiet Los An...
A group of young male TikTok and Youtube creators who moved into a Bel Air mansion together have been wreaking havoc on their quiet Los Angeles neighborhood.
The group, known as the 'One Direction of TikTok' moved into the $10million 7,800-square-foot mansion in January, renaming the party base Sway LA.
There the creators; Bryce Corridor, 20, Jaden Hossler, 19, Josh Richards, 18, Quinton Griggs, 17, Anthony Reeves, 18, Kio Cyr, 19, and Griffin Johnson, 21, began to partake in frat-like behavior, reports The New York Times.
The group, known as the ' One Direction of TikTok' moved into the $10million 7,800-square-foot mansion in January. Pictured: Griffin Johnson, 21, Kio Cyr, 19, Bryce Corridor, 20, Quinton Griggs, 17, Josh Richards, 18, and Jaden Hossler, 19
Neighbors on the quiet residential avenue have reported loud music through the night, paintball shots and chants of 'chug, chug, chug', along with a constant stream of food delivery drivers and sidewalks piled high with trash, including a large smashed up TV.
After a number of neighbors in the block grew frustrated they joined together to confront the residents - who they had assumed were tech entrepreneurs - only to find a group of men only interested in 'getting famous on the internet'.
Residents soon resorted to reporting noise complaints to L.A.P.D.
Unfortunate next door neighbors Amit Runchal, 40, a tech investment founder, and Mindy Acevedo, 31, a law student at U.C.L.A, said they have both struggled to work in their house due to the noise coming from next door during the lockdown.
Griffin Johnson, 21, (left) tells the camera how the Sway House is getting along during quarantine. The group take to TikTok daily to take part in dance trends (right)
The house is provided to the TikTok creators in return for content, by talent agency TalentXent. Here they can be seen shooting each other with paintball guns
Videos from the group's TikToks show objects such as desk chairs (right) and mannequins (left) dumped in the pool
Ms. Acevedo told The New York Times: 'In the morning we hear paintball guns. I don't think they sleep. There's a pool outside. Whenever they're hanging out by the pool, the sound just carries. We can hear them shouting "chug, chug, chug." I've heard someone throwing up at night outside.'
The house is provided to the TikTok creators in return for content, by talent agency TalentXent.
Videos from the group's TikToks show them shooting each other with paintball guns as well as dumping objects including desk chairs and mannequins in the pool.
Other neighbors, who wished to stay anonymous, said she found the group intimidating and had had several women mistake her house for the Sway House in the middle of the night.
However there could be an end in sight for the suffering neighbors, as two of the Sway colab, Mr. Richards and Mr. Hossler, announced that they would be moving out together.
After a number of neighbors in the block grew frustrated they joined together to confront the young residents
The news followed reports of a controversial mid-pandemic road trip undertaken by the group at the end of May, during which Mr Hossler and Mr Hall were arrested for drug related charges in Lee County, Texas.
The use of the party house, which neighbors say 'feels like Coachella', is reminiscent of YouTuber Jake Paul's gargantuan, $6.9million Calabasas, west Hollywood, mansion where he was investigated for holding raucous events in 2017.
Another neighbor of the Sway House Renee Maltz, 62, told The New York Times that their usually quiet street was now filled with gauping teens, who stood in the street trying to catch a glimpse of the TikTok celebs.
She added that the young men are often seen smoking in a vacant lot opposite their home and seemed to be 'testing the limits for the first time in their lives'.
Neighbors also added that the group did not appear to have adhered to social distancing rules while hosting gatherings at the home during the covid-19 pandemic.
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