Overview

• Netflix released Trainwreck: The Real Project X on July 8, 2025, and the documentary is now streaming on its platform.
• The film features Merthe Marije Weusthuis speaking publicly for the first time about how her 2012 birthday invitation spiraled out of control.
• It includes firsthand accounts from YouTube creators, local officials and witnesses on how roughly 3,000 attendees looted shops, set cars on fire and clashed with riot police, resulting in 34 arrests and at least 36 injuries.
• The documentary examines the failure of Haren’s authorities, highlighting Mayor Rob Bats’s decision to cancel the party without alternative safety plans and his subsequent resignation.
• It situates the Haren riot within early social-media youth culture and shows how the incident foreshadowed later copycat gatherings driven by online networks.