--- title: #OdinBirthday: Twitter Birthday Wishes After No RSVPs to Teen's Party description: "Now the bullies will have a second glance at me." canonical: https://time.com/3753471/world-rallies-bullied-teen-party/ author: TIME article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-22T14:06:52.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:47:51.290Z og:title: Twitter Celebrates Bullied Teen's Birthday After No One RSVPs to His Party og:description: The story of #odinbirthday og:url: https://time.com/3753471/world-rallies-bullied-teen-party/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Twitter Celebrates Bullied Teen's Birthday After No One RSVPs to His Party twitter:description: The story of #odinbirthday twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Twitter Helps Bullied Teen Celebrate Birthday After No One RSVPs to His Party > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=dd5ce0f6-75be-40bf-b305-f31117118e84&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1) by [Adam Carlson / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Adam Carlson / People Contributor Mar 22, 2015 2:06 PM UTC by [Adam Carlson / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Adam Carlson / People Contributor Mar 22, 2015 2:06 PM UTC What started out as a simple mother’s request for a few birthday wishes for her 13-year-old son turned into a viral sensation overnight, ending in a party fit for any A-lister. The story of [#odinbirthday](https://twitter.com/search?q=%23odinbirthday&src=typd) begins when a Canadian woman posted a message about her son’s birthday on Friday to a local Facebook group, asking for some support. “Some of you have seen me post about my son, Odin,” Melissa Camus wrote. “His struggles with bullying, his difficulties with Aspergers. Well, today is his 13th birthday. And, unfortunately, not one kid rsvp’d to his birthday ‘hang out’ invite. :-(” Odin’s mom asked if some group members could send him birthday wishes on his “schmancy new cell phone.” Then [things exploded](http://www.ptbocanada.com/journal/2015/3/20/no-one-rsvp-ed-for-this-13-year-olds-birthday-so-lets-make-him-feel-loved): Friday afternoon the Toronto Raptors tweeted, “Happy 13th Birthday to our new friend Odin!” > [](https://twitter.com/Raptors/status/579025532932653056) Messages soon poured in from celebrities, politicians – even Jonathan Scott, one half of HGTV’s _Property Brothers._ > [](https://twitter.com/woodelijah/status/579010265808678912) > [](https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/579025494349205504) > [](https://twitter.com/MrSilverScott/status/578985489656619009) In all, Odin received more than 5,000 texts wishing him a happy birthday, [according to _The Peterborough Examiner_](http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2015/03/20/community-comes-through-for-odin). Twitter Canada said more than 11,000 similar messages were tweeted. He arrived to his party in style (riding in a white stretch limo) to hundreds of well-wishers. The bash, which was documented on Twitter, showed people lining up to take photos with Odin and hand him gifts. > [](https://twitter.com/CWalker1015/status/579072996226179072) “It’s amazing how people care. I feel absolutely amazing,” he told the _Examiner_. “Now the bullies will have a second glance at me.” [_This article originally appeared on People.com_](http://www.people.com/article/odin-13th-birthday-twitter) ### See What Your Twitter Profile Looked Like Over the Last 10 Years  2006 Wayback Machine  2007 Wayback Machine  2008 Wayback Machine  2009 Wayback Machine  2010 Wayback Machine  2011 Wayback Machine  2012 Wayback Machine  2013 The Next Web  2014 TIME ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3753471/world-rallies-bullied-teen-party/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3753471/world-rallies-bullied-teen-party/"},"headline":"Twitter Helps Bullied Teen Celebrate Birthday After No One RSVPs to His Party","datePublished":"2015-03-22T14:06:52.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:47:51.290Z","description":"\"Now the bullies will have a second glance at me.\"","url":"https://time.com/3753471/world-rallies-bullied-teen-party/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Adam Carlson / People"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3753471/world-rallies-bullied-teen-party/","name":"Twitter Helps Bullied Teen Celebrate Birthday After No One RSVPs to His Party"}}]}] ```