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Kylie Jenner faces backlash after reviving Astroworld theme at kids' birthday bash

Fans during 2021 Astroworld Festival at NRG Park on November 05, 2021 in Houston, Texas.
Ten people died at the 2021 Astroworld Festival in Houston after being crushed during Travis Scott's performance. (Erika Goldring / WireImage)

Kylie Jenner is facing criticism for the recent birthday bash she threw for her two young children that featured nods to her baby daddy Travis Scott's Astroworld music festival — an event where 10 concertgoers died in 2021.

On her Instagram, Jenner shared video and photos of the lavish party for 1-year-old Aire and 5-year-old Stormi Webster, who were born four years and one day apart. The event featured large gray inflatable heads, similar to one at the entrance of the 2021 music festival in Houston. That entrance was a play on the cover art of Scott's 2018 "Astroworld" album.

At the party, guests were able to walk into the mouths of the large inflatable heads, which resembled the kids. Stormi's tunnel-mouth led to archways of pink and rainbow-colored balloons, while Aire's featured toy cars and a mock-up of Pacific Coast Highway.

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The "Kardashians" personality has been known to throw expensive parties for her children with Scott — born Jacques Bermon Webster II. Stormi was gifted diamonds when she was just a year old in 2019.

For other birthdays, Jenner also used the Astroworld theme and erected an inflatable head of her daughter, dubbing one bash "stormi world." But after the 2021 festival incident where festivalgoers were crushed in a crowd surge, she seemed to have retired the motif.

But after this week's revival of the theme, many voiced their criticism, accusing her of being insensitive to the victims of the festival.

"Kylie Jennef [sic] still doing Astroworld themed parties after what happened in Astroworld is disgusting. A 9-years-old kid died there, please," one user wrote on Twitter, referring to Dallas native Ezra Blount.