Older Cats and Kittens

I live with roommates who own 2 dogs, and I have 2 cats (litter mates, 4 years old, male and female) and a rabbit.

2 weeks ago my roommates rescued and brought home a 5 week old kitten.

I thought my cats would be alright with her, as they are with the dogs and rabbit, and are on the whole very chill and affection cats, but the girl cat Pixel hates her and growls/hisses at her while the boy cat Glitch is very wary around her and hisses when she tries to play with them.

Now they don't even like leaving my room when before they wanted to spend as much time out of it as possible. I feel bad because my room is pretty small and this kitten Rex obviously wants to play with them and just be around them.

Is there a way I can help them accept her, or is there a general timeline on when cats will be more accepting of new cats?

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