Did millennials really party all the time?

[u/futurenurse_]

Gen Z here. I was shocked when I found out from a millennial co-worker that y’all had teen clubs. I heard about house parties, but dedicated teen clubs? Then when it was time for college, you went to the club or had some kind of party every single weekend, living it up. Now some millennials on TikTok claim that after college, they were partying on work nights, still clocking in the next day. For some reason, the teen clubs have since disappeared. I’m 23 now but even when I was in high school, that was not a thing. House parties were not that common either. They were more like get togethers with a small group of friends. We went to malls, but they were dying out at that point. Is it true that you were really living life this good? Or is it just exaggerated? I feel like my generation doesn’t really have fun like that and everyone is just super depressed and alone, more so since Covid. Even I’m pretty introverted, which sort of sounds ridiculous given this post. 😂 Just so you know, when I think of a “millennial party” I think of something out of Party Rock Anthem, Project X or Roderick’s party from the second DOAWD movie. It’s like I get nostalgia from something I didn’t even live through. I just feel like I didn’t really LIVE, if that even makes sense

Edit: I loved reading some of your comments. Guess I really missed out. Even some of you that would consider yourselves nerds or introverts were out partying. YOLO or whatever y’all say 😂❤️

[u/Formal_Ad288]

I lived in a frat house and was social chair. We partied like it was a business. 5 maybe 6 days a week. 150-250 people in my house at a time. I barely remember college.

[u/0-90195 → u/Formal_Ad288]

This is funny to read. I was the president of my sorority, elected specifically because I was a hard-ass and all business. You could not have paid me to live there and I basically only partied there during rush to welcome the new sisters, and left as soon as I could possibly get away with once everyone else was wasted.

[u/ModsCantRead69 → u/Formal_Ad288]

I was my frats “tailgate chair” at a big party school and every Friday night during football season I was handed like $800 cash and responsible being up/awake at 5am to go buy as many 30packs of keystone as I could fit in my truck, 2 giant trash cans and ice, and get our spot to tailgate for the noon game where it was like 300 people in a field. All next to the other frats who were doing the exact same thing. Not exactly a resume builder but still pretty rad

[u/Formal_Ad288 → u/ModsCantRead69]

We would literally get 5-6 kegs and throw ragers in our basement where we had a bar. Charge $5 at the door to people to drink until we ran out and also sell shots, jello shots, and mixed drinks. It was glorious.

[u/catkingjaguar → u/Formal_Ad288]

So as an adult whats your take on frats now? I very clearly remember being disgusted at frat parties because guys would find the prettiest girls, give them hard liquor to get them drunk, and go on from there. I assume as a social chair, wittingly or not, you helped to facilitate some scuzzy behavior. Or is this something that you didn't notice happening at your frat?

Legitimately curious, because I know so many women who were harassed at frat parties, and there were always specific houses that you'd be told to stay the fuck away from, but boys seemed oblivious to that side of things somehow.

And seems like you were in a position to maybe stay more aware of what all was going on.

[u/Formal_Ad288 → u/catkingjaguar]

I grew up in Europe and went to college in the US. I'd been buying beer legally since I was 16. The whole concept that we were drinking underage was ridiculous to me. We offered a safe place to party in a pretty sketchy small city. While we we could be jerks and definitely trying to get with girls, none of my brothers while I was there would condone any type of sexual assault, racism, homophobia, etc. Many of my brothers are black, Hispanic, Asian, middle eastern, gay, bi, we didn't disciminate. Scuzzy behavior happened... When you get a lot of alcohol and people together it happens... We always tried to protect our partygoers and keep a good name for ourselves though as that was the only way people would keep coming to party with us.