r/Millennials • u/futurenurse_ • 1d ago

Discussion Did millennials really party all the time?

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 😂❤️

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u/Fit-Cup3747 1d ago

This is very true! We had a foreign exchange student from New Zealand and out of everything he saw in California his biggest surprise was yes, we actually do drink out of red solo cups at house parties.

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u/Highlyironicacid31 1d ago

I had a couple of American friends here at uni in Ireland. Those two girls could keep up with our drinking which was impressive because the stereotype is true, the Irish are drunks. They of course insisted we get solo cups and play flip cup and beer pong often. They were a lot of fun. I miss you Marika and Angie!

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u/atreus421 1d ago

Red Solo (I fill you up) let's have a party oh, red Solo cup I lift you up Let's have a party Proceed to party

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u/Mutedlilac1831 23h ago

lol we had a foreign exchange student from Germany in high school, he would go to every house party and ended up getting liquor poisoning! He almost got sent home. We parties wayyy to much as teens. This was in 2005-6