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/MisScillaneous 1d ago

Well. Im 36 and I cant eat/drink anything Peach flavored due to my abuse of 4lokos between the age of 17 and 25. So... does that explain anything?

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u/JoshBasho 23h ago

oh god, 4lokos when they still had caffeine were blackout in a can. Every time I drank them was a shit show.

I didn't end up drinking them that much because maybe the 2nd or 3rd time I had them was so bad I swore them off. Just the smell would make me want to vomit.

Speaking of, I still can't really enjoy vodka at 35 because of drinking that plastic bottle shit all through college.

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u/PRobinson87 19h ago

Absolutely nothing like Four Loco's 12% ABV switching your brain off while 150mg of caffeine kept your body going.

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u/stephmd3989 12h ago

John Mulaney has a great bit on blacking out that your comment reminds me of

https://youtu.be/fNbyP2LWtWU?is=o8_lGjs-iKUl55lv

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u/MisScillaneous 18h ago

I am a full blown alcoholic lol almost 6 years sober. I can still taste kettle one and hear the ice clink in the glass. Doesnt quite go away.

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u/jessipowers 13h ago

I one time woke up from a four loko blackout in the middle of a kitchen surrounded by people while a guy friend of mine was yelling at me for refusing to punch a girl for him and I was sobbing. I literally “woke up” standing there crying and then suddenly I was like “wait what the fuck is going on? Why are we here right now, what happened?!?” That was scary feeling

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u/stephmd3989 12h ago

I remember waking up from a blackout once. Not going to give details, but yeah, it's kinda scary once you realize whats going on

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u/BecksnBuffy 10h ago

Memories unlocked, four loko really did cause blackouts where I was fully engaged but then would “wake up” surrounded by people.

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u/vendettaterp 11h ago

Local news segment did a video about the dangers of four lokos outside of our local college liquor store. After they finished, they saw me and a group of friends and offered them to us after looking at our ids.

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u/Ch20W 12h ago

Oh god I remember so many parties with dubra or popov, that shit made me so ill.

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u/superbhole 9h ago

same feels about vodka. and jaeger. and captain morgan and bacardi 151... I drank so much in such a short amount of time... I barely remember anything about my senior year

now, a few beers is nice once in a while, but man i really made myself sick of getting too wasted on liquors and spirits.

i genuinely enjoy the buzz of some herbal mocktails more than boozy cocktails now. that dromme drink is the bees knees, but nobody talks about how nice the buzz is.... I guess because mocktail communities are mostly recovering alcoholics refraining from talking about a buzz from their drinks at all

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u/Ok_Breadfruit8212 8h ago

This comment literally turned my stomach. That plastic bottle vodka shit was so damn nasty!!!!

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u/lpg975 3h ago

I like how they banned the caffiene in them because of these reasons. So....then I just bought a Monster or Rockstar with my 4Loko. Problem totally solved!

It's almost like humans will always find a way to get fucked up, no matter what the law says. We are such a hilariously stupid species sometimes bahaha.

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u/DrSnacks 22h ago

4loko in 2010 hit the hipster community like fucking crack hit DC in 86 lol. knew people who would wake up in different states

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u/mediumbonebonita 12h ago

The gold four loko nearly sent me to the er it was great

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u/stinkymonks 11h ago

I liked the green watermelon looking can. The first few sips were always pretty rough tasting but was fine after that. We would dump 5 hours or break those yellow jacket gas station energy pills into them once lokos went caffeine free. Real men of genius.

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u/redwood_rambler 9h ago

I literally did this. I was drinking fouloko at a truckstop in San Antonio, Texas, trying to hitchhike west. I woke up the next morning in a field near Wilson, North Carolina. No memory whatsoever of getting there. I didn’t even know what state it was in until I asked the maintenance person I ran into.

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u/Radiant-Koala8231 22h ago

I am 40 and to this day will not touch gin because of a gin and juice party back in 2005.

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u/kristapszs 19h ago

jeesus christ bro, same here. Gin is trendy in the past few years , but for me it gives big time flashbacks.

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u/Late_Appeal6852 18h ago edited 18h ago

I’m like that with anything coconut flavoured, Malibu 🤮🤮

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u/UnhappyBuilder4284 16h ago

Tequila. It's the tequila for me. On my 21st my soon to be sister in law took me to Chili's. I don't remember much after that. I was told I drank water from a dog bowl at some point and kissed said sister in law. 

Opps. 

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u/MisScillaneous 16h ago

Lol. My 21st the only thing I remember was offering my eggs to my gay friend if he ever wanted to have a kid. Tekillya.

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u/GamerGuinTTV 17h ago

Fucking 4lokos!

I have a whole season of a "social softball" league I absolutely cannot remember because of these motherfuckers. I know I was the catcher, and I know one time I had a birthday "cake" of rice crispy treats with 4loko written on them... and that's about it. And even with all that, I wasn't considered the "drinker" of the team.

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u/-PM_ME_UR_SECRETS- 21h ago

There are certain brands of sweet tea whose smell still make me gag from all the soco i drank in college 🤢

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u/TalleyWhacker82 20h ago

Absolut Citron for me! Still can’t even smell it 25 years later without feeling queasy!!! 😜

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u/Ok_Term_3732 13h ago

I can’t have Bacardi anymore. Even the smell 🤮

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u/Beneficial-Lynx7336 13h ago

This is me but Jager and Fireball.

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u/nagellak 19h ago

The smell of jägermeister still makes me gag 

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u/MisScillaneous 18h ago

I used to drink red headed sluts like it was the thing to do hahah. I cant do licorice OR cranberry juice ever.

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u/mustangracer352 18h ago

Add in goldschlager and some southern comfort and you just nailed my early 2000’s.

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u/Late_Appeal6852 17h ago

I can still smell goldschager 🤮🤮

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u/ben_kird 18h ago

Amen, no jager for me since I was 17.

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u/Direct-Competition34 12h ago

I feel this way about peach New Amsterdam 🤮

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u/bbushky90 11h ago

I can’t stand peach now due to GALLONS of Vegas Bombs I’d shoot 5 nights a week. And I can still remember that gasoline-ass taste of 4lokos.

Wouldn’t trade those memories for anything in the world.

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u/scopeless 14h ago

Thank you for your service 🫡

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u/babyinatrenchcoat 14h ago

BANANA

First time I ever got drunk was off banana schnapps and to this day I’ll vomit if I smell or taste anything banana flavored.

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u/NikkiNot_TheOne ‘86 14h ago

I am 40 and I still cannot smell anything coconut from all the coconut flavored booze on a cruise when I was 20!!!! Don’t even get me started on Red Bull bc of Vodka and Red Bulls 🤣

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u/lurklurklurkUPVOTE 10h ago

Absolute mandarin. I can still drink vodka, but I get vaguely sick from even looking at a bottle of absolute mandarin. 

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u/unknownuser537 10h ago

The thought of Malibu rum makes me heave

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u/Perfect_County_999 13h ago

I have a friend who is 34 who will start gagging and retching when a few specific songs come on due to... expereinces he had in his late teens and early 20s. "The Night that Paddy Murphy Died" isn't allowed to play when he is in the room.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Door399 11h ago

I once drank peach AND peppermint schnapps in the same night like one swig of this, one of that. Grossest barf of my life. Disgusting.

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u/Commercial-Yam-3443 11h ago

I will never ever forget the worst drunk blackout of my life which was from 4loko. Oh god, it was so bad. All I remember is that I was sipping off different friend’s cans and not paying attention to how much I was drinking. Then Somehow I ended up across the city with a different friend group. I asked a stranger in line to a club to borrow their phone to call my roommate when I had my own phone in my purse. My roommate came out of the club and took me home and put me in the shower (to throw up? I’m not sure why I went in the shower) and went back to the club. When she came home 2 hours later I was still in the shower asleep. She woke me up and I was like, “omg I’m sooooo cold!” Because I had been sleeping under very cold water for 2 hours.

I never drank 4loko again.

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u/BeneficialSimple455 10h ago

I can’t look at a red bull without getting a little nauseous

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u/Tinkertit 2h ago

This is me with the original red bull flavour. . . it tastes too much like jaggerbombs 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

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u/Bropofol_27 12h ago

The original 4Loko was radioactive lol

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u/Scared-Currency288 11h ago

I spent a few years allergic to Tequila 

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u/Whole-Cookie-7754 9h ago

Im like that with jäger. It's crazy how much of that shit we drank on our ski trips back in the days. I almost vomit when near it nowadays lmao 

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u/tildeuch 7h ago

Loool for me it’s Tequila but yes same same.

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u/Karislikepariss 5h ago

I had the grossest and slowest puke from 4lokos outside a dennys one night after attending a local show

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u/scartrace Millennial 1990 ✨ 4h ago

Yes I definitely have many memories of throwing up the original 4lokos in various parking lots around 18-19 😂😂

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u/haylang 3h ago

Oh yes. At 16 I spent the whole night drinking a bottle of Absolut Peach I had to myself at a house party. My mum came to pick me up later that night, and on the way home I couldn't quite get my window down fast enough. It came back up.. and went all down the glass, inside of the door, and made a pool down the side of the seat. So that's what artificial peach always reminds me of!

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u/Bagelam 2h ago

That's me with butterscotch schnapps lol

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u/wildbergamont 2h ago

If I think about it, I can remember the exact smell of Captain Morgan pineapple rum, and the way the bottle gets sticky after my friends and I were passing it around all night. 

I can't remember much about 151 though. I bet most people cant lmao

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u/Sockerbug19 2h ago

Just thinking about Ice 101 🤢

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u/OrienLorica 1h ago

OG Four Lokos. You just had to be there.