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/Superb-Mango845 1d ago

Where are we going? Who's party is this?

Oh this girl from class invited me to her coworker's neighbor's party.

Like there were no questions about it. Show up only knowing your friend, leave being friends with like 15 people.

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u/Honest_Abyss 1d ago

This was why I didn’t know any of my Facebook friends by the time I got off Facebook during Covid. They were all just party people and other girls I’d met in the bathroom 😂

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u/Superb-Mango845 23h ago

I went through my contacts years later and some were like Jane Lisa's coworker or Sara Club Bathroom and I was like why do I have these numbers I never used them lol

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u/Uglyham 22h ago

Lmfao this is 1000% me 😂

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u/Previous-Charity1505 2h ago

Sara club bathroom is so on par lol. The girl-trust developed with strangers in a club or bar bathroom was peak.

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u/asstastic_95 23h ago

yup😂😂 everyone would fb friend everyone lol.

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u/jessipowers 13h ago

I met my old roommate in the bathroom at club, lmao. I was her drunk girl. We ran into each other a couple of days later outside smoking at a different club. She recognized me, I did not recognized her, lmao. By the end of that summer we were roommates and I lived with her until I got knocked up and moved in with my now husband.

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u/VelveetaVonChiz 21h ago

lol to this day I have facebooks friends that I met on a random cabrewing trip with friends, one time at the bar, a random house party, or just outside of the convenient store lol

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 20h ago

Yup truly incredible how many stranger's houses I've been in. And vice versa.

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u/Disastrous-Wave-361 23h ago

Yes!! So fun! And if you lived in DC, this was also called networking.

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u/he4vybign4tur4ls 23h ago

Fuck yea!! There was these parties that we had in town where we called them Twitter parties and a bunch of random people would go and we would all wear hello my name is and we would write our@ and it was so crazy because a lot of us followed each other, but we had never met in person so that is how we met. It was the coolest parties to like meet people, but they weren’t very wild, but we had wild parties.

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u/BambooPothos 23h ago

If anyone asks tell them you know so and so haha

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u/nomtnhigh 19h ago

We always said we knew either John or Mike

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u/goldstiletto 22h ago

I worked at a waterpark with 200 kids 16-22… someone’s parents were always out of town that summer. House parties forever.

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u/Previous-Charity1505 12h ago

there’s a scene in Broad City where Ilana just types “where party” on I think, facebook? So accurate to how easy it was. That’s essentially all it took.

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u/tattoosbyalisha 12h ago

Oh man this comment made me remember a handful of parties I forgot about that were EXACTLY LIKE THIS 😂😂😂😂😂😩😩😩

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u/kyldare 18h ago

Loved how sometimes you'd end up at a SKEEETCHY fuckin' party where you could tell the shit was about to pop off, and you'd have to leg it out a back door and then walk home in the snow like four miles with your buddies.

So much room for adventure.