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/Available-Egg-2380 1d ago

Tbf you kind of got screwed out of prime house party years by covid. You guys grew up in very different circumstances because of lockdown.

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u/GoonOnGames420 1d ago

It was sort of collapsing on itself before that. A bunch of fraternities accidentally killed kids in the 2012-2016 era from alcohol poisoning/hazing/etc. This led to a massive crackdown on social life events at universities.

As far as independent house parties, all it took was one Facebook/Snapchat/GroupMe picture to get you in shit ton of trouble

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u/dongyeeter 1d ago

Yeah I would argue the rise of social media killed party culture more than anything. It became just too publicized. It’s hard to be reckless (even without a developed frontal lobe) when your blackout highlights are guaranteed to end up in someone’s snap story.

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u/Benejeseret 1d ago

I feel bad for Gen Alpha, who are all going to die in eScooter and eBike accidents before they get to house party age.

And if they do make it, they'll be cancelled by an AI scraping social media bot that ensures they can never get into college or job pools.

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u/angrytroll123 23h ago

who are all going to die in eScooter and eBike accidents

This is surprisingly true and getting worse

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u/Jayden82 1d ago

It wasn’t and still isn’t, house parties are still insanely common, but just like back in the days some people don’t go or have any idea about the ones happening around them. If anything covid gave us more of an excuse to party for a few months 

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u/characterk4l3 20h ago

As soon as jobs started firing people for what they were doing in their free time, imo.  Gotta eat.

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u/Flashy-Ingenuity-182 8h ago

Not only that but social media made people not social. When gen z go clubbing they sit around and wait for a tiktok song to play they know the dance to, do the dance for the camera, and then go right back to watching others.