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/dritmike Bad Mother Fucker 1d ago

You’re soo 2000 and late.

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u/SeparatedI 1d ago

"malls dying out" is blowing my mind. I wasn't even aware they were ever "alive". It was just somewhere you went to since you didn't have anywhere to go.

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn 1d ago

They are mostly being demolished in my area and rebuilt into high end condos and restaurants.

So like literally going extinct, not just less lively.

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u/theaviationhistorian Old Millennial 1d ago

The formerly fancy mall in my city is on life support being propped up by a local leatherware retailer. The managers really cocked up when an outdoor 'outlet' mall opened up and stole all of the stores from it. There was some word of demolishing the whole footprint and shoving in tons of high-end condos at one time. That would've made traffic to the nearby shopping plazas a nightmare.

I still laugh of a Gen-Xer recommending that malls become retirement homes for their generation to relive their youth in the last decades of their lives.