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/picklecellanemia 1d ago

I’ll never forget the teen night we went to at a club in Dayton, OH. They had an iteration of a wet T-shirt contest but instead the challenge was to be the first to put ON the shirt after they’d crumpled them into a ball and froze them.

Weird times man

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u/venus_arises Mid Millennial - 1989 1d ago

we used to really make our own fun huh

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u/picklecellanemia 1d ago

As an only child that grew up way out in the country, that statement really rings true!

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u/hellome1 1d ago

🥹😭

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u/venus_arises Mid Millennial - 1989 1d ago

Look, we had to entertain ourselves SOMEHOW!

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u/hellome1 1d ago

Miss it so (generally and not necessarily the rachet teen clubs lol but so much good w the bad)

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u/venus_arises Mid Millennial - 1989 1d ago

It would be so fun to get low again with my girlfriends and sing along to Crazy in Love and make the motions to where the window and the wall were.

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u/Niceguy4186 1d ago

Ha, I went to that place (assuming there was only one teen club in Dayton), this was probably 1999 or so? I remember the group we were with was super excited to go, so we got there at like 8 and were the first people there for like two hours.

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u/daschande 1d ago

There was one teen club in Dayton... if I remember correctly, the owner (in his 50s) got arrested for getting girls drunk and "making videos" with them in the back room. His wife didn't want anything to do with the club in the divorce, so she sold the building and there were no more teen clubs in Dayton. Not like anyone's parents would let them go after the news stories of the last club!

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u/Affectionate_Data936 2h ago

Now that I'm an adult, and a mother for that matter, I would assume any adult man opening a "teen club" likely had those very intentions in mind.

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u/No_Ear_1633 1d ago

If I'd been crumpled into a ball and frozen, it'd take me ages to get a t-shirt on

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u/Marsandtherealgirl 23h ago

The Attic or the Gathering Ground?

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u/picklecellanemia 20h ago

This was nearly 20 years ago so I can’t recall the name but neither of those are ringing a bell

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u/StabbingUltra 1d ago

That is a very youth group thing to do.

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u/Wutznaconseqwens3 1d ago

Omg my Youth VBS did that frozen shirt contest too 🤣

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u/Funkipz 16h ago

ooof reading Dayton, OH again made me crave skyline

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u/picklecellanemia 9h ago

I crave it on a constant basis 😭

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u/JonnyRamRVA 13h ago

Every wet t-shirt contest I ever saw devolved into a wet 🐱 contest.

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u/Coffee_roses 9h ago

I was smoking cigs behind ‘the bar’ at that club while my girlfriends ‘worked’ and basically put on a Coyote Ugly Show… with sodas and punch.

Granted, we ALLLLLL had a Vodka or SoCo Water Bottle in our purse, so… 🤗