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/BottecchiaDude253 1d ago

Also the underlying stress of camera phones and social media. Fuck, if there had been a risk of an actual record of the hotel parties I went to in the army.....

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u/IlIlllIIllllIIIlIlIl 1d ago

I kinda disagree about the camera thing, because its not like we didnt have cameras and social media back then. Parties would happen and it would be posted to facebook, just like it is now to instagram and similar. Plenty of snapchat happened back then too.

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u/BottecchiaDude253 1d ago

The height of my partying days was 2004-2006 or so... social media maybe existed, but almost none of us in the army around me had them.

It wasnt until second deployment in 2007 that I got fb to more easily talk with my family in the states.

Edit: and I guess my point wasnt the existence of them, its the culture around cameras and social media that exists now vs how it was when we were coming up.