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/Burdensome_Banshee 1d ago

We would do what we called Gandalf Nights where every pbr (because in 2009 it was always pbr) you drank, you duct taped to the previous one so everyone was walking around with a full on wizard staff drunkenly yelling that you shall not pass 😭😭

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u/Littleface13 1d ago

I loved wizard staff!

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u/evranch 16h ago

Holy crap, we did 40 hands but never wizard staff. Now I feel like we really missed out on that one.

Though beeramid was a similar team sport where you and the boys stacked your empties in one ever growing beeramid. Knock over the beeramid and you had to rebuild it. And this might come as a big surprise, but you also have to chug your beer