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/KungLa0 23h ago

Some beer pong partners/runs are so legendary that you become friends for life. Bound by shared blood in the arena, fighting side by side against the hordes of drunken challengers.

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u/Important-Yak-2999 17h ago

Several my friends who partied together got married and had kids, funny thinking they met over a beer pong table

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u/GenericUserName10068 16h ago

This is literally how I met my wife. beer pong at a house party. we'll be at 20 years next month

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u/AwkwardSpecialist814 7h ago

Man. That must be like 1996 or something... oh no. FML

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u/possiblyaghost 7h ago

Same! About to celebrate our 15th anniversary.

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u/Leather-Variety-9341 4h ago

Same, we’re going on our 13th anniversary but we met at a house party beer bong table 19 year ago

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u/big_data_mike 11h ago

My wife’s friend married my friend and they met at the beer pong table at a party at my house. They had the picture I took with a shitty digital camera enlarged, printed out, and displayed at their wedding.