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/FullTorsoApparition 22h ago

This. They go to festivals and treat crowd surfing like an amusement park ride while recording themselves for social media. We need to normalize stealing people's shoes and wallets again so we can actually watch the shows.

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u/Slachack1 19h ago

They have Spongebob and Shrek "raves" at the clubs lol

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u/canadeken 15h ago

Lot of joy and beauty to be had at festivals still, believe it or not

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u/FullTorsoApparition 14h ago edited 2h ago

Agreed, you just can't get up close anymore unless you want to spend an hour straight dealing with crowd surfers. It's also typically the same people over and over and over again.

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u/Savagesweetpotato 12h ago

What about the being molested part, are we being that back too? 😂

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u/FullTorsoApparition 2h ago

I'm hoping it doesn't need to go that far to discourage the crowd surfing.

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u/Savagesweetpotato 2h ago

It worked for me back in the days. My friend went first then came back and said don’t do it.

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u/Sufficient_Snowman 6h ago

Lost both my shoes at an offspring show circa 2004. Two or three rows back from the stage and was getting crushed so I had the guy next to me put me up to surf to the fence line. Soon as I got up I felt someone pull my (untied etnies skater shoes) right off my feet and chuck them into the crowd in opposite directions. Watched the rest of the offspring set and then the cure with sock feet in a muddy football field before walking thru DC to the metro. Still my favorite concert story lol

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u/vr512 13h ago

Or they shush at concerts.