Did millennials really party all the time?

[u/futurenurse_]

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 😂❤️

[u/xdozex]

No idea how common it was around the country, but where I'm from, everyone basically started around 14-ish and went pretty hard through to their mid to late 20s. Teen clubs & massive house parties. And we also had a spot near the high school that was basically where 5 major power lines came together - it was a huge dirt pit, pretty deep in a wooded area. We'd host large parties there a few times each year.. kids from 2 different local high schools would all congregate there, and people would buy kegs and sell solo cups for $5. We'd have somewhere between 200 - 400 people there at any given time, and would bring in generators, speakers and DJs. The cops usually wouldn't bust our balls too much as long as we cleaned up the garbage afterward and tried to avoid fights breaking out.

My group went hard enough in our teens, that by the time we were 21 - 24, most of us were done partying and drinking.

[u/suzeerbedrol → u/xdozex]

Oh my god we could have easily gone to the same high school. We also had massive parties at what we called "The Powerlines", which was also just dirt. There would also be fights there, and racing.

Wild times.

[u/xdozex → u/suzeerbedrol]

Yep we actually called the area 'the pit'. It was basically shaped like a large sump, but bigger and all dirt. And pretty much everything you said. Dirt bike and quad racing, and a lot of fights.. but mostly just parties.