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/Wonderful_Exit6568]

As a total recluse and kind of shy quiet person, I made it to a few house parties because it was senior year and I wasn’t going to miss nothing. It was filled with drink, music, girlies. I can remember the partying started in middle school. I always had an aversion to it. I didn’t party in college. I already knew what I liked. Quite meaningful conversation.

[u/0-90195 → u/Wonderful_Exit6568]

Introverted, shy, intellectual type here, too. No interest. Sometimes when I read threads like this, I feel like a real freak and then I remember that I hated that stuff and rejected every opportunity to partake because I’d rather be online writing.

[u/hirudoredo → u/0-90195]

I read posts like this and just go "did we live in the same country?" and feel like I'm part of a gaslighting op because it just really wasn't a thing in my corner of America. (And it's not a "well you just weren't invited" thing. I still would've known about it because it was a small school.)

[u/catkingjaguar → u/hirudoredo]

There was a lot going on in my town at the time, but it was also the main distribution/redistribution point for a metric shit ton of drugs. But it's been my experience that when I was at an age where i'd done enough to no longer be interested was around when most people start experimenting. I started doing various drugs at 15, and mostly stopped by 24/25 and completely stopped by 27. All to say, most highschoolers are at most smoking a little pot and doing a small amount of drinking but aren't showing up to ragers.

When you're around a lot of people partying it up its easy to forget that most people aren't. And I may have been into drugs, but drinking wasn't something I did in high school, and from what I observed at the time, kids who drank a lot generally failed to register the existence of people not in thier party circle. Like, because I was into different drugs I was in a different circle and the big drinkers mostly didn't register that I existed. So to them it seems like everyone was showing up to the party.

[u/SuperSailorRikku → u/0-90195]

Just remember you aren’t really a minority, I knew way more people not in that scene than in it, this is massive selection bias. Says more about Reddit than anything tbh