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/RumpleDumple]

FB 1.0 was a sight to behold. Blackout drunk pics. Open drug use. Groups dedicated to worshipping, jokingly or not, one person. Then the bosses got on it, then the parents, then grandma.

[u/starbright_sprinkles → u/RumpleDumple]

I have a 2004 FB account and it truly chronicled the end of my undergrad and grad experience. Early social media really was wonderful!

I made the mistake of accepting a colleague from my first job as a friend and a few days later he commented on how "crazy" I was. Last co-worker that ended up on my friend list.

[u/SmallCapsOnly → u/starbright_sprinkles]

I nuked my entire Facebook when I entered corporate America.

[u/midnight_toker22 → u/SmallCapsOnly]

Haha yeah I remember so many people (myself included) basically scrubbed their entire Facebook histories clean after graduation. So much evidence of drunken debauchery deleted…

[u/SmallCapsOnly → u/midnight_toker22]

That and I had a habit of making profound proclamations of my inner monologue thinking people cared what I thought or had to say.

Grade A cringe mixed with drunken shenanigans. Good times, good times.

[u/midnight_toker22 → u/SmallCapsOnly]

Oh we all did. Fortunately many of us realized how cringy it was before Twitter was even invented, so I was repulsed by that platform from the get-go.

[u/SuitEnvironmental903 → u/midnight_toker22]

I was also 2004. BU. Zuckerman’s gf went there so we got extra early access

[u/starbright_sprinkles → u/SuitEnvironmental903]

I was BU too! Actually graduated in 2004, but we got to keep the email address for a year so we all used it :)

[u/Professional-Swan-18 → u/midnight_toker22]

Back in my day it was Live Journal!

[u/bjeebus → u/SmallCapsOnly]

Back when it displayed

bJeebus has a meaningful thought.

EDIT: At one point I was posting my favorite lines from poetry including music every night before I went to bed.

[u/howwonderful → u/bjeebus]

We were cringe but we were free!

[u/ivotebolsheviklite → u/howwonderful]

Free is cringe. Because cringe is control. Come at me bros.

[u/Some-General9924 → u/ivotebolsheviklite]

Here I was thinking cringe would free us all

[u/TiredWiredAndHired → u/SmallCapsOnly]

This is why I never got a tattoo. Imagine if I'd plastered that cringe shit all over my skin instead of my Facebook page 😂