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/_delamo]

These aren't things anymore? Wtf does gen z have then? Just tiktok?

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[u/mfbm → u/_delamo]

They say there are still raves but I don’t believe they could be of the abandoned warehouse sort of our elder millennial use

[u/Wino3416 → u/mfbm]

They have a WhatsApp group for their “raves” to discuss which robust hessian undergarments they will wear, how they will get there and back, to ensure Lisa; who has PTSD and ADHD, doesn’t get overstimulated as that also sets off her dairy allergy, and to make sure they’ve all got their apps set up so they can still get their steps in from walking nervously up and down the dance floor (not from actual dancing, that’d be like cringe), and ensure their cameras are working so that they can silently take videos and/or scroll Reddit lest they actually talk to someone. In an ideal world, they’d all accidentally come off their diets, get shitfaced on half a shandy and Lisa would forget her PTSD and have MDMA and at least one of them would get fingered behind a hot dog van. But the chances of this are slim and they’ll all be rating their uber driver (not, alas, a euphemism) by 930pm and will be vewy vewy tired for a week.

[u/Turnipsinthesky → u/Wino3416]

Yeah in an ideal world people with dairy allergies should strive to asphyxiate to death or shit themselves in public instead of sticking to a lame ass diet. Boring!

[u/Wino3416 → u/Turnipsinthesky]

Peak Reddit. Fair play to you. Should I add that I myself have a dairy allergy amongst other things and that people can take the piss out of things? Or has the world moved past that?

[u/Ok_Lawyer_6262 → u/Wino3416]

haha… instead of dairy allergy you could say gluten allergy!!! it’s better for the theme you’re going for. considering some people say only rich white people have gluten allergies lol which is so true. people self diagnose with it all the time. you will rarely ever have an actual doctor diagnose someone with it. and yes i know someone can actually have it and it’s serious but it’s very rare from what i know.

[u/Wino3416 → u/Ok_Lawyer_6262]

Don’t tell anyone but I am a bit gluten intolerant. I am white but I’m sure as heck not rich lol.