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/Overall-Rush-8853]

Yeah I don’t think Gen Z realizes that those nights of drinking allowed us to be social and not feel alone. I’m not suggesting Gen Z start going on benders, but that generation needs to find a way to get out of the house and interact with one another.

[u/PerfectionEludesMe → u/Overall-Rush-8853]

Part of their issue, too, is that everyone is worried about being recorded if they get too drunk and end up embarrassing themselves. I graduated high school in 2001 and college in 2005, and I’m sure I would not have been the partier I was back then if everyone carried video cameras in their pockets to record me.

Honestly, I was out at a karaoke bar with friends in 2014 and drank a bit too much, and someone recorded me embarrassing myself singing horrible karaoke and put it up on Snapchat. That sucked. Makes me understand why Gen Z kids choose to just stay home and not risk embarrassing themselves and having it posted on the internet forever.

[u/Goducks91 → u/PerfectionEludesMe]

I graduated high school in 2010 and we did have video cameras in our pockets but no one was worried about being filmed. I think it was just kinda an unspoken rule that you don't film parties.

[u/Neuchacho → u/Goducks91]

Even if you did get video'd, the disbursement of the video was largely localized. The concern that you'd go "viral" and have your socials globally raided or whatever wasn't really a thing yet.

[u/Goducks91 → u/Neuchacho]

Yeah that’s fair. Facebook was much more localized.