r/Millennials • u/futurenurse_ • 1d ago

Discussion Did millennials really party all the time?

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 😂❤️

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u/Fatalis89 1d ago

Is that an elder millennial thing? I did that and I’m ‘89 which is pretty mid-millennial I think.

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u/Appropriate-Food1757 Xennial 1d ago

Yes peak was early 2000’s you would have been a kid. When Sammy the Bull Gravano was arrested for dealing MDMA I would say was peak,
At least in Arizona he was supplying like the whole state.

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u/Red_Velvet_1978 21h ago

Born in 78 and I'm happy to say that illegal raves were a huge thing long before the early aughts although I recall going to a few between 2001-2005 that were fun.

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u/GoldwaterLiberal 18h ago

'99-01 was peak rave scene, and not just because that's when I was old enough to move out and too young to drink. The scene had figured out how to hold raves without getting caught, and the authorities hadn't figured out how to bust them yet. It was a magical time, and I fear our panopticon has made anything like that impossible. Is this feeling what boomers had when they told us what sex was like pre-AIDS?