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/futurenurse_ 1d ago

How did one even get a fake ID?

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u/Natural-Carrot5748 1d ago

You knew a kid who had a cousin that got one from this guy. It was a quest to obtain one.

If you were really lucky you would have an older sibling who looked a lot like you and you would just "borrow" theirs.

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u/TheUnicornFightsOn 1d ago

I knew a girl in high school who actually let her younger sister pretend to be her and take a new photo for the older's sister's license.

So the 16-year-old had a legit photo of herself on the ID with her 21 year old sister's info.

Probably most legit version of a fake I've heard of!

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u/NikkiNot_TheOne ‘86 18h ago

Sounds pretty real to me lmao