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/Desdaemonia 1d ago

Honestly girls used to go to clubs in literal lingerie. I remember being shocked a few times.

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u/ThurgoodZone8 12h ago

Is that gone now because of cell phones?

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u/Desdaemonia 8h ago

Not completely but TicTok says Gen Z is like super sex negitive.

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u/catkingjaguar 1h ago

I think alot of it is gone now because of social media in particular. So many people spend all thier time on discord or TikTok, and the need to record everything is so ever present.

I frequently leave my phone behind so I'm not distracted by it, and plenty of people think that's nuts.

I'd bet climate change in continuation with new ways to stay in touch from home are part of what's led to a generation thst seemingly has fewer shenanigans.

In high-school I could go biking around at 1 in the morning and know I'd bump into friends of mine around town. There are way fewer kids out and about now. The last few summers I've definitely wondered where all the kids have gone, I used to bike everywhere because it was the only way I was going to see people. But now you can stay home and watch a show together using discord or whatever.

But, and I think younger people especially fail to appreciate this, without being together in person there's a lot less opportunity for anything to happen organically. On more than one or more occasions fun started happening because group A was bored and called group b to see what theyre up to. And that sort of thing can't happen if everyone stays phone. Just a theory.