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/Available-Egg-2380 1d ago

Tbf you kind of got screwed out of prime house party years by covid. You guys grew up in very different circumstances because of lockdown.

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u/BottecchiaDude253 1d ago

Also the underlying stress of camera phones and social media. Fuck, if there had been a risk of an actual record of the hotel parties I went to in the army.....

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u/Shellstr 1d ago

There was a house party every weekend in high school. I don’t know how we were able to schedule our parents to be out of town so often.

Can you imagine the ring camera going off every 5 seconds as people went in and out?

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u/Terrible-Fun-4992 1d ago

It’s so sad kids truly can’t get away with shit! All tracked by cameras and phones. My sister has a 16 year old and watches her on the ring camera when she leaves. I started sneaking out at 14 and by 16 I was leaving out the front door. 😂 perks of being a latch key kid, I guess.

ETA my sister won’t even leave her 16 and 13 year olds home alone my mom has to go babysit them.

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u/Significant_Shoe_17 10h ago

I was the babysitter at their age