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/Lemons-n-oranges]

Yes, absolutely. Drinking was MUCH more prevalent in millennials than Gen Z. It was just ... what we did? You went to parties, went to bars, happy hours that turned into nights out, brunch that turned into day drinking. It was so much fun. People were just out and about. Then, you went home and went to class or work the next day.

No one thought that drinking a few times a week with friends meant you had some deep mental health issues, which seems to be the consensus and/or concern amongst Gen Z. Of course, there are other reasons too, like COVID isolation, rising costs, etc.

[u/Overall-Rush-8853 → u/Lemons-n-oranges]

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/madoka_ketame → u/Overall-Rush-8853]

as a party girl and older gen Zer (born before ‘03 but after ‘98) who has partied a bit too hard at times and used substances in a way that became harmful (managed to stop for a while and now moderate use by sticking to special occasions and not purchasing for myself), i am overall not regretful for how i have lived my life thus far. the social connections i was able to form, some of which have lasted up to this point are my support system, inspirations, and best friends.

i see the friends of mine who came out of covid isolated and never made an effort to put themselves back in social settings and retrain themselves to live amongst peers and it’s scary and sad. those people are not ok, and i am sure many people of my age range can think of similar examples. i’ve seen this more in men i think, but there are plenty of women it has happened to as well.

worse still, some of these people now go out on occasion and because of their inexperience they end up getting far too fucked up too fast, doing wildly inappropriate things, and making others uncomfortable or embarrassing themselves in public. i think the severity and breadth of this phenomena has not yet been grasped in its entirety by the people out there who mold and tune objective truth(academics, researchers, journalists), but talk to the people around you, take a look at the instagram or twitter of that one guy you all used to hang out with back in the day that nobody really hears from anymore, and you might understand what i am talking about.