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Very common. The vibes and people varied based on the people throwing the party. Maybe it was a house party when someone's parents were out of town. Maybe it was a kegger at the lake kinda outta the way in the dark. And everything in between.
Also, Hollywood wouldn't have been making films in the 90s and 2000s to make you feel bad if this wasn't the case. They'd be making the contemporary teens of the day feel bad, which they certainly didn't because they could identify with the scene.
Social media. People got used to not meeting up IRL. Also kids don't get wasted as much these days, possibly because they are actually dealing with their trauma and don't feel the need to drink/smoke the pain away. Of course if you do cut loose these days it'll end up being filmed and sent to your mum on Facebook. I know half the shit I did as a kid would have been flagged for inappropriate content.
In the 90s teenage me was way too uncool for these and never got invited once either.
Gen-X here, yes. Parties like that happened all the time! Both indoor and outdoor. I remember back when I lived in central Fla, we used to go to bonfires out in the woods after standing outside convenience stores with friends- hoping to find people willing to take our $20 and buy us a case of beer.
Gen X. Grew up on an acreage and went to highschool in a small town a few kilometres away.
There was always some kind of party on the weekend. Either at someone's house, or a bush party/pit party. This was the early nineties. So no phones/cameras.
I'm amazed we survived.
We kind of had that as teens. Just without the fancy decorations. We made it ourselves. Every weekend when someones parents were over night.
I never knew any parties like that (or at all, haha), but Iβve skimmed through the comments and am surprised people havenβt mentioned Covid.
Gen Z went through Covid lockdown during school ages. Itβs possible such parties would have occurred for these people, but they got screwed out of opportunities for wild ragers because of a pandemic.
Yeah all the time. Every Thanksgiving, Christmas and new years between the ages of 14 and like 25 with our friends, cousins, acquaintances. Always someone's place, at least 20 teens +/- 3 years in my age, but the parties can get up to 100 people or more if they lined up. Our community of Slavic churches are huge tho. We'd take up the entire wedding hall on some events with 300+ teens your grade that we all knew fairly closely.
The only difference is that alcohol wasn't involved, and relationships were built for dating into marriage, not sex flings like the teen movies.
What happened after 25? Also thatβs a lot of people. My parties were like 10 people max and we were all on top of each other.
They are real. And sometimes they still happen for work outings in some cities more than others.
Iβm guessing the person who hasnβt seen one might live in a rural area though so they might only see something like this on a hens or bucks night
Lived in a townhouse with 3 apartments and 4 floors during uni. Made friends with the other tenants, opened up the whole thing to do massive parties, had over 400 people come
those kinds of events were so fun. just open doors all over and find the group you want to vibe with for an hour. it felt so freeing just wandering through an entire building of fun
I mean, I'm a millennial in mid-thirties and I'd never heard of anyone actually doing a party like this either, so even in the 90s/00s these were things that seemed like 'stuff they used to do before'
I am an elder millennial, and we partied like this all the time. We also hung out during the week in large groups until the wee hours of the morning.
But we were a mix of lower middle class so our parents were too busy surviving to care what we were up to, sprinkled in with some upper middle class who had the resources and parents that were too self absorbed to care.
early thirties and we had plenty of these during post-secondary
late high school parties were more of a field party than indoors
same and my experience was that parties existed but there used to be more wild parties with alcohol involved
I'm almost forty and regularly hosted parties like this all through high school. So mileage must vary.
Me neither. But I grew up in the city. There was no space in apartments for 100 people. Maybe 10 people stacked on top of each other.
I went to parties like this all the timeβ¦
Ring doorbells and indoor cameras that stream to smart phones
Gen Z stopped havin house parties, cause fewer of them live on their own / with a small group of roomies -- a lot more stick around with the parents, and parents aren't as keen to have a bunch of youth doing drugs and lightly misbehaving all night ;p
My parents left for one weekend during my college/highschool years. Threw the most massive party, we were over 80.
Fun times π
People over 80 don't sound like they'd be the best partiers.
dude... you don't know. they are UNHINGED because time's almost up and between them they are a pharmacy.
Wait there arenβt parties anymore? What
Apparently kids are socializing in general less. Like it's a real trend.
I went to one in the early teens. I imagine it's harder for teenagers to have a secret party when their psrente are out of town these days
What is this βout of townβ of which you speak?
Back in the day you could afford kids and vacations. And so when you decided to have a little couple's getaway or you and your friends decided to go on an adult trip or even if your cousin got married out of town and the 16 year old said fuck that shit, the kid got several days home alone and you got several days without their shitty music, hormonally grumpified attitude, and all around general teensge buΔΊlshit.
And so during that time the teenager might buy booze and throw a party
Sorry I was too busy being a geek to go to parties full of people I absolutely hated. That was back before gaming was popular and cool, when you had to EARN your geekdom.
I used to throw massive house parties. Yes. It was a vibe. I did terrible things at those parties and I am sorry what I put my family through. Silly parties to be honest.
Let's party on Roblox!
π΅ Party House is in Roblox tonight π΅
House parties were awesome. I was never cool, but there was always room at a house party. It's a shame that these died out.
The quality of life of kids has degraded at least in the US and no not primarily from smartphones and social media.
The answer is simple, life is harder for parents.
And also the lack of third places making it a lot harder for both adults and kids to get together with friends in person without having to spend money
Cameras on phones killed it.
And cameras on doorbells etc.
We definitely had to regulate this in college. We threw some ragers where we specifically knew it couldnt be documented where we collected phones and had a whole coat check system. Thankfully, facebook was only for college people, so nothing catastrophic ever happened
Yes, but ours were usually much much more casual and in much smaller houses. TV makes everyone look rich. Broke people have parties too, but they're chips/dip and BYOB. Also, without the jocks vs. nerds.
My husband was just telling a story this weekend about when he was "ninth grade cool". Right before a party a cute girl asked if he had the new Prince album. He said yes and then begged his mom to take him to Sound Warehouse to buy it. Unwrapped it, shoved it in his pocket, and got dropped at the party. "Cool! What's your favorite song?" "Uhh, the first one."
Sad that kids now don't have that experience.
Do kids still go parking?
Do kids still go parking?
So many kids today don't want to drive or learn to drive π€·ββοΈ And based on my partners' kids, they're much less sexually driven than we were. We did a bunch of stupid shit if there was a hint of a chance of getting laid.
My neighbors gen z kids for the last 3 years had parties like this all the freaking time.... so yeah they still happens. Maybe its just less common.
There was always the ad-hoc couple inspecting each other tonsils over in the corner.
Totally never did that myself, nuh-uh.
