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"Party era" codename feminist promiscuous women and their consequence free murdering of the unborn is what got us here. Don’t blame the next generation, blame the ones who raised them.
Damn i lost the good times, i really love dancing and im dying to get my license to go to clubes and partes.. but my fear is thinking i dance cool in my head but in the outside they laugh or record a video without my permission and become a meme 😢
that really sucks. I'm old now but in my 20s and early 30s I danced my ass off. glad I got to do that part of my life without having to worry about someone filming me for some tik tok video. I danced so much, I got really good at it.
@@Band_Aid_Man_ so that means I can't dance anymore.... hate the people for making fun of others, now you can't do anything cause you're cringe, hope one day I find a club with phone restriction :)
I was thinking about this the other day, party culture is decadent, we need strong families. Also I don't think people would isolate but have more intimate meetings
For alot of us, party culture seems to just have alot of degenerate behaviour. More and more light of it goes by with the internet too. Dont get me wrong ive been to frat parties and had great times, but I also knew most of the people and it was a tight group that kept each other accountable.
Im almost 40 years old. Ive to point in life its not worth going out and getting trashed anymore. I rather go to bed early. Go to the gym and ride my road and mountain bike.
another reason why party culture is dead it's because it has to do with preventing disabilities like blindness (caused by flashing lights) or deafness (caused by loud music) from happening
I was a bartender in a high volume night club in Honolulu through this era. It was nutty. The low cut waist pants chicks wore with rhinestone covered t mobile sidekicks. Kanye. And every single person was doing hella yayo.
The consumption of music changed. You needed to go somewhere to listen. Then radio happened but still the best access was going out. ITunes and Spotify killed the way we enjoy music so the songs don't ever talk about clubs and such cause it's rarely there.
well this video taught this gen x er a few things. that was interesting to hear. usually i ignore the younger generations like a red headed step child ( i know thats not pc but i cant help it) but from now on im going to take their complaints more seriously. i think i feel bad for you young folks but due to my numbness and Nihilism from the whole gen x thing its going to be difficult to express it
I love this! I am 49 years old and first heard this when my friend called me a granola girl in 1993! I had no idea what this meant but she said my broom skirts paired with save the earth t shirts and long flowing hair was a good example. Thanks for sharing!
Ppl are probably thinking about how there seems to be a lot of deaths when in a crowd of around ppl and not all young ppl want to die ...they get to shooting to much to think it safe to be doing that stuff in the dark times we are in...younger ppl like to be to trigger happy and don't have their emotions in check enough to talk about things instead of giving up their own life and freedom for nonsense.
Music festivals are a booming industry larger than ever before... party culture isn't dead. Segmented numbers of the generation are isolated sure but the numbers of music festival attendance even post-c***d are more than ever before
It's interesting to me that u seem critique clubs and bars as being places where ine can't use senses. Yet, it's jamming and dancing to music in clubs that allows people to feel the music in another way. Moving with other bodies is an awesome way to connect with people. Alcohol drinks can be enjoyed when you're not just trying to get drunk. You can indeed USE your senses.
People say it’s dead but every time i happen to go out to a club it is PACKED… now are most people just standing around… yes unfortunately, but people are there
The smartphone. This is when everyone started carrying their whole identity and connection to the world around in their hand. It's when reality actually became virtual.
“Technology” is the comfortable scapegoat, but there are other less comfortable trends people don’t discuss Lack of incentives compared to before: In the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s the main reason people would go to clubs was to get laid. But the shame culture behind sex has increased dramatically; most now consider drunken anonymous sex to be rape, or rape when someone regrets it. Maybe society is better without that, but parties and clubbing is going to be the cost of that because that’s the main reason why people did both. Basically, parties and clubs weren’t primarily about making friends, they were the exciting time where “getting laid” was possible. The whole culture around sex has been re-written in a very short time and the things they incentivize (parties and clubs) are the casualties. 2. Infantilization - in the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s, when you were 16-18, you were an adult. You could join the army, smoke, drink (depending on where you lived, if you were under age it was still no problem to get alcohol), get a car, and basically had unlimited freedom. In the ages of 10-16 kids also had WAY more freedom than today. In 1994, 12 year olds were the babysitters; in 2024 14 year olds need babysitters. Parents would dump their kids outside, and there was often a struggle to get them to come in to eat supper with the family. Now, kids are locked up-the technology is not the reason, it’s merely a tool parents use so they don’t have to deal with their kids for the length of time they have them locked inside like 4 year olds. Many adults are mostly frightened of adult things, and outright demonize them like some PSA (that we all used to make fun of). 3. Why technology is not the issue: kids had technology in the 80s and 90s too, TV, video games, computers, ICQ, and so on. There were other things as well, kids read a lot (I think kids still read, just not as many); but that didn’t stop most from socializing-there were always a few of those “helicopter parents” though that treated their kids like 98% of parents do today… those kids were more infantilized, read comics as teenagers, didn’t go to parties, didn’t make friends… and they were always miserable. Somehow, that culture just grew and grew. The thing is, eventually those helicopter patented kids had ways out of their parental enforced prisons because the rest of society functioned differently - now there’s little escape, kids grow up and expect to stay relatively childish through adulthood. Essentially, kids stay kids until 18-20, and are socially stunted, and immature. In short: • Demonization of promiscuity and redefining sexual encounters takes away most of the excitement of what can happen at parties and clubs (for men and women). • Infantilization by helicopter parenting becoming mainstream socially stunted a generation. Made them afraid/shun adult and social culture. • Technology is only a scapegoat because it’s an easy and comfortable one. But distraction technology has been widely available since at least the 1960s. There’s just more cultural incentives to use it to burn time like 19th century people did with religion and opium. Last, a much expanded group of friends is the side effect of parties and clubbing. You meet a lot of people, and it’s kind of a feedback loop because the more people you know, the more you party/go out. And you’ll probably do a lot of other things too, dating, sports, exercise clubs, hanging out, and so on.
I'm 29 years old and I just have never really clicked with alot of people. But it started from a very young age, I just remember not liking that kids would act a certain way around me, and then act totally different when they were around a group of kids. I still don't like that shit into my adult life, but I remember thinking they were just fake as shit from such a young age that I guess it made me just not bond with anyone. I have made a good friend through a previous job that I still regularly see, his daughter and my daughter are friends, and I would consider him a close friend. But that didn't happen until my adult life in my early 20's. I also have never engaged with social media, ever since I was young I just viewed it as intrusive I guess, youtube comments is literally the closest I get, so that was just never a factor with me. Also I am from a very small village, my graduating class was only 36 people, I figured that would also add a little context.
I feel so fucking lonely and empty. I need a friend, to talk to, joke with, go for an ice cream, walk in the park. Used to have a couple very close friends (introverts like me), but lost everything due to moving to a new country.
Younger Millenial here (1994). Alcohol/drugs were a part of the scene ofc, but at least in my experience, no one really pressured me into it? If you e wanted to drink etc. you did it, if not, oh well. But what I miss the most is the dancing! People now don't want to dance. And Im not a great dancer myself, but for clubs you dont really need to be 😅
Grew up in the 80's and 90's and yeah. . . you guys got F'D over BAD. Real bad. I'm very sorry. The gov is evil, and everything going on today is socially engineering people to opt out and destroy the middle class. If you're not old enough, you don't remember the time's before, the way things were before the internet and social media, and all this divisive bs going on today. You're not tripping, your future WAS 100% sabotaged. Please hang in there, seek the Lord Jesus Christ. Don't cringe at that like i used to. He will open your eyes up to the Truth of what is happening in the world today, why, and by whom.
Millennial here (lol I always wanted to say that so cringe), my peak teen years were 2010-2014. My sisters were the it girls, got all the invites and had to take me with them. Initially I was a wallflower but eventually grew comfortable enough with our crew to dance my little heart out. Instagram didn’t have video, Facebook was still relatively new and hadn’t quite been adopted by the boomers yet. I don’t think vine even existed yet, there was just RU-vid and basically no one had a RU-vid channel. Anywho fast forward and my gen z cousin had his grad party, and it just struck my as so odd and off putting that as soon as you could feel that people were vibing and having fun on the dance floor one of the kids or a mom would come right up to the dance floor and start recording everybody. It was like roaches scattering it the light, so many people just took off because they didn’t want to be haunted 20 years from now, and also it’s just downright uncomfortable.
Millennial here (lol I always wanted to say that so cringe), my peak teen years were 2010-2014. My sisters were the it girls, got all the invites and had to take me with them. Initially I was a wallflower but eventually grew comfortable enough with our crew to dance my little heart out. Instagram didn’t have video, Facebook was still relatively new and hadn’t quite been adopted by the boomers yet. I don’t think vine even existed yet, there was just RU-vid and basically no one had a RU-vid channel. Anywho fast forward and my gen z cousin had his grad party, and it just struck my as so odd and off putting that as soon as you could feel that people were vibing and having fun on the dance floor one of the kids or a mom would come right up to the dance floor and start recording everybody. It was like roaches scattering it the light, so many people just took off because they didn’t want to be haunted 20 years from now, and also it’s just downright uncomfortable
It's the expense. I'm 37 and had my party/club years from like 2009-2018. Drinks used to be $6-$8 for a decent cocktail. Now that has inflated to $12-$15. That's not even including cover, parking, and food. The last time I went out clubbing after Covid, it quickly turned into a $200 night. It just isn't worth it.
Dear Gen Z’ers: start a party where people put their phones into lockers in order to enter the party. Enjoy. I wouldn’t be okay with having my party days recorded and scrutinized either.
I legit remember watching the decline of club culture. At 19 years old, I went to college in NYC in 2010. Prior to this, I went to teen clubs when I was in high school starting as young as 13 years old. People had fun! They danced a lot and got really into it... Then somewhere between 2010 and 2015... The club culture began to die. Popular clubs closed and people weren't dancing at the clubs that were left... In the meatpacking district, (an area in NYC well known for it's night life) I distinctly remember noticing and commenting on the fact people were too concerned with "looking cool". This pressure to look cool, rather than just have fun, turned off people like me from going. I genuinely think you can link the decline of clubs with the rise in social media... People were no longer concerned with having fun. They only had fun if it was manufactured to look good... and that has only gotten worse over time.
A large swath of gen z doesn't know how to have fun because they're terrified of adulthood. This is present in every generation, it's just caused and expressed differently.
I'm a millennial born in the early 90's. Party culture wasn't my thing at all. I kinda felt lonely there as well, since everyone was always after partying and drinking (which not the other people's fault though). But everytime I had some problems, the solution that was suggested mostly was "bro, get some drink and party with us!". Even though, it came from a good place, I had to reject. Right now, I feel more understood and heard, but on the other hand people are just unrelaxed and crazy (probably because of things you mentioned) 😅
gworl I’m Gen Z in LA and I go clubbing all the time lmao there are tons of people who go clubbing every week still…if you want to go clubbing just give it a try with someone you trust if you are able
Social media, Hollywood, Celebrity culture, and social hierarchy has completely destroyed Gen Z and will destroy Gen Alpha. We’ll 100% resort back to using flip phones, IPods, BlackBerry phones, etc. Technology is going to unfortunately fall down a pit in innovation. Nobody has the money to maintain all of the product and services that are pumped out for us consumers. We’re tired. Clubbing and party culture became a social media game. Social media is a game for popularity and the need to overshare personal information and also to create a social pyramid where creativity is dead. Art isn’t made for art, it’s made for consumers. Over saturation, everyone is blended to the point that individualism is dead. I’ll be honest, we’re all going to start rebelling soon. Boredom is going to cause us to desire chaos. I wouldn’t be surprised if we start seeing people resort from going to clubs and partying inside abandoned building or infrastructures instead. There will be a black and white disparity between one collective vs the other collective. It’s the same pandemic we had in the 60’s when you had revolutionary groups like hippies, yippees, black panther, etc vs the prim and proper educated and working class. The only difference is that we have more subcultures of groups and also more access to technology which would create even more evolution in revolution. I rather go to a worn down factory and see underground artists perform vs seeing a celebrity perform at a stadium. We need to be frugal and innovative with how we view and consume entertainment and art. We don’t have the finances for what we could have anymore. The future is here now, but nobody sees it.
Yeah I agree the music now is just so soulless especially Hiphop and pop it’s all about drugs and shooting your opps or like bragging out money and having lots of sex. Even the songs that are supposed to be happy sound sad still
