Brett Cooper

All right, all of this really started with a Reddit post that went semi-viral over the summer.

We even talked about this in a live stream like eight months ago, right after it was posted.

But a Gen Z user on the subreddit r slash Gen X posted this question.

Embarrassed Knee 1919 said, were parties like this ever a thing?

And then he posted this screen grab from a movie.

I'm not exactly sure which one.

Feels like it's probably some John Hughes thing.

I have no idea.

I'm gonna have people who are older than me jumping down my throat for this.

No, but anyway, he posts this screenshot and says, I love 90s and 2000s movies so much.

And all of these teen movies have one of these big party scenes and they look so fun.

I'm Gen Z and I've never been to anything like this.

So was this a thing that just doesn't happen anymore?

Or is it just Hollywood trying to make me hate my life more?

Like, damn, I know that when that post hit that subreddit, he made all of those redditors feel old, but this is such a valid question coming from my generation.

One person said, yep, and we'd actually talk to each other.

Unlike now, where kids just send each other those stupid Tic Tacs and listen to WhatsApp, Ricky, or whatever the F he's called.

But the Gen Zer who asked that question was far from the only person in that subreddit who had the same query.

Somebody else said, these were the teen adult years that I was promised as a child watching movies and TVs.

We used to be a proper country that knew how to party together.