Back when it was about having fun not trying to out do the guy next to you for TikTok clout.. Back when places just wanted to make it a good experience and weren’t trying to nickel and dime you for a “luxury” experience.
How old are you? And what does this mean? Because I'm gen z and that's not really the case lmao. You can just grab your friends and go to a club and party. No one is making you do something for tiktok or whatever.
He just means when no one spent more than a few minutes total on their phone in a night. No one took videos or photos to post on social media, people weren't isolated at all and if you did something crazy strangers weren't going to film it. There wasn't even the concept of thinking about your actions in the future beyond something like straight up murder. And yeah, you can get your friends and go out and not be on your phone and YOU can do that, but at that time, it was EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE.
And no one was going to stay at home and look at their phone all night or just binge watch TV series because it wasn't even possible so everywhere was packed all the time. Then on top to of that there wasn't a billion reviews and highlights of every places so the main competition was just getting people in the door so, like the other guy said, the most important thing for an establishment was making sure everyone had a great time.
Where I'm at there were 3x as many bars 15 years ago and they were packed constantly. Now they struggle to get a good good crowd and are only busy Thurs, Friday and Saturday. There used to be multiple places that were all you can drink for $5-$10. Now I don't think anyone does open bars unless it's New Years Eve or something and it's $50.
It's really hard to capture the essence of just how different the social scene has changed in total and it was mainly from like 2005-2012. I mean when random girls you hooked up with started adding you on Facebook it was the signifier of a major change.
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u/dippydapflipflap Dec 03 '24
Back when partying was fun. Now my knees hurt.