Gen Z college students roasted for truly bone-chilling party trend

Shots, shots, shots — but not the kind millennials remember.With back-to-school season in full swing, college campuses are once again packed with welcome back bashes, football games and frat parties.However, college parties are looking less “Animal House” these days, according to one viral video.The social media clip — posted by Aydan Child, whose bio claims “it’s all about balance” — shows what looks like any typical “darty” (Gen Z slang for “day party”) at first glance, with young men and women packed on a fraternity’s front lawn.But the video tells a different story, with attendees dressed in workout attire and stretching on yoga mats, before swarming the streets for a group run.The on-screen caption proclaims, “Imagine explaining a wellness darty to someone who went to college in 2012.”Those people who did go to college in 2012 — and the 2000s — are, to put it lightly, baffled.But they hardly think Gen Z is superior for their healthier happenings.In fact, they’re roasting the younger generation pretty hard for — as they see it — not doing college parties right.One went so far as to call the display “truly bone-chilling.”“As someone who went to college in 2012, this is actually very difficult to comprehend,” another X user wrote.
“We did bra/underwear runs (but those were only a mile, and we were drinking the whole time.)”Many are lamenting the lack of alcohol and poor choices that were the hallmarks of parties enjoyed by previous generations.“Please, I was pregaming at 7 am,” one TikTok user wrote, while another said that they “used to down double bottles on Barefoot pink moscato every weekend in 2015.”One noted that, in 2009, “wellness” was “drinking a vitamin water as a chaser.”Yet another simply stated that “a darty without drinking is just group fitness.Change my mind, and [let me know] when the drinking starts.”Others jokingly posited that perhaps the wellness darty was actually an ec...