Why do normies like parties and festivals and other large group gatherings so much?

What do you expect.
Where do you live? Japan?

albeit he isnt wrong, most normal people are very boring and have virtually zero personality, a life or hobbies outside of work or school

Normies don't do this retard. See brony conventions.

bavaria org

I guess normies don't breathe oxygen because bronies do that too?

Stop being gaslighting retards.
Or are Americans just very introverted?
How is it that much different in Bavaria. Then what do normalfags do there?

The good ol' United States of America.

I don't use social media at all

Except for this social media

And you're probably here the majority of your time, aren't you?

Your individual anecdotal evidence doesn't prove what you think it does. All you're proving is that "some people" go to parties. You do'nt have a large enough data sample to prove whether or not they're normies, and you don't have a large enough sample to say if the remaining portion of normies go to parties with any real frequency.
If you knew anything about America, you'd know it's one of the most extraverted places around.
But, still, the average person aka normies doesn't party with any real frequency.

i bought tickets to the gathering of the juggalos (discounted to $100 from $300 so I bought them early)
I find most parties to be a drag due to the pretentiousness most people have but they're fun when you're around a bunch of people who keep it real. Hopefully juggalos are like that lmao

Why do normies like parties and festivals and other large group gatherings so much?

I hypothesize that they associate such things with good feelings and sexual encounters, and thus seek them out. Furthermore it may be because they, being normies, have several irl friends who they spend time with, acting as a communications network, and thus go as groups to such events because one person in the network is alerted to such an activity.

the average person aka normies doesn't party with any real frequency

Aren't college age americans notorious for partying too hard?

And you're probably here the majority of your time, aren't you?

Sure but most people don't use this and it isn't traditional social media like instagram and tiktok.

Your individual anecdotal evidence doesn't prove what you think it does. All you're proving is that "some people" go to parties. You do'nt have a large enough data sample to prove whether or not they're normies, and you don't have a large enough sample to say if the remaining portion of normies go to parties with any real frequency.

Okay. Is there a stat that disproves what I'm saying. I hear normies talk about partying all the time. I haven't gone to a party that wasn't birthday or holiday related in over 5 years. Every friday I overhear people talk about going to a party that night. I see ads referencing it.
The rare times I have opened tiktoks it was normies talk about shit you do when you meet a lot of people or go to festivals. Tickets in my city are always sold out etc.

Why would I have any reason to think anything other than normies being absolute party animals????

If you knew anything about America, you'd know it's one of the most extraverted places around.

Doesn't sound like it. The way you describe it sounds like the average american is a robot that doesn't go outside or never checks social media.

not only are you right OP, but people shouldn't party or celebrate birthdays and holidays either. that's pointless normie slop.

gaslighting faggots. Why do you waste your time with this stuff?

I went back in the mid-00's as a teenager, it was fun then
The average younger social person spends time in a group setting with other people on a regular basis, whether it's a "party" or otherwise

I think you misunderstood the point of the post. OP was asking the question in good faith to generate discussion and sharing of experiences, not attempting to cast judgement or police what other people do.

They get offended when you question their habits.

Incels love misusing the term gaslight, it loses all meaning when incels use it. It's just a buzzword for "I don't like what you say!!!!"
The average person hangs out with friends, that's nothing like a party though. And most people hang out in groups of like 2 or 3 for a couple hours here and there.
Saying "the average person has friends" is completely different from "the average person parties all the time". One of them is true, and the other is a hyperbolic lie.

The people who spend a large amount of time going to parties are a tiny, tiny minority of people. It's probably like 5-10% of the population. Absolutely not normal at all.
This is what happens when you get your knowledge of the world through social media posts. you wind up with this skewed understanding of what the average person is doing. The average person does not post their life on social media. It's just a very vocal, small minority of people.

This is what happens when you get your knowledge of the world through social media posts. you wind up with this skewed understanding of what the average person is doing. The average person does not post their life on social media. It's just a very vocal, small minority of people.

kys even if you are baiting.
I get this from talking to people or overhearing what they talk about.
I don't use any social media that the average person uses.

Better of people like that to just leave than to post.

I don't use any social media that the average person uses.

He posted on Anon Babble.org

You people are so deluded.

Young people find it exciting, you meet a lot of people and basically everyones in a good mood and on drugs/drinking alcohol. Chads can pickup, average dudes hook up once in a while.

I liked parties so long as I had at least a couple of close friends with me, I hated nightclubs, I really enjoyed hanging out with my friend group drinking and smoking weed.

t.autist

The average person does not post on Anon Babble.

It's probably like 5-10% of the population. Absolutely not normal at all.

It's probably closer to half of college aged people who are in the position to do so (live in dorms, on spring break, etc)

I'd estimate no larger than 25% at most, assuming half the college aged population are women, and more half of the men are Chad/Chadlites/HTNs/normies.

You know this place is full of tourists when they're trying to convince themselves that it's "social media" on par with TikTok or instagram, or even twitter/reddit. Being pseudonymous with no accounts already changes things greatly. This place is less "social media" than traditional Internet forums were. Imagine if you could add "friends" here lmao it would really cement the transition to "colony for 14 year olds to screencap for discord"

Only a few thousand people use Anon Babble everyday.
Instagram tiktok and facebook probably take up the majority internet traffic.
Anon Babble is maybe at most 0.1% of it.

and more half of the men are Chad/Chadlites/HTNs/normies.

You people invent labels just to pretend you're not the same as individuals in these imaginary groups

I hated nightclubs

Why so?

Parties are the best place to meet women. Any girl you try to pick up will have her guard down because you're assumed to be a friend of a friend so somebody at the party can vouch for you.

We are the same species and gender but the differences occur at the level of social existence and looks. For instance, there is a difference between you and the most popular person at your workplace/in your class/friendgroup/all of the above.

They're too loud to speak to people and I don't like dancing. I did like one small nightclub which had a large 'smoking area' where you could chill and talk. I'm genuinly autistic and had plently of socially awkward experiences.

You're turning something people DO into something people ARE to support a worldview that doesn't reflect reality, like kids on TikTok who think wearing some clothes is an "aesthetic" and by default lumps you in somehow with a group (it doesn't)

"colony for 14 year olds to screencap for discord"

kek

you meet a lot of people

Why is that good?
I don't find girls like that attractive even.
What kind of parties were the non nightclub like? I imagine house parties being similar to that.

Eh? People don't "do" popular, they "are" popular. People "have" sex because they "are" good looking.

worldview that doesn't reflect reality

In what way? Are you saying that popularity and social hierarchies don't exist in reality? Because this is what I refer to.

What do you talk about when you went to chill and talk?

there are normies whos only purpose in life is working , going to parties and using social media. none of them can explain why going to a place with loud music and drinking with their friends 5 times a week is fun

Oh I didn't mean 5 times a week.
But usually every weekend like 1-2 times.

No way. Maybe half of the college kids at specific unis. But if you take all college kids across the country, it's probably like 15% at max. Especially when you consider things like community colleges and small state colleges. Which make up a vast majority of college kids.
There's a specific subset of college kids who party. Namely rich trustfund kids and kids born with silver spoons in their mouths. Which are not normies. They're the Chads and Stacies of it all. They're the minority, the tiny minority. Chad is NOT a normie. Stacy is NOT a normie. These types of people are no the average.
The normies are putting themselves through college, working full time and doing college part time/full time. They don't have time to party. Literally.
Oh, you don't use youtube, or Twitch, or any other video streaming sites? You don't use discord?
Anon Babble is the only website in your browsing history? Interesting cope you have there.

But usually every weekend like 1-2 times.

No. The average person does not party even a single time a week. Maybe like 1 time a year. And that's a big maybe. I'm not counting things like kids parties, or family gatherings.
but, incels think that Chad is a normie.
So I mean, I can't expect much from them...

You're too stupid to understand, midwit with a cope worldview as usual

They don't have time to party. Literally.

I'm not american but even the people who worked and studied somehow had time to attend parties/social events semi-regularly and had active social lives. They weren't rich either.

The average person does not party even a single time a week.

What about the average young person? Because its true that the average person just works.

If I'm so "stupid" with a "cope" worldview it should be easy for an intellectually superior being such as yourself to point out the glaring flaws in it. You had an opportunity to and didn't so it logically follows that you are, in fact, projecting.

I was broke in my 20's and Anon Babble-level introverted and even I had to go to more than 5-10 small get-togethers every year as basic participation in my social circles, the idea that "normies don't do this" is laughable and I think it stems from the fact that tourists here have destroyed the meaning of the word normie. Some little retard discovers this site in a twitter meme he saw reposted on TikTok and comes here to share his deep, philosophical views--many such cases

conflating actions with identity to cleanly delineate himself from other groups arbitrarily according to... no coherent rationale

uhh but dey ARE popular tho?

You're not even posting in good faith. You are willfully stupid. The best measure of being right is in the predictive value of your view, and the only motive I could have to change your view is in helping you, exploring my own thoughts further, or defending myself against petty insults, but at the end of the day you're on the path you're on and no amount of arguing will change where that takes you

Many such cases indeed.

even I had to go to more than 5-10 small get-togethers every year as basic participation in my social circles

May I ask what type of get togethers these were?

How can you even exist as a late teen or early 20-something and find yourself in a group of 5+ outside of a school setting on a weekend without someone showing up with beer/weed every now and then

I'm not saying 0% of the people who work full time and study full time don't party. I'm sure there's a good handful of them that do party a lot. But those people are the fringe. They are a miniscule minority of the population.

What about the average young person?

I'd say it's about 15% maybe, MAYBE 20% of them party. That's being super generous though.

You can graph this out pretty clearly. Take a bell curve, the average person "a normie" takes up the 68% in the middle. They exist between -1d and 1d. That's your normies. The portion of these people that party with any sort of frequency, is very low. Your Chads are going to exist in the realm around +4d. They party a lot. Probably once or twice a week. Then on the opposite side we have -4d, that's your bookworms, incels, etc. They party not at all. Don't even attend social gatherings.
The average person has probably been to a party. But it's not something tehy do with any sort of frequency.

But, most people here misuse the term normie to mean "anyone I don't like" rather than "the average/the normal/the mean". Which is what it should mean. Normie is just a virtue signal.

easy examples are already mentioned ITT: birthdays, graduations, weddings, holidays
small parties, people will use any excuse

There's a specific subset of college kids who party. Namely rich trustfund kids and kids born with silver spoons in their mouths. Which are not normies. They're the Chads and Stacies of it all. They're the minority, the tiny minority. Chad is NOT a normie. Stacy is NOT a normie. These types of people are no the average.

I went to school with these people. What a horrible fucking experience

Why is it good to meet a lot of people? Because, especially for young people finally being old enough for some independace, it's when you can meet people who weren't where you had to be but where you choose to. Even old people go on holidays, stereotypically cruises, once they retire and they have a lot of fun meeting new people. You appreaciate your close friends but there's only so many conversations to be had/stories to be told. You genrally ask people questions about themselves, they reciprocate if interested but you talk about whaever, current events, sports, what taste in media you like. Mostly it's just very casual fun conversation with people letting loose a bit and making jokes. If you're naturally funny people love you. There usually a couple of sad drunks so you can go be a therapist if you want.

House parties are a bunch of people who know the host well enough to be invited plus thier gf/bf if they have one. Usually you know most people or have heard of them (unless you're the +1 gf/bf). Sometimes the can get 'crashed' and things get wild which sucks because it is someones home.If you've been to a kids birthday party its like that but for adults.

But, most people here misuse the term normie to mean "anyone I don't like" rather than "the average/the normal/the mean". Which is what it should mean. Normie is just a virtue signal.

This is the assessment of a tourist who is defining terms to suit his views

conflating actions with identity

Wha? Someone is Chad/Chadlite/HTN (identity) based on characteristics such as sex life, standing within social groups, ease of social interaction, popularity, respect. These are labels made to describe people who display patterns of behaviour based on other patterns in their physical appearance which then in a cyclical way influence and are influenced by other patterns in how they are treated by others.

to cleanly delineate himself from other groups arbitrarily according to... no coherent rationale

Its about describing patterns.

delineate himself

Cart before the horse.

The best measure of being right is in the predictive value of your view

I agree. The "view" that I allude to has predicted 8 o'clock at 7:30 in many such cases.

Hi anon you might have replied to the wrong anon?

Wha? Someone is Chad/Chadlite/HTN (identity) based on characteristics such as sex life, standing within social groups, ease of social interaction, popularity, respect. These are labels made to describe people who

Arbitrary definitions for words to create what is in your mind a coherent narrative but which in the end describes nothing but the fact that you don't socialize enough to see why your assessment is wrong

The only kind of person who could even hold such a view is a young person who gets all of his opinions second hand at best from the Internet

Helllo, I'm this anon, anon.

They are a miniscule minority of the population.

My experience was a bit different, even my colleague who had a hard life spent time to party with his religion-based student club. Although tbf I have no empirical studies to back up my claim, would you happen to have any?

You can graph this out pretty clearly.

Thats an interesting assumption, that frequency of attending fun social gatherings(?) is a normal distribution with the average being "once a year". I'd disagree though and estimate the average about once a week for young people, counting bar hopping on the weekend with friends, DnD, house parties, based on personal observations. You are welcome to cite personal anecdotes and statistics to support your hypothesis though.

normie to mean "anyone I don't like" rather than "the average/the normal/the mean"

I'd say normie = not the ingroup = people with functional social lives, which tbf is the average otherwise the rate of societal collapse would be a lot faster than it is now.

Spoken like someone who just got called out. Don't cope in my presence, thank you.

called out

on Anon Babble

Sorry this was meant for you. Fucked that up didn't I lol

but the fact that you don't socialize enough

Unfortunately you are incorrect, I have had "an active social life" for work and hobby-related reasons and base my views partly on what I have observed with an open mind. Even the "normies" agree with my views, they talk a lot about social dynamics and drama, you'd be surprised.

to see why your assessment is wrong

I'm curious, how so? What are your credentials?

Age/race/location? If you have to lie, you know you're wrong

This information is irrelevant to a rational discussion about why I am supposedly wrong unless you explain yourself as to why it isn't.

I see, could I ask about how you met the group of people who you hung out with?

Iol that's what I thought

I genuinely can't interpret your sudden insistence to know what age/race/location I am in other than as an evasion tactic because you can't actually prove me wrong.

My experience was a bit different

Thankfully for your experience, you haven't met a majority of the population. You are probably in a place where party culture is big. Like in a big liberal city, such as somewhere in cali.

would you happen to have any?

I highly doubt there are any real studies on this, because it's not worth the funding to study.
There is this:
theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/
Which is not a study. But does say that around 5% of people party with any real frequency. Which is significantly below what I'm assuming.

that frequency of attending fun social gatherings(?) is a normal distribution with the average being "once a year"

That's about what it is. Most people just don't party. There is a very small subset of people who party very frequently, and they are not normies. Though, within the population of "partiers" there are some normies. But again, they are the minority of the minority.
If you've ever been to parties, you don't see normies there. You see Chads and Stacies. This is especially true in the college scene.

There is an opposite side to this spectrum, which is the parties held by the underbellies of society. Like out in the middle of nowhere in some dudes garage where everyone is doing blow, xanax, drinking alcohol where the air is 99% weed smoke. But this is a tiny minority too.
Then there's the 3rd "party" which is 3 or 4 friends get together and go to a designated friend's house, smoke weed, maybe drink and play vidya. But, you can hardly even call that a party. It's just some friends hanging out.

I've been to all three of these. I can tell you, the people who actually party, like college frat parties, is a tiny, tiny minority of people. Those parties usually have like ~100 people in them and it's always the same people.
It's the same people that go to clubs, these are tiny minorities of people, and they're not normies usually.

I genuinely can't interpret

Because you are dumb and can't answer the question without lying or undermining your credibility

You are probably in a place where party culture is big. Like in a big liberal city,

Yes and no, we don't have a "party culture" but it is a big city.

theatlantic.com/family/archive/2025/01/throw-more-parties-loneliness/681203/

Thank you! Fuck unfortunately its under a paywall but the 1st paragraph mentioned "1 in 8 americans not having friends and the rest not seeing our friends". That is interesting. I wonder what sources they are using, do you know how to view the article despite the paywall?

If you've ever been to parties, you don't see normies there. You see Chads and Stacies.

From my experience, it depends on the venue, but yes most people who go to the generic "party" at a bar, pool, or nightclub are Chads, Chadlites, and HTNs.
However house parties often contain a mix of people, similar to the underbelly parties you mention. They are larger than the 3 or 4 friends hanging out thing.

Those parties usually have like ~100 people in them and it's always the same people.

It's the same people that go to clubs, these are tiny minorities of people, and they're not normies usually.
That is fascinating, so its basically the same group of individuals, Chad et al., who went to all the parties in the area? Were you friends with them?

Anon you are too dumb to answer my question and type out your age, race, and location.

C'mon I'm not that dumb.

can't answer the question

Eh I thought I was asking you the question: how is my worldview wrong? Why is my age, race, and location relevant to you providing a clear answer?

C'mon I'm not that dumb.

Not calling you a fed, I'm just saying I'm smart enough to know how to type (most of the time).

we don't have a "party culture"

That doesn't make sense. If you don't have a party culture, you wouldn't see a lot of people going to parties.
Though, I suspect, what you're actually saying is that since you live in a large city with a large population, even if only 1% of the population partied frequently, it would seem like a lot more people. Just because of the large population of the city. If you live in a city of like 500k people, if 1% of the population parties every weekend, that's 5000 people. And from the perspective of one person, in yourself, 5000 is a lot of people and skews the perspective to seem like everyone (or even just the majority of people) parties every weekend.

do you know how to view the article despite the paywall?

I do not, I'd imagine you can fool around with the inspect element if you're versed in HTML and get around the paywall. Sadly, I am not.

However house parties

I'll give you that the majority of house parties is mostly just normal people. Just your average joes. But that's rare. House parties don't happen anywhere near as often as they used to. The average person doesn't go to a house party every week, or even every month. It's probably something like once or twice a year. It's the same bell curve as before. The average person might do 1 house party a year.

who went to all the parties in the area?

People from all over show up. Sometimes randoms show up that weren't invited, it's hard to really say though. The parties I went to was always the same groups of people, + or - one or two other groups and then occasionally a random group that caught wind.

Typically I was friends with the host, or I knew someone who was friends with the host. Then there was my friend group of like 4 or 5 people, then there'd be a few other groups of the same size, I wasn't really friends with the other groups but I knew of them most of the time, prior to the party. Like I knew of them from school or something like that.

That doesn't make sense. If you don't have a party culture, you wouldn't see a lot of people going to parties

Sorry I meant "party culture" as in "stereotypical American college campus party culture".

If you live in a city of like 500k people, if 1% of the population parties every weekend, that's 5000 people

Could be, I agree that the vast majority of people do not go to big social events frequently because they are either too young or too old. However among the youth, Id say that most of my peers, who are not 1st generation immigrants from a 3rd world country, have fairly active social lives due mainly to friend groups from college and highschool (or public clubs). It's the working middle age adults and old people who are more lonely.

The average person doesn't go to a house party every week, or even every month.

So your peers don't go to house parties? What do they do with their friends then?

the same groups of people

What would you describe as the characteristics of these groups?

So your peers don't go to house parties?

Nope, and all the parties I went to was in my mid 20s. After that, everyone stopped.

What do they do with their friends then?

Nobody really has friends anymore. Once we all hit our 30s, people moved, everyone got jobs, kids, etc. When I hang out with my friends, which is like once every few months, we just go out to eat, or I go fishing with my other friend.
The party groups all broke up.

What would you describe as the characteristics of these groups?

Usually 4 men 1 woman, which was someone's wife/gf. Or 4 women and 1 man, that was usually gay.
My group was me (weirdo), my brother (weirdo), our friend (chadlite), his brother(weirdo), and chadlites wife (kinda normie but kinda weird).
The other group we saw all the time was a guy (normie), his wife (stacylite), their gay friend(freak), the female friend of the gay guy, she banged everyone (The girl next whore(it's a pun)), and the chick who was always on xanax(fat, uggo).
Then there was the dealer group, they were like chad-lites except one guy who was a meth head.
Pretty much everyone was white, mexican, or a mix of both.

There was a lot of drama between the groups, like the friend from my group cheated on his wife with the girl who bangs everyone from the gay dudes group. And Stacylite wanted to bang Chadlite's brother from our group and it broke up her marriage to normie.

There was a lot more people though, so it's hard to get everyone and it's been a long time. The groups were all very different and showed up to different parties. Like if group A hosted, you could guarantee group C wouldn't show up. But if group B hosted, both A and C would show up and like 4 other groups. It was weird.