Do you remember what you were doing in 2016? The year is stirring up serious nostalgia on social media. On TikTok, the phrase “2026 is the new 2016” is trending, with many people sharing videos about ...

The first two weeks of 2026 have sparked a wave of nostalgia online, with social media users enthusiastically revisiting a decade old version of themselves. From grainy iPhone photos to overused ...

It might be a new year, but social media users are already feeling nostalgic. It's only two weeks into 2026, but social media users are already feeling nostalgic and throwing it back to 2016 in a ...

A viral social media trend has people digging through their camera rolls, hoping to find the picture (or pictures) that best capture what their lives were like a decade ago. Snapchat filters, chokers ...

You’d think there’d be more excitement around the new year—we’re only three weeks in, people!—but instead everyone’s occupied with plumbing the depths of their camera rolls for relics of their 2016 ...

In my mind, 2016 was not a year to feel nostalgic about. Trump was elected, and in the land of the Beckhams, Charli XCX, and Emily Blunt, Brexit happened. And speaking of celebrities, that year we ...

It's all happening! Champagne Pop by Becca, bling chokers, and lace-up tops are coming back for round two. If there was one thing that everybody owned in 2016, it was an off-the-shoulder top. This ...

Measles was eradicated in the Americas, Beyoncé made “Lemonade” and liberal hopes were high for the first woman president. Voters were encouraged to Pokémon Go to the polls. Remember 2016? A decade on ...

The internet is collectively rewinding from 2026 back to 2016. As we settle into the new year, a growing number of social media users have participated in an online trend that goes heavy on nostalgia.

Over the holidays, the first trend of 2026 emerged: the year 2016. “2026 is the new 2016,” users declared, in captions waxing poetic about the good old days, accompanied by Instagram-filtered photo ...

On January 1, the world welcomed 2026 with open arms, hopes in their hearts, and firecrackers filling the sky. And a week into the New Year, it seems like we have dialled the clock back to 2016. Why?

For people in my generation (Gen X), that year is usually cited as 1994—the final year before the internet really started taking hold. But if a recent trend on TikTok is anything to go by, the year ...