Flower crowns, Snapchat dog filters and oversaturated Rio de Janeiro posts dominate the Instagram feed. People are blasting The Chainsmokers and recreating the Mannequin Challenge. For nostalgic ...

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?

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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is 2016 and I am staring into space in my tent at Glastonbury. According to scientists, it’s the hottest year since records began. “Earth has not been this warm for 115,000 years,” they’ve said on ...

THERE’S another new trend gathering tremendous traction on social media, but this time it promotes something kids often dismiss – nostalgia. Here’s everything you need to know about the ‘2026 is the ...

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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 ...