It is 2016 yet again on Instagram. Effectively…if solely.
There’s been a effervescent nostalgia for 2016 for the previous few weeks. Likelihood Townsend wrote right here at Mashable about Gen Z rising particularly nostalgic for 2016 because the final good yr. Positive, it may not have felt that nice on the time, however for Gen Z, it was their final nice summer season.
I would argue that, in some ways, we have been residing in late 2016 for a decade now — the political ambiance, how social media grew to become actual life, disaster after disaster.
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However, anyway, the web has now exploded right into a full-blown nostalgia bomb for 2016. It is an extension of the pattern we noticed on TikTok earlier this month, paired with people who wish to present how a lot they’ve grown over the past 10 years. Sure, as if it have been 2016, we’re bringing again the humblebrag and self-deprecating-but-not-really posts. As with most tendencies, it is migrated from the children on TikTok to the normies and celebs on Instagram, who’re principally utilizing it as an excuse to put up decade-old picture dumps. (Keep in mind Snapchat filters?)
Let me make it clear, 2016 wasn’t all that nice. It was tremendous Not Chill to be beginning a profession and have the world order upended by way of elections, Brexit, movie star deaths, and a local weather settlement that appeared unimaginable to carry.
However issues all the time appear rosier trying again. And it is enjoyable to put up your youthful self, so naive and unaware of what was to come back. Let’s hope, nonetheless, that 2026 would not appear so nice once we look again in 2036.
