It’s 2016 again on Instagram. Well…if only.
There’s been bubbling nostalgia for 2016 over the past few weeks. Chance Townsend wrote here at Mashable about Gen Z’s particularly growing nostalgia for 2016 as the last good year. Sure, that might not have been the case hair That was cool at the time, but for Gen Z, it was their last great summer.
I think we are, in many ways, living in the late 2016 of a decade ago – the political atmosphere, how social media has become Real life, crisis after crisis.
Mashable trend report
But, anyway, the internet has now exploded in a full-on 2016 nostalgia bomb. It’s an extension of the trend we spotted on TikTok earlier this month, coupled with people wanting to show how much they’ve grown over the past 10 years. Yes, as if it were 2016, we are bringing back humblebrag And posts that are self-deprecating but not really. As with most trends, it is carried over from children On TikTok To the celebs and celebrities on Instagram, who mostly use it as an excuse to post decade-old photo pranks. (Remember Snapchat filters?)
Let me be clear that 2016 was not great. It was great to start your career and have the world order turned upside down by the election, Brexit, Celebrity deathsand the climate agreement that appeared impossible To hold.
But things always look rosier looking back. It’s fun to post a picture of yourself when you were young, so naive and unaware of what was coming. However, let’s hope 2026 doesn’t look like that So Great when we look back in 2036.