It is 2016 another time on Instagram. Nicely…if solely.
There’s been a effervescent nostalgia for 2016 for the previous few weeks. Probability Townsend wrote here at Mashable about Gen Z rising particularly nostalgic for 2016 because the final good yr. Positive, it won’t have felt that nice on the time, however for Gen Z, it was their final nice summer season.
I might argue that, in some ways, we have been residing in late 2016 for a decade now — the political atmosphere, how social media turned 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 development we noticed on TikTok earlier this month, paired with of us 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 traits, it is migrated from the kids on TikTok to the normies and celebs on Instagram, who’re principally utilizing it as an excuse to put up decade-old picture dumps. (Remember Snapchat filters?)
Let me make it clear, 2016 wasn’t all that great. It was tremendous Not Chill to be beginning a profession and have the world order upended via elections, Brexit, celebrity deaths, and a local weather settlement that appeared impossible to carry.
However issues at all times appear rosier trying again. And it is enjoyable to put up your youthful self, so naive and unaware of what was to return. Let’s hope, nevertheless, that 2026 would not appear so nice once we look again in 2036.
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