Reflecting on past years is hardly a new sentiment. As cultural historians often note, 2020 gave us a global pandemic, 2008 gave us a financial collapse, and 1999 gave us widespread panic over ...
The feeling of “take me back” has never been more relevant as 2026 kicks off. On TikTok, the hashtag #2016 has more than 2 million posts, often used to caption throwback photos, old videos and ...
VSCO filters, Kylie lip kits and the summer of Pokemon Go. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The year 2016 is making a comeback in ...
In 2026, TikTok and Instagram are looking back to 2016 and remembering the ‘good times’—here’s why some social media users are so nostalgic for the old days. The year 2026 has just begun, but the ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
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 ...
If 2026 is the new 2016, the entertainment industry will need to try to emulate the success of these projects that dominated the box office, snatched Emmys and Oscars and have remained touchstones of ...
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 ...
2016 is trending. You can’t go on Instagram without seeing someone posting themselves at a festival with cutoff denim, ankle boots, and reflective sunglasses, blurred by Instagram’s Clarendon filter ...
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 ...
Social media users are striving for a 2016 resurgence, ten years later Tabitha Parent is a writer at PEOPLE covering entertainment and culture. She joined PEOPLE in 2024. Her work has previously ...
Well, it’s the start of a brand-new year. But instead of planning for the future and looking ahead, all anyone seems to want to do is to go back. Thanks to a new TikTok hazy purple-blue filter ...