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Because 2016 became a nostalgia point for Gen Z. It was peak “Vine era,” lots of meme culture exploded, popular music felt lighter, and many were still in school without adult responsibilities.
People now look back at it as a simpler, fun time before the world felt heavier with politics, pandemic, and constant bad news.
It’s mostly nostalgia. For a lot of younger people, 2016 was peak fun—good music drops, memes were legendary, games like Pokémon Go blew up. Just felt like a lighter time before things got heavy again.
2016 was a whack year with the exception of like two weeks in July when pokemon go came out and blink 182 had the number one album in America. It was like revisiting 1999 for a minute and it was glorious
If you ask me 2013/4 was the last great year(s), 2016 is too late in the timeline if you ask me, maybe even 2015, since by then the trash started piling up.
2013 was the last year with a hair of a 90’s/early-internet vibe to it. Certainly by fall of ’16, everything that I am talking about was historical.
2016 was the last par/slightly above par year… still not even in the same ballpark/universe that ’95-’98 were, but currently it is the most recent year worthy of some bit of nostalgia.
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They were kids and didn’t fully know how fucked the world was, they were having fun with less responsibilities.
Ofc 2016 would be “the good days” if you were 14 years old.
Because 2016 became a nostalgia point for Gen Z. It was peak “Vine era,” lots of meme culture exploded, popular music felt lighter, and many were still in school without adult responsibilities.
People now look back at it as a simpler, fun time before the world felt heavier with politics, pandemic, and constant bad news.
Go and ask those people!
2016 to 2018 was a great time for me financially. I made good money buying and selling cars on the side. Its dried up since.
Musically it’s considered a pivotal year.
Blonde, A Moon Shaped Pool, Lemonade, Blackstar, etc..
Pokemon Go
It’s mostly nostalgia. For a lot of younger people, 2016 was peak fun—good music drops, memes were legendary, games like Pokémon Go blew up. Just felt like a lighter time before things got heavy again.
2016 was the last great year, till May, then Harambe happened. We’ve been on the down low ever since
2016 was a whack year with the exception of like two weeks in July when pokemon go came out and blink 182 had the number one album in America. It was like revisiting 1999 for a minute and it was glorious
Same reason I said 96 was a great year.
I met my partner in January 2016 so it was a good year for that reason.
Harambe was killed in 2016. Which according to Internet lore diverged the timeline and caused everything bad that’s happened since then.
If you ask me 2013/4 was the last great year(s), 2016 is too late in the timeline if you ask me, maybe even 2015, since by then the trash started piling up.
2013 was the last year with a hair of a 90’s/early-internet vibe to it. Certainly by fall of ’16, everything that I am talking about was historical.
2016 was the last par/slightly above par year… still not even in the same ballpark/universe that ’95-’98 were, but currently it is the most recent year worthy of some bit of nostalgia.