Ask any Zoomer what the best year of all time was, and there’s a good chance they’ll say 2016. For my generation, 2016 was the era of Pokémon Go, Vine, great new music, Snapchat filters, and the birth of online culture as we know it today.
It’s now 2026 – 10 years since 2016 – so it’s no surprise that nostalgia for the internet’s favorite year is surging. According to the BBC, searches for “2016” are exploding on various platforms, from TikTok to Spotify.
