Whenever I’ve scrolled through social media over the past few days, I’ve experienced the slightly dizzying sensation of falling into a time warp: one that takes me back almost exactly a decade.
“2026 is the new 2016!” a whole slew of TikTok posts bafflingly claim, overlaying video footage with a warmed-up, lo-fi filter that feels very 10 years ago; according to the app, more than 55 million videos have already used this particular filter, named after that year, while searches for “2016” have shot up by 452 per cent. How many of those posters and searchers, I wonder, were actually old enough to drive at the time?
