The first month of the new year brought with it a rather unexpected twist. Rather than looking to the new year ahead, social media was overrun with decade-old nostalgia. If you've found yourself wondering why everyone is sharing 2016 throwbacks, willingly immortalizing their overly drawn-on eyebrows, choker necklaces, and VSCO filters that should never have seen the light of day again, you may have missed the fact that 2026 is being dubbed the new 2016.
2016 was an interesting year, to say the least. Gen Z, no doubt, spent an embarrassing amount of time chasing Pokémon Go while others (looking at you, millennials) sat down to watch Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, possibly followed by the first season of Stranger Things. So, why are we suddenly looking to 2016 with starry-eyed nostalgia? Maybe because it's strange to think that a time that feels like only yesterday was actually 10 years ago, especially since many of the same fashion and interior design trends are circling back again.
