If your Instagram and TikTok feeds have recently been flooded with grainy screenshots, overexposed selfies and suspiciously well-curated “2016” carousels, you’re not imagining it. From old festival snaps and mirror selfies taken on iPhone 6s, to screenshots of Notes-app captions and Tumblr-era outfits, everyone seems to be posting their life from exactly a decade ago.
Yes, that's right — 2016 has reappeared across our feeds. A decade on, the year is being recast as the last moment before life, politics and social media became permanently intense.
