Is 2026 the New 2016? All About the Throwback Trend Taking Over

Have you seen everyone's it's 2016 again posts on social? Here's what it all means:

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
People are saying that this year, which we just started
twenty twenty six is reminiscent of twenty sixteen. I can't
even remember what twenty sixteen did.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
I don't know why it's happening. I do see it
now that it was pointed out to me in these examples.
But for example, people are replaying a lot of old
Drake and Rihanna, which was really hot in twenty sixteen.
The data is there. Everyone's streaming old EDM music. Suddenly,
low rise genes and exposed g strings are back. Ariana

(00:31):
Grande is a brunette again.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Okay, I mean the fact that I know what a
whale tail is. I actually know what a whale tail
is from youtwo telling me what that is.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yes, everyone's streamings are a lars and music again. Bruno
Mars's latest album last album was in twenty sixteen, and
he has finally giving us a new album this year.
So what is it like? I think that maybe it's
years of burnout, all the bad news, the overthinking. If
you think back to twenty sixteen, it was a lot
more casual of a year. There was the vine style, humor, online,

(01:06):
random dances, fidget spinners like it was just bloomerings.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
What's a fidget spinner.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
It's like this little thing that you would put in
between your fingers and you would just spin it and
it would just calm you.

Speaker 1 (01:18):
How is it? I have no recollection of any of that.
Did we talk about it and.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
You have a fidget spinner? You literally would bring it in?

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yes, you did. Well, I was forced to bring it in.
Then I would not have paid for a fidget spinner.
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