Why Gen-Z Won’t Shut Up About 2016!

It’s almost 2026, a whole decade later, and somehow, people are still talking about 2016 like it was the second coming of Christ. What happened that year? Did humanity ascend? Did the school system finally make sense? Nah. None of that. Just a bunch of young internet dickheads acting like boomers, crying about how “great things used to be back in those days.”

Harambe. The Soundcloud Era, Pokémon GO. Damn Daniel. That horrible 2016 XXL Freshman Class freestyle. Vine. Suicide Squad. The Dab. The Water Bottle Challenge. Killer clowns. And of course, Donald Trump taking the White House. Yeah, we get it. 2016 was wild, weird, and unforgettable.

But let’s not romanticize it like it was paradise on earth. That same year, people died, got sick, lost friends, crashed cars, broke up, and went through hell. Just like every other year. It wasn’t heaven.

Maybe people miss 2016 because it was the last year before the world felt permanently broken? Maybe because it was the last time the internet felt fun, not exhausting? Whatever the reason, this nostalgia obsession has gone way too far!

At some point, you gotta stop replaying the past and start writing a new era. Otherwise, we’ll be telling our grandkids on our deathbeds about how “GREAT” 2016 was like a bunch of oldheads trapped in a time capsule.