2016 is our childhood. School, TH-cam with bright bright filters , full of DIY videos, and so oooon. Memories from childhood always hits different, you want to go back to these days.
@@stardust2938same year when trump later becomes president and u watch you friends become divided and hateful yes even in middle and high school so yes one year makes all the difference the year before the fuckingin
@ of course not, but maybe this year people remember better then for example 2013, yeah. I don’t know exact year when these trends started, I can only say that before coronavirus it was good time.
I'll never stop saying it: ever since the pandemic, people have just been craving for life before. SO much has changed in just the past four years that people would rather cope reminiscing from life only 8 years ago because it's better than today. A lot of it has to do with us being adults now and miss being teenagers, but I mostly think it was miss Rona that triggered us. As Andy Bernard from The Office said, "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days, before you've actually left them.
AGREED, we just missed our life. Life has been so different. Never once I thought I'm not the "real" me until the quarantine. Somehow, i become less talkative with social anxiety. Adukting could be one of the factors, anyway I has been working on improving myself❤
This exactly 😭 is was just a senior in high school barely starting my life and now I've been at the same job for 4 years since the end of that summer 😭😭 I feel like I never had that chance to end off school like everyone else did, I just started working because there wasn't anything else to do.
Ever since 2020, every year has felt the same. Even when quarantine ended, it felt like nothing was changing. It's been almost 5 years since 2020, but it only feels like 2 or 3 years have passed. I think we look back so much because we can't look forward anymore. There's nothing new coming up for us, it's just the same old thing again and again.
i think i just miss being a teenager. in 2016 i was 16 years old, full of life, extremely cringe but so care-free... now in 2024, i'm 24 years old, chronically ill and disabled, lost my life to horrible mental illnesses. adulthood is so miserable.
Couldn't agree more, I was 14 that same year my teenage years weren't perfect been through some ups and downs but there were a lot of good times I had that I always look back into wishing I could experience something like that again, it was a different feeling back then
I am sorry for what happened trough those years with you. I really hope things will slowly but methodically get back to normal🙏🏽 I believe you have a person to talk to, but still - if you want to share smth I will be happy to help
I’m in my 30s. 2016 was a good year for me financially and up until the pandemic. There is more to 2016 than just gen z missing being a teen. Looking back there was a change after 9/11 that things wouldn’t be the same and looking back I see that with 2016.
I was 12 at the time. Life just felt so much easier, mean sure I had my challenges but I didn’t constantly feel like the world was crumbling around me.
I wouldn’t touch 2016 with a 10ft pole. I had my mom pass away in january and I became a teenager a month later. it couldn’t have possibly gone any worse and it set the stage for 2017 which was also very bad. but youtube in 2016 was a vibe at least.
And that was Gen Alpha, if you remember Hayley's video from a few months ago. The fact that Gen Alpha is romantic for a year BEFORE a year that Gen Z is nostalgic over... just seems wrong.
I’m from the mid-90s and I often find myself fantasizing about 2000 myself, because I still expected the future to be like the Jetsons mixed with all those “flash-forward” episodes of cartoon shows.
@@seanthornton726 Agreed. As a kid, I would like in bed, thinking about how I was going to be alive in 2000, until it completely freaked me out. As a kid, it seemed so far into the future. In reality, I was only 37 in 2000. 🤣🤣
I don't live there but would go visit for random reasons, and currently working there part time with my dad and I agree wholeheartedly. I'm assuming they thinking of the rich areas, which are not all they are hyped up to be either but still lol
I grew up poor in the 2000s as a Gen Z. Limited access to food and technology, etc. When 2016 came around, usually in April of that year, technology as a whole became more affordable and accessible. I was able to get my 1st laptop, a stable Internet connected phone, a social media account and food became more accessible in my area. I think many Gen Z are fond of 2016 because there was a boom in technology in areas like mine. Internet became an at home thing, rather than a rarity.
Teens / young adults in 2016, it doesn't mean you worship that specific year it means you miss that time you had when you were younger and it's gone now it's called growing up.
You'd have a point if it weren't just one single year (that happened to bring world-changing political dystopia and the beginning of the end of the greatest gen to shape this world), as opposed to every other gen's nostalgia for entire decades or halves of decades. It's not normal or healthy to zero-in on one single year, and a massively devastating one for just about everyone at that. Worshiping 2016 is peak solipsism.
I miss like...2016 to 2019, I went to summer camp back then and I HATED ITTTTT but I remember playing vine compilations in class and dancing to old town road at the talent show in 2019 and nobody had phones because we were kids...those three years really were peak 😭😭😭
guilty as charged, I'm a Gen Z who CANNOT let 2016 go. A lot of my favourite fandoms and stuff were from around then and I am a complete slave to nostalgia.
I’m assuming that fandom was undertale based on the pfp (which is super cute btw) and even though I didn’t play it during that time I’m a sucker for 2016 too lol (it was my Lego ninjago, Pokémon and mlp phase)
@@Krispykreme15Yeah, Undertale was a big thing for me but there was tons of other things. One of the most nostalgic things about 2016 for me was the TH-camrs with all the neon hair colours haha
For me it's both 2015 and 2016 but mostly 2016. I loved how TH-cam was at the time and the games and fan bases and Minecraft scene from that year . I was 13 in 2016
I mean, I like my fandoms now better (I just turned 22 so I was like 13 and 14 in 2016). but I miss when things were more colorful and fun. I just hate this sad beige stuff
I was 15 in 2016, and I do feel nostalgia over it just because it was a more simple time and everyone seemed more relaxed over social media and it was just for fun and silliness. Although, I will say that I do not spend all my time trying to put myself in the “2016 mindset” and obsessing over the past. I think it’s so important to stop and enjoy where you are in the present. I just know that when I’m old and gray I will be looking back where I am now in my 20’s and miss it as well! Enjoy every moment ❤️
It's probably because of either the aesthetic look, or how it's a much simpler time back then. 2016 and 2024 are two completely seperate and radical opposites, hence why some of us romanticize for a time where eveyrhting was still at least controllable.
@@everygoodhanldeistaken Okay but his first term isn't gonna be anything like his second. The first one felt like a big joke and his whole presidency was memed. Not saying people didn't suffer, but at least it wasn't everybody?.. Not until 2020 though. Fuck that.
This is so weird to me because as a millennial and English me and my friends used to joke that 2016 was the worst year ever, due to all the celebrity deaths, Brexit, etc... we joked about how great it was when it was over, then when an even worse year came up in 2020 we were like, 'come back 2016, all is forgiven'... weird that younger people loved it...
There was even a meme going around towards the end of 2016... [history class in 2100] Teacher: "... and that was 2015. On to 2017..." Student: "What about 2016---" Teacher: "We don't talk about 2016."
As a genz i hated 2016. Not only cuz of the celeb deaths but the whole vibe started changing around 2016. Mainly music, even how social media started being a bigger part of our lives. In 2020 i still hated it and hated 2020 as well. Now i don’t hate it anymore. Still feel the same thou
This is insane. As someone who was 8 in 2016, yes I miss it, I miss slime, I miss TH-cam, Minecraft, fashion famous on Roblox and js feeling happy and not understanding what’s happening. 💗💐
I feel exactly the same. I was 10 back then, and I just miss how carefree I was. No depression, school was easy, the NBA was fun, so many fun video games, great music, TH-cam was so much better, just everything was so much more chill
This is ur first video I just don’t agree on, I’m super nostalgic for every year like 2012-2017, and I am old enough to remember starting middle school in 2016, but that summer was freaking magical. I don’t even have a phone but I watched TH-camrs like Tanner Braughnardt on my iPad every day, I went to amusement parks with my friends, I rode my hoverboard around the neighborhood, I wore freaking fidget spinner galaxy cat t-shirts, and I DID still play on my 3DS, Smash Bros and Pokémon Omega Ruby, every day. And honestly, my current life can’t compare… So if I can find things that help me escape to the past, it does make me happy for a few hours at least.
I remember hating it because it felt so different than the previous years. Maybe cuz 1D went on a break. Now i still don’t like it but I don’t hate it anymore
Millennial here. I suffered 2 shoulder injuries towards the end of 2015, so 2016 was spent just trying to recover and not hurt myself again... only for me to hurt myself again in early 2017.
As a person inbetween gen z and gen a, it's because they miss when they viewed life as simple because they were younger. They formed attachments to these things because it reminds them of when they didnt have many worries, it's not about the actual things themselves.
I'm an older Gen X, and I agree. They're remembering a time when they still lived at home, had no worries, few responsibilities, and most of their memories are of the fun they had with friends, and how these "things" factored into that fun.
It's also about fandom/Tumblr don't forget that people aren't bringing that up for some reason and I find that kind of weird. The comment above this also mentions how cool vine was and the hair color craze (as I call it). I'm also between Z and A btw 🤸🏾
I am a millennial and I loved 2016 because I walked out of my job that I thought I would stay in forever, went on a road trip, went to so many parties, didn’t work for two months and was borderline homeless because I wouldn’t be able to afford rent. It was very careless of me but I still had an amazing time. Not as much as 2005 but yeah! I felt like I would be young forever! Now I’m just old, responsible, and clinging to the material possessions in my home.
In 2016, I was freshly 18. Many would consider that my prime, but honestly, life was HELL then for me. Living with an abusive mom and being bullied at school nearly drove me to unaliving myself. I was a little gay teenager and profusely lonely. I didn’t start thriving until this past year at 26 years old. My emotional baggage has mostly melted away, I lost over 110 lbs, and I’m in a happy relationship. Are there struggles now I wish I didn’t have? Absolutely. But I am NOT nostalgic for that era of my life whatsoever. I wish I had the privilege of being nostalgic for my high school years like so many people are 😅
The big difrence is, gen X is nostalgic over the 80s because we were kids back then, carefree, social media free and internetfree. I love how my kids( millenials) are listening to 80s music!!
As someone who was a junior-senior in Highschool in 2016, you're not missing out. Highschool was Highschool and I was glad to get out of that abysmal place
I'm older, and certainly don't remember 2016 with any fondness. I remember it as the year that we lost so many icons of acting and music, including Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Prince, and George Michael. It was a lot!! 😢😢
I know 💔. Those kids probably don't know who George Michael was. I spent a good decade of my life listening to his music and all of a sudden he was gone. It hurt.
Haley, you were mentioned by Ash in a coffee and cults vid about younger gens trying to disconnect from their ‘living via a social only’ 24/7 internet lifestyle callout yay she’s awesome and is a follower fan. You’re globally renowned for forethought. As always love y’all’s stuff. Thank you! 2016 is ‘so 5 mins ago.’ The 80s rocked thanks 2 harry & the Hendersons & Princess Bride Meat Loaf& classic Steve Martin. In other words it blew until ‘87
@@Gobbler72 I say a mixture of both. Some of the eldesst gen z's were already 18 and high school graduates. So I imagine we miss the optimism that went along with that simplicity.
2016 was so bad of a year. I honestly thought we will end up in civil war. Ppl forgot how bad it was. From legit almost every state had riots/ chaos. 100 days when mr T went crazy banning. Middle east in general. 12 merking youg kids/ adults for no reason. It was such horrible time
@Gobbler72 It just felt easier I don't know. The only social media I knew was yt so I wasn't really using any other sites, such as IG, or Vine. And I was 10 going on 11, I was in school, had a ton of friends. And I still had fun. Sorry for all this rambling, but life back then felt like an adventure. It was never boring, unlike how life feels today.
Was 16 in 2016 :looks nervously side to side: 👀 and I don't feel nostalgic for a summer. 00 (Mind you, I am an introvert and had no friends at the time so maybe that's why). In all fairness, I wanted to grow up with DS and 3DS when I was a kid, but never had the chance. As soon as I left my home to uni and received a really nice sum of money for my b-day+christmas gifts in Y2, I bought my treasured Solgaleo and Lunala 3DS I still have to this day, a few years later. I was and still am an adult. When I picked it up for the first time after homebrewing it and loading Pokemon on it, it genuinely felt like I was living a childhood I never had. Guys, If you want something back from the past, even if missed entirely, Just create that moment for youself, and I assure you, your inner child would be happy.
That’s a sweet 💖💗 comment I used to own a 3DS and I still do but I barely play on it. I want orbeez I remember when I was 8 asked my parents for the Nintendo DS and Orbeez I had to make my mind up and choose one. ☝🏾 I chose that over Orbeez I wish I had Orbeez or the mermaid colour-changing Lalaloopsy doll
Love this so much. I hesitate to use the word traumatizing, but I had an incident in my last year of elementary school that made me go from loving pink, skirts, dresses, and other fun things to black, hoodies, and just overall plain clothes. I became really depressed afterwards. It’s been a slow process, but I’ve finally gotten to the point where I can wear all that stuff again. Now, I proudly and gleefully own a Care Bears sweater, a Bluey pajama set, and a Cinnamoroll pajama set, plus cute skirts and dresses. It really is so freeing to just wear what you want. Whereas I used to shun all the fun, cute stuff my younger self secretly loved in order to protect myself, now I allow myself to be who I am and surround myself with people who like me for who I am. It’s amazing. So love on your inner child. You deserve it :)
"We had social media and technology back then what has changed" the rules of the technology has changed. We used to have a fundamental understanding between free advertised services and paid services and what we deserved to see. Companies had just a saliva drops worth of more respect for people. Things weren't AS doom and gloom. It was just ever so slightly harder to find people completely devoid of sense on the internet.
For me it’s 2014-2015. The main reason those years feel the best is because since then, literally nothing has felt real. Like…so many bad things just kept happening personally in my life and also in the world.
Hi I'm 30, your brains are maturing and you are feeling nostalgic for a specific year where everything felt peaceful and fun and wonderful because the world we're living through right now is incredibly triggeeing. when you are becoming more self-aware as a young adult, mentally you seek out distractions and nostalgia is a big source of that. we can't live in the past but we can use what we have learned in the past to shape our future and our present! ETA: This isn't a judgment at all, my life changed dramatically when I went sober around age 25 and shortly afterwards I learned that the brain stops developing fully around age 25, maybe even up to 35 for neurodivergent people according to recent studies! So we really do become more self aware around 25 and that can be REALLY overwhelming, lots of childhood trauma can come to the surface and mix with adult hood trauma that maybe you haven't even recognized as trauma yet. lots of people already have unhealthy coping mechanisms by age 25 and this can cause them to bury themselves deeper into disassociation.
I'm 48, and a GEN-Xer who graduated in the mid 1990s. I feel this way about growing up in Seattle during the grunge era. I think it's normal for us to reminisce about that time in our life before we had all the pressure and responsibility of adulthood. It's fun to see things like DOC Martins, claw clips and wide legs pants back in style and the new twists the younger generations add to make it their own.
I give it two years tops until somebody goes viral with a video that has clips of Moo Deng, the Wicked movie, and the Espresso music video with some overly cutesy pink filter slapped on top of it and some melodramatic music playing in the background with the caption "We didn't know how good we had it in 2024 😭😭"
That is so weird how we barely made it out of 2020 and kiddos are already like “omg so nostalgic 😩😩” like what?? It’s been barely some time ago. Not *that* much has changed since 2016
@_DEVILYCH I think that a fair bit has changed tbh. Like fft9917 has said, society in general were definitely more edgy with their comments, plus people did tend to be able to take things more on the chin back then. Don't get me wrong, 2016 also had it's problems, but a fair bit of it is different to 2024's issues.
In 2016 it was my best year because it the first year I had where I wasn’t being bullied and wasn’t in a massive hole of depression because of my grandma passing (who passed in 2014), I was 11 in 2016 and I miss those days because I was genuinely having the time of my life.
I was 17 in 2016, I was going through a really hard time in life. But I still remember back on that year as a really good year when it came to society in my age range, social media, makeup and fashion, and music. It was a really good time for memes and just lots of fun. I wish I wasn’t depressed during that time so I could’ve enjoyed it more
I am for the UK and grew up in the 80’s and 90’s. I had the best club life with the best music. All the illegal raves and I dated a DJ and we flew all over the world for free. We did Australia too and I am so grateful I experienced it all. Do I want to go back? NOOOOOO we evolve and grow old for a reason! Love your channel babes xxxx
'To cope with the celebrity deaths"... HAVE WE FORGOTTEN ABOUT ALL THE GREAT PEOPLE WE LOST IN 2016? Carrie Fisher, Alan Rickman, Anton Yelchin, Harambee!!! I HATED 2016, it was the beginning of the end, the world started going downhill at that year!!! 😭
Humans die all the time, MJ died in 09 yet you won’t rag on anyone nostalgic for that year? You don’t even know any of these people personally. Let young people be nostalgic.
@@ShendonV Dude, I was talking about a very specific part, of a specific text, that Hayley read, about a specific year. I didn't say that people can't be nostalgic, I am nostalgic all the time. BUT PERSONALLY (as I stated above) I HATED 2016, for the aforementioned reasons and many, many, MANY MORE! It sucks that MJ died, but for me, personally, I feel like 2009 was a good year and in no way comparable to the dumpster fire that was 2016.
In my own opinion i remember reminiscing on times maybe even that were a year ago just because life gets progressively worse as it moves on. Even some of the worst moments, i’d live back in just because it was still better than life is now. Also no matter what time people turn about any era into an aesthetic which also adds to the obsession of nostalgia. Even times they weren’t alive in just for how they appeared to be.
Girl, I was very much alive when the Berlin wall fell. I can tell you where I was and the feeling it invoked. Yes, a wall, a song, a place can send your feelings in a thousand different directions. There's plenty more years for you to be able to reflect on, this is just a small part of what's to come. It's pretty powerful.
Yeah, there's absolutely nothing memorable that really happened that year worth being nostalgic over. When I think of nostalgia as an old Gen Zer I think of the mid-late 2000s maybe early 2010s.
2016 is when the music for me absolutely fell in and I went officially classic rock classic metal and didn't look back. It was also the year I discovered Microsoft Sam reads funny Windows errors add multiple different versions and it was one of the last years I got to run around most of the summer listening to Hard Rock heaven and buy CDs at multiple places around the town and in the city. There were major major problems already starting in 2016 though the cracks are already beginning to appear in advertising in general and the storytelling in the movies had taken a critical hit
I was pretty happy in 2016, don't need to go to LA or get that warm feeling from the weather. All I need is good memes from an app who should not be named and good ass video games.
I'm an elder millennial and YES to ALL of this!!! I roadtripped in a homemade truck camper that year. I lived on the coast in CA for almost 2 months that winter and it was incredible. I was skateboarding a ton. I was drinking iced coffee. I was making random friends with strangers old and young. I didn't use Instagram yet. Life was so fun. We can have fun this year too!
Tbf, I'd rather be reminiscing about my days, playing Barbies as a nine year old in 2016 then thinking about the abominations in 2024 who rack the sephora shelves for products they dont need 😭
same man, same. I don't remember anything from 2016 as I was only nine years old but whatever I was doing back then is way better than whatever the hells going on rn 😭
I get more nostalgic about the 2000's and early 2010's than I do with 2016 tbh. I ddn't do much as a 16 yo in the summer of 2016. I was just mostly laying on the bed watching TH-cam videos lol. But suddenly, I've been nostalgic about 2017-19...
I was nine in 2016. I don't have super specific memories of it but that's just because my memory absolutely sucks. I know very well that I was a lot happier in elementary school versus where I am now. Not that I despise my life, but things were just better then.
With all due respect, I love your videos and literally in almost every video I agree with you but THIS Idc, 2016 was SUCH A GOOD YEAR I'm a gen z and i completely agree with those in the videos, I just wanna come back, In that year happened things that make me happy and now i have nostalgia for it
As a millennial by 2015 I had two children I find it weird and obscure for people to romanticise 2016? The year is really random and honestly it wasn’t all that long ago really
2016 was the year of Harambe, Filthy Frank comedy being peaked on TH-cam, Pokemon Go and the Election. It was pretty significant culturally speaking, BTW I was 17 at the time.
Our mind is a river and memories are rocks thrown into that river. What once might've been rough and edged gets polished over time, turned into something shiny and desirable. The water reflects us in our view of the rocks, changing how they look further. Times have been rough. The newer generations? Their rocks have been reshaped more violently. So they look towards less distant times for their nostalgia. Mostly because they are so separated from the even 'better' times that came before that they are capable of seeing the flaws and not glorifying them, but they ache for simpler times they can relate to. And a year when former generations shared their nostalgic moments, creating good core memories, and good trends were on a rise? That's attainable.
2016 was the worst year of my life since it’s the year my dad died but I can understand missing aspects of that year. I remember the music being better and entertainment and TH-cam was better back then.
I do not remember 2016 and i remember being miserable during that year. The years 2015-2017 all blend together for me so idk how we being reminiscent of these eras although i do find myself thinking back to middle school as i was a tween during those times
2016 was the last time the malls around me had stores. The “2016” summer was before every American started going bonkers over elections, something that hasn’t stopped. It was the calm before the storm and I think people are to afraid to lose the current era and technology but they still want that calm that can only be achieved few times in the span of the world.
5:31 the vibe changed I remember the smell was different, it looked different, people were different, the life expectancy was probably much higher, my cousins were babys, the music hit different, ( I know that you can still listen to it but the vibe just isn’t the same ) And life is just better
The only thing I miss from 2016 is cruising around with my best friend blasting music in a shit box car. I don't give two shits about a physical object from that time, and I wouldn't try using a physical object to recreate the vibe from then. I don't know, maybe I just don't get it.
Omg same but my hand and it healed I was stupid kid with a hoverboard and did a penguin stand, ended up spinning so fast I could think I was at a theme park that was about to explode, toe and right hand stuck 😢😢in 😢
It’s so weird how people are praising 2016. That was literally the worst year of my life lol I had a glow up in 2017 and my life has been better since I would never go back to 2016!!! Now at almost 30 I look way better than I did in my early 20’s. 2018 and forward are definitely my prime years! 2022 was especially an amazing year for me!
I was 19 in my first year of community college in 2016. Looking back on it, it was honestly the perfect time to be young and dumb having fun, going to house parties and taking night drives. Unfortunately, a lot of "friends" from the social circle I hung out with were not real friends by the time covid came around, due to them not liking my opinions on certain things that were happening. Anyway, despite that, I look back on 2016 pretty fondly for the type of person who I was at the time. It was just a different era for everybody and I think the majority of us just miss more simple times. I think all generations go through it at a certain point EDIT: we also have to consider how fast culture changes nowadays due to us being online more as a collective, compared to back then when culture changed in a more slow, organic way. Individually, people received information in a much slower pace whereas now, we can find out about pretty much anything within seconds from our smartphones in our pockets. So with that being said, I believe people develop nostalgia quicker than previous generations because of how much we are all online now
honestly idk i dont even remember it much but it seemed like for me such a chill year where nothing really happened or just i guess in general 2015-2019 now from 2020 everything seems downhill
The problem with this is that people are too fixated on aesthetic. I udnerstand having nostalgia and missing certain memories, but it seems what bother people most is the aesthetic. The problem would be solved if they stopped fixating so much on that and learn to appreciate what life can offer day by day.
I feel like its valid to miss a certain year especially if it was nostalgic or carefree, it reminds you of when things were better and gives you a sense of calmness or safety remebering those times besides in that era nothing seemed wrong bc most of us were carefree kids and teens so ofc we miss it. But obessing over it will constantly have you down wishing for old things back when you have to move on
I feel this way about 2009. A lot of my favorite stuff things came out that year and it was before a lot of stuff started to go downhill. Obviously it’s just nostalgia depending on the person but I like to look back at simpler times when I didn’t have to worry about as much
I’m only about 3 minutes in but I can understand it to an extent. It was back before social media realllyyyy took off, it was before politics infiltrated every waking moment of our lives, it was before the weather started getting super bad (like more hurricanes and tornados, earthquakes, etc.), it was a time where we weren’t so tense and worried about everything. I look back at 2016 and I wasn’t worried about the turmoil of the world like I am today, granted I was a lot younger and didn’t analyze things as I do today but still. I feel like if I was the same age now as I was in 2016, I too would be yearning to be a teen in 2016, maybe not in LA, but just in general cause times were a little better back then. Gotta finish the vid but I thought maybe I’d add that bit. That’s the only reason I could think of for people idealizing that time period.
2016 was before housing inflated 3x (not kidding, houses now are 3x the price they sold in 2016) and before the lockdowns and pandemic violence. Back when we could still afford to eat.
I was 24 in 2016, and sometimes I catch myself feeling nostalgic for that year. My body didn’t hurt as bad, less wrinkles, I loved the makeup and clothing styles (particularly chokers), and things were just more fun for me personally.
The person used the wrong text, but that's a 3DS they showed. People were still playing the 3DS a lot in 2016, a new Pokemon game actually came out that year.
Yeah, I don't really understand this. I will get nostalgic from seeing things like toys or tv shows from my childhood, but never the year itself. 2016 was the year I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and also the year I started self harming. I suffered a lot during my school years and will never wish to be back there again. Since leaving school, every year has just been better than the one before. I really appreciate where I am today and look forward to how much better I'll be in the future 🥰
2016 is our childhood. School, TH-cam with bright bright filters , full of DIY videos, and so oooon. Memories from childhood always hits different, you want to go back to these days.
But its onley 1 year? Just 2016??? You had a one year childhood???
@@stardust2938same year when trump later becomes president and u watch you friends become divided and hateful yes even in middle and high school so yes one year makes all the difference the year before the fuckingin
@ of course not, but maybe this year people remember better then for example 2013, yeah. I don’t know exact year when these trends started, I can only say that before coronavirus it was good time.
@@broccolisub6513 I was born in 2013
People aren’t saying that, some kids didn’t experience it and now they’re trying to but they don’t even know what it’s like
I'll never stop saying it: ever since the pandemic, people have just been craving for life before. SO much has changed in just the past four years that people would rather cope reminiscing from life only 8 years ago because it's better than today. A lot of it has to do with us being adults now and miss being teenagers, but I mostly think it was miss Rona that triggered us. As Andy Bernard from The Office said, "I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days, before you've actually left them.
AGREED, we just missed our life. Life has been so different. Never once I thought I'm not the "real" me until the quarantine. Somehow, i become less talkative with social anxiety. Adukting could be one of the factors, anyway I has been working on improving myself❤
This exactly 😭 is was just a senior in high school barely starting my life and now I've been at the same job for 4 years since the end of that summer 😭😭 I feel like I never had that chance to end off school like everyone else did, I just started working because there wasn't anything else to do.
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Ever since 2020, every year has felt the same. Even when quarantine ended, it felt like nothing was changing. It's been almost 5 years since 2020, but it only feels like 2 or 3 years have passed. I think we look back so much because we can't look forward anymore. There's nothing new coming up for us, it's just the same old thing again and again.
i think i just miss being a teenager. in 2016 i was 16 years old, full of life, extremely cringe but so care-free... now in 2024, i'm 24 years old, chronically ill and disabled, lost my life to horrible mental illnesses. adulthood is so miserable.
Couldn't agree more, I was 14 that same year my teenage years weren't perfect been through some ups and downs but there were a lot of good times I had that I always look back into wishing I could experience something like that again, it was a different feeling back then
I am sorry for what happened trough those years with you. I really hope things will slowly but methodically get back to normal🙏🏽 I believe you have a person to talk to, but still - if you want to share smth I will be happy to help
Literally having the same setbacks ....
Were not alone with that ❤
I’m in my 30s. 2016 was a good year for me financially and up until the pandemic. There is more to 2016 than just gen z missing being a teen. Looking back there was a change after 9/11 that things wouldn’t be the same and looking back I see that with 2016.
I was 12 at the time. Life just felt so much easier, mean sure I had my challenges but I didn’t constantly feel like the world was crumbling around me.
trust me. no matter how HORRIBLE a year will be, people will still be nostalgic about it a few years later !!
Not just that but their childhoods too
RIDER PFP! A fellow coroika fan in the wild???
inspired me into becoming a TH-camr but people don't want to support a small creator to reach his goal😢 I'm begging you guys, literally begging!
This. There’s people now who are nostalgic for 2020 and quarantine.
@@neb.9489 I did the most traveling during quarantine and didn't have to go to school best years of my life
2016 was the year when all of our favourite animated shows were still airing before the great animation downfall due to corporate greed
Same😊
Imma be honest, 2016 was such a good year for me, I still find myself reminiscing my life back then 😅
SAME HONESTLY
Same, I was in the 5th(maybe 6th?)grade in 2016 and I still remember Fnaf Sister Location came out! I will always keep 2016 in my heart. Forever!
I wouldn’t touch 2016 with a 10ft pole. I had my mom pass away in january and I became a teenager a month later. it couldn’t have possibly gone any worse and it set the stage for 2017 which was also very bad. but youtube in 2016 was a vibe at least.
@@Flo-h5lAlso by far one of the best games in the franchise. (My personal opinion.)
@@LiterallyAllNamesAreTaken I'm sorry for your loss. I hope you and your family is ok.
This is a literal repeat of tiktok romanticizing 2014.
Oh yeah but in Gen Z’s case it’s different
And that was Gen Alpha, if you remember Hayley's video from a few months ago.
The fact that Gen Alpha is romantic for a year BEFORE a year that Gen Z is nostalgic over... just seems wrong.
@@ngarcia103 yup watched it a lot. It's honestly disturbing-
I was thinking the same thing
Also sounds like the people wanting another lockdown...These people are braindead due to TikTok. Get off now.
As a GenXer, in the 80s, the only year we fantasized about was the year 2000. We thought it would be like the Jetsons.
I’m from the mid-90s and I often find myself fantasizing about 2000 myself, because I still expected the future to be like the Jetsons mixed with all those “flash-forward” episodes of cartoon shows.
@@seanthornton726 Agreed. As a kid, I would like in bed, thinking about how I was going to be alive in 2000, until it completely freaked me out. As a kid, it seemed so far into the future. In reality, I was only 37 in 2000. 🤣🤣
Y2K - the world was gonna crash. Lol (fellow GenX-er)
As an older gen z i miss the 2000s and early 2010s. Till 2015
@@eatatjoes6751 I'm from the mid 90s to early 2000s and it was a neat time. We had zigzag hair
As someone who lives in California and has gone to Los Angeles millions of times I can promise you you guys aren't missing much 😭
California as a whole use to get romanticized so much, like movies based off kids running away from home and moving to LA.
I don't live there but would go visit for random reasons, and currently working there part time with my dad and I agree wholeheartedly. I'm assuming they thinking of the rich areas, which are not all they are hyped up to be either but still lol
I love LA
YES SAME
I grew up poor in the 2000s as a Gen Z. Limited access to food and technology, etc. When 2016 came around, usually in April of that year, technology as a whole became more affordable and accessible. I was able to get my 1st laptop, a stable Internet connected phone, a social media account and food became more accessible in my area. I think many Gen Z are fond of 2016 because there was a boom in technology in areas like mine. Internet became an at home thing, rather than a rarity.
Teens / young adults in 2016, it doesn't mean you worship that specific year it means you miss that time you had when you were younger and it's gone now it's called growing up.
Yeah now I have two kids and a dumb husband
I was 11 in 2016
You'd have a point if it weren't just one single year (that happened to bring world-changing political dystopia and the beginning of the end of the greatest gen to shape this world), as opposed to every other gen's nostalgia for entire decades or halves of decades. It's not normal or healthy to zero-in on one single year, and a massively devastating one for just about everyone at that. Worshiping 2016 is peak solipsism.
@@BornRemainingIt’s not that deep
inspired me into becoming a TH-camr but people don't want to support a small creator to reach his goal😢 I'm begging you guys, literally begging!
I miss like...2016 to 2019, I went to summer camp back then and I HATED ITTTTT but I remember playing vine compilations in class and dancing to old town road at the talent show in 2019 and nobody had phones because we were kids...those three years really were peak 😭😭😭
inspired me into becoming a TH-camr but people don't want to support a small creator to reach his goal😢 I'm begging you guys, literally begging!
guilty as charged, I'm a Gen Z who CANNOT let 2016 go. A lot of my favourite fandoms and stuff were from around then and I am a complete slave to nostalgia.
I’m assuming that fandom was undertale based on the pfp (which is super cute btw) and even though I didn’t play it during that time I’m a sucker for 2016 too lol (it was my Lego ninjago, Pokémon and mlp phase)
Leafyishere 🔥
@@Krispykreme15Yeah, Undertale was a big thing for me but there was tons of other things. One of the most nostalgic things about 2016 for me was the TH-camrs with all the neon hair colours haha
For me it's both 2015 and 2016 but mostly 2016. I loved how TH-cam was at the time and the games and fan bases and Minecraft scene from that year . I was 13 in 2016
I mean, I like my fandoms now better (I just turned 22 so I was like 13 and 14 in 2016). but I miss when things were more colorful and fun. I just hate this sad beige stuff
I was 15 in 2016, and I do feel nostalgia over it just because it was a more simple time and everyone seemed more relaxed over social media and it was just for fun and silliness. Although, I will say that I do not spend all my time trying to put myself in the “2016 mindset” and obsessing over the past. I think it’s so important to stop and enjoy where you are in the present. I just know that when I’m old and gray I will be looking back where I am now in my 20’s and miss it as well! Enjoy every moment ❤️
Honestly, I can’t let go of the 2010s because it was my happiness peak
Same dude 😢.after 2015 all downhill from there 😩
2016 is when we diverged from the main timeline
That would be 2012
That would be 1997.
What do you mean 🤷🏾♀️
That would be 1914.
i think it was like 2020
It's probably because of either the aesthetic look, or how it's a much simpler time back then. 2016 and 2024 are two completely seperate and radical opposites, hence why some of us romanticize for a time where eveyrhting was still at least controllable.
It was a simpler time? A simpler time...
😂😂
It’s everything
i mean both had trump elected 😭not THAT opposite
@@everygoodhanldeistaken Okay but his first term isn't gonna be anything like his second. The first one felt like a big joke and his whole presidency was memed. Not saying people didn't suffer, but at least it wasn't everybody?..
Not until 2020 though. Fuck that.
The positive, fun vibes🌻
This is so weird to me because as a millennial and English me and my friends used to joke that 2016 was the worst year ever, due to all the celebrity deaths, Brexit, etc... we joked about how great it was when it was over, then when an even worse year came up in 2020 we were like, 'come back 2016, all is forgiven'... weird that younger people loved it...
I completely forgot it was a thing until now.
There was even a meme going around towards the end of 2016...
[history class in 2100]
Teacher: "... and that was 2015. On to 2017..."
Student: "What about 2016---"
Teacher: "We don't talk about 2016."
Oh yea. 2016 sucked. Actually, 2016 was the start of the true suckage.
I miss the 1990s...
@ngarcia103
Student: Why
Teacher: (sings we don’t talk about 2016 in We don’t talk about Bruno style) We don’t talk about 2016
As a genz i hated 2016. Not only cuz of the celeb deaths but the whole vibe started changing around 2016. Mainly music, even how social media started being a bigger part of our lives. In 2020 i still hated it and hated 2020 as well. Now i don’t hate it anymore. Still feel the same thou
This is insane. As someone who was 8 in 2016, yes I miss it, I miss slime, I miss TH-cam, Minecraft, fashion famous on Roblox and js feeling happy and not understanding what’s happening. 💗💐
yesss exactly! i feel the same
I feel exactly the same. I was 10 back then, and I just miss how carefree I was. No depression, school was easy, the NBA was fun, so many fun video games, great music, TH-cam was so much better, just everything was so much more chill
YESSSSSSSSSSSS😭💕💕
This is ur first video I just don’t agree on, I’m super nostalgic for every year like 2012-2017, and I am old enough to remember starting middle school in 2016, but that summer was freaking magical. I don’t even have a phone but I watched TH-camrs like Tanner Braughnardt on my iPad every day, I went to amusement parks with my friends, I rode my hoverboard around the neighborhood, I wore freaking fidget spinner galaxy cat t-shirts, and I DID still play on my 3DS, Smash Bros and Pokémon Omega Ruby, every day. And honestly, my current life can’t compare… So if I can find things that help me escape to the past, it does make me happy for a few hours at least.
As a Gen Z, I barely even remember 2016 lol. Those early years blend together
As a gen z, I was 18 and wish I didn’t remember it as much 🤣
I remember it Vivid and Coloured 🌈🌈
Bro same
I was maybe around like 8 or 9 yrs old and.....I barely remember that year at all- 💀
I remember hating it because it felt so different than the previous years. Maybe cuz 1D went on a break. Now i still don’t like it but I don’t hate it anymore
As a Gen Z, 2016 was one of the worst years of my life that I can remember. I was a trainwreck.
As a millennial, 2016 was equally terrible. Like, I was an absolute trainwreck by the end of it.
im also a gen z, im pretty sure i was in kindergarten that year but my kindergarten teacher traumatized me
thats how i got ✨Social anxiety ✨
I’m a millennial and i only remember 2016 since i got Preg with my son and had him early 2017. I prefer 2000s 😂
Millennial here. I suffered 2 shoulder injuries towards the end of 2015, so 2016 was spent just trying to recover and not hurt myself again... only for me to hurt myself again in early 2017.
@selolmeawespn
OMG are you okay what happened
Sending comforting virtual hugs 🤗🤗🤗🤗
As a person inbetween gen z and gen a, it's because they miss when they viewed life as simple because they were younger. They formed attachments to these things because it reminds them of when they didnt have many worries, it's not about the actual things themselves.
I'm an older Gen X, and I agree. They're remembering a time when they still lived at home, had no worries, few responsibilities, and most of their memories are of the fun they had with friends, and how these "things" factored into that fun.
It's also about fandom/Tumblr don't forget that people aren't bringing that up for some reason and I find that kind of weird. The comment above this also mentions how cool vine was and the hair color craze (as I call it). I'm also between Z and A btw 🤸🏾
@TheEighthWonder91 Ah yes, a fellow zalpha, a person who is confused of what they are because the internet won't fucking make up their mind.
OMG SAYORI IS THAT YOU? :0
*we
I am a millennial and I loved 2016 because I walked out of my job that I thought I would stay in forever, went on a road trip, went to so many parties, didn’t work for two months and was borderline homeless because I wouldn’t be able to afford rent. It was very careless of me but I still had an amazing time. Not as much as 2005 but yeah! I felt like I would be young forever!
Now I’m just old, responsible, and clinging to the material possessions in my home.
In 2016, I was freshly 18. Many would consider that my prime, but honestly, life was HELL then for me. Living with an abusive mom and being bullied at school nearly drove me to unaliving myself. I was a little gay teenager and profusely lonely. I didn’t start thriving until this past year at 26 years old. My emotional baggage has mostly melted away, I lost over 110 lbs, and I’m in a happy relationship. Are there struggles now I wish I didn’t have? Absolutely. But I am NOT nostalgic for that era of my life whatsoever. I wish I had the privilege of being nostalgic for my high school years like so many people are 😅
It’s overrated…mid-late 20s is PRIME! F high-school!…. It’s lovely to read that you’re thriving!❤
The big difrence is, gen X is nostalgic over the 80s because we were kids back then, carefree, social media free and internetfree. I love how my kids( millenials) are listening to 80s music!!
hell yeah mate I’m blasting 80’s-2000’s music
As someone who was a junior-senior in Highschool in 2016, you're not missing out. Highschool was Highschool and I was glad to get out of that abysmal place
Agree 100% and I got old high school in 06
I'm older, and certainly don't remember 2016 with any fondness. I remember it as the year that we lost so many icons of acting and music, including Alan Rickman, David Bowie, Prince, and George Michael. It was a lot!! 😢😢
I know 💔. Those kids probably don't know who George Michael was. I spent a good decade of my life listening to his music and all of a sudden he was gone. It hurt.
inspired me into becoming a TH-camr but people don't want to support a small creator to reach his goal😢 I'm begging you guys, literally begging!
all i remember was my parents being stoked about politics. why should i care? i was 4. 2016 is so overrated
@@taxidancing87 Oh, yes, I was an 80's girl, and that one hurt!!💔
@@taxidancing87 um actually some of us do 💀💀 no need to gatekeep lmao
This is how I feel, but with 2007 and 2017. Both years had fantastic summers, but really rough autumns and winters.
How?
@ Because I remember having a great time in those summers, but when fall/winter came around, some bad stuff would happen to me.
Haley, you were mentioned by Ash in a coffee and cults vid about younger gens trying to disconnect from their ‘living via a social only’ 24/7 internet lifestyle callout yay she’s awesome and is a follower fan. You’re globally renowned for forethought. As always love y’all’s stuff. Thank you! 2016 is ‘so 5 mins ago.’ The 80s rocked thanks 2 harry & the Hendersons & Princess Bride Meat Loaf& classic Steve Martin. In other words it blew until ‘87
I can acknowledge that 2016 wasn't a perfect year.
And I can accept that.
But I can't deny that it was a MUCH simpler time.
Was it a simpler year or were you a kid at the time?
@@Gobbler72 I say a mixture of both. Some of the eldesst gen z's were already 18 and high school graduates. So I imagine we miss the optimism that went along with that simplicity.
2016 was so bad of a year. I honestly thought we will end up in civil war. Ppl forgot how bad it was. From legit almost every state had riots/ chaos. 100 days when mr T went crazy banning. Middle east in general. 12 merking youg kids/ adults for no reason. It was such horrible time
@Gobbler72 It just felt easier I don't know.
The only social media I knew was yt so I wasn't really using any other sites, such as IG, or Vine.
And I was 10 going on 11, I was in school, had a ton of friends.
And I still had fun.
Sorry for all this rambling, but life back then felt like an adventure.
It was never boring, unlike how life feels today.
@@Gobbler72 nah it was genuinely simpler, I'm 30 and it has gotten SO MUCH worse in the past 8 years.
Was 16 in 2016 :looks nervously side to side: 👀
and I don't feel nostalgic for a summer. 00 (Mind you, I am an introvert and had no friends at the time so maybe that's why).
In all fairness, I wanted to grow up with DS and 3DS when I was a kid, but never had the chance. As soon as I left my home to uni and received a really nice sum of money for my b-day+christmas gifts in Y2, I bought my treasured Solgaleo and Lunala 3DS I still have to this day, a few years later. I was and still am an adult.
When I picked it up for the first time after homebrewing it and loading Pokemon on it, it genuinely felt like I was living a childhood I never had.
Guys,
If you want something back from the past, even if missed entirely,
Just create that moment for youself, and I assure you, your inner child would be happy.
That’s a sweet 💖💗 comment I used to own a 3DS and I still do but I barely play on it.
I want orbeez
I remember when I was 8 asked my parents for the Nintendo DS and Orbeez I had to make my mind up and choose one. ☝🏾 I chose that over Orbeez
I wish I had Orbeez or the mermaid colour-changing Lalaloopsy doll
inspired me into becoming a TH-camr but people don't want to support a small creator to reach his goal😢 I'm begging you guys, literally begging!
Love this so much. I hesitate to use the word traumatizing, but I had an incident in my last year of elementary school that made me go from loving pink, skirts, dresses, and other fun things to black, hoodies, and just overall plain clothes. I became really depressed afterwards. It’s been a slow process, but I’ve finally gotten to the point where I can wear all that stuff again. Now, I proudly and gleefully own a Care Bears sweater, a Bluey pajama set, and a Cinnamoroll pajama set, plus cute skirts and dresses. It really is so freeing to just wear what you want. Whereas I used to shun all the fun, cute stuff my younger self secretly loved in order to protect myself, now I allow myself to be who I am and surround myself with people who like me for who I am. It’s amazing. So love on your inner child. You deserve it :)
"We had social media and technology back then what has changed" the rules of the technology has changed. We used to have a fundamental understanding between free advertised services and paid services and what we deserved to see. Companies had just a saliva drops worth of more respect for people. Things weren't AS doom and gloom. It was just ever so slightly harder to find people completely devoid of sense on the internet.
For me it’s 2014-2015. The main reason those years feel the best is because since then, literally nothing has felt real. Like…so many bad things just kept happening personally in my life and also in the world.
2016-19 is peak humanity. Everything started going downhill since then.
Hi I'm 30, your brains are maturing and you are feeling nostalgic for a specific year where everything felt peaceful and fun and wonderful because the world we're living through right now is incredibly triggeeing. when you are becoming more self-aware as a young adult, mentally you seek out distractions and nostalgia is a big source of that. we can't live in the past but we can use what we have learned in the past to shape our future and our present!
ETA: This isn't a judgment at all, my life changed dramatically when I went sober around age 25 and shortly afterwards I learned that the brain stops developing fully around age 25, maybe even up to 35 for neurodivergent people according to recent studies! So we really do become more self aware around 25 and that can be REALLY overwhelming, lots of childhood trauma can come to the surface and mix with adult hood trauma that maybe you haven't even recognized as trauma yet. lots of people already have unhealthy coping mechanisms by age 25 and this can cause them to bury themselves deeper into disassociation.
The brain at 25 developing thing is a myth.
It’s worth it staying up till 4:30 am to see this just released
Hello fellow murder drones fan
Who else is supposed to be asleep rn? 😭
Me, its 3:35am in texas.
@@BannaSpilttME TOO IT'S COLD I CAN'T SLEEP 😭
me
It’s 3:36
It’s 11:37 AM for me lol
I'm 48, and a GEN-Xer who graduated in the mid 1990s. I feel this way about growing up in Seattle during the grunge era. I think it's normal for us to reminisce about that time in our life before we had all the pressure and responsibility of adulthood. It's fun to see things like DOC Martins, claw clips and wide legs pants back in style and the new twists the younger generations add to make it their own.
Just wait 10 years and people will start feeling nostalgic about 2024 LOL
I give it two years tops until somebody goes viral with a video that has clips of Moo Deng, the Wicked movie, and the Espresso music video with some overly cutesy pink filter slapped on top of it and some melodramatic music playing in the background with the caption "We didn't know how good we had it in 2024 😭😭"
@@cityboy2092 LOL
LITERALLY JUST POPPED UP ON MY FEED, NOT EVEN A MINUTE AAAAAA
That is so weird how we barely made it out of 2020 and kiddos are already like “omg so nostalgic 😩😩” like what?? It’s been barely some time ago. Not *that* much has changed since 2016
I feel like a lot has changed. I actually am trying to get back in the 80s.
I'm trying to go back to the 1800
Society is a lot softer. 2016 was prime edgy humor.
@_DEVILYCH I think that a fair bit has changed tbh.
Like fft9917 has said, society in general were definitely more edgy with their comments, plus people did tend to be able to take things more on the chin back then.
Don't get me wrong, 2016 also had it's problems, but a fair bit of it is different to 2024's issues.
@@StephenShanahan-hi5uj what make the 2010's better was that back then things weren't expensive untill 2020
In 2016 it was my best year because it the first year I had where I wasn’t being bullied and wasn’t in a massive hole of depression because of my grandma passing (who passed in 2014), I was 11 in 2016 and I miss those days because I was genuinely having the time of my life.
I was 17 in 2016, I was going through a really hard time in life. But I still remember back on that year as a really good year when it came to society in my age range, social media, makeup and fashion, and music. It was a really good time for memes and just lots of fun. I wish I wasn’t depressed during that time so I could’ve enjoyed it more
I am for the UK and grew up in the 80’s and 90’s. I had the best club life with the best music. All the illegal raves and I dated a DJ and we flew all over the world for free. We did Australia too and I am so grateful I experienced it all. Do I want to go back? NOOOOOO we evolve and grow old for a reason! Love your channel babes xxxx
I deleted tiktok as it was worsing my mental health. ever since I deleted it my mental health improved. Best choice I ever made.
I never downloaded it to begin with
I'm better than you
@ Want a medal? It’s not a competition.
@@Dragon_Keeper_Allietalk yo shit king!!
@@PrincessShokora2002 Imagine trying to feel morally superior over a app...
I did the same thing, but for Twitter.
I was 16 in 2016. It was like any other year I skipped a lot of school to watch a lot of basketball, but that’s basically nothing else changed
'To cope with the celebrity deaths"...
HAVE WE FORGOTTEN ABOUT ALL THE GREAT PEOPLE WE LOST IN 2016?
Carrie Fisher, Alan Rickman, Anton Yelchin, Harambee!!! I HATED 2016, it was the beginning of the end, the world started going downhill at that year!!! 😭
Wasn't trump elected president that year?
@xxGothrd Don't get me started on that! I'm not even American and it still sucked!!! 😭
This year we also lost James Earl Jones and the guy who played Grimm from Billy and Mandy (or as I know him, Aku Aku from Crash Bandicoot).
Humans die all the time, MJ died in 09 yet you won’t rag on anyone nostalgic for that year? You don’t even know any of these people personally. Let young people be nostalgic.
@@ShendonV Dude, I was talking about a very specific part, of a specific text, that Hayley read, about a specific year. I didn't say that people can't be nostalgic, I am nostalgic all the time. BUT PERSONALLY (as I stated above) I HATED 2016, for the aforementioned reasons and many, many, MANY MORE!
It sucks that MJ died, but for me, personally, I feel like 2009 was a good year and in no way comparable to the dumpster fire that was 2016.
In my own opinion i remember reminiscing on times maybe even that were a year ago just because life gets progressively worse as it moves on. Even some of the worst moments, i’d live back in just because it was still better than life is now. Also no matter what time people turn about any era into an aesthetic which also adds to the obsession of nostalgia. Even times they weren’t alive in just for how they appeared to be.
Girl, I was very much alive when the Berlin wall fell. I can tell you where I was and the feeling it invoked. Yes, a wall, a song, a place can send your feelings in a thousand different directions. There's plenty more years for you to be able to reflect on, this is just a small part of what's to come. It's pretty powerful.
They must be younger gen z because everyone at that time regarded 2016 as a terrible year lol.
I wonder if they remember Harambe
Yeah, there's absolutely nothing memorable that really happened that year worth being nostalgic over. When I think of nostalgia as an old Gen Zer I think of the mid-late 2000s maybe early 2010s.
I was 9 and it wasn't a bad year, 2022 was a bad year for me (Maybe because I'm British and we all have different lives...)
@@NoraTheCreator117Of course
2016 is when the music for me absolutely fell in and I went officially classic rock classic metal and didn't look back. It was also the year I discovered Microsoft Sam reads funny Windows errors add multiple different versions and it was one of the last years I got to run around most of the summer listening to Hard Rock heaven and buy CDs at multiple places around the town and in the city. There were major major problems already starting in 2016 though the cracks are already beginning to appear in advertising in general and the storytelling in the movies had taken a critical hit
I can’t believe TH-cam hid this from me for 6 minutes. *THE AUDACITY*
It got hid for me for 40+ minutes *THE AUDACITY* (insert vine boom effect 😔)
it hid it from me for 55 mins
it hid it from me for 1 hour! *THE UTTER AUDACITY!*
what do u mean TH-cam hides videos from you?
Lmao😭
I was pretty happy in 2016, don't need to go to LA or get that warm feeling from the weather. All I need is good memes from an app who should not be named and good ass video games.
Ifunny? Vine?
:)
well are the games...
zombie tsunami
plants vs zombies
FLAPPY BIRD???
I'm an elder millennial and YES to ALL of this!!! I roadtripped in a homemade truck camper that year. I lived on the coast in CA for almost 2 months that winter and it was incredible. I was skateboarding a ton. I was drinking iced coffee. I was making random friends with strangers old and young. I didn't use Instagram yet. Life was so fun. We can have fun this year too!
2016-2019 was a great period of time in my opinion...well until 2020 😅
Tbf, I'd rather be reminiscing about my days, playing Barbies as a nine year old in 2016 then thinking about the abominations in 2024 who rack the sephora shelves for products they dont need 😭
same man, same. I don't remember anything from 2016 as I was only nine years old but whatever I was doing back then is way better than whatever the hells going on rn 😭
Omg I was 18 in 2016 I’m so o l d
@Hansuki1 I was 9 years old too, watching DanTDM and playing Roblox
To be fair they wouldn't be if we weren't so cruel to them when they were normal
YES SAME ‼️
I couldn’t have asked for a better day to wake up at 3 AM, you make everything worth it Haylo Hayley
8 years ago is basically just yesterday 😄 its funny watching the chronically online grow up.... probably the same way I feel about 2010
Oh yeah
I get more nostalgic about the 2000's and early 2010's than I do with 2016 tbh. I ddn't do much as a 16 yo in the summer of 2016. I was just mostly laying on the bed watching TH-cam videos lol.
But suddenly, I've been nostalgic about 2017-19...
I was nine in 2016. I don't have super specific memories of it but that's just because my memory absolutely sucks. I know very well that I was a lot happier in elementary school versus where I am now. Not that I despise my life, but things were just better then.
Things were always better as a child.
Yeah no shit life was easier you were in an elementary school
With all due respect, I love your videos and literally in almost every video I agree with you but THIS Idc, 2016 was SUCH A GOOD YEAR I'm a gen z and i completely agree with those in the videos, I just wanna come back, In that year happened things that make me happy and now i have nostalgia for it
I 💖 2016 such a good year you had the whip and nay nay
And the dab and SLIME
Arts and crafts TH-cam videos
@ChenilleSagoe-x9h ikr? It was amazing
Hypnotized yourself to sleep that works
@@centrevezgaming4862 what the actual f
What does that have to do with my comment? 😭
As a millennial by 2015 I had two children I find it weird and obscure for people to romanticise 2016? The year is really random and honestly it wasn’t all that long ago really
Right? Feels like yesterday to me!!
i'm 26 and i agree. life was a regular shit show. just a little less spicy than rn (wars yk. all that)
Equally confused millenial here. I don't think I've ever romanticized/felt nostalgic for an era myself.
They were still kids in 2016, and life in general is a lot simpler when you are a kid💀
2016 was the year of Harambe, Filthy Frank comedy being peaked on TH-cam, Pokemon Go and the Election. It was pretty significant culturally speaking, BTW I was 17 at the time.
2016 was before 2020, before problems, before responsibilities.
Our mind is a river and memories are rocks thrown into that river. What once might've been rough and edged gets polished over time, turned into something shiny and desirable. The water reflects us in our view of the rocks, changing how they look further.
Times have been rough. The newer generations? Their rocks have been reshaped more violently. So they look towards less distant times for their nostalgia. Mostly because they are so separated from the even 'better' times that came before that they are capable of seeing the flaws and not glorifying them, but they ache for simpler times they can relate to. And a year when former generations shared their nostalgic moments, creating good core memories, and good trends were on a rise? That's attainable.
2016 was the worst year of my life since it’s the year my dad died but I can understand missing aspects of that year. I remember the music being better and entertainment and TH-cam was better back then.
I do not remember 2016 and i remember being miserable during that year. The years 2015-2017 all blend together for me so idk how we being reminiscent of these eras although i do find myself thinking back to middle school as i was a tween during those times
I know one thing for sure. Summer wasn’t the only 2016 sequel this year
Tbh for me at least 2016 was literally one of the best years of my life
2016 was the last time the malls around me had stores. The “2016” summer was before every American started going bonkers over elections, something that hasn’t stopped. It was the calm before the storm and I think people are to afraid to lose the current era and technology but they still want that calm that can only be achieved few times in the span of the world.
5:31 the vibe changed I remember the smell was different, it looked different, people were different, the life expectancy was probably much higher, my cousins were babys, the music hit different, ( I know that you can still listen to it but the vibe just isn’t the same ) And life is just better
I really was I do believe everything is so different to 2016
i agree. i wish tiktok never got so popular
@@gyuatuttle what I said had nothing to do with TikTok wdym
@@Thebiggestbird156 tiktok lowkey ruined most things but idk i think im just being biased lmao
The only thing I miss from 2016 is cruising around with my best friend blasting music in a shit box car.
I don't give two shits about a physical object from that time, and I wouldn't try using a physical object to recreate the vibe from then. I don't know, maybe I just don't get it.
Can’t sleep so glad this video came out😢
2:54 that thing tripped me and wouldn’t stop moving and I think I sprained my tailbone so I’ve had hip problems ever since
Omg same but my hand and it healed
I was stupid kid with a hoverboard and did a penguin stand, ended up spinning so fast I could think I was at a theme park that was about to explode, toe and right hand stuck 😢😢in 😢
It’s so weird how people are praising 2016. That was literally the worst year of my life lol I had a glow up in 2017 and my life has been better since I would never go back to 2016!!! Now at almost 30 I look way better than I did in my early 20’s. 2018 and forward are definitely my prime years! 2022 was especially an amazing year for me!
Hahhahaha
I was 19 in my first year of community college in 2016. Looking back on it, it was honestly the perfect time to be young and dumb having fun, going to house parties and taking night drives. Unfortunately, a lot of "friends" from the social circle I hung out with were not real friends by the time covid came around, due to them not liking my opinions on certain things that were happening. Anyway, despite that, I look back on 2016 pretty fondly for the type of person who I was at the time. It was just a different era for everybody and I think the majority of us just miss more simple times. I think all generations go through it at a certain point
EDIT: we also have to consider how fast culture changes nowadays due to us being online more as a collective, compared to back then when culture changed in a more slow, organic way. Individually, people received information in a much slower pace whereas now, we can find out about pretty much anything within seconds from our smartphones in our pockets. So with that being said, I believe people develop nostalgia quicker than previous generations because of how much we are all online now
2016 was a terrible year for me.😂
I wish that I could share these people's nostalgia for that year.
Same, i want NOTHING to do with 2016 😅
2016 was a boring year 4 me
honestly idk i dont even remember it much but it seemed like for me such a chill year where nothing really happened or just i guess in general 2015-2019 now from 2020 everything seems downhill
As a gen alpha it js feels like they r tryna make us jealous but nobody else besides gen z took it as a flex
As gen Z, most of us also don't care about 2016, just the chronically online ones
As a millennial I have no idea why these people are idolizing 2016....
We're really not 😭😭😭 It was a good year ngl
Make you jealous? Get over yourself, kid. Not every Gen Z idolises 2016, just the ones who have absolutely no life outside of social media💀
@@Thechosen1000 I kinda agree but what was with the insult(s) there 😭it's just a kid leave their character alone man
I’m so happy this channel exists, thanks for screaming for us 😭
Cute, I’m the same way with the years 2004-2006. Miss that era, that was my childhood. I was going to college parties in 2016 which was fun too
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The problem with this is that people are too fixated on aesthetic. I udnerstand having nostalgia and missing certain memories, but it seems what bother people most is the aesthetic. The problem would be solved if they stopped fixating so much on that and learn to appreciate what life can offer day by day.
Bro Hayley is so real
I feel like its valid to miss a certain year especially if it was nostalgic or carefree, it reminds you of when things were better and gives you a sense of calmness or safety remebering those times besides in that era nothing seemed wrong bc most of us were carefree kids and teens so ofc we miss it.
But obessing over it will constantly have you down wishing for old things back when you have to move on
I feel this way about 2009. A lot of my favorite stuff things came out that year and it was before a lot of stuff started to go downhill. Obviously it’s just nostalgia depending on the person but I like to look back at simpler times when I didn’t have to worry about as much
For me it was the year before most of my comfort youtubers were known to be pdf files 😢
As a gen alpha, i say daily that i’d like to go back to the 2000s even though i WASN’T there, just because i’m emo. Lol
proud of myself i'm getting better at living in the present
11:36 the oldest gen alpha was 3/4 in 2016, so it made sense why they aestheticize what 2016 looked like inaccurately
I’m mentally stuck in 2016. Gen Alpha will never understand the hype and pride we had for this year.
I’m only about 3 minutes in but I can understand it to an extent. It was back before social media realllyyyy took off, it was before politics infiltrated every waking moment of our lives, it was before the weather started getting super bad (like more hurricanes and tornados, earthquakes, etc.), it was a time where we weren’t so tense and worried about everything. I look back at 2016 and I wasn’t worried about the turmoil of the world like I am today, granted I was a lot younger and didn’t analyze things as I do today but still. I feel like if I was the same age now as I was in 2016, I too would be yearning to be a teen in 2016, maybe not in LA, but just in general cause times were a little better back then. Gotta finish the vid but I thought maybe I’d add that bit. That’s the only reason I could think of for people idealizing that time period.
2016 was before housing inflated 3x (not kidding, houses now are 3x the price they sold in 2016) and before the lockdowns and pandemic violence. Back when we could still afford to eat.
we're always living in either the future or the past. please just live in the present for the love of god
I was 24 in 2016, and sometimes I catch myself feeling nostalgic for that year. My body didn’t hurt as bad, less wrinkles, I loved the makeup and clothing styles (particularly chokers), and things were just more fun for me personally.
I miss that year! Can't believe it's almost 10 years ago!
The person used the wrong text, but that's a 3DS they showed. People were still playing the 3DS a lot in 2016, a new Pokemon game actually came out that year.
I loved 2016 tbh
my last blissful year now i'm tired and shit
Nothing has changed much for me since 2016 if I’m to be honest. Having no social media is the best and allows you to enjoy the real world more often.
Yeah, I don't really understand this. I will get nostalgic from seeing things like toys or tv shows from my childhood, but never the year itself. 2016 was the year I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression and also the year I started self harming. I suffered a lot during my school years and will never wish to be back there again. Since leaving school, every year has just been better than the one before.
I really appreciate where I am today and look forward to how much better I'll be in the future 🥰
Being a teen in LA in 2016 was shit just like every other year in LA