The year is 2016. You’re en route to a party having just fired off a text on Facebook messenger to find out what your friend is wearing. A few minutes later, a yellow notification lights up your ...

When I look at fashion trends from over the years, there are only a few styles that immediately transport me back in time. If you’ve lived through the iconic moment that is 2016, you know that skinny ...

The first two weeks of 2026 have sparked a wave of nostalgia online, with social media users enthusiastically revisiting a decade old version of themselves. From grainy iPhone photos to overused ...

If 2026 is the new 2016, the entertainment industry will need to try to emulate the success of these projects that dominated the box office, snatched Emmys and Oscars and have remained touchstones of ...

It's all happening! Champagne Pop by Becca, bling chokers, and lace-up tops are coming back for round two. If there was one thing that everybody owned in 2016, it was an off-the-shoulder top. This ...

You’d think there’d be more excitement around the new year—we’re only three weeks in, people!—but instead everyone’s occupied with plumbing the depths of their camera rolls for relics of their 2016 ...

The internet is collectively rewinding from 2026 back to 2016. As we settle into the new year, a growing number of social media users have participated in an online trend that goes heavy on nostalgia.

For people in my generation (Gen X), that year is usually cited as 1994—the final year before the internet really started taking hold. But if a recent trend on TikTok is anything to go by, the year ...

A viral social media trend has people digging through their camera rolls, hoping to find the picture (or pictures) that best capture what their lives were like a decade ago. Snapchat filters, chokers ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Over the holidays, the first trend of 2026 emerged: the year 2016. “2026 is the new 2016,” users declared, in captions waxing poetic about the good old days, accompanied by Instagram-filtered photo ...