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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.Whether the captions say “take me back” or are in denial that this was now an entire decade ago, there is a definite romanticism surrounding 2016.But this isn’t just your average throwback. It’s something more specific. Call it pre-chaos nostalgia: a longing for the moment just before everything accelerated, intensified and became permanently exhausting.

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00:002016 is back so we thought it was only fitting to take you through the food trends that were
00:04dominating at that time in london rainbow bagels oh my god do you remember these i feel like every
00:09bakery was coming out with them and they didn't taste any different chin chin ice cream i feel
00:14like that's another spot that really killed it on instagram early on if you weren't going into
00:20camden or soho when they opened to get the nitro ice cream i don't know what you were doing chili
00:25chocolate i also remember that having a moment freak shakes man these literally determined my
00:31tfl route back in the day it blew my mind kombucha again very 2016 origins but i feel like that's here
00:39to stay as well i drink kombucha quite regularly golden milk i think that was like having a semi
00:44wave before matcha did really i feel like the ned still does like a golden milk drink sounds better
00:51than turmeric latte doesn't it matches first moment this is the thing i feel like everyone's a matcha
00:56girly now which i'm so here for great love that for you however it is not a new thing it has been
01:03circulating forever but for me i first found it like become a big trend in terms of lots of cafes
01:10serving it was 2015 2016 so yeah 2016 was a good year i'm here for it coming back
01:21so

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