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What Even Happened in 2016?

Summary by Her Campus
In the new year 2026, a decade has passed since our hypereuphoric era of 2016. The early 2010s trends of bright neon typography, Snapchat filters, and Vine still in existence feels like ancient relics of another lifetime. Although Gen Z remembers this time fondly, it often feels like a secondhand story told by millennials (it was their peak optimism of possibility, not ours). It felt like we never fully got to inherit the same hopeful feeling as…
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Her Campus broke the news in on Tuesday, February 24, 2026.
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