It’s looking a lot like 2016 on social media, the “Today” show is reporting, noting the #2016 hashtag on posts celebrating nostalgia in music, photos and trends.
Social media users apparently are longing for the simpler days of 10 years ago and letting their nostalgic longings show in their online posts and profiles, the NBC morning talk show reported Tuesday.
“It’s 2026, people are feeling nostalgic for 2016 [because] enough time has passed to have those warm feelings for that time,” Clay Routledge, an existential psychologist who’s a leading expert in the science of nostalgia, told “Today” show correspondent Joe Fryer.
Mr. Routledge is an executive officer at the Archbridge Institute, a non-partisan, independent public policy think tank. He told the NBC show that millennials and Generation Z are driving the nostalgia trend because they are most involved in changes in technology and communication.
