Days after the 2026 New Year people started to post old throw back videos and trends as a remembrance of 2016 being a decade ago. These old videos from 2016 people are remaking in 2026, are made to be and look the same from when these trends first appeared.
Why is 2026 the new 2016? People all over social media are saying 2026 is the new 2016, for many reasons. Many songs like “Lush Life” by Zara, “Starboy” by The Weekend, and Fetty Wap, are all coming back to Tiktok, Instagram, and Snapchat as 2016 throwback videos . People are also re-making a bunch of old dances from 2016.
The user @taybrafang on tiktok shared a video of old pictures from 2016 in December 2025. After that, everyone on tiktok started reposting similar posts of themselves. On tiktok people are posting tiktoks with a filter called “2016 filter” which is basically a purple hue over the screen. The purple color over the screen is what people used to use in 2016, and made you and your camera look better and got many views. According to Snapchat the filters that were most used were the dog ears, flower crown, butterflies all over the face, and also silly filters that could change how you looked and even sounded.
A big trend from 2016 that has appeared back into 2026 is all colorful unicorn food. People are making unicorn grilled cheese or colorful unicorn pancakes to post on social media along with the hashtag “2016ThrowBack”. In 2016 vibrant colors were everything, so everywhere you looked or every video you scrolled through was filled with color. Starbucks had a drink called the “Unicorn Frappe” that many people believe was in 2016, but it was actually sold for a limited time in April of 2017.
This trend would only last for a little over a month like most trends, it starts to die off once people get bored. For the start of 2026 to have a nice calm trend like 2026 being the new 2016 is a good refresh from more of the popular trends that are around now. Just like all trends they come and go but some trends like those from 2016 do come back. As fast as trends appear they disappear and get replaced with the new craze people get obsessed with.
