Why was 2016 a really good year for most people?
Random QuestionPokémon Go came out
This is the closest we came to world peace. You'd see strangers walking and then just join em and make friends.
There is a small park where I'm from that had bulbasaur appear so often. The local gangsters used to come here and just peacefully capture pokemons.
I walked so much in 2016, 2017 was still a good year.
I crashed my bike into a bunch of trash cans trying to catch a bulbasuar in the middle of the night
Depends on who you ask. For me 2016 was good. I was a teen and the world just seemed more positive but that might just be a part of being young. Seems like everyone is stressed, tired, and just generally over the reality of the world. People weren’t as sensitive and could take a joke. Movies were still semi decent. Depending on the individual people were doing alright financially. More people had jobs. Eggs weren’t $11. Restaurants still served good food and you could feed 3-4 people for $50 instead of $110. People could afford a night out without braking the bank too badly. Seems like ever since Covid, lots of things have gone downhill.
Just by reading and agreeing with this i feel old.
Ah the great Covid price gouging rush. It has ruined everything
I swear to god I feel like there is a pre-covid life, and a post-covid life. Even though most things are "back to the way it used to be", everything still feels off. Maybe I'm just gaslighting myself. Who knows
Hardly! Everyone I talk to agrees - it’s not the same as pre-covid. You’re not gaslighting yourself. Life has changed in many ways. I believe many people felt lost during Covid. People were isolated, afraid, society shut down, it was time of uncertainty and fear of the future and being stuck at home made many depressed. Unfortunately, Covid also divided a lot over beliefs even more so than before.
You’re not alone in this feeling! It feels like we’re all living in some simulation or alternate dimension in this post-2020 world. There is an oppressive sense of hopelessness hanging thick in the air and permeating everything. I think inflation and the unbelievably sharp rise in housing is a big reason for this.
Christ I feel for you if things seemed good at that point. They've all undoubtedly become much worse (although I think unemployment is actually down) but I turned 18 in 2009 and felt like I was just coming into the real world as the effects of the financial crash were becoming obvious. I just remember meeting a lot of people sadly wandering around talking about how everything had doubled in price since like 2006.
After that, it felt like 2016-ish and then COVID were the two tipping points where things rapidly started going downhill.
Ah yes, millennials did enter into the real world during a recession. When my twenties started everything shut down because of Covid. It was a weird time for sure. I think that’s why many Gen Z’s feel odd. They either were becoming adults during Covid or they were coming of age during Covid. It just feels like a critical part of life was delayed in some ways, social and non social.
Bang on. Well said.
I think the same way about the early 2010s! It’s all relative, tbh.
It was the worst year of my life by a long shot 🤣
Same here 🥲
Same. It was like a nightmare for me.
Saaaaameeeeee~
Bad year here too.
It was the last year when you could pretend western civilization wasn't doomed
We've been pretending since 2000. 2016 was the year Harame died which conspiracy theorists like to label as the tipping point where we entered the worst timeline.
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That was the year I got accepted and started the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician school by Destin Florida. Learning about explosives in the morning and laying on the beach in the afternoons was definitely a big win.
…that was the year when everything started to crumble man. It just kept spiraling downwards since 2016, hit rock bottom in 2020, and 2022 came and smashed that rock bottom that I didn’t even know it was possible.
As cheesy as it sounds, I believe in you. Also, happy cake day! (pun not intended)
In March, quit smoking after 55 years, in October, had a total hip replacement. Six weeks stuck in the house SUCKED!, but hey, now I have not smoked in 8 years after believing I would never be able to quit, and don't have to use a cane anymore.
that's insane. my year wasn't v pleasant but this genuinely made my 2016 in retrospect.
For me, it was a good year because I took the risk and started my own business, and it has served me well.
Cubs win it all!
That must have broke the timeline though... because gestures at everything.
Cavaliers won too. Indians were set to win but because the Cubs were even more in a drought fate chose them.
I call it the Year of Impossibilities.
It’s impossible for the Cavs to win. They did.
It’s impossible for the Cubs to win. They did.
It’s impossible for a dude that paints himself orange and knows absolutely nothing about anything to win. Unfortunately he did.
I'd like to see evidence on how 2016 was a really good year for "most people" cause this is the very first time I've ever heard of anything this dumb.
I think this person just must be very young cos I was there, 2016 was an awful year.
Because it wasn’t 2020
my son born in 2016
congrations
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Portugal won the Euro with a goal scored by a bench-warmer. When miracles like this happen , all the saints feel threatened by the birth of a nee competitor so they make an extra effort to ensure their place im God's dining table. That is the only logical explanation. /S
It was actually terrible for me. From 2016-present. 2018 was my worst year yet tho.
2016 was shit from beginning to end like a fever dream.
clearly I'm not most people as it was the worst year of my life and were it not for my wife I'd have killed myself
It really fucking wasn't, but 2014 and 2015 were worse
2016 was by far the worst year of my life i basically died so idk haha
I didn't realize it was. 2016 was the year my lil river town flooded for the first time. It was a really terrible time for a lot of us here. (2018 ended up being worse tho)
2016 was hell for us. My father died, I almost died, My husband was laid off, we lost our home and so much more. I would rather not be reminded of that year at all really.
My kid was born and I had a major baby blues... like a badass depression. Lost a lot of weight, until I was 48kg and gave up on looking at the scale...
Not the best year, nope.
Good video games, lots of indie game companies where not bought yet by big industry titans, games as a service where not as popular, dark humor was starting to be more chill but still doable, good series, good movies, very good music. YouTube golden era. Social media was about sharing instead of mass media production and short form brainrot.
However everyone remembers it with nostalgia. A lot of things that we liked from that 2012-2016 era started to change. Milennials and gen z where adolescents young adults or prepubers and we remember it being the time with their highschool friends maybe their first love or maybe just video gaming all night with nothing to worry about but the math homework due next day
Also the COVID has affected how we interact with each other, now people are more distant and irritated. Also economic situation doesn’t help either.
So yes, while everyone had his own personal experiences it’s easy to figure out why in comparison people tend to see 2016 as a good year, lots of things have worsen since then
I agree. I was a teenager in 2016, I was carefree and my biggest fear was passing my classes. My twenties came fast during the Covid lockdowns and suddenly everything is normal again and I’m like “What am I doing with my life?!”.
Add to this that everything is normal after Covid and yet not everything is normal. I never has been the same since then
For me, it was right before my body went to shit. I have a disability that essentially makes me age prematurely, in terms of pain, fatigue, muscle stiffness/strength etc. I was doing okay in 2016 as a 26 year old. Managed to travel to America for a holiday, came home to Australia and won $20K on the pokies a month later. Guess who went back overseas in early 2017?
Then I came home again and the physical spiral started right after that.
Metallica released on of my favorite albums of all time
I'm not sure. 2016 was the year I graduated high school. It was an alright year. I was a totally different person back then and had no clue that the future would look like what it is right now. I don't miss that person and I also have a hard time connecting to her.
Years later we will agree that 2022 was so good year
Kung Fu Panda 3 released.
I think it’s because the average person who is active online would have been either a kid or teen at the time. Also before the pandemic.
2016 was a year of firsts and lasts.
Focus shifted from business and individual pursuits, to social and family.
The year after I stepped down from a busy executive role, and returned to solo ventures.
Also the last year I would live in my hometown and the first year to be fully on my own, across the world. Leaving Smalltown, USA is really the big milestone that all those 2000s alternative songs used to reference. Everything changes.
A final year of peace for my childhood friends and I, those of us left anyway, to have one conclusive hoorah before we’d lose contact. Some of us still see each other. But it’s years and years between each instance. Weekend, monthly, or annual hangouts are things of the past.
2016 is the year I stopped convincing myself that I’d return to college ‘someday.’ I had left in 2011 and tried going back in 2014, but it wasn’t the same. Thankful for being able to close that chapter and accept that I was firmly a dropout.
I used to go to the movies once a week or more. Sometimes doing all day marathons from 10AM to 9PM. Two or three movies back to back. In 2016, that all stopped and I haven’t entered a theater in years. Seldomly here and there, but not at the same frequency.
And it was also the year I slowed down on drinking alcohol. Those of you who love a good blackout will understand. Eventually alcohol would disappear completely from my habits. No special intervention, no big life changing event, just got bored of drinking.
May 28, 2016. They took Harambe from us and the world never recovered.
The US was still riding on many good policies that helped millions of people.
Fully grown adult that paints himself orange: Not if I have anything to do with it!
I’m implying that Cheeto Jesus was riding on good policies already in place, we know what he did to them though.
the best and the worst year of my life. i got time to date lol.
i was extremely depressed and suicidal, but i also managed because i got to talk to my friends all the time, play games with them, and whatnot. i never felt alone even when i was at my lowest, not at least like i do now. now they’re all busy and have lives and i understand that, i just miss when times were like that
In my case, I bought a house that year, which was a big deal for me.
It was my sophomore year at university, but I remember that year because of music.
For me it was good. I was in 6th - 7th grade, didn’t have a damn care in the world
Because nothing happened
Childhood mostly, it was good because i truly did not have any troubles in the world at that point, that year is what i consider a "safe" year for me, i was happy and healthy, and my dad didn't do any shit that year, we went on day trips a lot as well, and spent lots of days out in the sun.
Because it is over. I experienced it, then did 2017. Now, I am experiencing 2024.
I didn't remember that 2016 happened. Really nothing relevant happened for me that year.
I was then in the 6th grade of school, and for the first time I started actively watching anime. life was honey: no exams, no covid, no war, no university.
My freshman year, making new friend, get used to new city, and it's one of the best year.
When else would you impeach the president
2016-2017 is the best year of my life for me
In retrospect… it wasn’t
Def not a good year for me!
2017 was genuinely better for me. I was unfocused throughout the entire year before. From family matter, relationships to academic dealings. Proper waste that one.
I lost my mom that year so no
I can't remember that year at all.
No. I had a violent head-on collision with a tree thanks to someone losing control of their vehicle and causing a ripple effect.
April 4... Massive snowstorm. That date is seared into my brain.
Was it? I don't remember it that way.
Wasn't 2016 the year a lot of famous people died, the "2016 strikes again" comments, obviously I'm sure it was no worse or better than any other year.
I wouldn't say it was a good year for most people, but for a lot of people it was the last good year for a while — for example, for me.
Got married in 2016
I was a kid, it was just fun
Not for me 2016 was the worst year of my life so far
Harambe was still with us
Good year for XXL Freshman Class
Hell no, it was a year of change and not the good kind. Things got worse from there.
We still had Harambe with us. It's all gone downhill ever since.
YES IT WAS
2016 was the year I left my husband and got divorced. Come to think of it. It was a good year!
I finished school and started uni. I was full of hope that future holds everything I'd dreamt about. That I would change and actually study instead of just learning to pass the assignments. Well, at least I was able to find out that I like programming and now I have a job I love
No.
I was recently divorced from a bipolar harpy who had screamed my nerves into oblivion, lived in a 26 m² apartment while having every-second-week custody of a toddler, my body was wrecked by a newly diagnosed chronic illness that gave cramps in all of my 650 muscles and arthritic pain in all of my 200+ joints simultaneously, I had a hernia in my neck as part of this which caused extra pain and made me lose half the strength in my right arm - and I was newly bankrupted by dishonest clients, tens of thousands of dollars in the red.
Oh yeah - both my parents got cancer right around that as well. They got cured, but still.
A year later my exwife sued for custody. She lost after a court battle that drained me of what remaining money I could dig up.
So no, life was a living hell for me between 2014-2018. And the only thing I could do about it was put one foot before the other and keep walking, working around the clock, not sleeping much.
So if you look at my posting history and think I seem a bitter and jaded, I have a long list of very good reason to be in a foul mood. And it sort of peaked around 2016, give or take several years.
Oh yeah, I was in Singapore making bank for a while back then
My best year to date 😂
I had my second son and American Horror Story Cult aired.
I went to school. I miss school.
I loved it
That year was a good and bad year. Not really the best.
Because another fallout game had just come out a year before that.
Idk why for most people, but for me it was my junior year so it was awesome. We knew we have one more year as friends before we go somewhere else also as a gamer it was good year as well.
Most of us were children or pre treens so we don’t know what taxes are
Doom video game was released. Still play it.
Only thing I remember about 2016 is a bunch of celebrities dying
A year of two halves for me...
Major surgery followed by the death of my fiance in the first half.
Meteor my now wife and mother of my excellent children in the second half.
Also, as a Brit... There was an important moment in our history going on which went the way I wanted. Controversial even to this day but to me, it was the first time I was happy since my loss.
2016 was fucking shit
Only good thing about it was I think it was the peak of Internet memes
And Dark Souls 3 came out that yeah
My grandmother who I was close to died that year so I guess I'm not most people
I actually had a great 2016 finished my apprenticeship as a chef, went and saw great movies what seemed like almost every week with my friends, went travelling, had my 20th birthday which was a surprise party, was madly in love, got a dog, moved out of home, and was just in a good overall mental state. As an Aussie I really really enjoyed the election coverage that was happening in America 😂 it became a big deal here to the lead up as I’m sure it did everywhere.
2016 was when I completely healed from a terminal neurological condition and started driving and could start my life because I wasn’t sick anymore
Hindsight 2020
As others have said, it depends.
For me it was a pretty good year, but it was also the year of impossibilities. I’m a Clevelander so I’m used to Cleveland losing. Cavaliers won a championship. The, then Indians, were in the World Series and should have won but because the Cubs had a longer drought fate chose them. That’s two impossibilities happening.
Cap the year off with it should’ve been impossible for a reality TV game show host that knows nothing about anything being elected President…welp.
It wasn't for me.
Are these most people in your head. It was a thoroughly awful year for a lot of people I personally know. It certainly was women, immigrants, LGBT+ folks, and minorities.
Not a good year for me. I experienced great loss.
Was it?
In 2016, I was 26 and joined the Navy, got married, and moved to the west coast so you could say it was great.
2023 was cheated on (cue the “saw that coming” remarks) so I got divorced and now I’m finishing my contract in July, currently undergoing an internship, living in a new city, and rediscovering my passions. Life is better now but I don’t regret my choices.
Because a team people actually like won the Super Bowl with out the refs help, set up the year for greatness!
It was, until Harambe was shot
Not for me. Shittiest year besides 2023
Meh, 2016 is in my top 3 of worst years tbh.
Excuse me? I thought it was consensus that 2016 was shit, on top of being when everything started to go to shit.
You know, since they killed our king Harambe
That's when I graduated and got my first job.
It was still pure back then.
I haven't had a good year since 1988. (52/M) Individual years just blend in tbh.
It was the last year of a very successful Obama presidency. Once he moved on, on January 20, 2017, the shit hit the fan.
Being a 12-13 year old preteen/teen was golden ❤
it was the year before harambe was shot
That was the worst year of my life, at least up until November, and then it recovered nicely.
My marriage of 26 years ended when she suddenly walked out on me, and then my father died. My kids were pretty much grown and left to start living on their own(which was also very hard for me to accept).
It wasn't until the very end of the year that I met my current wife, whom I love and adore now.
Worst year of my life thus far.
Cubs won the world series and I married my love.
It was awful for me. Basically where my anxiety started.
It wasn't.
Living in South America having to deal with insane shortages, extremely high costs, it was no joke, crazy thing is somethings never dropped to regular prices. Most imported goods ( American products remain high) so I've learned to do without with exception Oreo's I gotta have a and Oreo or two with my coffee in the morning. I got super serious about getting fit and remaining fit. Got down to a 32 waist and have remained there, eating healthy, I said to myself if I catch that virus I don't want to be overweight, add additional issue to my COVID recovery, cool thing is I never got COVID. But I was ready.
Not me I had “friends” at college that made me cry everyday. I’m friendless now and I still cry but at least not because of anyone..
It was before 2018, I suppose
But it had the worst year of my life until 2018
I always wondering this question 😂 people talk about 2016 like it was the greatest moment of their life
I’m not sure that 2016 was better than any other year. I’m curious what was so magical for OP about 2016. Yeah, it was better than 2020, but that’s a pretty low bar. It’s like saying I’d rather have the flu than syphilis.
Why 2016? 😆
Not great not bad for me. 2017 I slept with maybe the hottest girl ever besides my wife so that was cool
Our first child was born :)
It was a very good year.
The most people feeling like that were in their teens. Teenage years are probably one of the most carefree time in a person's life. So now that they're working their asses off to earn 2 peanuts a day, they feel like those were great times.
In 2030, people will fantasize 2024 too.
2015 through pre-covid 2020 was the peak of life. Everything was just sweeter man, I don't know how to explain it. What a time to be alive, I wish we could go back.
It's not that it was a really good year exactly. More that it was the last not shit year. Things have been on a steady decline ever since.
It was good for me... very good
I lived and found what I call harmony with hands, it's hard to do first you need soap, then a shoe, then a 😔😔😔 give me a second it's so sad, I am crying about this, it's so emotional, okay I am back, then a hat with a orange in it. An orange hat would have sufficed but I don't want that. Then some water, some lip stick, and one ice cube. This will make a
It wasn't for me, my mum died and Brexit happened. 9 year old me was not impressed.
For me it was 2014
Yes definitely yes 🥹
we were just younger, the world seemed more positive
It was subjectively the shittest year in recent memory - so much so that John Oliver blew it up.
The year of Brexit and my band starting to fall apart. Not so great of a year.
Doom
Dicks out for harambe.
Good music
Because it was my first year at University
Because born in 2000-2002 are teens during that time and now in 2024 they are in their 22s-24s yr old depressed
Because 🇨🇱
iirc that was the year famous ppl deaths kept making the news (plus those in my distant family)
For me, I graduated high school, had a great summer, the music was pretty cool and I left for basic training. Unfortunately my boy Harambe was killed
I can't even remember that year 😂tf...
SRH won the ipl
Things were finally recovering from 2008
Worst year of my life
And who made the claim that 2016 was a good year for most people accept the OP?
Just pulling random years out of his ass?
Defs wasn't a good year for me, hit with a $3k tax bill that I had to pay back by working 7 days a week on shitty wages, my relationship fell to pieces & to top it off I had a mental breakdown on Christmas Day morning
Got my current job and loved the move to it from where I had previously been. Such an upgrade
I didn't know it was a good year for most people. It was a horrible year for me. I almost completed offing myself.
I couldn't get a job and everyone was going completely mad about wanting to leave a trading bloc because of something about fisheries that they couldn't explain properly. These things may be related, for some reason nobody wanted to offer a two year legal traineeship for a while after that.
Still, my body hadn't completely started its downward spiral and Dark Souls 3 was a blast on release.
My Singing group started traveling. We had sang the National Anthem for our hometown team Buffalo Bills, won some contests. We’re in the best vocal shape of our lives. I was at peak health and fitness and vibrant. Women loved us. I learned a great deal about life and planned on traveling more. Then in a flash it was 2020 and we know how that turned out.
Games, trends, sports, songs, youtube, fashion, movies. Just a chefs kiss!
Or maybe we were just young and all. For sure it was just another ordinary and boring year for adults that time.
The same reason 2007 and 1995 was.
Based on what facts ? it wasn't.
wish i could time travel
It was a good year till November then everything went downhill from there.
Mine was interesting because I started drinking, going out, being with boys, and made new friends. I was still underage so no real responsibilities, and college was 2 years away so no serious studying neither
Euro 2016. Polish here! ;)
teen years for Gen Zs and early 20s for late millennials. so most people on the internet see that year with rose tinted glasses
First year out of high school for me. first year in university, working part time, hanging with friends. It felt like a great time
Was not for me that’s for sure, spent from August through may 17 in hospital thanks to a random drunk driver f that year and all of 17
First girlfriend
Pokémon go
Living was affordable
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2016 was a dumpster fire full of steaming turds.
My step-mum died of lung cancer, our whole family fell out with each other over disagreements regarding her treatment in her final weeks. Our step-brothers disagreed not only with my sister (High ranking nurse), and me (biochemist), both with prior experience of our biological mum dying of cancer, but also with all of the doctors and specialists who were treating her. One of our stepbrothers got violent with a doctor, and she refused to deal with him any more for her own safety.
3 days before our step-mum died, our dad was diagnosed with cancer too.
Step-mums funeral ended up being on the day that would have been her birthday, and her and dad's 25th wedding anniversary. Dad had to leave the wake early to go into hospital for surgery. The next day, we found out that his cancer was terminal.
However, the first half of 2016 was the last time we weren't aware that half of the population of at least 2 of the world's most influential counties were fundamentally stupid, and determined to vote for a dystopian hell hole of a future. So maybe that's why folk remember it fondly?
Prince, David Bowie, George Michael, Leonard Cohen, Muhammad Ali, Carrie Fisher and Alan Rickman all died in 2016. Things have gotten worse since. Coincidence?
It's different for different people. For me, it was a few years before I started to feel depressed, but I was old enough to kind of do what I wanted. I don't remember much from that time, but I remember playing Pokémon GO with my friends, which means I actually hung out with them. It was before my lonely years, before alcohol, before my worries, and before my self-esteem hit rock bottom. I think 2017 was the peak, but nothing bad happened in 2016 to my knowledge, so it was just a good year with no worries. Nowadays, every year gets more and more depressing.
I did a skydive in 2016 for the first time.
It's been shit for me.
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