Flower crowns, Snapchat dog filters and oversaturated Rio de Janeiro posts dominate the Instagram feed. People are blasting The Chainsmokers and recreating the Mannequin Challenge. For nostalgic ...

On January 1, the world welcomed 2026 with open arms, hopes in their hearts, and firecrackers filling the sky. And a week into the New Year, it seems like we have dialled the clock back to 2016. Why?

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Barely a fortnight into 2026, social media has slipped into full rewind mode. Instagram and TikTok feeds are overflowing with old selfies, blurry phone pictures and aggressively filtered memories as ...

Picture this, winged eyeliner, skater skirts, blurry Instagram filters, the Lush Life dance, chokers and “Closer” playing in the background, it sounds so 2016 core. For many people scrolling social ...

A viral social media trend has people digging through their camera rolls, hoping to find the picture (or pictures) that best capture what their lives were like a decade ago. Snapchat filters, chokers ...

It is 2016 and I am staring into space in my tent at Glastonbury. According to scientists, it’s the hottest year since records began. “Earth has not been this warm for 115,000 years,” they’ve said on ...

Social media users are striving for a 2016 resurgence, ten years later ambardriscoll/Instagram;Taylor Swift/Instagram;eli.rallo/Instagram People online are calling ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

THERE’S another new trend gathering tremendous traction on social media, but this time it promotes something kids often dismiss – nostalgia. Here’s everything you need to know about the ‘2026 is the ...

Pepper Trail is the first to admit he has an unusual skill set. Give him a single feather or a small fragment of a claw or a cooked hunk of breast meat, and he’ll tell you the species of bird from ...