{"id":2259848,"date":"2026-01-31T15:47:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2259848"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:47:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T15:47:25","slug":"2016-trends-from-pokemon-go-to-poke-bowls-as-looking-back-10-years-goes-viral-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/2016-trends-from-pokemon-go-to-poke-bowls-as-looking-back-10-years-goes-viral-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 trends, from Pokemon Go to poke bowls, as looking back 10 years goes viral in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nostalgia for 2016 has been circulating on the internet over the last few weeks. People welcomed the new year by reminiscing 10 years into the past, sharing decade-old photos of themselves online. There is even a Wikipedia page for \u201c2026 is the new 2016\u201d.<\/p>\n

Of course, 2016 was before the Covid-19 pandemic rocked the world and the widespread use of generative AI (artificial intelligence) made us question what on our feeds was real and fake.<\/p>\n

Back then, people used social media mostly to stay connected with their friends and family, and feeds were free of algorithm-driven ads for products fighting for our attention.<\/p>\n

Below, we take a look at some of the cultural trends and headline makers of 2016.<\/p>\n

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Song Joong-ki in a still from Descendants of the Sun. The popular K-drama helped fuel a travel surge to South Korea in 2016. Photo: Blossom Entertainment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It is no surprise that Japan was Hongkongers\u2019 favourite destination even 10 years ago. However, with the exchange rate not as favourable as it is today \u2013 about 15 yen to a Hong Kong dollar in 2016 as opposed to about 20 yen to a Hong Kong dollar in 2026 \u2013 travellers also looked for alternatives in the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.scmp.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nostalgia for 2016 has been circulating on the internet over the last few weeks. People welcomed the new year by reminiscing 10 years into the past, sharing decade-old photos of themselves online. There is even a Wikipedia page for \u201c2026 is the new 2016\u201d. Of course, 2016 was before the Covid-19 pandemic rocked the world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2259849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[437680,437679,437690,437681,437691,35543,24133,437677,437685,355739,437688,437682,437687,346910,437694,310801,437675,26630,35137,437673,360899,437678,392434,437684,437692,437674,437683,437689,437672,437693,23875,391548,437686,345598,437676],"class_list":["post-2259848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-2022-winter-olympics","tag-active-wear","tag-activewear","tag-athleisure","tag-big-bang","tag-blackpink","tag-bts","tag-colin-grant","tag-endurance-running","tag-exo","tag-foxglove","tag-gong-baths","tag-gong-yoo","tag-got7","tag-green-common","tag-hong-kong","tag-ikigai","tag-japan","tag-korea","tag-labyrinths","tag-lululemon","tag-martha-collard","tag-meditation","tag-mindfulness","tag-pokemon-go","tag-pure-yoga","tag-red-doors-studio","tag-samsen","tag-sound-therapy","tag-ten-years","tag-thailand","tag-twice","tag-ultra-trails","tag-yoga","tag-yoga-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2016-trends-from-Pokemon-Go-to-poke-bowls-as-looking.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259848"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2259850,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259848\/revisions\/2259850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2259849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}