WE ARE SO BACK!!

Welcome to Season 2! We're starting this new season/new year on the pod with some bonus episodes where I talk about my hyperfixations of the moment.

In today's episode, I'm digging deep into the "2016 nostalgia" trend that is taking over my social media feeds at the moment...mostly because I don't understand why we would want to go back to THAT year in particular...

The media mentioned in today's episode (+ more):

1. just gotta YAP! on Substack! PLEASE subscribe :)
2. In pictures: the tumultuous year that was 2016, Alex Gray for the World Economic Forum
3. Terror, Brexit and U.S. Election Have Made 2016 the Year of Yeats, Ed Ballard for the Wall Street Journal
4. The Word of the Year for 2016 Isn’t a Word. It’s a Number, John Kelly for Slate
5. Why 2016 Is Only the Most Recent Worst Year Ever, Lorraine Boissoneault for Smithsonian Magazine
6. Should We All Just Stop Calling 2016 'The Worst'? Sam Sanders for NPR
7. Why people in 2026 are hung up on 2016, Scottie Andrew for CNN
8. Rose-tinted filter: Why 2016 is taking over social media in 2026, Naomi de Souza for BBC
9. Was 2016 the last good year? Chance Townsend for Mashable
10. I Think You’re All Remembering A Different 2016 Than I Am, Hunter Harris for Hung Up (her Substack publication)
11. Fuck 2016, John Oliver
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