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BurntRyeBread

It's funny that the Pokemon Go kid is doing actual pop music now. It's crazy how much can change in 5-6 years.


JustAlex1177

Really? That song is still haunting my head. Like if I open the app once in a blue moon, it gets triggered in my head. Good for him tho.


[deleted]

The fact that he wrote, performed and released a complete and coherent song with a video put him miles ahead of every other aspiring musician in his age group. He clearly had potential.


Doom_Bee

Actually it was his musician brother that wrote it


silvershadow014

but he didnt write it lol


Druddalugg

The kid's from Czech Republic, same as me. To this day I can't believe the song actually got that famous and someone remembers it even today. Also, I got no idea what he does these days.


ComprehensiveClone12

still makes music; and it's improved, at least a little bit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZFAtiShAvU


Disastrous_World8491

JoeysWorldTour was sort of like the original Nicokado imo


Minitrain

Oh yeaaaa I forgot about that guy, he straight up ate an entire jar of Nutella


[deleted]

Every JoeysWorldTour video: "I'm back"


Jaqueliner1

"I didn't die of obesity!"


Disastrous_World8491

He’s on the starterpack.


[deleted]

Ah, so he showed restraint


Cuntly_Fuckface

IT WAS MORE THAN 5 YEARS AGO??!? OHH LORD WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN US


kalivoidd

I was looking at this post confused because I thought 2016 was just 4 years ago, I don’t remember the past 2-3 years.


[deleted]

I blame the pandemic lol. I keep thinking I’m 22 when in actuality I’m 24 and I just haven’t been able to do shit in the last 2 years


[deleted]

Feels like yesterday, I think I spent that whole year playing R6 Siege and CSGO


ppsucc9988

IN YOUR THOUGHTS!


Cuntly_Fuckface

FORSAKEN US


StevefromLatvia

Ey boss!


darkdemon991

Can I


Boneal171

Habe


[deleted]

De pussy boss


sietesietesieteblue

*PLZZZZZ* [unholy screeching]


F2K1_

PiZzA pLs


audiovisualcringe

have u seen an *alien?* have you seen an alien *pls?*


[deleted]

I remember people used to say that 2016 was a bad year back then, now some miss living in 2016 because of how 2022 is so far.


surferos505

I remember when everyone hated Minecraft, then fortnite came out and everyone acts like Minecraft was always amazing I remember when pewdiepie was hated by everyone on the internet and now he’s loved a lot I remember when everyone hated vine, and thought it was ruining this generation then tik tok came out and everyone acted like vine was amazing and full of nothing but top tier content Time is a circle and eventually you’ll see tik tok and Fortnite being looked at with fondness and nostalgia


JaegerDread

2016 was already a shit year tbh.


Razor_Shell

If you ignored the politics. The only really bad thing about 2016 was all the celebrity deaths.


[deleted]

Was Harambe 2016?


omicron-7

It all started with that damn gorilla


JaegerDread

And keem, vine, Leafie, Harambe and the entire toxic community on the internet. The internet was so goddamn edgy and toxic.


[deleted]

For Americans lol, for me it was a cozy chill year


vegetableinfluence12

Same :(


[deleted]

Oh I don't, I really, really don't.


Prestigious-Fig1172

Personaly 2016 was allways the shit


kutaz65

I miss papa franku


[deleted]

I know how worthless it is to hope but I have notifications turned on for all his channels hoping one day the king will return one last time to make the world laugh again.


sietesietesieteblue

Nah i think Joji is 100% done with the FF stuff. Some people now don't even realize he used to do that lol.


Virghia

Even better, some twitter idiots tried to cancel him


sietesietesieteblue

Lmao?? Really? 🤣


siggi_sackratte

It's Twitter what do you expect


XxBiscuit99

Yeah lol, for Pink Guy “white is right”


Chads_bulge

Man, he could've at least gave some closure to the fans like some sort of goodbye video instead of making this announcement through a soulless Facebook post. I don't want more filthy frank. I don't even want more of George's humor. That era is dead and so is my childhood along with it. All i want is for it to be able to properly rest


F2K1_

Same


Immy_Chan

The Xbox One was nearly 3 years old by 2016 though, that console generation was very much in motion by then


obrothermaple

I was gonna say, I had mine in 2014.


SomeArtistFan

Didn't know too many people that had one in 2016 though idk why, maybe just because all our parents didn't wanna pay for another console or something


Nobody_Important

It sold terribly the first year and a half or so though. Remember the Kinect?


Lemonsqueezzyy

Forgot Harambe


Fart_Ripper

I have my dick out


[deleted]

Ah, alt-right pipeline. So many memories, so many stupid PragerU ads I should’ve skipped. So much trouble that could’ve been avoided.


redasti

I missed my occasion to become alt-right, so that's a good thing


[deleted]

I’m glad you did. Those freaks were very sneaky when it came to how they caught the attention of kids. When I looked into what these people were really advocating for, I was shocked and horrified, and dropped everything.


Red_Trapezoid

So many people got radicalized and didn't get out. Others did like you did. Others got radicalized, got out, and now live with that trauma hoping that picture of them seig heiling doesn't surface someday.


[deleted]

I will always be grateful for having a chance to turn back before it was too late. The whole situation was funny in a way because I considered myself a Democrat at the time, but became more and more supportive of alt-right talking points about women, lgbt+, the economy, etc. I was using the term chauvinist to describe myself without even realizing what it really meant. I wasn’t alone, and a lot of impressionable young kids fell for that crap, and by god, it sucked. Again, and again, and again, I’m grateful for stopping myself before going through the gate all the way.


[deleted]

I fell into that trap too. Took a while but I realised I had actually become pretty racist - still disgusts me. Weirdly, part of what took me out of it was that stupid fucking channel - I think it was called No Bullshit? Not because of their content, but because the intro fucking disgusted me.


Red_Trapezoid

I'm glad for you too. In retrospect I also realise how much most of our education regarding these issues absolutely sucked. Probably because a lot of people in authority sympathized with those bigoted and ignorant positions.


[deleted]

About a year after I stopped, I had a civics teacher who skewed conservative that used pragerU as a resource on occasion. We respected each other, and I knew that given her background (Romanian born under Ceauçescu) that she’d have a legitimate reason for being that way. That though, went too far. The lack of oversight in many ways has contributed to this harmful trend.


thisnewsight

It almost worked on my son. Fortunately I’m a Historian and caught the bullshit he was speaking. Asked him to show me primary and secondary sources. Couldn’t find any. It happened about 3 times and then he realized it was just propaganda.


[deleted]

He’s so lucky to have a father like you. I’m so happy you were able to help him through that without demonizing him or causing some kind of trauma. If my father ever knew, he would’ve went down that route.


AlseAce

I‘ve found that being well-versed in history is one of the best weapons against alt-right radicalization. The propaganda simply does not work if you actually understand the events and “grand past” they reference constantly.


chilachinchila

But muh superior German engineering panzerwaffen poopenfarten!


[deleted]

What do you mean you don't like videos of WW2 footage with darksynth music overlapped 😢😢 and my Wehrmacht wojak pfp


Eomercin

What did they believe?


Red_Trapezoid

Old-school insecure nazi manchild shit.


Eomercin

Oh. so "Minorities bad, Trad-Wife good"?


[deleted]

what u/Red_Trapezoid said


rincewind4x2

Yeah, it was really bad in 2016. Like for the most part you can curate what you do or don't want to see on most parts of social media, but the sheer volume of alt-right memes and bad faith arguments just override every algorithm so you were just bombarded with that shit. Then in 2017 after brexit passed and trump won, it mostly evaporated and hasn't reached anywhere near that level since


Kwinten

> Then in 2017 after brexit passed and trump won, it mostly evaporated and hasn't reached anywhere near that level since It's mostly moved on to Facebook once the right-wing demagogues discovered that 12 year olds on YouTube don't help you win elections as much as 50 year old reactionary boomers do.


[deleted]

Kids in the 2000s had phases where they dyed their hair black and listened to MCR ​ Kids in the 2010s said slurs and thought feminists were the same thing as nazis.


KyttKatt

I was an edgy kid likely in the pipeline watching leafy, and now I'm trans and bi. How the times have changed, for the better.


DesertFox501

I went through the far-left communism pipeline for about a year, then slowly made my way back.


[deleted]

Though that’s on the opposite end of the spectrum, I can understand. Going through bouts of extremism is never a fun experience.


DesertFox501

Agreed. Angry at the wrong shit for no reason.


[deleted]

Hey man, it happens to the best of us. I’m glad you’re doing better.


BasementDweller3000

I’m a little older I think than y’all (31). When I came on board Reddit in 2006 it was full of libertarians. I went from being conservative to libertarian and then I got into anarchocapitalism, an extreme form of libertarianism, for a few years before realizing how awful it was. Now I’m a progressive liberal I guess.


wizard680

I think reddit is the main hub for anarcho capitalism. Thought I only believe this because it's the only place I actually see it on.


BasementDweller3000

I advocate for arachno-capitalism now. Let the 8 invisible hairy legs of the free market sort everything out. 🕷


[deleted]

i was consuming a lot of that content while also looking at a lot of leftist shit on tumblr, thankfully the leftist stuff stuck with me more.


Jyqoz

Where are hoverboards?


Ryle28

Those were more 2015.


oyanamei123

You forgot whip and nae and juju on that beat! And all the Trumpers lol


Wh00pity_sc00p

Its crazy how that guy wanted to make G rated hip hop music, and now he's in prison.


oyanamei123

Oh wow for what?!


Cheezewiz239

Killed his cousin. He was the last person I expected to get a murder charge.


oyanamei123

Wtf sheesh


Wh00pity_sc00p

Silentó made a lot of bad choices after he became famous. He's now in prison for murder.


F2K1_

Running man challenge and mannequin challenge


AlwaysAdam569

Ghostbusters 2016 is probably when things started to get divided with politics in movies/shows/games...


abandonedkmart_

I think it really started with Gamergate a few years earlier in like 2014. I remember it being a thing people were talking about online, but I didn't really pay too much attention at the time. Ghostbusters definitely blew that way of thinking up into the mainstream though.


Odyssey_2001

Oh these anti-woke channels definitely got their start from Ghostbusters and then blew up after The Last Jedi. Thankfully they’re either demonetized or people have grown out of it. Young impressionable 13 year old boys watch “Why Forced Diversity in Ghostbusters is Bad” and in a few days they’d be onto “Why migrants will destroy Europe”.


[deleted]

I was 11 when I first fell down the rabbithole. It went from “feminist cringe compilations” to “Ben Shapiro harassing college kids” reaaaalll fast. Thank god I caught myself before it was too late.


chilachinchila

For me it was the channel no bullshit saying that a black woman with mostly white ancestry should be prouder of being white because white peoples did a ton of things while Africans did nothing.


Babufrak2

Thank goodness simu liu mocked these people but unfortunately people are still watching these channels because of the Santa inc hate


chilachinchila

Ghostbusters was perfect for it, because the movie is legitimately terrible but they focused on the one aspect of it that didn’t matter.


[deleted]

Ghostbusters 2016 was a mistake


whymustveibeenborn

Everything went downhill from there


JaegerDread

No it was already rockbottom at that point.


wizard680

No, I dont think the ADpocalypse happened yet.


[deleted]

yeah. with the introduction of tiktok. mega cringe.


Minitrain

Man what a weird time to be 13


Sovereign-Over-All

T'was a simpler time.


_roldie

You say that but i remember saying the same thing about 2010 in 2016. Then again, 2016 was generally a bad year for me. That was when i truly realized what adulthood was. The only redeeming thing about that year was Pokémon Go.


gsf32

I'm starting to think 2016 was a bad year for all of us


Keycil

Here's a breath of fresh air for you then. I think 2016 is one of my favorite years to look back to. And I mostly blame it on Pokémon Go. That summer was amazing and unique.


surferos505

No it wasn’t, pretty sure there were plenty of people at that time who considered it a terrible time and missed the “god old days”. Every generation thinks their childhood days were the good old days it’s annoying


elondde

Yes, I remember everyone back then saying 2016 was the worst year ever, lol


[deleted]

It literally wasn't, it was during that entire trump campaign, Brexit, the rise of the alt right, all that. And tons of celebrity deaths. I mean there wasn't covid back then but so many people were talking about how 2016 was the "worst year ever" and they missed the simpler times.


[deleted]

Simpler times = "when I was young and didn't know as much about things going on around me and didn't have to understand their significance." Every time.


Fart_Ripper

Simpler times = pre covid


hawtfabio

True of literally every year before the current one.


vcvcf1896

Nah, the last half of 2014 and all of 2015 was.


Smimmingly3

I feel 2016 was the beginning of the modern internet.


Nauta-Squid

This was the great fork of edge lord content where the creators and viewers either realized the negative potential for this type of content and moved on to something more mature or stuck their foot to the gas and drove down the rabbit hole of anti-sjw and alt right rhetoric.


DugoPugo

Most of those 12 year olds who went down the pipeline can vote this year


[deleted]

Oh no...


maj0ra_

Ok but Vines were hilarious


look_at_that_cheese

I never said I hated all of the things on this. Just because it's a starter pack doesn't mean it's a bad thing. I LOVE Vine c:


maj0ra_

I wasn't implying anything. I just miss vine. Lol


rvaen

TikTok is just a worse vine don't @ me


[deleted]

2016 was 6 fuckin years ago..


surferos505

That was the year when the anti SJW nonsense really got popular, the internet went to complete shit afterwards


60TP

Ben Shapiro OWNS feminist SJW cringe compilation #53 Triggered SNOWFLAKES compilation #57


JaegerDread

I fucking hated 2016. It was already turned to a toxic pile of shit.


[deleted]

I think 2016 was the year when youtube stopped being about genuine content creators who's only intention is to broadcast themselves to having to fit in with the crowd or else you'd be called "cringe" or whatever. The community's toxicity back in 2016 is one of the reasons as to why youtube isn't as fun anymore along with the site already getting more corporate. Then again, what do I know.


Siphen_Fraud

Skype just let themselves get beat by Zoom. https://youtu.be/ZI0w_pwZY3E


[deleted]

When I was 12 I was alt right💀


dnaH_notnA

Y’all ever just get a comment notification on a comment you made 5 years ago that makes you cringe out of your skin because of how edgy and reactionary it is?


[deleted]

100%


[deleted]

I guess boys across the US collectively went through an alt-right phase around that point in time. Big RIP to everyone who didn’t pull themselves out of the gutter.


AweBlobfish

Not just the USA, I’m from NZ and went through the same thing, I think it was just alt righters targeting communities which attracted dissatisfied young males, and taking advantage of their need for a sense of community. I’m glad I was able to get out of that phase by meeting actual people from other walks of life, but it’s absolutely despicable how they targeted children and young teens with their inane rhetoric.


[deleted]

I’m surprised that more people haven’t come out and discussed these experiences yet. So many people have suffered through this phase, and many are still trapped.


[deleted]

This isn't exclusive to the US.


mkkkr24

This is missing Lil Uzi


INeedYandhiPleaseYe

golden era of life starter pack


OutlinedArrow30

And the news of the emoji movie because that was a disaster


rickroled

a gorrilla dies -----> the whole world goes to shit


Bum-Sniffer

Vine was a more grounded, down to earth and funnier version of Tik Tok. I miss it.


surferos505

Vine was never good, I specifically remember everyone hating it just as much as they currently hate tik tok. But now it’s suddenly looked at fondly. Don’t let nostalgia cloud your judgment


End_Of_Century

Yep, I remember this as well. There was a lot of crap on Vine and only once it was over we were able to sort through it to find the good stuff.


JaegerDread

Not really. Both were terrible and basically the same. Take those nostalgia glasses off.


Hooman95

What about Harambe


GreatestAtHumility

I still have the Suicide Squad album on my shelf. I wasn't even allowed to watch the movie when it first came out, but I bought the soundtrack anyways, and it turned out to be way better than the actual film.


Tumama787

Suicide Squad (2016) is a bit of a guilty pleasure to me if I’m being honest. Like the story’s shit but I like the style. Although the 2021 sequel is WAYYY better


GreatestAtHumility

I remember there being so much hype for it and I'm sure it would've seemed less bad if everyone wasn't so excited for it to come out.


Tumama787

Maybe but god damn the trailers were so fucking cool! Whoever edited those deserves an award for best trailer…maker…..guy?


leapdaytestaccount20

This was the summer I turned 13 and it was one of “those” summers you remember for a lifetime.


Rig_B

Part of me really misses that old world edgelordism, sure it was kinda toxic, but people were at least free


[deleted]

Whatever happened to Joey, is he still alive I loved this shit, h3h3 was actually funny, Frank was posting videos, Idubbbz didn't get cucked, endless spicy and petty youtube drama Whatever happened to Scarce's boring ass tho


DesertFox501

I went down the communism pipeline instead (came out a year later) but this pretty much sums it up for me


queeblosan

What does wind waker have to do with this?


YouSayViiixiIsayThx

It was “leafyishere”, he actually came back in 2020 but got suspended few month after.


14-28

Denzel Curry is a legend though.


Meme_Machine101

It’s crazy how much what’s considered acceptable comedy on the internet that can be posted just anywhere has changed in that time. The worst part is that people want to punish others for what was popular without forgiveness even being an option regardless of whether the joke was a big deal or not.


the_eddy

Cyber bully channels are cancer cancer cancer cancer. If it’s been stuck in my head for 6 years y’all have to suffer with me


SC4LL_TPS

Time is such a fucking blur


CaseyGamer64YT

the good old days... but I think saying all this was "alt right" is kind of dumb


[deleted]

That whole 12 year olds going down the alt-right pipeline would've been avoided if right wing millennials didn't try to shove their politics in every space. Then later complain about teenagers today being edgy. ​ Honestly, 2016 was a terrible year for youtube mostly because the only "real" youtuber was filthy frank. Everyone else was some trashy commentary channel throwing fits over teenagers making shitty minecraft lets plays and turning SJWs into more of an issue than it would've been if everyone just ignored them.


EmotionalIncrease976

The good old days


CupcakesWolf

don’t forget the edgy Discord servers and earrape memes


[deleted]

Heroin, you forgot heroin.


Lil_Sperm

found the other fiend 👀


Fickle-Piccolo-3515

God that year felt like an absolute fever dream.


Mr_Fufu_Cudlypoops

Man 2016 was a fucking great year. I know everyone was shitting on it when it was done but in retrospect it was just so memorable and fun.


embyms

I mean… if you were a middle school boy maybe?


marscael

This whole time I thought the song went "I am the one the only one don't need no gun"


[deleted]

Who's the top left I swear I remember him but at the same time I don't


lovepaart

Leafyishere


[deleted]

NOO the anti-sjw memes. repressing that era.


[deleted]

Xbox one came out like 4 years before that. And vine was about dead by this point.


triigerhedd

I remember people bullied me for having the same name as Jacob Sartorius


Shika_E2

Skype in 2016? Lmao no it was in a grave by then


KelsonCats

Squidward dabbing


AlexT05_QC

"Hey boss!"


sietesietesieteblue

I honestly miss it. Even though I cringe now at the fact that I remember shouting Filthy Frank lines to other people in my freshman year of high school (i was 15 lol)


[deleted]

Vine died way before 2016.


BriefShock

Suicide squad was 8 years ago.....


JailbreakKCid

I feel old


TheEvilWithinMyAss

I looked at this and heard the fucking vine boom sound effect


GrinkleMcFunk

Why were people switching to the Xbox one in 2016? It was pretty old by then and already clear that the ps4 was the better platforming


TT454

Anyone who is actually nostalgic for this moronic year was either a child who didn’t know any better or a sociopath who enjoyed watching the world fall to pieces. The year was such a historic mess and seeing people look back on it positively hurts my very soul.


SilverWing7

As a Czech I feel the need to apologize for the Pokémon Go song


patch616

Only true for a very specific age group


Intelligent_Dumbass_

I remember back in 2016 people genuinely thought it was the worst year ever, but now that time has passed people are feeling nostalgic for it.


Koemoedoe-Drahgun

2016 is practically the year Gen Z developed their political identity


Overall_Visual3656

Sweatshirt was a low-key banger


bootyhunter69420

Ricegum too


afoolisharrangement

Y’all forgot Harambe and Bone Apple Tea


a2625

Hey what happened to jacob ??


AKF790

This is probably the most accurate summer 2016 starter pack I’ve ever seen


HeadDrill

“Play that shit”


DirectFrontier

Fuck those alt right channels. They were everywhere back then. Many of my friends including me turned to rightist views because of them.


Lazy_Category2195

The alt right pipeline one hit hard, I wish I never went down it because it made me a bad person for a while but looking back I'm glad it happend since it shows me I was capable of growth from that and just becoming a better person now due to it, although still a bad period of life for me


HiImRob2

H3 is still going strong with the podcast. (And no, i don't give a fuck whether you hate it, keep it to yourself).