It's the Brian Lear Show on WNYC.

I'm Amina Serna, filling in for Brian today.

Now we'll open the phones on something that's been hard to miss on social media this month.

2016 nostalgia.

If you've been on Instagram or TikTok lately, you may have noticed a flood of

throwbacks, people posting old photos and little time capsules from the year 2016.

If in a recent New York Times piece, Madison Malone Kircher described it this way,

Instagram became a time machine.

She writes, instead of the usual fare, mostly content from influencers and advertisements,

I was greeted by hundreds of old photos from friends and celebrities revisiting life in the year 2016.

Your feed might have been full of people in heavily filtered old iPhone photos wearing skinny jeans, mid-2010s pop songs, President Obama, and selfies from busy

offices, the kinds of details that make you instantly think, oh, we're doing 2016 now.

So we want to hear from you.

Let's take a moment to reflect on 2016, even if you aren't on Instagram or TikTok.

Are you nostalgic?

If so, and why?

Call us at 212-433 W-N-YC.

That's 212-433-9-692.

Where were you in 2016?

What were you doing?

If you look at photos of yourself from then, what surprises you?

Whether it's what you wore, what you cared about, or what you thought was important.

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