{"id":20307,"date":"2026-02-07T12:41:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T20:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20307"},"modified":"2026-02-09T20:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T04:34:15","slug":"nonsense-gen-z-looks-back-at-2016-with-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/02\/07\/nonsense-gen-z-looks-back-at-2016-with-nostalgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonsense: Gen Z looks back at 2016 with nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2016, Gen Z was age 4 to 18 in with an average age of 7<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sure, Gen Z (average age of 21 in 2025, spanning 13-28) is nostalgic for 2016: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/02\/07\/gen-z-2016-ambercrombie-fitch.html\">How Gen Z nostalgia for 2016 may revive Abercrombie &amp; Fitch<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Marlinarson told CNBC that many Gen-Zers look back at the time as one that was less performative and more authentic, particularly as it relates to social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think people see this era as a universal feeling of the world being lighter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Gen Z at age 7 was so aware of the economy in 2016:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Joanne Hsu pointed to a more structural issue \u2014 the earlier period was defined by a strong economy post-financial crisis, underpinned by low interest rates and inflation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This sort of media story is nonsense &#8211; young children seldom have interests in economics and geopolitical issues! It is highly doubtful that many are looking back at 2016 with &#8220;nostalgia!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They had an average age of 7 in 2016 &#8230; doubt there is much nostalgia for the economics and geopolitics of 2016!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[357,362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-doomer","category-gen-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20336,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20307\/revisions\/20336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}