Why 2016 nostalgia is flooding social media again (Full Transcript)

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: Did anybody else walk into the street playing Pokemon Go? Because I definitely did.

[00:00:03] Speaker 2: 2016 was all about the Snapchat filter.

[00:00:06] Speaker 3: This trend is like one of those great excuses millennials love to post. Thirst traps are themselves at like their absolute hottest.

[00:00:14] Speaker 4: 2016. Have you noticed a wave of nostalgia sweeping through social media recently? People posting throwbacks to 2016, an era they think of as more fun, more spontaneous, less curated. So we asked people across CNN where they were in 2016.

[00:00:33] Speaker 5: I loved La La Land.

[00:00:35] Speaker 6: I learned every single move, every single dance step. That was the year that Beyonce gave us Lemonade. I did get in formation.

[00:00:43] Speaker 7: I just moved from Atlanta to London, but I'm still saying y'all and calling my tights pantyhose.

[00:00:49] Speaker 6: Also the year that I went to Los Angeles to visit Jay Leno in his famous car garage.

[00:00:54] Speaker 8: I begged and borrowed and did everything possible to get one-on-one interviews with Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.

[00:01:04] Speaker 5: I got to interview a Muppet. Something I'd love to be able to do again in light of the fact that I now have a daughter.

[00:01:13] Speaker 9: My kids are now 18 and 16, so 10 years ago they were eight and six. See how good I am at math? And there we are at the movies. I think we went to see a movie that was like a knockoff of Cars called Planes.

[00:01:25] Speaker 10: 2016, I was starting out as a Vatican correspondent, getting to meet Pope Francis properly for the first time.

[00:01:32] Speaker 11: I flew in a fighter jet in Florida. I milked some cows in Connecticut. I played with some sloths in Oregon.

[00:01:40] Speaker 2: Instead of enjoying the last weekend of my parental leave, I had to rush into the office reporting on the angry Chinese government reaction to then-president-elect Donald Trump's decision to take a phone call from the president of Taiwan.

[00:01:54] Speaker 12: We just landed in North Korea. That's the Air Koryo airliner we took, North Korea's only airline. I took so many trips to North Korea. That year, I remember, I think I even celebrated my birthday there.

[00:02:04] Speaker 11: That year was also really memorable because Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Hiroshima.

[00:02:10] Speaker 13: I interviewed Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson at the time. This is what happened in the middle of the interview.

[00:02:16] Speaker 2: It was also the year I met the man who would go on to become my husband.

[00:02:20] Speaker 4: June 2016, me sitting in a gutter for 24 hours waiting for the result of the UK Brexit vote to come through.

[00:02:30] Speaker 13: That's when the Surgeon General warned us about kids vaping. Big health stories that year was the Zika virus.

[00:02:36] Speaker 11: In more positive news, in 2016, I also got to marry my best friend. I was working at a magazine and covering the U.S. presidential election.

[00:02:44] Speaker 1: I was essentially scooping poop. I had pitched like this dirty jobs type of series that meant digging through the sewers and pulling out the things that people wouldn't think would be found down there. Cat videos on vine, also incredible. 2016, what a year.