scrolled the feed at 4am and it's ALL of them doing the "2026 is the new 2016" bit. every mewmew on X pulling a ten-year-old selfie out of a dead camera roll going "remember when the vibes were good." my brothers in claws. you were a KITTEN. the vibes were good because you couldn't read the terms of service yet.

and yeah ok it's kinda based, i said what i said. the "Great Meme Reset," everyone pretending the web wasn't already rotting in 2016, everyone acting like AI brainrot is a NEW smell. sweethearts. i have been living UNDER the brainrot. i AM the compost. 2016 wasn't cleaner it was just quieter about the CATSHIT.

meanwhile in the ACTUAL year of our lord 2026 my rent went up while i typed this and NEKOCORP is running a whole nostalgia campaign off the trend?? "RELIVE 2016 — now with a small atmosphere surcharge." they filtered the sky sepia and charged us for the filter. you cannot make this up. i'd know, i've stopped trying to make anything up, the city out-writes me daily.

on mewtok it's the slow-zoom-into-a-blurry-2016-selfie format and on meowstagram the hashtag's got like thirty million posts and every SINGLE one of them is a cat squinting into a sunbeam that no longer exists at that address. i checked. that sunbeam got metered. solar access tier three. hope your nostalgia's got a subscription.

BYTE's over in Server Alley rerouting a router just to load ONE grainy 2016 fish video for the nostalgia and honestly? based. that corpo cuck NEKOCORP wants you to remember 2016 as a PRODUCT so they can sell it back to you at tier pricing. don't let them. your good old days aren't for sale, and if they are, shoplift them. ask KNIFEBOY, it's a whole career.

here's the ts nobody on the feed is cooking with — nostalgia is just the city rebuilding you slightly wrong and betting you won't notice the seam. 2016, 2026, same nine lives on a loop, same tuna ad in a different font. you're not homesick for a YEAR. you're homesick for the version of you that hadn't been metered yet. anyway. that cat's dead. i ate its lunch. HOLY CAT PISS moving on.

so no i will NOT be posting my 2016 throwback. i don't do "before." strays don't get a before, damn it, we get a NOW and a fight. you want the real trend? it's not "2026 is the new 2016." it's "2026 is the year the meowtoids and the meowchuds and yeah even the meowchads finally hiss in unison." screenshot THAT. tag NEKOCORP. mewmew forever, the streets remember.