India, Jan. 25 -- The start of a year brings its own overload every season. 2026 comes riding both sentimental and sensory overloads. Tweeple have been bombarded with trivia and texts about how the turn of the year spells the completion of a quarter of a century. Whether or not you were on a year-end journey to some exotic locale, you were swamped with sentimental trivia on how the journey of the century's first quarter has been.

2026 tossed up another teaser of overload in 2025 itself. Even before 2026 had been ushered in, social media had been bombarded by a trend - "2026 is the new 2016".

This trend started seeping into social media posts in December 2025. By January, it had spiralled into a movement sparked by a TikToker.

The TikTo...