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August 16, 2021
What was the world like in 2016?
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Remember the blockbuster hit ‘Finding Dory’? No? Here’s a snapshot of the 2016 cultural landscape.
F YOU’RE DOUBTFUL that anything’s changed in the past five years, take a look at these highlights.
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION 2016 was unforgettably the year that brought reality TV star and real estate mogul Donald Trump into office. Trump beat Hillary Clinton with 304 electoral votes to her 227. It was a New York election, with the lifelong Queensite taking on a former New York senator. TOP FILM The year’s highest-grossing film was highly anticipated by toddlers and children alike: “Finding Dory.” The Pixar film wasn’t particularly remarkable for anything except being a sequel. But the film was followed by Star Wars prequel “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” and one of the dozens of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, “Captain America: Civil War” – the three top films all being part of Disney acquisitions proved the company’s continuously growing dominance in media. TOP SONG Drake’s “One Dance” became the biggest hit on Spotify – the song has cemented nostalgia for the summer of ’16 five years after. The use of Spotify stats as the metric for “best song” also shows how streaming has completely changed the way we talk about music.
Trump shocked the nation when he beat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election.
TOP SHOW To really put time in perspective, Season 6 of “Game of Thrones” was 2016’s hottest show – only to become the “Show Who Must Not Be Named” a few years later with a disastrous final season. The sixth season was the first to not be partially adapted from an already published novel. TOP GAME It’s hard to believe, but Pokémon Go was a video game that actually got people outside. Though the hype quickly died, crowds swarmed in public to catch rare Pokémon like Chansey and Vaporeon across the globe. The phenomenon also
By Maryam Rahaman
