Feels like 2016
A viral challenge blasted off where everyone had to go for a standstill with a song in the background
Mannequin Challenge
100
Inception
Meant to answer questions and boost productivity, this app has quietly become a therapist, personal assistant, and unpaid consultant.
ChatGPT
Farrokh Bulsara
Freddie Mercury
Asics
Japan
This mobile game briefly turned parks, traffic signals, and historical monuments into hunting grounds for virtual creatures. Inspired by a childhood show
Pokemon GO
200
ZNMD
Meant to help people find jobs, this app is now used to write essays about learning life lessons from office coffee machines.
Hirdesh Singh
Honey Singh
ON
Switzerland
This Sia hit proved you didn’t need money, a club, or a DJ — just “one, two, three” and a lot of radio play in 2016
Cheap Thrills
300
Main Prem Ki Deewani Hoon
Built to improve workplace collaboration, this app’s sound now helps trigger anxiety on Sunday evenings.
Teams / Slack
Karanjit Kaur Vohra
Sunny Leone
Birkenstock
Germany
After years of memes and near-misses, this actor finally won his first Academy Award for surviving the wilderness in The Revenant
Leonardo DiCaprio Winning First Oscar
400
Munna Bhai MBBS
Built to reward financial responsibility, this app makes people feels like a millionaire - right until they try to pay for something with the rewards.
Cred
Inquilab Srivastava
Amitabh Bachchan
Woodland
India
This Netflix series introduced a missing kid, government experiments, and a girl who loved waffles — instantly turning the 80s into a trend again
Stranger Things Season 1
500
Hera Pheri
Built to track personal fitness, this app is mostly used to make sure everyone else knows you worked out
Strava
Shivaji Rao Gaekwad
Rajnikanth
Bata
Czech Republic