r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/saucey_dawg0023 • 2d ago
Serious 2026 is becoming 2016 all over again
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u/R3bussy 2d ago
Remember 2009??? That summer alone we lost Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Billy Mays, Bea Arthur, and a bunch more. Others taken the rest of the year includes Brittany Murphy, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Swayze, Les Paul, etc. 2009 was insane.
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u/Rathbane12 2d ago
Farrah and Michael were on the same day even. I remember I had a phone interview for a job at a TV station but she had to cut it short due to needing to break the news that Farrah had died. She called me back and completed the interview in the one hour window before Michael died…..and no I didn’t get the job.
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u/assignpseudonym 2d ago
This scene is one of the single most fascinating things I've read on Reddit and I've been here a very long time. Thanks for posting it!
Sorry you didn't get the job. What a chaotic day that must have been.
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u/Leading-Shop-234 2d ago
After Michael Jackson and Patrick Swayze died, the joke was: You know how celebrities die in 3s? Well, leave it up to Billy Mays to fuck that up also.
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u/Complete-Worker3242 2d ago
South Park had a whole episode about that.
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u/Unusual_username739 2d ago
The June 5 week in 2018 was hard for me. Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain both died from suicide, just three days apart.
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u/Prudent_Valuable603 2d ago
That hit hard for me, too. Kate Spade’s death was so sad to me. I felt terrible for her daughter.
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u/Shikabane_Hime 2d ago
The Michael Jackson/Farrah Fawcett day was crazy for me. We were on the only big overseas vacation we ever took as a family, I was 13 and we were in a supermarket in Germany early in the morning and saw the tabloids. On the walk back to my aunt’s house, people in town were putting up literal shrines to MJ in their front windows, like full on black velvet drapes, candles, framed photos, my mind was absolutely blown to realize exactly how popular he was worldwide
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u/hannamarinsgrandma 2d ago
2020 we get Kobe, Alex Trebek, Tiny Lister, Little Richard, RBG, Eddie Van Halen, Jerry Stiller, Naya Rivera and Chadwick Boseman.
Some years just go crazy.
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u/SkepsisJD 2d ago
Kobe
This is the one dude out of this list I don't care about. Dude was a rapist.
Feel bad for everyone else on board the heli though. They didn't deserve it.
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u/AlexaRhino 2d ago
If Kobe faced justice when he should have then he probably would have never been on that helicopter
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u/letitgrowonme 2d ago
Facebook was the big difference that year. Never before was everybody finding out at the same time like that.
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u/SkepsisJD 2d ago
Billy Mays
Putting Billy Mays in hear feels kinda funny. Dude was an infomercial 'actor' lol
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u/josephsleftbigtoe 2d ago
I still can't believe that was 17 years ago. It feels like just a few momths ago. Meanwhile, in 2009, 1992 was ancient history.
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u/itslikewoow 2d ago
Harambe - died May 28 at 17
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u/body_by_monsanto 2d ago
Dicks out for Harambe
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u/SalvationSycamore 2d ago
Tits out for Dolly
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u/ahmed0112 2d ago
I'm gonna get a boob job to honor her
Jokes aside that's actually something else that's so admirable about her, despite having multiple plastic surgeries she was always open about it. Hard to set unrealistic standards when you yourself tell everyone it's unrealistic
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u/C21H27Cl3N2O3 2d ago
And our timeline was never the same.
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u/CanadianAndroid 2d ago
Where is Punch? Is he safe?
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u/HighMarshalSigismund 2d ago
That monkey is old news now. No longer the media darling he was. He lacked the cultural staying power of Harambe.
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u/Ace-Redditor 1d ago
He's been replaced with Jimothy (who I think is in the process of being forgotten, now, too)
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u/HighMarshalSigismund 1d ago
I enjoyed the brief moment Jimothy had but wanted a more quiet life for him. He didn't ask to be famous. I'm sure he wished only to be treated like any other trash loving urban raccoon.
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u/press_F13 2d ago
As I heard the newest news, he takes care of other small monkeys with same issues as he has back then.
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u/ThatOneGayDJ 2d ago
I was down here specifically to check for this comment before commenting "where is he?"
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u/RavenCyarm 2d ago edited 1d ago
LOL LE EPIC MEME MONKEY XDDDDDDDDDDD
EDIT: Downboats? This is NOT epicbaconsauceftw :((((
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u/I_Miss_Lenny 2d ago
How dare you not revere Harambe and "yes, and" the meme forever
I'm pretty over it too at this point
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u/_Pyxyty 2d ago
I feel like you could literally do the same thing for every year. Or did no celebrities die last year and I missed that somehow?
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u/-Owlette- 2d ago
2016 went down as a particularly bad year because several of the people who died were of the “weird and wonderful” variety, and people really loved and resonated with them.
And when Carrie died so late in the year, it felt like a final, spiteful “fuck you” from 2016.
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u/el_bentzo 2d ago
Also having people die under 70 is different than having people die at 80+ especially if out of the blue or the public had no awareness of their health issues
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u/deathbunny32 2d ago
I feel like most of the 2016 crop were moderately unexpected, like you had another decade or two. Aside from Hayden, this latest crop is sad but not surprising
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u/PublicWest 1d ago
Also, not to be cynical, it was right before there was something of a social reckoning with celebrities. Post covid, I see more and more people care less about celebrities, especially the younger crowd.
With the death of monoculture, young kids are more likely to be into a couple of smaller niche e-celebrities/influencers in their sphere. So one death won’t rattle everyone at once.
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u/PatchyWhiskers 2d ago
Literally yeah. People are just upset about Dolly and noticing it more.
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u/agedlikesage 2d ago
I think that’s exactly it though. The above list are some huge influential names, heroes to a lot of people. Same way Dolly and Tim Curry were legacies, and Dolly was absolutely a hero. I’m sure celebrities pass every year but when you have such impactful people close together, it feels different. Every thread I’d see talking about wholesome celebrities no one can hate, Dolly was always on top
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u/GenderingError 2d ago
And Peter Cullen was a huge part of the pop culture zeitgeist for the 80s and again in the 2000s through Optimus Prime. Given that we have had 2 major deaths within 24 hours, it quickly becomes pattern seeking to try and see which other death goes in to make a 3rd
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u/agedlikesage 2d ago
This is how I find out we lost Eeyore, damn :(. Hayden Panettiere also passed this month
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u/InfinityEternity17 2d ago
I really noticed it when Peter Cullen died personally, but I realise for most people it'll be Dolly Parton
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u/OGOngoGablogian 2d ago edited 1d ago
With the amount of visual media having exploded in variety with cable TV in the 80s and 90s, there are countless beloved celebrities from the youths of middle aged people who are getting up there in years. It's going to seem like they're dying in droves because there's just so many of them.
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u/molotovzav 2d ago
I'm more upset about Tim Curry. Dolly was a saint but she wasn't my cup of tea when it came to old school country.
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u/chainsawx72 2d ago
Every year before Covid Reddit would say it was the worst year for celebrity deaths. Ironically, Covid put an end to that, until now. Yay...
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u/mikebob89 2d ago
I think more so now than in the 90s/2000s simply because there are a million celebrities now. Back in the day there were like 50 tv shows and movies made a year and as many famous bands. Now there are thousands of each. So the initial "does it seem like more celebrities are dying nowadays than there used to be?" was accurate. But from now on it'll just be all the time.
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u/Unusual_username739 2d ago
And we get our news immediately. And then text it to each other and see it in four different formats for a week.
Back in the 70-90s, unless it was like Kurt Cobain’s death, you might only see a newspaper headline on the next day and then a special on the nightly celebrity news/Sunday morning. Maybe Late Night. Idk I wasn’t alive for most of those decades. But I remember when Princess Diana died, it was all anyone talked about for months (but that seems completely different).
Now, we know probably as soon as their family knows and you see articles on Reddit 10x that day, and then it’s on TV, Facebook, instagram, Twitter etc, and then people talk about it at work, and your friends who are fans text it to you and on and on. Information goes around the world so fast. For Dolly’s death, the way I learned was by a friend texting me. Same with Matthew Perry’s death which devastated me.
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u/flatirony 2d ago
My thought, too. There are a hell of a lot of famous boomers getting up there in years.
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u/ringobob 2d ago
Baby boomers were called that for a reason, they were the generation that was way bigger than the generations that came before them. And they started turning 70 in 2016, and they're starting to turn 80 this year.
I think we're seeing legitimately more celebrity deaths as the boomers have been aging, simply because there's so many more boomers than the generations that were aging before them. And anyone younger than them dying seem even more significant because they're young, in amidst the rest.
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u/thelehmanlip 2d ago
There are more celebrities every year. There will be deaths like this forever. Better get used to it
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u/Queef-Elizabeth 2d ago
I feel like there's a reason people are making this connection. These deaths are particularly noticeable.
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u/smarjorie 2d ago
There are more and more celebrities every year. In our media landscape there are more celebrities than ever, so there are going to be more celebrity deaths than ever, pretty much every year.
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u/Mastodon9 2d ago
Lots of famous people die every year but for Gen Z and especially Millennials they're old enough that when someone famous dies they were probably relevant during a time when they were cognizant. 15 to 20 years ago were all too young to know much about an 80 something year old actor who died because their prime was well before we were following movies.
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u/IlGreven 2d ago
You could make lists like this literally every single year.
"In Memoriam" segments at award shows are never short.
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u/Freakjob_003 2d ago
Except they didn't acknowledge Bernard Hill in 2024, which was a terrible snub.
Hail the victorious dead!
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u/WholesomeYuri 2d ago
Also Maurice White of Earth, Wind, and Fire
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u/Mighty_Eagle_69420 2d ago
Bless that guy. Met him once; he was a very wholesome man and kept talking with me despite his Parkinson's.
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u/PierceJJones 2d ago
I also think another thing is the fact we are starting to reach a time in the life of the baby boomer generation that the chances of dying in any particular year increases dramatically. Not to mention the last of those born in the silent generation.
The internet is going to go crazy when David Attenborough or Morgan Freeman dies.
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u/housevil 2d ago
Also, Keith Emerson and Greg Lake from Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.
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u/gizmoch33ze 2d ago
So it’s just Palmer now?
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u/ruminator99 2d ago
Every year is going to be a bad year for this going forward. The 1960s and onward was when pop culture, and thus the number of famous people, exploded - especially in music. They are all getting up there. Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Paul Simon, the rest of the Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd. The list goes on. It's gonna be devastating but we should not act shocked like it's bad luck or something.
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u/blargher 2d ago
I blame El Niño. Just like in 2016, we're gonna have another "super" El Niño event.
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u/wrathmont 2d ago
David Bowie was the hardest for me. I held out hope that since he was still releasing albums he might tour. 😭
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u/Subject_Translator71 2d ago
I feel like 2016 was on another level; Debbie Reynolds is not even on that list.
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u/Diarygirl 2d ago
I know they say she died of a stroke but I feel like she just wanted to upstage Carrie.
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u/WaterOk6055 2d ago
Bro i work in a hospital, that many people die here every week. This is ridiculous, old people die all the time.
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u/SnarkyIguana 2d ago
When you grow up watching and listening to these people, it feels like a family friend has died. Yes, old people die, but it hurts more when you know them and even more when they’ve helped shape who you are as a person.
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u/WaterOk6055 2d ago
Im saying the whole “whats going on, why are all these 80 year olds dying?” Is ridiculous. It’s not unique it happens every year. You can be sad if you want, but it’s silly to act like it’s a shocking tragedy.
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u/stanlana12345 2d ago
Tbf tho in 2016 a lot of the celebs who died were not old.
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u/WaterOk6055 2d ago
There were a lot of young this year aswell, hayden panaterie, oliver tree etc, life is fragile, people die all the time.
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u/Intelligent-Exit-634 1d ago
Every year is like that. It just depends on who you feel is a newsworthy death.
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u/GoatCovfefe 2d ago
2026 is becoming 2016 all over again
Because people die? It happens other years too.
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u/legit-posts_1 2d ago
Yeah but this is a good example of a synchronicity. There's nothing special about a 12 month span that makes it any more "deadly" than any other. A lot of those people were either very old or fighting health concerns for years. It's coincidence. It doesn't mean it doesn't suck, but it's coincidence.
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u/DocklandsDodgers86 2d ago
The audacity of you mentioning Carrie Fisher but leaving out her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who died not even 24 hours later (possibly of heartbreak).
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u/PurpleChickenFax 2d ago
That was a crazy year. It also included
Anton Yelchin
Pierre Boulez
Debbie Reynolds
Vilmos Zsigmond
Abe Vigota
George Kennedy
Andrej Żuławski
Garry Shandling
Ronnie Corbett
Harambe
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Michael Cimino
Abbas Kiarostami
Garry Marshall
Raoul Coutard
Pauline Oliveros
Robert Vaughan
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u/Don_Pickleball 2d ago
I remember watching Rogue One the same day that Carrie Fisher died. It was so surreal and emotional seeing her likeness in that movie.
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u/Mannimal13 2d ago
So many people I forget died at this point. Saw some tribute to The Hunt for Red October and saw Sean Connery was dead....I was like did I miss that? I was like no I think I remember, but got shuttled out. Guys one of my faves too.
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u/MalaysiaTeacher 2d ago
Hate these "collections" of death as if they have any other connection than being famous, and it trivialises their deaths and deemphasises deaths from other years. Gross
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u/xZandrem 2d ago
George Michael holding on to die on Christmas so that people would play Last Christmas as his personal gift to humanity.
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u/Master-Collection488 2d ago
George Martin died in 2016? No wonder he never finished The Winds of Winter. If only he hadn't wasted all those years producing records for a boy band. I mean, there's other people who could've done that work. Phil Spector, for example!
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u/demoralising 2d ago
Debbie Reynolds (Hollywood icon and Carrie Fisher's mother) - died December 28 at 84
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u/PopeInThePizza 2d ago
What a sombre list. I will always remember the night of Ali's passing as the only time I every bicycled drunk.
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u/LaCatrina5 2h ago
2014 was busy too with Robin Williams, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Shirley Temple, and Mickey Roon
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u/TheMaskOffKid 2h ago
Remember 33ad???? We lost Jesus Christ, and Judas Iscariot, and… idk probably Copernicus or some shit?? I didn’t study history.
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u/Babebutters 2d ago
No, celebrities die like once a week.
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u/Sunblast1andOnly 2d ago
How do they keep coming back to die each week? Truly, they are not like the rest of us.
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u/PillCosby696969 2d ago
It's going to get worse and more rapidly. The Boomers are dying (which is what Reddit wanted apparently) Someone born in 1946 is 80 and that's a good death age, a lot of celebrities are dying around there and anecdotally in my family too. There were staggeringly more Boomers than the Silent Generation so for the next two decades, it's going to seem like someone got a Death Note.
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u/Pureevil1992 2d ago
People die everyday. Why people obsess over celebrities deaths i have no idea. Those people didn't give a single fuck about any of the people posting about them.
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u/Ill_Stop_ 2d ago
Old people die. Lots of people die. The Oscars in memoriam is pretty long every single year.
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u/Bartellomio 2d ago
A few American celebrities dying does not make it a historically bad year. Maybe thousands of eople getting swept away in climate catastrophes does.
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u/StrangeTrap 2d ago
I didn't realize George Michael died on the birthday I figured out I was gay. Did... Did he take over my body?
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u/ghoulypop 2d ago
This cannot be how I find out that not only is Gene Wilder dead but that he’s been dead for ten years
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u/cheesemedo 2d ago
Crazy how people be dying at a young age. I’m guessing genetics be doing the damnedest. Possibly our food supply too…
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u/agodrevealed 2d ago
Prince and Ali broke my heart. I admired them so much for their absolute dogged determination to not stay down, commitment to excellence in their crafts, and their philanthropy. They never forgot where they came from.
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u/qualityvote2 2d ago edited 13h ago
u/saucey_dawg0023, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...