Well, well, well, it’s been FIVE years since 2020 and a certain p*ndemic began.
Because the pandemic dramatically altered everyone’s perception of time and place, let’s look back at some genuinely surprising events that occurred right before our lives quite literally changed forever…
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5 years ago, just weeks before the pandemic began, Charlotte Awbery went viral on the subway for singing “Shallow.”
Little did we know we’d all be hunkered down doing dalgona coffee challenges weeks later.
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The Chiefs won the game.
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And the biggest movies in theaters were The Invisible Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Bad Boys for Life.
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5 years ago, at the beginning of 2020, “Dance Monkey” by Tones and I, “Someone You Loved” by Lewis Capaldi, and “Good as Hell” by Lizzo were the biggest songs.
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Lil Nas X won big for “Old Town Road” at the Grammys.
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Billie Eilish was the most awarded artist of the night.
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And Lana Del Rey wore a dress from Dillards and brought her cop boyfriend as her date.
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5 years ago, at the beginning of 2020, Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green were still together.
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Jennifer Lopez was still with A-Rod.
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Bill Hader and Rachel Bilson had just made their red carpet debut.
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Channing Tatum and Jessie J had also made their red carpet debut.
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And Elon Musk was still with Grimes.
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Speaking of people with a ton of kids. At the beginning of 2020, Nick Cannon only had 3 kids. Now he has 12.
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5 years ago, just before lockdown, Parasite won big at the Academy Awards.
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People were still making Cats jokes.
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People were freaking going bananas over Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston reuniting.
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Ellen was still on TV.
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Modern Family was also still on TV.
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And in sad celeb breakup news, Vanessa Hudgens and Austin Butler had just broken up.
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5 years ago, we were all talking about Jennifer Lopez being snubbed for a Hustlers Oscar nomination.
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These SEVEN people were running for the Democratic nomination.
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In February, Pete Buttigieg had just won the state of Iowa in the primaries.
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And then Bernie Sanders won New Hampshire and Nevada.
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And in the State of the Union, Nancy Pelosi tour up a copy of Trump’s speech.
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5 years ago, at the end of January 2020, Brexit official happened.
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In other exits, Megxit was announced around that time too.
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And Donald Trump was acquitted by the Senate on both articles of impeachment.
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Lastly, 5 years ago, “social distancing,” “superspreader,” “flattening the curve,” “N95s,” “PPE,” “variants,” and “quarantines” weren’t in any of our vocabularies.
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There was zero talk about Moderna or Pfizer.
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And that smurf rally was still held in France.