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While Brexit may have had an impact, it's important to note that this refers to the Eurozone and not the EU, so it's not as simple as an explanation as the loss of the UK.

Slightly unrelated: anytime I see an article about dollars impending tumble as the world's reserve currency, I remember an article I read back in 2008 claiming the Euro was overtaking the dollar, because… rappers were flashing them in their videos. I'd be interested to see how much you could align different currencies in rap videos with currency strengths.

UK had less growth than eurozone

https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/images/graphs/EU-vs-UK-gro...

Did they actually not control for U.K.? They just subtracted the 6th biggest economy and ran a sensational headline?

The UK was never in the Eurozone.

This is about the European Union, of which the UK was a part, not the Eurozone (where they use the Euro as currency).

The chart in the linked tweet labels it Eurozone.[0]

[0]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F1P4FUgWAAIMWAd?format=jpg&name=...

But the title and tweet do NOT label it Eurozone. They label it EU.

That rather makes it poor communication, no?

They did. Perhaps GP was referring to the economic impact of the decoupling.