Hi, Cyrus here! Just a guy in his late 30s who unearthed an old burnt CD-R with mp3s on it from the closet. My friends used to pass it around like it was pure gold. Then, buried in all that junk, I found it! LG Chocolate. Man, that was a real phone with real character. Click!

 

These artifacts now feel like they belong to a bygone civilization. Ours, the millennials’. We might’ve lived through a golden age of humanity - back when MTV actually played legit awesome music videos. But I’m not just here to get all nostalgic. I want to dig into why a track from ’04 still casts a shadow over today’s music scene, or how some goofy movie changed how we talk about films. I'm trying to figure out the whole millennial experience right now. What's our narrative about ourselves, and honestly, what the hell *are* we even doing here. How the newslater Millennial Dream was born!

 

Wanna help me explore all this familiar stuff? You’re more than welcome to JOIN! 

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P.S. I used to snag those songs for the CD via KaZaA. And the download times? Let’s just say they called for a near-dawn meditation. And yeah, that's me at maybe twenty in this photo. Yeah, I know - that haircut was a choice.