While previous generations might have had dance halls or independent radio stations to help them discover new music during their formative teenage years, and young people in the twenty-first century have TikTok feeds and Spotify playlists, millennials in the late 1990s and early 2000s had online forums and MP3 piracy. These required much more labor to find what you like and consume it than the frictionless avenues of algorithmic feeds. While avoiding that labor may be convenient, it also makes our personal tastes flimsier, less hard-won.
