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Zine Ver. 2.0
Missy
Editor-in-Chief, social media and circulation director
​Missy grew up playing her first game ever, Half-Life 2, on her dad's giant CRT. She's a big gamer from back in the day, when "girls aren't gamers!!!" was the motto. There's pictures of her smiling in front of her giant, whirring/humming PC, all of 8 years old, playing GTA Vice City mixed in with Pajama Sam. She grew up on Runescape, Adventure Quest, and all the little web browser Flash games from (what feels like) eons ago. Some of those games even still exist! She's now a creative nonfiction writer who loves tapping into the past. Big secret: she didn't think Nickelback was THAT bad, just overplayed.
Sam
CReative director
Sam was born in 1998, which means he missed being a Millennial by 1 (One) month. Though obviously this makes him a fake and a phony, he clings to the Y2K era like wreckage in a storm. He used to thrift shop for terrible, off brand MP3 players to pretend he had an iPod like the cool kids, and now collects hardware from the era. He backs things up to CDs, and makes Mixtapes on flash drives for fun. He loves his ridiculous chunky old iMac G4, the strawberry edition, and yearns to find the matching clear plastic red mouse and keyboard. He refuses to get on Spotify, because as a very young old man he has decided that ads are not for him. He loved Star Wars then, loves it now, and refuses to let toxic fans take it from him. He listens to Green Day, Creed, and Linkin Park, still thinks its cool, and will not cede this ground. He’d list his socials here, but just like everything else he’s way too analog (stubborn) to actually have any.
dlp
creative manager
​DLP (alias bambiraptor9, they/them) was a teenager in the Y2K era, an awkward time overall but one recalled fondly. They watched Saturday morning cartoons, crushed on Heath Ledger, were enthralled by Savage Garden and Josh Groban, and loved visiting Blockbuster and Natural Wonders stores. When their parents brought home a PC their world changed forever. They wrote Sonic stories on fanfiction dot net, played Roller Coaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon 2 and the Sims, and created art in MS Paint and Corel Draw for hours on end. DLP also loved playing Ecco the Dolphin, Sonic Adventure 2 on the SEGA Dreamcast. DLP’s love of the past is inherent in their self-published works-‘Iara’s Crossing,’ a dinosaur fantasy novel, the zines ‘You Had Me At Whoa!’, ‘An Ode to Old Tech,’ their untitled art entry in ‘Y2[AreYouO]K Issue #1’, and a herd of customized My Little Ponies.
xeya
editor Manager
Xeya may be a Gen Z baby, but she grew up with as much Y2K culture as any 90s kid. The resurfacing of the era in modern trends have brought up very fond memories of times they had once thought forgotten. Times of fur coats and tracksuits, of dresses over jeans and exposed midriffs. Times of transitioning between cassettes and CDs, of internet speeds just starting to get good and flash games everywhere. Since her earliest days, she sat in front of a chunky laptop or a square TV for as many hours as her parents would allow. And looking back, that media from the late 90s and early 2000s is exactly what made them the writer they are today.