For two days, the streets of Kathmandu and dozens of Nepali cities had been roiled by unprecedented youth-led protests, leaving 19 young people, most of them in their teens and early 20s, dead after police responded by firing live ammunition. The next day, mobs overran political leaders’ homes and torched government buildings. Unable to contain the chaos and losing legitimacy by the hour, the government, headed by K.P. The army stepped in and convened negotiations, including members of the Gen Z protests, to appoint an interim government. Young people found themselves urgently debating who would be their nominee to lead the country on social media channels.