Mass protests by ‘Gen Z’ youth demanding reform and government accountability culminated in police killings, arson, and regime change. Gautam, an errand man at Kantipur Television, Kathmandu, where I worked for nearly 14 years, starting as a trainee journalist. Kantipur Media Group, the biggest private legacy media, was known as an institution that stood its ground. Many such journalists have worked at Kantipur Media Group over the years. If one of the things this movement is demanding is the restoration of freedom of speech, then taking down a media house is a symbolic contradiction.