Yet, amazingly, this wasn’t hyperbole—Karki defeated four other short-listed candidates in a vote held in a Discord chat room with 16,000 members, organized by a Nepali nongovernmental organization (NGO) involved in the negotiations with army leaders. “We must work with the Gen Z mindset.” Exactly what that means, especially in the Nepali context, remains nebulous. Nepal’s Discord parliament provides, perhaps, a counterexample, showing that technology still allows for change from below. The pseudo-parliamentary Discord chat is currently closed to new members. “People were learning as they went,” Regina Basnet, a 25-year-old law graduate who joined the protests as well as the Discord chat, told Al Jazeera.