Curation, Scarcity, and Memory Scarcity is a deliberate strategy: limited zine runs, timed downloads, and ephemeral posts create a sense of value and urgency. This scarcity also affects cultural memory. Without deliberate archiving, artifacts can vanish or live only in private collections, making the scene’s history fragmentary. Some participants embrace that ephemerality as an aesthetic; others work to document and preserve the outputs.