SXSW ’26: Ayden Mayeri Talks Viral Fever Dream of “Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story”

If the weird album I made as a child ever made its way from the cloud and into the hands of the general population, I would throw all my devices into the ocean and move to a shack where the internet couldn’t reach me. That may sound like a preposterous potential event, but it’s one Ayden Mayeri lived through.