Those hunting for second-hand iPods in digital bazaars aren’t original owners like me. Instead, it’s Gen Z. Reasons include nostalgia for the Y2K era of their upbringing and the iPod’s alluring retrofuturist design, especially the chunky Classic, supposedly inspired by a 1950s Braun radio. But the main motive appears to be a backlash against the manipulative device that put paid to the iPod.