Yung Lean Unveils 256 GB: A Decade of Digital Ephemera Turned Into a Personal Archive

Yung Lean is turning memory into artifact with the release of his first book, 256 GB—a visual diary that distills ten years of digital fragments into one meticulously designed volume. Pulling from the 256 gigabytes of content stored on his various iPhones between 2014 and 2024, the project is a raw, intimate portrait of the artist’s life on and off the grid.

The book includes 574 images spread across 594 pages, and is divided into nine color-coded chapters—red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink, black, and white—each capturing a different emotional and aesthetic wavelength. From selfies, screenshots, and notes to blurry hotel room moments and cryptic memes, the book reframes personal detritus as cultural reflection.

Encased in a sleek black hardcover with red embossed lettering and a silk ribbon bookmark, 256 GB opens with a nod to the tools of its creation: iPhone models 6, 8, X, and SE. Lean then guides readers through a structured table of contents, listing each image title like a tracklist—names such as “Fck You,”* “Holy Trinity,” “Boy life in EU,” and “Air Jordan 12” echo his signature blend of irony, sincerity, and subcultural nostalgia.

The final page includes a reflective note from Lean himself:

“I buy a lot of phones and lose a lot of phones. I spend more time in hotels than in the places I live in… I hope it will be a bigger photograph of my life and maybe bring some inspiration and love to some. This is what I try to do.”

256 GB is more than a book—it’s a fragmented autobiography, a moodboard of an era, and a glimpse into the inner world of one of music’s most enigmatic figures. Now available via Lean’s World Affairs website, the book offers fans a chance to hold a decade of his life in their hands, one screenshot at a time.