A number of movies and TV shows — Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, The Office, The West Wing, Dexter — are leaving Netflix this month, which isn’t new, but where everything is ending up shows just how fractured the streaming landscape has become in 2020.

Streaming shuffles aren’t new. Movies and TV shows leave Netflix (or Hulu, or HBO Max) every single month. Ephemerality has defined streaming for years. It’s why sites like JustWatch have found massive success, helping people who flock to Google to find out where the movie they watched on HBO Max has wound up, or why tweet threads about the importance of physical media pop up every single week. (This is where I plug buying Blu-rays if possible, especially because streaming also coincides with impermanence, and titles can seemingly be edited at whim.)

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