Last night, I fell down the usual rabbit hole. I wanted to watch the scene where Cameron Diaz accidentally eats estrogen-rich supplements and cries over a commercial for puppies . But is it on Netflix? No. Hulu? Nope. So, I did what any desperate 2010s comedy fan does—I typed into Google.

There is no content ID strike. There is no “You have 30 seconds left to rent this.” You just hit play, and the movie starts. There is a weird charm to watching a 20th Century Fox movie on a Russian social network in a browser tab you accidentally muted.

And there it was. Glorious, grainy, and slightly Russian-subtitled, streaming in 720p on OK.RU.

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