There is yet another weird way to watch television.

People are sitting through one to two minute, out-of-order clips of TV shows and movies on social media, awkwardly cropped for the vertical format and often with terrible music blaring in the background or weird, unrelated text floating on the screen. They might watch them at double speed, look for other clips to find out what happens next, or gather in the comments to discuss.

“For me, it’s looking for those glimpses of joy and happiness when days are filled with so much stress, ” says Cristina Capello, 51, who lives in Charlotte, North Carolina. “If it’s a show that I love, I remember how I felt when I watched it. And then I get sad because I can never watch it again and feel that for the first time.”

For the people who watch, it’s a

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