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How many video clips does it take to upload all of Mean Girls on TikTok?

Answer: Twenty-three.

As streaming services grow in number and expense, some have taken to pirating movies by uploading them as a series of separate video clips to platforms such as TikTok and YouTube so they can be watched for free. This gets around the platforms’ video length limits designed to prevent uploading entire movies — as long as you’re willing to deal with watching the film as multiple snippets.

While studios are likely not fans of this new method of piracy, there’s one that has decided to embrace it. Paramount Pictures has decided to help fans celebrate Mean Girls Day by uploading the popular 2004 teen comedy in its entirety to TikTok in bite-sized pieces. The movie’s unofficial official holiday falls on Oct. 3 because that’s the day heartthrob Aaron Samuels (Jonathan Bennett) asked Cady Heron (Lindsay Lohan) what day it was.

The film is 107 minutes long, so Paramount had to upload 23 different clips in order to get it all. It even labeled them to make it easy to keep track of which one to watch next.