Billie Eilish is a 17-year-old pop singer with wispy, blue-gray hair and an infectious, moody debut album, When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, released about a month ago. She’s got a pout worthy of a supermodel and a bone-chillingly vacant stare, and you might have seen her with a live tarantula positioned in or around her mouth. Eilish is fearlessly fashionable and devastatingly hip. She’s also obsessed with The Office, NBC’s American remake of an offbeat two-season British series that debuted four years after she was born. Eilish samples the show on "My Strange Addiction," the ninth song of the album; she told MTV News that she just ripped the audio off of Netflix. In 2017, Eilish used the series’s theme song to open her concerts.

She’s not alone. The Office has rare reach among today’s viewers, almost 15 years after the show debuted and six after it ended. On Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal published a rare breakdown of Netflix viewership, via data compiled and analyzed by Nielsen. The study found that almost 3 percent of total user minutes last year were spent watching episodes of The Office. There are hundreds of shows on Netflix, and the streaming service has 139 million subscribers globally. Three percent of total minutes spent watching TV on Netflix is 52 billion minutes. This, for a comedy that was nearly canceled after its first six-episode season.

The next most-watched series is Friends, also an NBC comedy—a show for which Netflix shelled out $100 million, just to keep the sitcom on its service for another year. It boggles the mind to wonder what Netflix might pay for The Office—a show, the Journal article reports, that could leave the platform as NBCUniversal launches its own streaming service.

The merest whiff of The Office leaving Netflix threw users in a tizzy. Multiple outlets, from Barstool Sports to Cosmopolitan, picked up the news. Even Pornhub’s official account tweeted, "Yo @nbc if you pull The office off of @netflix im shutting down my entire operation over here. DONT YOU DARE DO THIS TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE." Eventually, Netflix’s official accountset the record straight: The Office will stay on the platform "until 2021—at least!"

The Office debuted just as TV was about to morph into something new; it remained successful by adroitly balancing the two worlds it was straddling. On one hand, it had the familiar, friendly qualities of a broadcast sitcom: predictable structure, short running times, pratfalls. On the other, it was an experimental series for the modern world; its single-camera format ditched the laugh track and broke the fourth wall, adding a pleasantly disconcerting undercurrent of bleak irony to the hijinks.

The Office was popular with alternative viewing sources right from the start. In 2012, John Krasinski told Us Weekly that the rising popularity of the iPod was the show’s white knight in 2005, when it was in danger of being axed after a short first season: "We were one of the first big TV shows on iTunes . . . People were watching the show, like, in the subway. And that completely saved us, totally saved us. We built sort of a cult group of amazing fans and from there, people actually started watching the show on television." The Office also benefitted from torrenting; I vividly remember receiving a cease-and-desist letter in my college mailbox from NBCUniversal, in the spring of 2007, requesting that I please stop downloading pirated episodes. (In my defense, I was desperate to find out what happened after Jim and Pam kissed—and I didn't have a TV.)