We live in an age of reboots and cinematic universes. And yet I had no idea that Hollywood was rebooting The Mummy until this morning, when the IMAX YouTube channel uploaded a Mummy trailer in which the sound was hilariously butchered. It was a pretty fantastic goof.

Instead of riding the gift of a spontaneous publicity wave for an unnecessary reboot, Universal Pictures is now doing The Dumb Thing and issuing DMCA takedown notices to stop the trailer from spreading. But the folks at Universal Pictures are forgetting one of the most beautiful and terrifying things about the internet: you can’t stop it, you can only hope to contain it.

Almost everything on the internet is a moving target

They’re also forgetting that almost everything on the internet is a moving target. Because the elements that make the accidental trailer so funny — Tom Cruise’s screams, especially — are spreading like a virus. And with each mutation, they become simultaneously more resistant to Universal Pictures’ anti-piracy tech, and more deeply embedded in the collective consciousness of the internet:

Top Gun volleyball scene w/ The Mummy trailer audio (Thanks @Babylonian) pic.twitter.com/QVhGfOfJOc — Dan (@DanielBrian) December 20, 2016

i fixed that mummy trailer they uploaded without music (track via @sethboyer) pic.twitter.com/dPJnEvPp8K — Chris Person (@Papapishu) December 20, 2016

Super Mummy Trailer Audio 64 pic.twitter.com/AQ1nsD3HyH — GOOD VIDEO ZONE (@goodvideozone) December 20, 2016

I replaced the Wilhelm Scream with Tom Cruise's scream from The Mummy trailer. https://t.co/5nbKyEUglG — Scott (@Menel4us) December 20, 2016

And, of course, one for the holidays:

Anyway, here's The Mummy trailer with Jingle Bell Rock as the soundtrack. pic.twitter.com/7CnBcturCS — Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) December 20, 2016

Another thing that’s beautiful about the internet is that it allows you to find joy in places you never expected. To wit, I wouldn’t have woken up thinking “Boy, I really can’t wait to see the trailer for the new Mummy movie” even if I had known it was coming. And yet here I am, having enjoyed not just a bunch of laughs at this accidental trailer, but at the inevitable goofs that followed.

So here’s to these goofs, and to all the other riffs that are literally being created as I type out this post. Because it’s only in this moment that I’ll be able to suck any joyful marrow from the bones of a movie I never would have bothered to see in the first place.