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The Federal Trade Commission has a mountain of complaints about consumers being ripped off on stuff purchased impulsively on no-name, here-today-gone-tomorrow sites.

I too harbor an outsized disdain for the modern phenomenon that is the here-today-gone-tomorrow No. 1 chart debut, which too often feels like an artist’s attempt to game an algorithm rather than create a genuinely appealing piece of music—the streaming-service version of clickbait.

Theater is a here-today-gone-tomorrow kind of experience, a form that dwells wholly in the moment.

“The street art game is a here-today-gone-tomorrow type of thing, where we can spend a week working on the most elaborate, intense beautiful piece and then somebody comes the next day and paints over it, or the city paints over it,” he says.

But is this a brief here-today-gone-tomorrow outbreak or the first sign of something far more dangerous?