You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

Tuesday, Paramount deleted the MTV network website, purging 20+ years of music journalism content. Wednesday, the Comedy Central site got the same treatment, trashing over 25 years worth of clips from The Daily Show, along with all content from The Colbert Report.

Also lost: clips from episodes of South Park, Key & Peele, Workaholics, @midnight, The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore, and The Opposition With Jordan Klepper, among many other shows’ content formerly hosted on the network site.

The purge also included the CMT network and TV Land Online websites. If you go to the former pages, you’ll see a pop-up notice on each homepage saying “while most episodes of [channel’s] series are no longer available on this website, you can watch [channel] through your TV provider. You can also sign up for Paramount+ to watch many seasons of [channel’s] shows.”

Paramount did not transfer all of the deleted content to their streaming platform, though. The two most recent seasons of The Daily Show are availabe, and the platform has several South Park specials and the 1999 feature film Bigger, Longer and Uncut, but no more; the show’s primary streaming home is on Max. Paramount+ does have the full runs of Key & Peele and Workaholics.

In a statement, a Paramount Global spokesperson said the takedowns came as part of a broader website strategy across Paramount. “We have introduced more streamlined versions of our sites, driving fans to Paramount+ to watch their favorite shows.”

What’s still out there? As of now, sites for Paramount’s BET, Nickelodeon and VH1 were still active, while MTV.com offers some episodes and clips.

The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Paramount’s Co-CEOs — George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins told employees at a town hall meeting held Tuesday that the company is looking to reduce costs by at least $500 million, and that shuttered websites may be the least of their problems, as mass employee layoffs are possible.

Cheeks said at the town hall, “we’re looking at selling certain Paramount-owned assets — in fact, we’ve already hired bankers to assist us in this process — and we’ll use the proceeds to help pay down debt and strengthen our balance sheet.”

The news came as a shock to all the writers, editors and videographers who created the content, as they were apparently given no warning of the changes. Understandably, there has been outrage from the creators that their work has now vanished, seemingly forever.

Michael Alex, who was part of the team that launched MTV News in 1996, posted to Facebook about the move, saying “it’s a huge loss and a waste of something extremely valuable to anyone who cares about the history of great music.”