Please Enjoy This Very Absurd Parody Of “Every” University Class On Zoom

We may have never heard of Zoom a month ago, but now, like Tiger King, Houseparty and existential dread, it’s an integral part of our social fabric.

The video conferencing app has existed since 2013, but it’s taken off in the age of COVID-19 and social distancing, allowing us all to have new forms of awkward interactions with our colleagues or classmates.

As people share their cringe stories — such as flashing their partner’s workplace, or accidentally getting stuck on a potato filter — comedian Liva Pierce has constructed a work of art, a video parody of awfully awkward class tutorials.

What starts off as painfully real — the one person laughing at the lecturer’s jokes, no one responding to questions, people looking bored and distracted in their videos — gets a little absurd and, without spoiling it, is filled with a lot of Glee.

We’re utterly in love with it. As is Twitter, where it’s picked up more than 1 million views in a day, and high praise from comedians like Meg Stalter, Joel Kim Booster and The Good Place‘s D’arcy Carden.

Beyond accolades, the video’s also raised one question over and over again: did Pierce have six wigs lying around in her home, or did she order them online specifically for this sketch? She’ll never tell.

“People keep asking me why I have so many wigs? huh? what wigs?,” she writes. “It’s nine different people with their natural hair, I am only one of them.”

Pierce is currently at university herself, so we can only assume this was based off real experience. If she seems familiar, she might be: this is far from Pierce’s first time going viral. Last year, she blew up after posting a video parodying that moment in musicals where characters transition from talking to singing, and was subsequently profiled by Vulture.

Watch the video below.

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— liva worst (@realchoppedliva) March 31, 2020