Culture

All The Best Reactions To Zoom, The Video Calling App That’s Taking Over Our Lives

"During this pandemic there are only four social classes: Billionaire, Zoom user, essential employee and unemployed."

by Michelle Rennex  3 April 2020
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If you have an office job or attend school, you’re no stranger to the new reality that is Zoom calls.

With all the coronavirus social distancing and lockdown regulations that have come into place, communicating from home has now become the norm. But emails and instant messaging apps never really feel all that personal, so video calling programs like Zoom are a pretty good alternative.

However, as is the case with any new technology, apps can be tricky to wrap your head around. There’s the learning curve of figuring out your camera lighting or trying to understand how to mute your mic.

Other times you can just forget that you’re on camera altogether — as we’ve seen with people accidentally using the toilet during lectures or ripping a bong in the middle of class.

With Zoom calls becoming a part of daily routines, it’s no surprise that people are trying to jazz up their surroundings to keep these lonely meetings somewhat fun. But sometimes technology can just get the best of you, and you can get stuck with filters and features you don’t know how to remove.

Take Potato Boss, for example, who was stuck with her face on a potato for an entire staff meeting or the woman who turned herself into a pen right before a very serious interview.

But thankfully for the rest of us, all these hilarious fails have given us some much needed entertainment in such uncertain times. However, as expected with so many Zoom calls happening, people have also started to notice the little things that are now just part of what we can call 2020 video chat culture.

So here are all the best mixed reactions to Zoom, our new self-isolation overlord.