Video conferencing with friends and coworkers may have been a novelty at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, but it is now a daily part of people’s lives months later.
The “Zoom fatigue” of relying on screen-only social interactions has sunk in. More people realize a Zoom party is not actually a party and that talking to your bosses, friends and colleagues through virtual boxes is funny and strange.
Here are some of the funniest tweets summing up the socially awkward new habits we’ve picked up and noticed on video conference calls.
Boss trying to be funny on Zoom pic.twitter.com/UVmjbNN4aq
— Alyssa Limperis (@alyssalimp) April 18, 2020
when u enter the zoom chat early and it’s just u and one other person pic.twitter.com/xlfA86b9zH
— gary from teen mom (@garyfromteenmom) April 29, 2020
have grown to love the tension that arises on a zoom call when a single unaware person has noise happening in their background & everyone knows who it is but everyone is also waiting for it to stop on its own so that no one has to do the "...did everyone silence their mic?" thing
— Hanif Abdurraqib (@NifMuhammad) June 30, 2020
One HUGE downside of Zoom I have not heard appropriately acknowledged is that there is no way to exchange covert glances with one other person about the nonsense some other person is spouting and that is like 50% of how I communicate.
— Rebecca Metz (@TheRebeccaMetz) August 30, 2020
I love Zoom meetings! Because they are online, we don’t have to allow time to get from one meeting to the next! We can just have meeting after meeting after meeting!
— Associate Deans (@ass_deans) April 2, 2020
Make sure you take time between zoom meetings to scream at the top of your lungs
— alyssa, from 6ft away, (@alyssakeiko) May 14, 2020
Me clicking “leave meeting” on Zoom pic.twitter.com/G19Q9bee93
— Meena Harris (@meenaharris) August 28, 2020
Gonna update my CV to say "survived 1000 Zoom calls that should've been an email" as part of my achievements in 2020.
— alanah torralba (@alanah_torralba) May 18, 2020
the only good thing about zoom calls is when a dog barks and everyone makes them show the dog, so now you get to see a dog
— Lane Moore (@hellolanemoore) June 24, 2020
Unmuting myself to say “ok” in zoom pic.twitter.com/eOlroADRRV
— ECTOPLASM 👻 (@supllx) September 1, 2020
unmuting your microphone just to say “thank you. bye everyone” ❤️
— NomaL (@lungeIo) July 3, 2020
me leaving the Zoom meeting immediately while everyone is individually saying bye: pic.twitter.com/vZwo5lMuyP
— AMI COLE STAN ACCOUNT (@MsTiffanyBender) August 17, 2020
when the Zoom call ends and I am left with my thoughts pic.twitter.com/BBp6NEDg4C
— ruby (@roobeekeane) August 23, 2020
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