In 2020 and 2021, several organizations, such as software company GitLab and the city of Santa Fe, uploaded videos of their Zoom meetings to YouTube.
While videos were likely intended for archiving purposes, people discovered that playing them on a computer was a great way to look like they were busy.
-I always do this when I want people at home to leave me alone, haha. This gives me a couple of hours of solitude when I need it – This is how someone commented on Zoom recording with GitLab.
At press time, the video, which was uploaded in June 2021, had been viewed more than 290,000 times. times. It also received more than 200 comments, some of which expressed their appreciation for the video's presence. The GitLab channel has over 11,000 followers. Movies and more than 28 thousand subscribers.
Another comment said: “This meeting was more useful to me than any other meeting at work could have been via email.”
Others found it interesting that there was already a budding community of these viewers.
-I can't believe I've found kindred spirits! I thought I was the only one. “I can't stop laughing,” another person commented.
Based on YouTube comments seen by BI, this trend appears to have continued since 2020.
“The video was really helpful during the peak days of the pandemic,” one person from Santa Fe commented. – This allowed people to leave me alone between meetings while working from home.
The city of Santa Fe first posted the video in April 2020. Since then, the video has been viewed more than 167,000 times. times. The channel has more than 1.7 thousand views. Movies and more than 2.3 thousand subscribers.
This phenomenon is not only related to work. Students are also using Zoom recordings for online classes to escape their parents.
“Sometimes, to escape the world, I turn on this recording and pretend I'm in class so my parents can't bother me for hours,” said a history class commentary by Patrick Egan, a history professor at Thomas More College.
Some even offered tips on what to do to make the trick more convincing.
– From time to time I pause playback at an appropriate moment between their statements so that I can be heard speaking at the “meeting”. Proven effect! — we read in one of the comments on the GitLab video.
The above text is a translation from American edition of Insidercompletely prepared by the local editorial office.
Translated by: Dorota Salos
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