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April 2, 2020

Your Home Is Boring – Change Your Zoom Background To These Hilarious Alternatives

Bored of the same old backgrounds during video conferences? Why not chat to your coworkers from a room in 'Pulp Fiction', or the Starship Enterprise?

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Video conference calls have become the new normal for businesses that have moved online during the lockdown.

This has produced some inevitable embarrassing moments – this is a gentle reminder not to be like Jennifer. 

People are also finding creative ways to make things more interesting, especially on Zoom.

Over to ForTheWin:

When it comes to those video conferencing, Google Hangouts and Zoom seem to be among the most popular.

But Zoom, in particular, has an amazing feature that newly remote workers can’t get enough of: There’s a custom background setting.

Let’s take a look at some of those custom backgrounds in action:

Football fan? Yeah, me neither. But I’m sure you could swap this background by @houtz out with the Springbok locker room:

Or get your flirt on with a classic meme courtesy of @sivavaid:

We all deserve to feel pretty.

I had to ask which space show the Starship Enterprise is from. This one is apparently for the Star Trek fans, like @nancywyuen, out there:

Live long and prosper or, as the Klingons say, “Hab SoSlI’ Quch”.

You really can find anything with Google.

Living large in the time of a pandemic with @Alex_Washburne:

I’m now being told that including one for the Star Trek fans and ignoring the Star Wars fans is not going to go down well, so here’s one from @drduek:

Finally, can you still hear the lambs screaming?

Thanks for that @StevenRayMorris.

If you’d like that Klingon translation, here it is:

“Your mother has a smooth forehead”.

That’s a ‘yo mama’ joke for you to bring out next time you’re at a party.

It’s guaranteed to clear the room.

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