Why you might even get noticed by your boss who had got an art studies minor from a state university and strike up a conversation that leads to your promotion at the company…all because you made some art the background for your Zoom call! At the very least, while everyone is muted and pretending to listen to the latest earnings report, you’ll have a stunning work of art for people to investigate. As someone interested in the finer arts, you obviously know you’re better than everyone else, so get into the habit of making your favorite works of art your Zoom virtual background. But your office mates might not get it, so let’s force them to. ‍ Use these ideas when you're brainstorming your next creative background for Zoom calls: 1. Now that the latest Zoom update allows everyone to use funny virtual backgrounds using the handy 'Virtual Background Tab', there’s never been a better time to get back into the Zoom meetings game! So, let’s get your work-from-home groove back. But now…now you’re just using the default Zoom background template. You were the virtual office clown, the one who not-so-secretly made every call about you, you were a god amongst meer virtual mortals. Mondays you were in the Simpsons living room, Tuesdays you were in the red room from Twin Peaks (just to remind everyone how cool and different you are), and maybe there were even some Wednesdays where you used a looping video of the office from The Office, including real footage of Stanley napping behind you. Sure, in the beginning, you changed your funny Zoom background every day.

It’s your bo-ring background in your Zoom meeting. It’s year three of this song and dance, you should be used to it by now, but something deep within you is itching (and it’s not the sweatpants you haven’t changed since the Jeopardy Tournament of Champions).

You sprint from your post-morning coffee bathroom reckoning with your aging digestive system to your computer and remove the mouse from the “undetectable” mover you use to make sure your Slack doesn’t time out, and hop onto your next Zoom meeting of the day. ‍ Let’s, if we may, open with an all-too-real nightmare.

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