Zoom fatigue
This is something people said. There is no recording of it to show.
Tiredness or burnout from too much time on video calls, on any platform.
At a glanceThe facts
- Spread in
- 2020
- Format
- Phrase
- Original title
- Named after the video-call service Zoom, and applied to all of them
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Not held by ViralWorld
What this wasThe story
The specific tiredness of video calls — watching yourself, losing the ordinary cues of a room. Named in 2020, studied within a year, and one of the few genuinely new conditions the internet has produced.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · copied, redrawn and reused until the original stopped mattering · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
SourcesWhat was read
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