Zoom fatigue
This one never had a single recording. What is known is below.
- SourceNo single original
- MediaNot held by ViralWorld
A named exhaustion that did not exist eighteen months earlier.
What this was
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.
It first appeared in 2020, during short-form and streams.
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Where it came from
There is no original to identify: this spread through many separate posts at once rather than from a first one. ViralWorld holds no copy of it either — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is the record.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this, because research established there was not one — it appeared in many places at once.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
- What happens
- 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.