You can be ANYWHERE you want! I received a particularly deranged email from Airbnb (the Brands have been wilding out more than usual) providing “beautiful,” “scenic” images of people’s homes? That they suggested would make “great backgrounds for video calls”? And I found it supremely dumb and upsetting. Socializing during a pandemic isn’t easy or seamless, but connecting with friends is so important!Īnyway, one way to make a Zoom happy hour a little more escapist is to use a virtual background. Or maybe I’m just getting a little cranky about people complaining about the virtualization of social lives! Of course it’s not the same! Nothing is the same! We gotta make do with what we can! That’s pretty much the entire undercurrent of this Happy Hour at Home series. Maybe it’s a little annoying, but to me these also seem like pretty minor trade-offs for getting to socialize with friends in some form. Technology makes it a little clunkier, a little more awkward, than standing in a room together. I don’t think anyone is out here claiming that virtual happy hours with friends are seamless. I read a piece that was essentially about Zoom happy hours kinda sucking in comparison to “real life” happy hours (what exactly is real life these days: discuss), and when I got to the end, I was like…….

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Gay zoom now