The YouTube channel of the city council of the New Zealand Waipa is not a viewing figure gun: an explanation about building permits was played 576 times, an update about the local swimming pool reached 935. But the council meeting of April 21 last year is there with almost 300,000 viewers far above. All thanks to fake home workers.
“We feel famous,” the council responds in a bewildered way through a press release. “We have decided the meme but to embrace it.”
The comments below the video show why internet users find the meeting so interesting: the mosaic image of the Zoom meeting is used to pretend the user is working. “It sounds like I’m in a meeting so my family members won’t disturb me when I’m working from home,” confessed one of them.
“Putted on at work to make me look busy,” admits another. “I wanted to avoid an annoying person and it totally worked.”
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