Mastering your Zoom background on a video call can be a fine art. Obviously you can go for the custom option (here are 15 we made specially, and here are some strange stock images if you're feeling particularly edgy), but if you're in a professional setting you may have to go down a more traditional route.
The thing is, as Jon Stewart discusses with Desus and Mero in the video above, people pay attention to your Zoom background — and there are plenty of ways people get them wrong all the time.
"For me, it's angles. Sometimes you'll get somebody who'll give you one of these," Stewart says, leaning in creepily-close to the camera. "Or they'll have that weird angle where they're down like this, and there's only darkness around them, and you're like, 'Are you in Buffalo Bill's cellar?'"
If you have enough shoes, of course, you could go the Desus route (essentially standing in front of a wall of sneakers), which Stewart says comes with countless opportunities for surprises.
"You could have sneakers lined up but then one of them could just be a grilled cheese sandwich," he suggests.
As we've learned before, Zoom pranks — if they're done right — can be a lot of fun.
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