Wouldn’t you rather use a funny Zoom background to make your friends laugh or give your co-workers a chuckle during a long meeting? I thought so. It’s easy to do, and you should definitely be doing it! Anyone can change their video’s background, and while you can opt to use the handful of backgrounds Zoom provides, you might find that they’re, well, boring. If you didn’t know you could change your background on Zoom, then honey, it’s time to step into the future. Now that the vaccine is being distributed, these might even be some of your last Zoom calls ever, so make them count with a good background you’ll remember! There’s no denying that the appeal of constantly video-chatting your friends or having a Zoom meeting every single morning has lost its novelty now that most of us have been social-distancing for over a year-but there are ways to make it more enjoyable and these funny backgrounds are a great start. Granted, there’s nothing fun about having to distance from others and work from home to avoid catching a virus, but hey! We were out here doing out best we could to make a bad situation a little more bearable, and these funny backgrounds were here to help. Now, I’ve been Zooming all day, every day for the past year and a half or so, and I rely on funny zoom backgrounds to make the experience a little more ~fun~.

(Hint: If the background appears backwards on your Zoom screen, uncheck uncheck the Mirror my video option on the bottom of the window.When Zoom first hit the video chat scene many moons ago, I had no idea how large a part of my life it would become. Set as your Zoom 'virtual background.' Find instructions here.

The photograph will display in a new browser window right click the image and save to your computer.Click the download link for the photograph you’d like to use.We’ve picked some of our favorites and sized them for Zoom all are past winners of the Landmark Commission’s Preservation Month Photo Contest. Show off your community pride at your next Zoom meeting with a beautiful Shaker Heights scene as your background.

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