📶 Bad connection, great escape

June 23, 2026

Corporate America spent years demanding cameras stay on. This guy made a virtual webcam that shows a looping clip of you looking attentive on Zoom, Teams, Slack, whatever, while your actual body goes elsewhere. 

It swaps instantly with a hotkey and keeps your audio live, so you can still jump in with the occasional “Great point, Sarah.” It mimics a flaky internet connection, because nobody questions bad Wi-Fi anymore. 

SOMEONE BUILT A VIRTUAL CAMERA THAT LOOPS A CLIP OF YOU LOOKING PRESENT SO YOU CAN LEAVE MID MEETING

it records a few seconds of you looking engaged, then loops it through a fake webcam you pick once in zoom, google meet, slack or teams.

one hotkey swaps your live feed for the… pic.twitter.com/cHYTj33mnx

— Om Patel (@om_patel5) June 19, 2026

This is the professional equivalent of putting sunglasses on a scarecrow.

Watch it in action here.