
“Virtual meetings are basically modern séances”
We have been trying to find the source and date for this meme; it looks as if it’s around 5 years old, during the peak of Covid lockdowns. E.g. this appearance on a Reddit whiteboard in 2025 and a version that quotes a longer social media post.
Who shared this example?
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Emily Vincent
Dr Emily Vincent is a Research Fellow on the Media Epidemics project. Her research focuses on disease and the Gothic in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. As a Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, she surveys British detective fiction, Gothic fiction, and periodicals to investigate narrative representations of influenza. Previous work has focused on maternal…
