While we’re staying at home during the coronavirus crisis, work meetings, family dinners and chilling with friends have moved from the real world to the virtual one. And the big winner of the virtual video wars is Zoom meetings. The free group conference software has become ubiquitous during our quarantines.
But while late-night talk shows and cable news are filled with professors and celebrities showing off their carefully-curated bookshelves and fancy kitchens, we regular Joes are upgrading our boring living room and messy bedroom backdrops with Zoom’s virtual backgrounds option.
The Zoom virtual backgrounds feature allows the user to select any photo they wish to use as their backdrop behind their talking head for morning pow-wows, dinner dates and group trivia. But where does one find the coolest of the cool backgrounds to impress our friends and coworkers and show our personal style?
The best funny Zoom virtual backgrounds
We’ve scoured the internet to collect 100 of the most awesome pop culture images, gorgeous cityscapes, trendy memes, iconic landmarks, weird finds and more funny Zoom virtual backgrounds to amaze and amuse your fellow Zoomers. Every image here is either in the public domain or offered for free by their copyright holder for you to decorate your Zoom background without worry.
And if you don’t know how to download and set up an image on Zoom, you’ll find instructions on how to change your Zoom background at the conclusion.
2. Living room couch from “The Simpsons”
3. Professor Robert Kelly, “BBC Dad”
4. Neighborhood street party parade at Sesame Place
5. Host desk from “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver”
Welcome, welcome, welcome!
6. View from Willis Tower in Chicago
7. Scene from “Animal Crossing”
9. Forsyth Park in Savannah, GA
10. Private library from Shutterstock
THAT’S WHAT YOU GET FOR NOT SOCIAL DISTANCING.
12. Living room from “Pee Wee’s Playhouse”
13. Leslie Knope’s desk from “Parks & Recreation”
14. Gunshow Comic #648, “The Pills Are Working/On Fire” a/k/a the “This Is Fine” meme
15. Rocky Steps, Philadelphia Museum of Art
If I can change and you can change, everybody can change.
17. Set from “RuPaul’s Drag Race”
18. St. John, USVI
20. View from the “Star Wars” Death Star control room
This station is now the ultimate power in the universe!
21. Zoom background of Zoom backgrounds
22. In a crowd with Kanye West
23. Basketball game at Syracuse University
24. Baby Groot from Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy”
I am Groot.
25. Gold Medal Park and U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis
26. A Pam Wishbow living room design
27. Arendelle Set from Disney’s “Frozen the Musical”
28. Center of attention office stock photo
29. Skiing at Squaw Valley, CA
Sweet powder, bruh.
30. Modern kitchen inspired by “The Golden Girls”
31. Cleveland Indians game at Progressive Field
32. That box from Drake’s “Hotline Bling” video
34. Reading room at the New York Public Library
Shhhh…..
35. Leonardo Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper”
36. Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
37. Riley’s brain control room from Pixar’s “Inside Out”
39. Anime scene from “Spirited Away”
40. Winter street from a Hallmark Channel Christmas movie
41. Los Angeles’ Wheel House Café
42. View from United Airlines aircraft cockpit
I am serious, but don’t call me Shirley.
43. DC Comics’ Justice League Hall of Justice
46. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) looking out over Central Park in “Lost in Translation”
48. Joe’s glass cage from Netflix series “You”
49. Party deck on Royal Caribbean’s “Navigator of the Seas”
50. “Get ready, fighters” backdrop from “Street Fighter II”
51. The Krusty Krab from “SpongeBob SquarePants”
52. Williamsburg, Brooklyn street scene
53. Alaska Airlines Premium Class seating
54. An awesome bookshelf backdrop from Unsplash
55. Rick’s Workshop from “Rick & Morty”
56. 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium in the Bay Area, California
Remember the days of packed stadiums?
57. Mars Home Planet Rendering Challenge
58. Tardis from “Doctor Who” circa 1983
59. Casual sunroom from Behr Paints
60. Valentin Studio’s 3D Ski Chalet Visualization
61. Ahmadreza Afsharmoghadam’s House in the Woods
62. Spin “The Price Is Right” Big Wheel
“Come on down!”
63. Your Beemer in your driveway
64. Hot air balloons galore from Pexels
65. Downtown Townsville from “Powerpuff Girls”
66. Hamilton College campus on a snowy night
67. Deschutes Brewery’s barrel room
It’s five o’clock somewhere.
69. Safely watching a movie in an empty theater
70. High-tech command terminal
71. The pool on the “Big Brother” set
73. Stacks upon stacks of Jeni’s Ice Cream to make everyone hungry
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
74. Living room from BBC sitcom “Absolutely Fabulous”
75. A crowded Phog Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas
76. The Moulin Rouge stage on Broadway
77. Deep under the ocean with the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration
78. Rosebud Motel from “Schitt’s Creek”
“Ew, David!”
79. Rock wall from REI Equipment
80. Around turn three at NASCAR’s Pocono Raceway
81. Wall of crispy Sonic Drive-In tater tots
82. Satisfying the need for speed with “Top Gun: Maverick”
83. Classy A-Frame patio in the woods
84. The Oculus in Manhattan from Unsplash
Why not bring some of New York City’s modern architecture into your home via your Zoom background?
85. The “Family Guy” living room
86. Glamping with Burton Snowboards
87. A rainbow of Belgian waffles
88. Modsy’s modern recreation of the “Seinfeld” apartment
89. Put yourself in the Distracted Boyfriend meme
Picture yourself here!
90. Glass pod AirBnB in Urubamba, Peru
92. Los Angeles County Museum of Art
94. “Minimal cityscape” by Skilline
95. Hold a press conference at the Four Seasons (Total Landscaping), Philadelphia
Not to be confused with one of the Four Seasons hotels.
96. Hogwarts
97. Mazza Vineyards’ tasting room in North East, PA
98. Service dogs!
99. Brooklyn Athletic Club’s training room
100. “The Walking Dead’s” Atlanta
How to change your Zoom background
Setting any of these images above to be your Zoom meeting background couldn’t be easier. Just follow these steps:
- Find the image you wish to use on any of the websites above. Right-click on the image on Windows, control-click on Mac or long-press on your iPhone or Android and choose “Save Image” to save.
- Join your Zoom meeting by clicking the link you were sent by the meeting host (choosing “Open Zoom Meeting” if prompted). If you have not previously downloaded Zoom, you will be directed to do so.
- Select “Join with Video,” and you will see yourself on your laptop or phone against your boring, real-life background.
- To set a new background, go to the bottom of the screen, click the up-arrow to the right of the “Stop Video” button on desktop or the “More” button on mobile and select “Choose a Virtual Background.”
- On desktop, in the window that pops up, choose the “Virtual Background” tab under “Backgrounds & Filters.” Unselect “I have a green screen” at the bottom. On iOS and Android, these steps are skipped.
- Click “Add Image” on desktop or the “+” sign on iOS and Android.
- Find the image you saved on your hard drive (most likely in Downloads or on your desktop), double click or open it and — bam — you have your new virtual background. Just close the setting dialog box and start talking!
Have fun with funny Zoom virtual backgrounds
If we’re going to be living our best life from home during the coronavirus pandemic, we may as well make the best of it with these funny Zoom virtual backgrounds.
