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Re: Sorry, I'm in a meeting

This has real demand, I ended up in the Gitlab secondary youtube channel one day, ordering by most views, and I found a video [0] of a seemingly normal uninteresting meeting with millions of views. Turns out people were using this as an excuse for looking like they were busy. They disabled comments now but I saved some of them because I thought it was hilarious:

I play this when I need my family to leave me alone - so helpful
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I play this when I pretend to be busy. This meeting is literally about anything you want it to be about lol
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I love that we all arrived at this video for the same reason
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Every now and then I'll pause it at a good point in between them talking to make my own voice heard contributing to the "meeting" lol. Gets the full effect in! And the beautiful thing is their conversation just flows with it like they heard me lol.
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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBVtvOpU80Q

frangonf, 15 hours ago
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