Roller coasters are having a bit of a viral moment. Just recently, I wrote about a guy who was banned from all Six Flags parks after eating Chicken McNuggets on a roller coaster. Now, as spotted by Futurism, a South Korean man has finally answered a question that has plagued theologians and philosophers for centuries: Will anyone notice if you’re riding a roller coaster during a Zoom meeting?
The answer is absolutely, of course, yes, without question.
And it is just as funny to watch as you imagine it to be.
The Roller Coaster Zoom Stunt Is a Little Different From the McNugget Thing
A video making the rounds online shows South Korean municipal worker Nam Young-sik attempting to attend what looks like a routine video meeting while strapped into a roller coaster.
His laptop in front of him and a makeshift green screen behind him that fills his little Zoom window with a fake background that looks like something out of a Pottery Barn catalog, he tried to maintain the illusion that he’s just at home, dutifully working, paying the utmost attention during the meeting, all while trying to maintain a straight face and an even tone while enduring the coasters dips, high-speed straight shots, and a series of dizzying swirls.
Where the McNugget stunt was the work of a single YouTube creator looking for a viral hit, this particular stunt was a part of a marketing campaign produced by Korean broadcasting station Ulsan Nam-gu Gorae to promote South Korean tourism. The video itself is an ad for a new whale-themed roller coaster at the Jangsaengpo Whale Culture Special Zone.
Knowing that kills some of the fun, but the video itself is so well executed that the whole thing being a tourism board ad hardly matters.
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