Zoombombing

Zoombombing occurs when, in a split second, an inappropriate virtual image/video is blasted onto your video conferencing screen interrupting a Zoom meeting. Zoom is a communication application that allows you to gather with other people via video virtually. When the COVID19 pandemic began everyone in the world had to protect themselves from getting ill. One of the ways to do this was to socially distance themselves so people started using Zoom a lot more for work, school, personal self-development, and social gatherings. 

As Zoom started getting used so much more people started experiencing being subjected to zoombombing. In a zoombombing situation, people are usually conducting their business for day to day life responsibilities when inappropriate images, sometimes pornography or hateful messages or images, get displayed on the screen without the participant's permission and they are completely thrown off into the left field. The effect of zoombombing is that it can be traumatizing if you are not used to vulgar or sexually explicit content.