VICE Germany spoke to two teenage Zoom bombers and a number of victims.
But what kind of people aim to collect trophies like that? For Zoom bombers, the horrified reactions are digital trophies. Recordings of these incidents and others end up on YouTube and TikTok. School classes and church services have also been affected the world over. In April, a group of anti-Semites crashed an online Holocaust memorial service in Berlin, broadcasting images of Adolf Hitler, while another synagogue service in London was hijacked with anti-Semitic remarks. In March, trolls hijacked an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in New York, with one shouting "Alcohol is so good!" to the assembled group. Within that number, there are trolls: so-called "Zoom bombers" looking to hijack calls and mess with people. By April, it claimed to have 300 million – before backtracking to admit the statistic is really 300 million "meeting participants" per day. Before the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom had 10 million daily users.
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