'Saddest thing ever': TikTokers are laughing and aghast over a COVID-era school yearbook that featured Zoom thumbnails instead of school photos

• A TikToker went viral with a video showing her unique COVID-era-themed school yearbook.
• The yearbook used Zoom screenshots (and some placeholders with a student's initial), which have people gobsmacked.

TikTokers are deeply saddened and amused by a video of a school yearbook that featured images from Zoom calls — some with peoples' initials instead of their faces. It's been dubbed a true relic of the COVID era.

The short video, which has amassed over 2.5 million views, shows various pages of the yearbook that painfully capture what life was like when schools were forced to go fully remote. "POV: you were the class of '21," user @milaabandzz wrote across their viral video.

A large swath of the Junior class was depicted with Zoom-esque thumbnails of their first name initial (or what appears during a Zoom call if someone turns their camera off), while many school club photos were screenshots of large group Zoom calls. Another page printed two photos of what appeared to be teachers in a Zoom call and included what looked like their text chat.

At least one page in the book was also formatted like a Windows 10 screen and internet browser, showing a very visible tool and search bar on the bottom and top of the page. All the while, the sad droopy song from "SpongeBob" played in the background.

"Covid really changed everything," @milaabandzz wrote with a laughing emoji in the description.

The yearbook appears to belong to the Union County Vocational-Technicals School in New Jersey. Insider has reached out to the school and user @milaabandzz for comment.

People reacted to the unique yearbook with a mixture of sadness and fascination. The comment section has been spammed with laughing emojis, gesturing at how ridiculous and depressing the emblem is.

"Bro got a collection of screenshots," one top comment said; "I would have cried," someone else wrote.

Others, however, thought the yearbook was creative and argued that, though it's unconventional, it will become a relic in the future.

"Seems low budget now but in a few years this'll be super nostalgic," one person wrote.

"This yearbook will be iconic in 40+ years don't ever lose it!" another argued.