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There’s a TikTok video that went viral in September.

It’s a low-budget recording of a computer screen from a mobile phone, showing what appears to be a virtual classroom with five students in attendance in the middle of an icebreaker exercise. The camera first focuses on a woman sleeping in front of her laptop camera, before zooming out as another student begins her introduction. Instead of offering up a real story, though, the student, to the bewilderment of her classmates, recites the premise the popular 1990s sitcom The

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