An entire American college class has banding together to prank their professor during Zoom lessons — and their jokes have been getting more and more elaborate.
TikTok user Samuel Grubbs, from North Carolina, shared recordings of the pranks on the social media platform, capturing the moments that a class of 24 students have surprised their teacher during lessons.
The classmates have stood up and walked away from their screens, broken out into dance, and even passed a pencil from screen to screen as their confused professor looks on.
Planning: TikTok user Samuel Grubbs and his class have been pranking their college professor during Zoom lessons
Samuel, who is from Granite Falls, North Carolina, appears to have initiated the pranks and posted the results on TikTok.
‘Our WHOLE Zoom class pranked our teacher,’ he captioned the first one, which has been viewed 26.9 million times.
In the video, Samuel starts playing music and bops his head to the beat. When the tune plays again, the other students all join, in bobbing their heads in time with the tune.
The professor immediately becomes confused, assuming at first that the sound is a mistake. She points out that one of her students is an on mute as he should be.
‘I hear music,” she says. ‘Where is that music coming from?’
Noticing they are bumping their hands, she says, ‘What in the world?’
Recorded: Samuel shares videos of the pranks on his TikTok account
Games: For one, Samuel asked a classmate named Maxx for a pencil — so Maxx pretended to pass it to a student in another screen
Clever: The kids continued to pretend to pass the pencil from screen to screen
The class planned another prank for their next lesson. Yet again, they all waited for their cue from Samuel.
In this one, their professor is complaining that the class all performed terribly on the last exam when Samuel interrupts.
‘Well,’ he tells her, ‘it is what it is.’
‘It is what it is!’ the whole class replies in unison.
But their third prank required even more coordination. While their professor spoke, Samuel asked a classmate named Max if he could borrow a pencil.
‘Yeah, I got you bro,’ Maxx replies.
But while Maxx’s video is playing in the top left corner of the Zoom screen, Samuel is down on the bottom right — so they need a little help to ‘pass’ the pencil along.
Max pretends to pass the pencil down to Evan, who grabs it from the top of his screen. Evan passes it to Ash, who gives it to Noah, who drops it to Brooks.
‘Hey, what’s going on?’ their confused professor asks.
They continue to pass the pencil on from screen to screen before it finally makes it to Samuel.
‘How are y’all doing that?’ their sweet teacher’s voice chimes in.
The kids are clearly getting a kick out of their teacher’s reaction, all the more so because she can’t figure out what they’re doing.
Busting moves: For yet another prank, the class did the Blinding Lights challenge, with each student doing a choreographed dance in time with music
‘What in the world are y’all doing?’ asks their teacher. ‘Are you dancing?’
Viral: Samuel’s videos have proven incredibly popular, earning millions of views each
For yet another prank, the class did the Blinding Lights challenge, with each student doing a choreographed dance in time with music.
‘What in the world are y’all doing?’ asks their teacher before she seems to laugh. ‘Are you dancing?’
Their last prank to date interrupted the entire class, kicking off as soon as their professor wanted to begin presentations.
Samuel played music again, and one by one, each of the students stood up, did a short dance, and walked off the screen.
Only one met a bit of a hitch: His mother noticed him walking away from class and angrily pulled him back in front of the screen by his hair.