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[[File:Afectos en pandemia.jpg|thumb|300px|"Afectos en pandemia", by Hilda Chaulot]]
{{quote|''It was inevitable that films would be made about this significant chapter in global history, in part because a small group of people enduring an extended stay in their own homes is about the only scenario it's safe and logistically possible to actually shoot right now. But did the results have to start arriving while we're all still stuck in this nightmare?''
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Animal Crossing: New Horizons]]'' was released just as the lockdowns were hitting North America, with much of the fandom spending far more time in the game then they would have been able to otherwise. There were a number of social meetups held through the game, up to and including political campaigning. Much of the fandom content about the game originates from this time, including a budding [[Friendly Fandoms|Friendly Fandom]] with ''[[Doom (series)|DOOM]]''.
* In ''[[Hitman 3]]'', Carl Ingram, one of 47's targets in the Dubai level, makes mention of the pandemic. [https://kotaku.com/hitman-3-is-the-latest-game-to-acknowledge-covid-19-1846125441 This article by] [[Kotaku]] takes note of the apparent complacency of people in-game towards the pandemic, with next to no effort done towards social distancing and vaccination especially in levels such as Berlin and the aforementioned Dubai.
* ''[[Postal 4: No Regerts]]'' parodies COVID with the "Pigeona" virus, a pigeon spread disease with roughly similar symptoms. This is also why many pedestrians are masked - true to the game and its [[True Art Is Offensive]] roots, you can even use "Pigeon Mines" to attack people with clouds of disease-carrying pigeons.
* ''[[Tony Hawk's Pro Skater|Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2]]'' not only aged up the [[Real Life]] pro skaters from the original but also has a [[Setting Update]] where the remake now takes place in 2020 right during the onset of the pandemic, as evidenced by the face mask accessory and COVID-related PSAs urging students to learn at home while the lockdowns were still in place. This also served as a convenient [[Hand Wave]] to explain the lack of NPCs in the remake as in the original game, even if hardware limitations imposed by the PS1 are no longer a concern.
* Technically also a [[Real Life]] example, [[Star Citizen|CitizenCon]] was not held in real life in 2020, 2021 or 2022 (except as a digital livestream, much like E3 and CES). Of course, despite the perception of a fair amount of the [[Hatedom]] around ''Star Citizen'', [[Perpetual Beta|the game's alpha]] had actually already reached the point that [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|multiple in-universe conventions]] were held [[One Nation Under Copyright|in the Stanton system]]'s Bevin Convention Center on [[City Planet|ArcCorp]] and the Tobin Expo Center in New Babbage on [[Single-Biome Planet|microTech]] in 2950, 2951 and 2952 (Star Citizen's in-game events are staggered ahead of real life by 930 years) with no significant issues.
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* The [[w:Mark Twain Prize for American Humor|Mark Twain Prize for American Humor]] was not awarded during the pandemic.
* A number of events and award shows were either postponed, scaled back or cancelled outright because of the pandemic. The 2020 Miss Universe and Olympics had to be pushed back several months into 2021, though they were [[Artifact Title|still marketed]] as the 2020 editions. Other events such as [[E3]] and the [[Metro Manila Film Festival]] were held digitally, with film entries for the latter instead being distributed [[Direct to Video]] due to restrictions imposed by governments in order to contain the pandemic.
** E3 in particular was hit hard, with the show permanently ending after a failure to relaunch a live event in 2023. Sources disagree on what really did it in, with the ''Washington Post'' coting pre-pandemic industry pull out,<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/video-games/2023/12/12/e3-permanently-canceled/</ref> ''Variety'' citing the Pandemic,<ref>https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/e3-shut-down-permanently-esa-1235834829/amp/</ref> and ''Ars Technica'' citing both as factors.<ref>https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/12/how-the-internet-killed-e3/</ref>
* The ceremony for the 2020 [[Seiyu Awards]] was cancelled, but the awards were still awarded.
* The [[Grammy Award]]s were postponed by a month and a half in 2020, and by two months in 2021. In both cases, COVID-19 was given as the reason for the delays.
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