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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.
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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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