A slow-burn joke for my coworkers

I work remotely and do several meetings a week over video conference with a team distributed across multiple office locations. Sometimes I get bored and make up my own fun so I decided to methodically and very slowly build a conspiracy wall in my home office using newspaper clippings, photos, pushpins, and red yarn connecting them.

The key was to do it slowly over time, and see if anyone would notice. I wasn’t sure if this would last a few days, or a few months before someone said something. My wall has always had some framed photos and art, including a couple doodles my daughter drew when she was a toddler, so I figured it’d take a while for anyone to notice.

I was in for the long haul on this joke, so before each meeting I added one printed-out newspaper article to the wall behind me, hoping my coworkers wouldn’t notice as the weeks went by.

Once the wall was covered behind me, I added a single pushpin to the center of every page on the wall, then started adding strings of red yarn connecting to a center point to see if anyone would say anything about it.

Each new meeting and added piece of yarn felt like a high-stakes game of Jenga.

HOW ARE THEY NOT SEEING THIS DURING MEETINGS?!

It took two months to get to this point, and no one said anything, so I had to reveal it to them.

Maybe this joke was like the selective attention experiment, where no one had to look or notice what was behind me while instead focusing on my words in meetings.