![]() As the judge suggests to Ponton that he may have a filter on, one of the non-cat lawyers, who goes by the name of “Gibbs”, puts on his glasses and leans forward to confirm that he is indeed Zooming with a cat this morning. There is a moment of understandable silence. ![]() So: the call begins, and instead of seeing three lawyers, the participants are presented with two lawyers and a kitten. And yet here, in this most sombre of environments, a CGI cat appeared, complete with enormous, verge-of-tears eyes and a little mouth moving plaintively. There are few occasions more inherently grave than a court hearing. Just as with the priest, here the delight comes from the dissonance between the absurdity of the image and the seriousness of the setting. ![]() God willing, it won’t be the last time either. There was also the Italian priest who livestreamed mass while his phone cycled through filters that rendered him as, among other things, a boxer, a wizard and a wolf. ![]() It’s not the first time that unseasoned users of videocall software have fallen foul of filters. ![]()
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