'And what happened was horrifying and potentially triggering to some of my students.' 'I have never had a day as nightmarish as that in the classroom where I was completely unable to control what happened,' Ghavari told the outlet. The comments section of the call quickly devolved into what the class' Professor, Lance Gharavi, called 'vulgar, racist, misogynistic, toilet humor.' Almost immediately after the class began, an anonymous participant displayed a pornographic video for the entire class to see. One Zoom crash took a turn for the worse during a virtual Introduction to Storytelling class at Arizona State University, Inside Higher Ed reported. While Malissa herself doesn't advocate for crashing college classes, Zoombombing has become an issue in college settings. 'Someone send me their zoom login / codes to classrooms or whatever I'm trying to make a video of me trolling,' one Twitter user wrote is a post that has received thousands of likes.

A Twitter account called encourages followers to send in codes for upcoming classes to be retweeted for other potential Zoombombers to join in - and some aspiring crashers are blatantly advertising their plans to find viral fame. Malissa and her followers aren't the only ones breaking into Zoom classes. The mission to start a wave of Zoom crashes seems to have been successful - and it's causing massive disruptions for students and teachers alike.

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