13 Festive Zoom Backgrounds For Your Virtual New Year's Eve Party

While you can forget packed bars, being pressed up against strangers outside, and kissing someone you just met at midnight this year, it doesn't mean you can't reminisce about past NYEs or where you'd rather be. Read on for Zoom backdrops, for whatever your NYE vibe is.

What's more pre-pandemic New Year's Eve than being in the center of a packed Times Square?

Michael and Erin may have not been celebrating New Year's Eve in this scene from The Office episode "The Ultimatum," but that doesn't mean you can't join your Zoom party with this celebratory vibe.

Host your New Year's Eve bash live from the action in Times Square — alongside Ryan Seacrest, of course.

Who could forget Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve performance in 2016? No one on your Zoom call, that's for sure.

New Year's Eve 2019 was a simpler time. Bring it back with a screengrab from when the clock struck midnight last year.

Reminisce about New Years' past with a shot of the crowd in Times Square from the Before Times.

If a New Year's kiss is off the table this year, you can feel the love with a virtual background featuring the midnight tradition.

Want to pretend you're not actually ringing in 2021 in your PJs? Get fancy with a scene from The Great Gatsby.

Log onto your Zoom call in a sea of confetti.

Wishing you were anywhere but your home this year? Pull up a backdrop of a sparkly London from last New Year's.

Party from New Zealand, where it's already tomorrow.

If you're normally complaining about going to a crowded bar with overpriced drinks this time of year, go through your camera roll and find a shot from last NYE and reminisce — or get freaked out by how close together everyone was.

If you're going for a classic NYE vibe, you can't go wrong with the ball drop, aka the mascot of New Year's Eve.