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'Contact Tracys' envisions a world where Gen-Zs use Snap Maps for contact tracing

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Uploaded: 2020-12-15T11:53:23+00:00
Description: Written for Australia's The Chaser by Bec Shaw and Nina Oyama, the "Contact Tracys" sketch envisions a world where Gen-Zs use Snap Maps for contact tracing.

Online sleuths, this sketch is for you.

Rachel Thompson

on December 15, 2020

'Contact Tracys' envisions a world where Gen-Zs use Snap Maps for contact tracing

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Who needs a contact tracing app when you've got Gen-Z internet sleuths to contend with? I jest, of course, but anyone who's ever been ghosted or treated shoddily in a dating sitch will relate to the above comedy sketch.

Written for Australian comedy group The Chaser by Bec Shaw and Nina Oyama, the "Contact Tracys" sketch envisions a world where two teenagers are placed in charge of contact tracing COVID-19 cases, much to the chagrin of their older colleagues.

"IDK? Is that your department?" one of them asks. Yes, that is second-hand embarrassment you're experiencing right now.

The Contact Tracys' advice to their OK Boomer co-workers to start a trace? "OK, pretend he's the guy that ghosted your best friend."

Because at the end of the day, is it even a world-class contract tracing system if you're not checking their Snap Map?

Rachel Thompson

Features Editor

Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.

A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.

Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.