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In March 2021, social media users shared widely what appeared to be promotional materials for a new Fisher-Price product for kids that evidently struck a chord with many observers — a remote-working kit called My Home Office. On March 1, Melody Joy Kramer tweeted out what appeared to be a screenshot of a listing for the item, complete with a miniaturized toy versions of a laptop, coffee cup, headset, and cellphone. She added This is real. I guess we're all living in hell now: In recent years, Fisher-Price toys have formed the basis of popular online parodies and pastiches, such as Tiny Toker, which included toy marijuana paraphernalia, My First Vape, and a Happy Hour Playset, complete with toy stools, tiny beer bottles, and a kid-sized bar. None of those was a real product, and one could be forgiven for assuming that My Home Office — a rather on-the-nose nod to the worldwide boom in remote working brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 — was equally fake. However, My Home Office was indeed a real Fisher-Price product, as the screenshot below demonstrates. It can be found listed on the Fisher-Price and Amazon websites, and is intended for children aged three years and older. On the company's website, the product is described as follows:
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