With the appearance of the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020, a certain “corona story” began to take shape in the virtual space, a metanarrative that encompasses a variety of subtopics and discourses related to the coronavirus. This paper’s research corpus consists of digital content collected in the period from March to December 2020 on social networks and web portals. In its formation we recognize various elements of oral and folk poetics, especially in the combination of instruction and entertainment. More than 650 different examples have been collected and the dominant form among the collected materials are memes (the most widespread form of communication of the modern virtual community), posts (including graffiti, banners and advertisements images), videos, jokes and folk songs. Elements of folk poetics such as the weakened authorial stance, openness and adaptation of the text, the importance of the community and instruction in the form of entertainment will be studied on the selected examples of digital communication. The combination of instruction and entertainment, a fundamental feature of folk calendars, is visible in the humorous content that is dominant among the collected materials. Seeing as jokes have an important place among the collected examples when it comes to the formation of humorous content about the coronavirus, the poetics of the joke as a form of oral literature is described. In addition, it is shown how the response to the viral pandemic was formulated in the recognizable form of the folk song and how, in modern virtual communication, the patterns used by folk literature as a successful model of communication have been preserved to a certain extent.