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Smoking avatars and online games: how big tobacco targets young people in the metaverse (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Apparently it mostly appeals to young children, or maybe people pretending to be young children.

more than half of the metaverse’s active users are aged 13 and below.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    This is because they include stuff like Roblox in the definition of Metaverse. I personally hate that.

    If we kept it to SocialVR titles, the demographics would shift to something more balanced, afaik. VRC bans people under 13 when they are discovered/reported.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh, so metaverse not Metaverse.

    Yeah, that isn't confusing and stupid.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah it sucks. Meta shit all over the term. And then every other company jumped on board claiming their stuff is a metaverse too. Even Microsoft claimed Teams was a metaverse.

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