Can’t believe they really rebranded around this shit when we all knew it was a nonsense non-concept five years ago, lmao

They lose $80B and are still in business? That’s insane.

Hilarious that this company is now named after a failed product. It would be like if Ford changed it's name to Pinto.

They could have cured homelessness 4x over. But instead we got crappy little Zuck-like avatars and an ecosystem nobody ever asked for or wanted.

Fuck this world man.

Buying real estate in the Metaverse used to be compared to buying land on the moon. But Zuck can't turn off the moon, so it's arguably a better investment.

For everyone who never tried it, they had honest to god paid employees in Horizon Worlds to help players get oriented. I cannot imagine a worse job.

The one I ran into was standing in front of some “game” experience that was like…jumping on tiles or some shit.

I tried to tell him.

But I thought the whole line was “hOrIzOn WoRlDs iSnt the MeTaVeRsE.”

Followed by no explanation of what the metaverse is.

16k souls about to lay for his continued mistakes https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/meta-job-layoffs-artificial-intelligence-b2938715.html

And now they're not shutting it down after all. :D

ohh bless their hearts.

i love this for them.

ahh the schadenfreude... 😈

Remember when everyone made fun of Second Life? Now the people who made it don't need to feel embarrassed anymore because at least they weren't involved in Metaverse. If you were involved with both, there's no salvation left.

remember 6 years ago when everyone was saying 'learn to code'?

now what?

The Metaverse cycle:

10 Some article remind me it exist;

20 I shrug and continue not to care about the Metaverse;

30 I forget about the existance of the Metaverse;

40 Some amount of time passes;

50 GOTO 10.

I think it's hilarious that the entire press and Meta are both like "ope, people don't want to hang out in VR".

furries continue to hang out in VR chat

It doesn't matter now. All those idiots who wrote books about how good the mataverse was, how it was going to change our lives, how we will be able to talk to costumer support in a virtual office from our house… all those people who wrote about it did the leap to talk about AI and now are writing about how good AI is… goshhhh

Darn shame, poor Zuck

Slop ai header image to talk about the slop company. Ai use is so embarrassing

Where did the money go? Programmer salaries?

Did anyone even think about this once while not reading news stories about it?

Those lobsters should have top hats and monocles.

Are they going to rebrand to Slop now to follow the latest trend?

We have had Meta headsets for a couple years. Still don’t know what the “metaverse” is. The headsets are fun, though.

One more reason for centralized planning.

No surprise

Great, thanks for buying oculus and turning it into a massive POS

What an idiot

What a loss. How will I ever move on with my life.

wtf is the metaverse even