Then I guess I'm both happy and sad.

Happy its finally reached its inevitable end.

Sad they had $80 billion to waste.

Meta is killing its Metaverse, not the Metaverse.
Remember: they don't own the concept, no matter how much they'd like you to believe they do.

Snow Crash is satire. Zuck didn't get the joke.

The 1980s view of cyberspace was disembodied techno-warlocks soaring through floating numbers to avoid getting their brains melted by anti-intrusion software. Neal Stephenson turned that into a mall.

Second Life also built that torment nexus, but just the 3D rendered MUSH part. They parted out infinite virtual space into a cramped trailer park waaay before Decentraland's cocaine fantasy version. SL's users were like half trans furries and half the most basic bitch dolled-up human avatars, who on reflection probably had even worse body-image issues than the trans furries. This is all to say that the average user was horny in a way that the modern web cannot reflect. I don't know if VR Chat properly captured that, but I'm certain Horizon Worlds fucked it up, because avatars don't exist below the waist.

Well. Didn't.

Nice, get rekt, Zucc.

You're telling me businesses didn't want to hold meetings in Second Life and consumers didn't want Facebook harvesting data?

I'm shocked, I say. Shocked!

To all those who vehemently shouted me down when I pointed out how utterly stupid an idea this was when they announced it, who were convinced that the amount of money they were throwing at it garaunteed success, I issue a heartfelt: ha. ha.

Out of the frying pan…

Would have been much cheaper to partner with VRchat, no?

that was just a play so clueless speculators think that facebook is still a growth company, justifying their insane P/E. it don't matter the money "burned" as long the derivatives are booming. they didn't lose shit, this don't touch them in the slightest.

even now, this isn't pushed as defeat, it's used as an opportunity to bolster their new play - ai.

it’ll cost 16,000 jobs

They can't kill the metaverse, it was never theirs.

no they should keep it open zuck is the best that 80b is just normal operating costs