this tho. literally everything that the metaverse has claimed they've done first SL did, and years earlier and for less cash as well. hell, someone even became very succesful selling SL real estate back in the day and this happened without the entire weird, artificial market being absurd overpriced.
@DavidMChannel It's always been absurd and overpriced. Have you seen SL's land market? It's insane. Abandoned land all over the place yet greedy land owners (and Linden Lab) keep jacking up rent.
@Edax_Royeaux All of that was Square Enix fault for making submarine's so lucrative. If they had never added that mechanic, people wouldn't be buying up entire wards of houses.
FF14 you need to wait years just to get a house of your choosing. My Fiance just lost his because he didn't log in after he stopped paying for a membership. NO REFUNDS.
Here's a basic issue with tech billionaires: they find one golden goose by accident, and then they are absolutely convinced that they are the best at finding golden geese.
so many entreprenuers do not understand this as well, they keep attributing their success solely to hardwork, skill and talent when actually, luck played a huge role. 😂
It is absolutely crazy the pointless things happening in the VR space and the serious under-investment in vr chat. Facebook should have bought them, HTC should be spending advertising money hand over fist in there and be butt-to-butt corporate BFFs with them. Like that's the only reason anyone buys their stupid trackers. Both HTC and facebook are scaling way back on consumer VR to focus on XR glasses and their own metaverses. I think it's all about "potential infinite money" longshots at the expense of being the market leader whenever consumers decide they like VR (boring!). I think it's some sort of fundamentally broken business math used to calculate the opportunity cost.
@greenfloatingtoad Both Facebook and HTC would have rather their "metaverse" projects win out market dominance over VRChat than be happy selling hardware that people use for VRChat. In HTC's case it's dumb as hell, like the only reason I even heard of their metaverse was because it failed and the only reason people bought HTC vr hardware was for vrchat Facebook has a little more excuse since their headsets are sold at a loss and the vrchat app is free on the store netting them a whopping -$300 for every quest 3 user that only plays VR chat on steam.
Common tech fail. Why did uber throw all that money into R&D for autonomous vehicles when they could’ve just bought into a company? Why did Elon musk develop their own Grok ai, when they could’ve just collaborated with an Ai company? Unlimited funds and ego… all this money could support all of Americans healthcare and modest food stipend for each citizen, and yet they’re throwing it away like this.. then they tell us that they lost millions this quarter smh
@Where2bub Not ego, at least not in Musk's case. The reason he developed Grok was because his previous ambitions of making an artificial intelligence platform that was truly ethical was thwarted by Sam Altman, who wanted to use AI for profit (which he failed at, by the way). Yes, that means Elon Musk helped start up OpenAi. Xai is actually his second attempt at developing an artificial intelligence system. It does seem to be going better than Sam Altman's ambitions, at least.
the funniest thing about metaverse for me is that for years facebook struggled to get working legs and multiple times claimed it would be impossible, meanwhile at the same time VR chat released an update that allowed character models with more than 2 legs to have the legs all move independently.
Not only that but while Facebook was failing to make legs work, VR chat furries were learning how to use their damned Brain-waves to control their avatar's ears and tails.
@Mateus_Carvalho Except AI already has a working product. The only "problem" with it from a corporate perspective is that the product is available for free with open-source local models. You can use AI for years and never once interact with a paid corporate product.
He has a luxury bunker on a private island. Peter Thiel has one in New Zealand. You know what they expect to happen with their products. "You will know them by their fruit."
It's 2026 and I have yet to have heard a single person in real life utter the word Metaverse. I think I said it once when I talked to my nerd friends about how they stole it from Snowcrash. Literally no-one calls Facebook anything else than Facebook and the platform is one inch from death. No-one posts anything. I can go through a whole week of what all my friends posted in five minutes. Well done Zuck.
Don't be like that dude. You know FULL WELL that this is terrible news to the 100 employees forced to use the Metaverse. And the 600 other people on earth who willingly use it.
Zuck definitely chose Metaverse for the name because he even says Snowcrash is his favorite book. I read it as a teen in the 90s and even then I was rolling my eyes. It was a mess and the insufferable main character was literally called, Hiro Protagonist. He's a pizza delivery guy/ super genius hacker. Every brooding nerd in a black trenchcoat haunting the library computer room LOVED that book.
It's so painfully obvious that the people making metaverse have never played a video game before. How did they think this game would catch on when there are so many amazing options??
It was designed by boomers and Gen X who barely know what a video game is. Edit: My comment seems to be too absolutist, and some morons got triggered by that. It doesn't change the statement that they are made by older generations who barely played games at all.
It astounds me that Oculus’ (the company Facebook assimilated for their VR technology) CTO was John Carmack. One of the main creators of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake (he primarily worked on the engines those games ran on). He was Meta’s “Executive VR Consultant” and was influential in designing the Quest 1 and 2. Meta still couldn’t make a good game.
@insertname9736 Your timeline is off. GenX here, grew up with video games, both console (Atari, Colecovision, etc.) and PC (Apple IIE, Commodore 64). You don't know what you're talking about.
0:10 Congratulations, Editor. I didn't think it was possible to make Zuck look more off-putting and less human than he is normally. You have done the impossible!
Back in 2020, when I was working at Target's electronics department, this guy with wife and teenage son came in. Wife wife had tons of work done but he was pretty large, had that stencil-like beard/side burn combo with swirls on his cheeks and a Gucci jacket and belt. He came up and let me & some coworkers know that he had reserved a 256GB Meta Quest2, so one of us ran to the stockroom While we waited, he went in on his sales pitch about how the Metaverse was the future and how he was gonna sell real estate in it. He bragged about how much money he was making right now on NFTs, allowing him to buy a Lambo and that we should invest in Web3 stuff to get outta this "shithole job". When the guy came back with the headset, I asked if he wanted any accessories for it like the headset cushion, the carrying case, etc... Bought all of it. When a coworker handed him the receipt, he muttered "Fuck, that was the whole credit card." Every year afterwards, I would remember the interaction and wonder where that guy is now.
Enshittification is a specific term to refer to a specific phenomenon: a platform capturing a market, forming a monopoly, and then reducing quality because it knows that it's too annoying to bother leaving. RUclips is a good example, everyone's on RUclips so they increase ad timing because they know nobody will bother leaving. Everyone's on RUclips already so no individual is going to boycott RUclips even if it gets really annoying. That's enshittification. The Metaverse isn't "enshittified" because it never captured a market in the first place, therefore it had no leverage. It's like the difference between "gaslighting" and "lying". RUclips is enshittified. The Metaverse is just a regular failure.
I feel like introducing land scarcity into a virtual world is sort of missing the point of what makes virtual worlds fun and interesting. The prospect of putting on some glasses and having a potentially infinite world in front of you, in your living room or whatever, and not needing the constraints of physical space or even physics in general apply, that's what makes VR exciting, you can craft a world that is, quite literally, larger than life. Calling the place Earth 2 and arbitrarily limiting its dimensions and layout to that of the real world so people can buy plots and LARP as landlords is a great way to suck all the wonder out of it. I think that really hits the issues I have with this concept on the head - lack of wonder. I think if Zuck even once had shown a thing he really wanted to do that he can't in the real world, but can in VR, I think people would've found him and his project a lot more endearing. Instead he comes across like an alien lizard person that thinks Zoom calls in VR are the pinnacle of human entertainment, because all he sees and knows is joyless business meetings. It all just comes across as a bit sad, really.
They're trying to enforce artificial scarcity because a lack of it challenges fundamental assumptions about our economy. see the absolutely absurd enforcement of copyright law for an example of how this turns out
@m.f.3347 People seem to appreciate enforcement of copyright when they're talking about how evil AI is and how it's "stealing" from creators. Even though you wouldn't call it "stealing" if it was done to anyone else.
You don't remember the in-metaverse interview where the lady asked what Mark's favorite thing to do in the metaverse is and he said "this" and put a pair of tigolbitties on his avatar?
I'm old enough to remember second life and cybertown. you could have your own house, a job, your own avatar all for free. It even inspired me to start coding for the first time so I could make my own objects.
@vytah It was like 2005. But it was never heavily brand focused, not even as close as Meta. I guess that's why Meta failed. It was just a virtual mall with no customers.
We had ‘virtual realestate’ the second that people could have their own website. Like. That’s all these people are actually craving, but they’re either too young or too out of the loop to remember what it was like.
the corporations are trying to paywall everything. They want you paying rent to them indefinitely while they "provide" you with something that costs them absolutely nothing to maintain. This is the logical conclusion of capitalism
@casey_anthonyofficial Even on it's last legs, SecondLife blows basically all these wannabe metaverses out of the water. It's no VRChat on functions and interactivity but it's been stable and functional for so long and still has several communities atop that- as highlighted here, the latter part especially is the important one.
The irony is that all they're doing is guaranteeing their dead bodies will have a fancy tomb to rot in when the time comes You can't "outlast" the coming Climate Catastrophes, especially if you're in the middle of nowhere without anyone else around to form a new community with
Markets got so "efficient" people no longer look for environments ripe with activity to exploit. They just create exploitative environments and try to force everyone to live in them.
In their, for lack of a better word, defense, Skype didn't blow its headstart so much as Microslop literally bought them specifically for the purpose of killing them off.
The thing with calculators is, that when I was growing up, I was not allowed to use a calculator until I could show that I knew how to do the work on my own. I developed the skill first and then used a calculator as a productivity tool. The problem with students using AI is that they never learn the skills first.
Except even for those that do have the skill, use of LLMs is deskilling them so it comes full circle… Any form LLMs is just not good for humanity in the long run.
I was playing No Man’s Sky…and many other games, obviously. While these bellends were pouring money into a virtual house I was cruising around the universe in my ship and freighter which were free because this is a video game. Oh and my love for ‘sandbox RPGs’ like Bethesda games. I think around 2022 was when I first played Daggerfall and became obsessed with it.
why would i buy a virtual house and buy stuff for it when i can make an infinite amount of minecraft houses or sims 4 houses just by purchasing the base game for both franchises?
Imagine a gold rush, where you know from day one that there is no gold, BUT people are getting really into the idea of selling shovels so they change the entire planet’s economy just to sell shovels. When someone new comes along and asks where they should start looking for all of the gold that’s left, they get laughed out and sell a 15th shovel. A year later, the shovel being sold literally melt in your hand because turns out they were made of rotting, compressed offel instead of steel. You discover that, in order to produce the offel, they’ve destroyed entire county’s worth of farming land and most of the world’s fresh water to farm the cows in battery cages. They’re not even being used for meat, it’s being thrown on the ground to rot. That’s what this whole metaverse/NFT/crypto thing is like to me.
Crypto has actual uses in terms of money transfer under dictatorships and helping activists. People always in "art" circles always tend to think of things they don't understand as just tech bro nonsense and forget all actual utility. I once saw someone say that if NFTs had been introduced after Genrative ai became more common the very same people that mocked it would have been all over it as a way to stick it to "the ai bros".
I wonder if this video reminded Zuckerberg that he forgot to turn off the lights, and went to kill it. Then, he cried at the loss of a hyper-capitalist hellscape, and ran back to keep it going
Isn't it eerie how those who collect, sell, and share unfathomable amounts of user data seem to believe people would eagerly welcome even more exploitation?
Years ago when I was seeing this Metaverse craze of digital property and NFTs I thought, this is so ridiculous and will make for some great YT vids in the future. I totally forgot about this dumb shit, but here we are with a great YT vid about it.
I remember talking to friends getting into this, they could never really explain to me why this metaverse and nfts were a wise investment. Glad I never got my doubts cleared
The one question I still have never seen answered is the only one that matters. WHY? What is the actual point of using their product? What can I possibly be getting out of it that's supposed to be better than just using a website like I always have?
You know, I also had the idea of "an embodied internet, where you're immersed in the experience, not just looking at it." Back when I was seven. Then I turned 10, and realized what a pain in the ass that would be. Zuck still held onto the boneheaded idea into his 40s. Facebook should've hired 10 year old me as CEO. Would've saved billions.
In 1992 the Metaverse was a place where a pizza delivery driver named Hiro Protagonist could be a cyberpunk samurai. In 202X it's a place where you can do Brand Experiences and buy a house nobody will ever visit. THE FUTURE!
The way I always though about virtual real estate was the same as one of the commentators, as a game of monopoly. The problem is these investors setup the game a day in advance, bought 90% of the board up then invited their friends over to play. Nobody wants to play a game of monopoly where you have no chance of winning so the friends just decide to go play a different game instead. It's such a simple concept but I remember seeing so many investors smugly talking about how screwed normal metaverse users are because we own all the land and now we get to collect rent / speculative profits from everybody. The only winning move for a potential metaverse user was simply to not play the game. If there is anything good that can come out of this is a warning that if you see any language or financial structures like this to GTFO because it's a bubble of nonsense that's going to crash.
Zuckerberg failed upwards into one billion dollar idea by accident and this convinced him that he's a generational genius and anyone who doesn't see the potential in whatever his new idea is must just be his intellectual inferior. After all, he "invented" Facebook and we didn't, so how could he not know better?
"Kids, if you really want to piss off your parents, Buy real estate In an imaginary place" *-Lyrics from a song called "Imaginary Places" by Busdriver*
Bro I forgot that the headset I bought for to play Beatsaber and PhantomPainChat also was for a Second Life ripoff that costed more than what theAvatar movies had gross
You can tell everyone around Zuckerturd just tells him how great he is, how wonderful and innovative he is and how none of his ideas are ever cringe or terrible. It’s nice to see his crap blowing up in his face, almost soothing
I was thinking about playing some Elder Scrolls Online again, been playing it on and off for a few years now. The game has housing and many guilds and communities in the game have housing contests, where players spend many hours and tons of in game gold to make an epic build for nothing more than to show off to their friends and other players (and some personal satisfaction.) One thing these housing builds never have, are billboards for real life franchises.
To be fair with NFTs you didn't own a digital image, you owned a section of the blockchain which gave the address of where the image was stored online.
You're laughing. People in the Metaverse are homeless and you're laughing.
I do, and I'm tired of pretending it's not.
Oh, I am sorry. Let me laugh even harder.
it's a tough virtual world out there
people in the metaverse need to stop being snowflakes and pull themselves up by the bootstraps in the metaverse
PLEASE I NEED THIS! My Apes are kinda homeless... I live with my AI Dad, I wanna help them out....
2nd life walked so that VR Chat could run so that the metaverse could trip and fall flat on its face
Underrated comment right here
this tho.
literally everything that the metaverse has claimed they've done first SL did, and years earlier and for less cash as well.
hell, someone even became very succesful selling SL real estate back in the day and this happened without the entire weird, artificial market being absurd overpriced.
@DavidMChannel It's always been absurd and overpriced. Have you seen SL's land market? It's insane. Abandoned land all over the place yet greedy land owners (and Linden Lab) keep jacking up rent.
Legit
If Zuckerberg wasn’t an idiot, he would’ve spent half that 80 bil on second life and worked up from there
Corpos:
At last, fake estate
😂
😂😂😂😂
"If there's no land, then there's no landlords. We virtually freed you! You're welcome!"
fake real estate 😏
@nightcoreeclub you just said the same thing but less funny
Techbros cannot comprehend the concept of "just doing something for fun"
It's always gotta be a hustle and profit venture smfh
the problem is the mindset is how you get rich in america lmao. thats why everyone who is rich acts like that, not just including tech bros.
@ClarkWasHere1 agreed
Tech bros are yesterday’s yuppies - so everything is about making money.
Stay broke.
@freeman6437
greed
Can't even buy digital real estate in this economy
It's was so cutthroat in FFXIV, they had to institute a lottery system.
@Edax_Royeaux All of that was Square Enix fault for making submarine's so lucrative. If they had never added that mechanic, people wouldn't be buying up entire wards of houses.
ok ghosts of razgriz squadon from ace combat five the unsung war
FF14 you need to wait years just to get a house of your choosing. My Fiance just lost his because he didn't log in after he stopped paying for a membership. NO REFUNDS.
In comes a private equity firm to purchase all the virtual real estate.
Zuck really saw VRchat and said: "I need to make this for a billion dollars and 10x worse"
I just wanna sit in front of a mirror as a femboy avatar bro not buy real estate 💔
more like second life but 100x times worse and also more expensive
he locked vrchat and second life in a room and forced them to breed
he didn't even really make worse vrchat, he made worse secondlife 😭
I just wanna be an Anime Bih~ not a real estate mogul
“The metaverse is a dead mall”
The only video about the metaverse that matters.
Mall go up tho..
LOL! Watch, online malls become a thing! However, I think the definition of "mall" needs to be updated to something more relevant...
Mark makes everything look dorky…he’s not a good salesman
Here's a basic issue with tech billionaires: they find one golden goose by accident, and then they are absolutely convinced that they are the best at finding golden geese.
jensen democratized human intelligence for the masses by making sand think. but dem the rulez. show appreciation. we live in a society.
so many entreprenuers do not understand this as well, they keep attributing their success solely to hardwork, skill and talent when actually, luck played a huge role. 😂
Both Gates and Zuckerberg _stole_ their golden eggs.
@NibsNiven so every person with an idea should be given full rights to it regardless of execution?
give me a break. those two names are god like and u know it.
It’ll never not be insane to me that Facebook didn’t just buy VR chat and instead wasted the GDP of a small empire on whatever they made
It is absolutely crazy the pointless things happening in the VR space and the serious under-investment in vr chat. Facebook should have bought them, HTC should be spending advertising money hand over fist in there and be butt-to-butt corporate BFFs with them. Like that's the only reason anyone buys their stupid trackers.
Both HTC and facebook are scaling way back on consumer VR to focus on XR glasses and their own metaverses. I think it's all about "potential infinite money" longshots at the expense of being the market leader whenever consumers decide they like VR (boring!). I think it's some sort of fundamentally broken business math used to calculate the opportunity cost.
So were they laundering money or just fantastically incompetent
@greenfloatingtoad Both Facebook and HTC would have rather their "metaverse" projects win out market dominance over VRChat than be happy selling hardware that people use for VRChat.
In HTC's case it's dumb as hell, like the only reason I even heard of their metaverse was because it failed and the only reason people bought HTC vr hardware was for vrchat
Facebook has a little more excuse since their headsets are sold at a loss and the vrchat app is free on the store netting them a whopping -$300 for every quest 3 user that only plays VR chat on steam.
Common tech fail. Why did uber throw all that money into R&D for autonomous vehicles when they could’ve just bought into a company? Why did Elon musk develop their own Grok ai, when they could’ve just collaborated with an Ai company? Unlimited funds and ego… all this money could support all of Americans healthcare and modest food stipend for each citizen, and yet they’re throwing it away like this.. then they tell us that they lost millions this quarter smh
@Where2bub Not ego, at least not in Musk's case. The reason he developed Grok was because his previous ambitions of making an artificial intelligence platform that was truly ethical was thwarted by Sam Altman, who wanted to use AI for profit (which he failed at, by the way).
Yes, that means Elon Musk helped start up OpenAi. Xai is actually his second attempt at developing an artificial intelligence system. It does seem to be going better than Sam Altman's ambitions, at least.
the funniest thing about metaverse for me is that for years facebook struggled to get working legs and multiple times claimed it would be impossible, meanwhile at the same time VR chat released an update that allowed character models with more than 2 legs to have the legs all move independently.
Not only that but while Facebook was failing to make legs work, VR chat furries were learning how to use their damned Brain-waves to control their avatar's ears and tails.
@desert0fox It turns out the "I just think it's really cool" motive is far more powerful than the profit motive.
And like secret life existed for 2 decades before
@desert0fox They're _what?!_
shame that vrchat is filled with borderline pdf's and their anime garbage.
Dude, I forgot this was even a real thing that Facebook tried to push onto people
Never forget.
How did they try and "push" this on you?
Did they try to push it? AI is being pushed. The metaverse was basically always half-baked and then abandoned.
@Smoomtydon’t be dense, it is not that difficult to understand what he meant
@InTheNameOfThePharoahwhen did suck push this on to me??? At no point have I ever talked to Mark.
Sometimes it feels like AI is collective punishment for not wanting to join Mark in the metaverse.
"IF I CAN'T BRING YOU INTO MY DIGITAL WORLD THEN I'LL BRING MY DIGITAL WORLD TO YOU!!"
-Brought to you by the director of the Spy Kids movies
I dunno. I think people could leverage AI to punish Mark and the rest of Silicon Valley.
Or just a similar scheme, ready to hit the wall again. You never know.
@Mateus_Carvalho Except AI already has a working product. The only "problem" with it from a corporate perspective is that the product is available for free with open-source local models. You can use AI for years and never once interact with a paid corporate product.
He has a luxury bunker on a private island. Peter Thiel has one in New Zealand. You know what they expect to happen with their products. "You will know them by their fruit."
I-I-I-I JUST BOUGHT MORE LAND IN THE METAVERSE!
NOW IM GETTING PAID CASH WITH ATLAS EARTH
earth is earth
@rawfosure GOT VIRTUAL LAND ALL ACROSS THE GLOBE
Metaverse and Monkeyverse (NFTs) are very 2021.
This is the first thing that popped into my head when I saw this video in my feed lmao
Why buy a house in the metaverse where I can dream about living in a mansion for free?
or just load a literal castle in vr chat for free
It's 2026 and I have yet to have heard a single person in real life utter the word Metaverse. I think I said it once when I talked to my nerd friends about how they stole it from Snowcrash. Literally no-one calls Facebook anything else than Facebook and the platform is one inch from death. No-one posts anything. I can go through a whole week of what all my friends posted in five minutes. Well done Zuck.
Don't be like that dude. You know FULL WELL that this is terrible news to the 100 employees forced to use the Metaverse. And the 600 other people on earth who willingly use it.
I've only heard it in reference to Persona 5
You got friends?!
They renamed the company Meta because they had to deal with the 2018 investigations into how Facebook was manipulating people to unhealthy levels.
Zuck definitely chose Metaverse for the name because he even says Snowcrash is his favorite book. I read it as a teen in the 90s and even then I was rolling my eyes. It was a mess and the insufferable main character was literally called, Hiro Protagonist. He's a pizza delivery guy/ super genius hacker. Every brooding nerd in a black trenchcoat haunting the library computer room LOVED that book.
It's so painfully obvious that the people making metaverse have never played a video game before. How did they think this game would catch on when there are so many amazing options??
It was designed by boomers and Gen X who barely know what a video game is.
Edit: My comment seems to be too absolutist, and some morons got triggered by that. It doesn't change the statement that they are made by older generations who barely played games at all.
@insertname9736later members of gen x were the first to grow up with video games, so I'm not sure where you got that from.
@TheFoggyjones it was still niche back then.
It astounds me that Oculus’ (the company Facebook assimilated for their VR technology) CTO was John Carmack. One of the main creators of Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Quake (he primarily worked on the engines those games ran on). He was Meta’s “Executive VR Consultant” and was influential in designing the Quest 1 and 2. Meta still couldn’t make a good game.
@insertname9736 Your timeline is off. GenX here, grew up with video games, both console (Atari, Colecovision, etc.) and PC (Apple IIE, Commodore 64). You don't know what you're talking about.
0:10 Congratulations, Editor. I didn't think it was possible to make Zuck look more off-putting and less human than he is normally. You have done the impossible!
Uncanny valley kind of shit
I didn't see the difference.
(looks like red channel solo b&w fwiw)
Back in 2020, when I was working at Target's electronics department, this guy with wife and teenage son came in. Wife wife had tons of work done but he was pretty large, had that stencil-like beard/side burn combo with swirls on his cheeks and a Gucci jacket and belt. He came up and let me & some coworkers know that he had reserved a 256GB Meta Quest2, so one of us ran to the stockroom While we waited, he went in on his sales pitch about how the Metaverse was the future and how he was gonna sell real estate in it. He bragged about how much money he was making right now on NFTs, allowing him to buy a Lambo and that we should invest in Web3 stuff to get outta this "shithole job". When the guy came back with the headset, I asked if he wanted any accessories for it like the headset cushion, the carrying case, etc... Bought all of it.
When a coworker handed him the receipt, he muttered "Fuck, that was the whole credit card." Every year afterwards, I would remember the interaction and wonder where that guy is now.
I too want to know how this moron is doing.
I'm doing fine these days. Thanks!
@Mr_Yuuklol
I'd like this to be a true story but the internet isn't real.
75% chance he's an AI startup founder (no proof of concept, looking for seed investors)
“If you really want to piss off your parents, buy real estate in an imaginary place.” -BUSDRIVER in 2002
I've had these wise words stuck in my head since I was like 5 lol
Zucc talking in the beginning activated my ad skipping muscle memory and I got irritated at how long the ad was taking
12:51 The number one way to tell something is a scam - Jake Paul invests or touts it.
We already have a digital world where you can build anything you want and customize your avatar and play with friends. Ever heard of Minecraft?
Even older stuff, too, like Second Life, Furcadia, or MUCK/MUSH/MUDs.
But the shareholders can't invest in that!!!!
@blunderingfool Furcadia nooooooo lmfao
@casey_anthonyofficial I mean, it somehow isn't dead yet! Plus UK gov isn't watching it. :D
@blunderingfoolSecond Life.. True
23:32 it’s not an oligarchy. It’s a dying hobbyist group trading digital beanie babies
What do you call the enshittification of something that's already shit?
The Rise of Skywalker
Shitshittification
Doubling down.
Enshittification is a specific term to refer to a specific phenomenon: a platform capturing a market, forming a monopoly, and then reducing quality because it knows that it's too annoying to bother leaving. RUclips is a good example, everyone's on RUclips so they increase ad timing because they know nobody will bother leaving. Everyone's on RUclips already so no individual is going to boycott RUclips even if it gets really annoying. That's enshittification. The Metaverse isn't "enshittified" because it never captured a market in the first place, therefore it had no leverage.
It's like the difference between "gaslighting" and "lying". RUclips is enshittified. The Metaverse is just a regular failure.
Shitception
I feel like introducing land scarcity into a virtual world is sort of missing the point of what makes virtual worlds fun and interesting. The prospect of putting on some glasses and having a potentially infinite world in front of you, in your living room or whatever, and not needing the constraints of physical space or even physics in general apply, that's what makes VR exciting, you can craft a world that is, quite literally, larger than life.
Calling the place Earth 2 and arbitrarily limiting its dimensions and layout to that of the real world so people can buy plots and LARP as landlords is a great way to suck all the wonder out of it. I think that really hits the issues I have with this concept on the head - lack of wonder. I think if Zuck even once had shown a thing he really wanted to do that he can't in the real world, but can in VR, I think people would've found him and his project a lot more endearing. Instead he comes across like an alien lizard person that thinks Zoom calls in VR are the pinnacle of human entertainment, because all he sees and knows is joyless business meetings.
It all just comes across as a bit sad, really.
They're trying to enforce artificial scarcity because a lack of it challenges fundamental assumptions about our economy. see the absolutely absurd enforcement of copyright law for an example of how this turns out
@m.f.3347 People seem to appreciate enforcement of copyright when they're talking about how evil AI is and how it's "stealing" from creators. Even though you wouldn't call it "stealing" if it was done to anyone else.
@Kirbyoto2098 Yeah, turns out people dislike bad things more than harmless things. Who know.
You don't remember the in-metaverse interview where the lady asked what Mark's favorite thing to do in the metaverse is and he said "this" and put a pair of tigolbitties on his avatar?
90% decrease on something that is 99.9% overvalued is still an insane price.
Thats only an 80% decrease!
It's strange how quickly people forgot about Second Life
I'm old enough to remember companies dumping tons of money into Second Life real estate during the frenzy.
The whole metaverse concept from bottom to top always felt inextricably 90s, in a bad way.
Secondlife is still a thing.
I'm old enough to remember second life and cybertown. you could have your own house, a job, your own avatar all for free. It even inspired me to start coding for the first time so I could make my own objects.
@vytah It was like 2005. But it was never heavily brand focused, not even as close as Meta. I guess that's why Meta failed. It was just a virtual mall with no customers.
We had ‘virtual realestate’ the second that people could have their own website. Like. That’s all these people are actually craving, but they’re either too young or too out of the loop to remember what it was like.
Second Life says hi
they can get their own house on gaiaonline right now in fact
@Fabrysiheder Second Life on their last Leg: please help, the boomers are retiring!
the corporations are trying to paywall everything. They want you paying rent to them indefinitely while they "provide" you with something that costs them absolutely nothing to maintain. This is the logical conclusion of capitalism
@casey_anthonyofficial Even on it's last legs, SecondLife blows basically all these wannabe metaverses out of the water. It's no VRChat on functions and interactivity but it's been stable and functional for so long and still has several communities atop that- as highlighted here, the latter part especially is the important one.
Seeing ross just say "no" to the dungeon siege NFT announcement is hilarious.
Appropriate reaction
Can we buy one of those underground bunkers that billionaires have been investing in for... Reasons that the public is not allowed to know about?
Whoops we know the reason now, don't we😂
The irony is that all they're doing is guaranteeing their dead bodies will have a fancy tomb to rot in when the time comes
You can't "outlast" the coming Climate Catastrophes, especially if you're in the middle of nowhere without anyone else around to form a new community with
So basically Metaverse is still trying to be a worse version of Second Life
Is such a thing even possible?
They're still trying? That's adorable.
4:46 I love how the ads are so clearly 3d animations rigged and animated in a program and not models responding to a vr headset motion
Markets got so "efficient" people no longer look for environments ripe with activity to exploit. They just create exploitative environments and try to force everyone to live in them.
Only thing that ever made me laugh harder than anything else during Covid was watching Skype blow a decade long head start in their own wheelhouse
In their, for lack of a better word, defense, Skype didn't blow its headstart so much as Microslop literally bought them specifically for the purpose of killing them off.
Skype was dead before the pandemic, what are you talking about?
@asteroidrules the only good thing Microsoft ever did.
@Takutanuva03 Skype was doing better until purchased by Microsoft
The thing with calculators is, that when I was growing up, I was not allowed to use a calculator until I could show that I knew how to do the work on my own. I developed the skill first and then used a calculator as a productivity tool.
The problem with students using AI is that they never learn the skills first.
Except even for those that do have the skill, use of LLMs is deskilling them so it comes full circle…
Any form LLMs is just not good for humanity in the long run.
literally selling you the IDEA of owning property and even then they somehow fucked the market on that
“Gotta pump it to jump it😎”
while every crypto bro was pouring their money into this capitalist hellscape I was hanging out with my friends in VRC for free 👍
I was playing No Man’s Sky…and many other games, obviously. While these bellends were pouring money into a virtual house I was cruising around the universe in my ship and freighter which were free because this is a video game.
Oh and my love for ‘sandbox RPGs’ like Bethesda games. I think around 2022 was when I first played Daggerfall and became obsessed with it.
@Miridiana_demoness Daggerfall is the only metaverse I'll accept.
why would i buy a virtual house and buy stuff for it when i can make an infinite amount of minecraft houses or sims 4 houses just by purchasing the base game for both franchises?
And even then the sims 4 is free
@chetapace79the sims 4 is crap
I am not sure but the last time I tried MineCraft, I could not logon using Linux anymore.
LOOOOOOOOOL 2 weeks later metaverse is discontinued
😂😂 I was just thinking this
Imagine a gold rush, where you know from day one that there is no gold, BUT people are getting really into the idea of selling shovels so they change the entire planet’s economy just to sell shovels. When someone new comes along and asks where they should start looking for all of the gold that’s left, they get laughed out and sell a 15th shovel.
A year later, the shovel being sold literally melt in your hand because turns out they were made of rotting, compressed offel instead of steel. You discover that, in order to produce the offel, they’ve destroyed entire county’s worth of farming land and most of the world’s fresh water to farm the cows in battery cages. They’re not even being used for meat, it’s being thrown on the ground to rot.
That’s what this whole metaverse/NFT/crypto thing is like to me.
Crypto has actual uses in terms of money transfer under dictatorships and helping activists. People always in "art" circles always tend to think of things they don't understand as just tech bro nonsense and forget all actual utility. I once saw someone say that if NFTs had been introduced after Genrative ai became more common the very same people that mocked it would have been all over it as a way to stick it to "the ai bros".
@chestnut4860 And actual uses for organized crime.
@chestnut4860 Side note is that most of those uses have illegal origins or sketchy
How much did you lose?
@chestnut4860 Lol, I can read the seethe in this post.
I wonder if this video reminded Zuckerberg that he forgot to turn off the lights, and went to kill it. Then, he cried at the loss of a hyper-capitalist hellscape, and ran back to keep it going
5:04 I can not stop laughing at the Sweet Baby Ray’s™ on his bookshelf lmao it’s so uncanny
For real wtf is that there for.
I HOLLERED
He drink it like water and read ingredient instead of book
Isn't it eerie how those who collect, sell, and share unfathomable amounts of user data seem to believe people would eagerly welcome even more exploitation?
Its because they dont see other people as people but consumers. As aggregate data points
because they do. whatever people in our circles think, most people lap this shit up.
Imagine losing all your money to a figment of the Zucc's imagination. 😮
I may not be doing great in life, but at least I never bought land in the Metaverse.
sometimes it's about celebrating the small wins
7:00 thousand pixels stare
This video exhausted me. Not the creator of the video, but the subject matter. I can’t stand the whole idea of the metaverse.
0:40 I’m so happy I never understood this shit and never have any intention to ever use it the more I learn about the scans and failures
Years ago when I was seeing this Metaverse craze of digital property and NFTs I thought, this is so ridiculous and will make for some great YT vids in the future.
I totally forgot about this dumb shit, but here we are with a great YT vid about it.
The metaverse already existed and it's called VRChat/Second Life. Every other "metaverse" platform was just an inferior clone of either of those.
They fucking cancelled it lmao
“You can tell by this graph… the arrows goin up”
I unironically say this on zoom multiple times a day
the zuck thought to himself "i didn't quite ruin society enough with social media. i need to finish the job with VR"
I can promise you that, as a teenager, I NEVER spent hundreds of my parents dollars in Habbo Hotel for virtual furniture.
NEVER.
Honestly habbo hotel so much more functional than any metaverse gimmick yet. Missed opportunity to just steal that as a base tbh.
Pools closed
@tifinity buy habbo hotel. Buy superbowl ad saying pools opened. Make billions. Zuck should just hire me tbh
*I’ve become homeless IRL* ❌
*But have incredible estates in the metaverse* ✅
Welcome to Metadrug
now i’m gettin paid cash in atlas earth
I haven’t thought about the metaverse in years, thanks for the laugh
1:40 are we the meats?
"Gotta pump it to jump it!" Truer words have never been spoken.
Those 2020 recaps never feel real. I spend 2020 living my life, I was gaming like hell and giving the finger to everyone who wanted me outside.
11:20 that pause sound effect from Star Wars: Battlefront II sent be back to 2009, lol
LMFAO i went to the comments to say just this
dystopian does not even begin to describe the vision of what these mega/corps have for Cheryl and her burnt bread
I remember talking to friends getting into this, they could never really explain to me why this metaverse and nfts were a wise investment. Glad I never got my doubts cleared
it's pump and dumps all the way down
Welp, guess no one's gonna have a Metaverse home soon.
Second Life has been doing this for 22 years. Wish their mobile client didn’t fumble so hard.🙃
The one question I still have never seen answered is the only one that matters. WHY? What is the actual point of using their product? What can I possibly be getting out of it that's supposed to be better than just using a website like I always have?
Goodbye Meta's Metaverse!
I-i i just lost more land on the metaverse. Now i've lost all my cash in atlas earth
You know, I also had the idea of "an embodied internet, where you're immersed in the experience, not just looking at it." Back when I was seven. Then I turned 10, and realized what a pain in the ass that would be. Zuck still held onto the boneheaded idea into his 40s. Facebook should've hired 10 year old me as CEO. Would've saved billions.
20:15 The really freaky part is, that creepy avatar looks like him
I’m so glad that this is just a VR thing.
In 1992 the Metaverse was a place where a pizza delivery driver named Hiro Protagonist could be a cyberpunk samurai. In 202X it's a place where you can do Brand Experiences and buy a house nobody will ever visit. THE FUTURE!
The way I always though about virtual real estate was the same as one of the commentators, as a game of monopoly. The problem is these investors setup the game a day in advance, bought 90% of the board up then invited their friends over to play. Nobody wants to play a game of monopoly where you have no chance of winning so the friends just decide to go play a different game instead. It's such a simple concept but I remember seeing so many investors smugly talking about how screwed normal metaverse users are because we own all the land and now we get to collect rent / speculative profits from everybody. The only winning move for a potential metaverse user was simply to not play the game. If there is anything good that can come out of this is a warning that if you see any language or financial structures like this to GTFO because it's a bubble of nonsense that's going to crash.
10:06 Oh boy I can’t wait to buy a Facebook VR headset so I can digitally rent an overpriced virtual flat, my favourite thing to do in real life!
meanwhile vrc been there the whole time........for free..... and far better
Zuckerberg failed upwards into one billion dollar idea by accident and this convinced him that he's a generational genius and anyone who doesn't see the potential in whatever his new idea is must just be his intellectual inferior.
After all, he "invented" Facebook and we didn't, so how could he not know better?
Secondlife already did all this and it's full of all the weirdness that you would expect
While watching this video I saw the headline that the metaverse is being fully shutdown hahaha
They reversed course. So who the hell knows whats going on in their heads.
Anyone who has ever touched Entropia Universe would have seen this coming a galaxy away.
That was a great way to launder money for the wealthy.
All these digital property sales are just drug and human trafficking sales at this point
It just proves how clueless Zuck is.
The "brand experience" Metaverse worlds remind me of a CD-ROM game you got in a cereal box back in the late 90s.
But when I try to sell my real estate in an imaginary place you all laugh at me
"Kids, if you really want to piss off your parents, Buy real estate In an imaginary place"
*-Lyrics from a song called "Imaginary Places" by Busdriver*
Admin he doing it sideways
12:00 REAL estate is such a funny name for it
Bro I forgot that the headset I bought for to play Beatsaber and PhantomPainChat also was for a Second Life ripoff that costed more than what theAvatar movies had gross
22:52 yes that's what we call a good ole ponzi scheme
Eat the rich before they eat themselves!
You can tell everyone around Zuckerturd just tells him how great he is, how wonderful and innovative he is and how none of his ideas are ever cringe or terrible. It’s nice to see his crap blowing up in his face, almost soothing
the bbq sauce made me LOL
“metaverse landlord” 16:53 lmao
I was thinking about playing some Elder Scrolls Online again, been playing it on and off for a few years now. The game has housing and many guilds and communities in the game have housing contests, where players spend many hours and tons of in game gold to make an epic build for nothing more than to show off to their friends and other players (and some personal satisfaction.) One thing these housing builds never have, are billboards for real life franchises.
Forgot to mention many of these houses cost upwards of 50 bucks sometimes 100 or more bucks.
"Snoop Dogg house" is a decent vocal stim, i'll take it
Smokin' some meats. Good stuff as always, Mr.Cheescake.
To be fair with NFTs you didn't own a digital image, you owned a section of the blockchain which gave the address of where the image was stored online.
the intro feels like a 90s infomercial, and you can buy now for 19.99!
Still waiting to get paid rent in cash.
It's about to go nuts!
The Zuckenberg footage in this looks like its from some kind of unspeakable hell dimension.
That's just post-Reagan America.
11:50 Yea when I heard they were shutting it down I’m sure these people freaked out and Mark was like okay okay we will keep it open I guess