Yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg once again made the rounds being roasted on Twitter, not due to barbeque sauce or surfing, but because of yet another screenshot he posted from Horizon Worlds, this one a Facebook post celebrating the game coming to France and Spain.
Now that Tiktok is crushing Instagram, Zuck needs a new buzzword to keep stock values high. That’s why he pivoted to the Metaverse.
Yup, I think that’s the motivation as well. What’s hilarious is that this kind of stuff’s been done before many times already with Second Life being a prime example. There’s nothing fundamentally different about Metaverse except that now you have to buy hardware to even use it. I expect it’s going to be a huge flop in the end, and we’re already seeing signs of that with lukewarm reception and their stocks starting to tank.