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The Metaverse Was Always Doomed
from Hantavirus Cruise & iPad Babies | The Tim Dillon Show #495 · #495
7 min
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Reading a New York Times article about Meta's decline, Tim recalls the NFT/metaverse mania era, mocks people who paid millions for squiggly-line NFTs, and plays a Zuckerberg metaverse demo clip while riffing on how creepy and unsettling Zuckerberg is compared to Bezos.
- Meta has dumped 80 billion into the metaverse idea, according to a New York Times article.
- During the NFT craze, people urged Tim to become the first comedian performing in the metaverse for massive virtual audiences.
- The pitch was that the metaverse would become the digital world everyone inhabits, replacing restaurants and real-world meetings.
- This metaverse mania coincided with the height of the NFT craze, when people in Miami were paying $10,000 for squiggly lines.
- Tim knew people who flipped NFTs and made $2 million on inherently worthless pieces of blockchain.
- The metaverse grew from the idea that people would eventually inhabit a virtual reality to escape the pandemic, riots, and crime of the physical world.
- Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse promotional video disturbs Tim on a visceral level and makes his skin crawl.
- Tim contrasts Zuckerberg with Jeff Bezos: Bezos is honest about being a supervillain on a yacht, while something about Zuckerberg is deeply unsettling.
- Tim's criterion for evaluating people isn't morality but whether you understand what they actually are and if they're reliably consistent.
- The metaverse video continues with avatars meeting in virtual space, exemplifying the entire failed concept.
- A New York Times article covers Meta dying as the metaverse investment fails to catch on.
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