Subjects/subject
metaverse
Tim’s take
His baseline position is that the metaverse is a joke that never became a thing, from Zuckerberg's 'pathetic' demo footage to the idea of virtual comedy clubs, which he treats as absurd shorthand for the whole project rather than a real threat 47:45 56:47 38:46. By the time Meta's spending comes out in the New York Times, he treats it as vindication, recalling people telling him he had to be 'the first comedian in the metaverse' during the NFT craze and mocking that whole era as obviously doomed 9:24 50:02.
Underneath the mockery he keeps returning to one darker riff: that the metaverse is really about people opting out of reality, whether that's 'metaverse children' solving overpopulation, a surveilled digital afterlife with its own hell, or a broader complaint about adults retreating into fantasy worlds 1:01:07 1:05:25 40:19. He occasionally breaks from the bit to say the tech is inevitable and even ties it, uneasily, to digitizing real-world conflict and parasocial obsession, but he never treats any of that as good news 33:17 38:46.
Every Reference (9)
"where everybody disappears into their own world i mean this metaverse thing people can make fun of it and they should and i do but"
The Metaverse, NFTs, and Sexual Assault in Virtual Reality — #293 - Fat Activism with Jessica Kirson | The Tim Dillon Show+24s into the segment"think it'll be i hope the lineups at the comedy clubs in the metaverse are diverse that's my biggest concern yeah that's my biggest"
"there's an article about people the overpopulation is going to be concerned um going to be fixed by metaverse children this is a thing where people are going to have children in the metaverse because they're not actually there they're not real"
Sage, Evil Spirits, and a Neighbor's Pot-and-Spoon Ritual — Louis CK | The Tim Dillon Show #317+204s into the segment"actually send you to hell what's interesting is you could go to a metaverse they're going to make a hell of it the idea of that of course"
"technology not about the collectibility when do you think the metaverse because the metaverse those things look horrible are you excited"
Crypto Winter, NFT Strategy for Every Business, and Living in a Pod in 16 Years — Two Greatest Minds of The Century (Gary Vaynerchuk) | The Tim Dillon Show #324+95s into the segment"out there Mark Zuckerberg is out there doubling down on the metaverse he for a while we thought like the metaverse might be dead or"
ShipStation Ad, Then Zuckerberg's Metaverse Dreams — A Loud Shape | The Tim Dillon Show #370+3s into the segment"old but you know at the height of the nft Gold Rush right the metaverse was talked about people came to me and I was in Miami they go"
Parasocial Obsession and Stalkers Becoming 'Good Fans' — A Loud Shape | The Tim Dillon Show #370+19s into the segment"we're going to look back 10 years from now and go, what were people doing right before the like the metaverse before everybody plugged in"
Playing Pretend as Adults — Trump’s Battle Royale, Reborn Babies, & A Labubu Economy | The Tim Dillon Show #457+44s into the segment"come up to me and say, "You have to be the first comedian in the metaverse." And I said, "What do you mean by that?" They said, "Well,"
The Metaverse Was Always Doomed — Hantavirus Cruise & iPad Babies | The Tim Dillon Show #495+11s into the segment