Metaverse Is Unlikely to Secure Its Future

Here’s why the billion-dollar startup is a joke

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Metaverse… It’s all just smoke and mirrors. A pointless, digital echo chamber where people can delude themselves into thinking they’re something they’re not.

When Zuckerberg announced the release of the Metaverse, he hyped it as a platform that would revamp the internet and how we function in our daily lives. But in reality, Zuckerberg only hyped a platform that lacks purpose, meaning, and direction. It’s like a giant, unblinking eye staring into space: it doesn’t know where to look or what to do with itself, so it just stares at nothingness until something happens (which usually involves some kind of disaster).

Zuckerberg also claimed it to be a revolutionary concept that would change how we use the internet. But in reality, Metaverse isn’t a new concept. A 1992 novel, Snow Crash, mentioned a similar concept when the internet wasn’t even that good.

Metaverse is only a free-will video game

Remember, ten seconds ago, when I said Metaverse isn’t an original concept? Well, it turns out that it isn’t an original game either.

Twelve years ago, Facebook was a go-to place for playing Java-based multiplayer games. One of which was Yoville — an…